The decision to place the speakers on the slight upcurve on the sides of the laptop, rather than directly underneath as so many laptop manufacturers seem to do, definitely helps with this. The speaker quality was actually quite impressive for a gaming laptop, with a loud peak volume and crisp sounding audio that didn’t seem to lose its quality even on the high settings. The trackpad feels sturdy enough and of reasonable quality, although it does feel a slight bit slow to respond. Although fine for gaming where you’re primarily just using the WASD keys, for typing it can be a bit annoying, as it forces you to either center your head to the left of center of the screen or stay central but extend and raise your right arm more than your left in a rather uncomfortable position. The keyboard doesn’t include a numpad, though still has an awkward off-centre keyboard placement with the majority of the board off to the left, meaning your right hand rests on the trackpad. The ‘effective’ peak brightness is pretty low, and upping it to the maximum using the controls in the onboard software merely turns it white after a point, rather than actually making it brighter. It’s limited to keyboard backlighting and there are 4 zones of key RGB you can control, which roughly splits the keyboard into thirds and then has a final zone for the WASD keys. The RGB on the HP Omen 16 is pretty underwhelming. We recommend wedging it open around the ethernet port (taking care not to break it) then going around the seam from this point and popping the clips. Technically, you can open up the back of the laptop if you have a small enough Phillips head screwdriver to upgrade the RAM and M.2 SSD, however we had a very difficult time doing so – finding a crack to prise open to create an opening was a nightmare, and you’ll have a job managing it without breaking it. 3x USB-A, 1x USB-C (with DisplayPort 1.4a), 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x RJ-45, 1x audio combo jack
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