Customer reviews from hp.com
HP - Omen 16" WQXGA IPS 240Hz Intel Core Ultra 9 285H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Laptop 16GB RAM 1TB SSD - Black
Average customer rating
4.3
(35 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 35 reviews
5 Stars
23
4 Stars
6
3 Stars
2
2 Stars
0
1 Star
4
84%of customers recommend this product.
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16 out of
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Customer Reviews for HP - Omen 16" WQXGA IPS 240Hz Intel Core Ultra 9 285H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Laptop 16GB RAM 1TB SSD - Black
Posted by: Lord Rath
from Newport News, VA
Verified Purchase:Yes
Overall not a bad laptop. I wanted to play AoE4 and expansion pack and Baulders Gate III. Only thing that get annoying is when resolution is set to highest to play games and then you stop and exit game the screen flickers a lot. Only fix I am able to do is reset resolution in safe mode and that fixes it till the next time.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
5
Just what my 18YO son wanted as a High School Sr.
on January 15, 2026
Posted by: Michigan_Proud_Dad
from South Lyon, Michigan
Verified Purchase:Yes
This is exactly what my 18 years old son wanted on a gaming computer. The response to the games and the controllers is excellent, the graphics processor and memory are working great and my son it's been playing on this laptop at home and during our trip to Florida and Back Home in Michigan. His only comment besides how happy he is with this product, it's that it is a large lap-top and some of his friends from school mentioned how much bigger than other lap-tops and Chromebooks are. But he even loves the numbers keypad because he feels it helps him work faster on some of his AP Calculus and AP Physics tasks faster than the school Chromebook.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Posted by: R. Williams
Verified Purchase:Yes
Display screen lasted about 30 minutes. Now it shows just displays black and white bars. Return process has been painful.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Posted by: LeftyNicholas
from 'Murica
Verified Purchase:Yes
Would be great but HP likes taking bribes from Microsoft and has gone full in, replacing the right control key with a Copilot key that no one wants. So, if you are left handed, like me. Get ready for the most insufferable experience ever while you have to re-learn how to type.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Posted by: Anonymous
from Angola, Luanda
Verified Purchase:Yes
It works as expected. I highly recommend it.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
4
Meets my gaming needs. Easy to customize and good performance for my budget
on December 28, 2025
Posted by: Anonymous
from Phoenix, AZ
Verified Purchase:Yes
Good value for cost
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Posted by: FlyKnight
from Brooklyn, NY
Verified Purchase:Yes
Great works well good graphics and performance
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
4
Overall a great & stylish laptop, but I have some minor nitpicks
on November 4, 2025
Posted by: N.J.
from New Paltz, NY
Verified Purchase:Yes
I love how this laptop looks and feels! And the fan is very quiet/optimized, especially for lower end tasks. I have witnessed many gaming laptops in the past that just go full airplane engine when opening Chrome or something. Another thing I love about this laptop is the fact that the important ports are in the back. It really helps with cable management on a bed, where I use this laptop the most, because I don't have to face a certain direction for it to charge and be comfortable to use. However, the ports themselves felt a little misaligned??? They weren't broken, but I certainly had to wiggle my USBs to get them in and out. The charging cable also hangs fairly loose in the back port and sometimes falls out if I move a little. The battery life is just about what you'd expect from a gaming laptop: not great, but again, that's just something you have to accept if you're looking for a gaming laptop. The charging brick it comes with is also massive, making it a little hard to transport, but again, a small price to pay to have a laptop that can smoothly run bg3.
Visible hardware aside, the specs of this thing are great. Everything I use runs very well on Windows. I would not recommend this laptop if you plan on changing your OS though, as it is definitely built for Windows. I tried using Linux on this laptop when I first got it and had some trouble with graphics because of the Nvidia card. I also had trouble changing the keyboard backlight color, because the only program available to change it is tied to the Microsoft store (and I am not well-versed enough to build hardware compatibility in OpenRGB). I never open Omen Gaming Hub. When I do it's almost always messy or laggy, even on an almost empty drive. I'm not that picky when it comes to gameplay specs and the computer's background processes already do their job well to make everything smooth, so to have the built-in keyboard tied to this app that is otherwise useless to me felt unneeded.
Another very small issue I have is the screen. The colors seem very muted overall. That's about it with my complaints though.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com