I got a great deal on the laptop even though we are in a hardware crisis. I love the 5080 and the 32 GBs of ram. Easy to upgrade and can run anything I've thrown at it thus far. Battery isn't great but what gaming laptop does.
I been using this laptop for over a month now, so I'll say it's a pretty good laptop. I feel like they should've added more standard usb ports on the devise and sometimes the laptop get's really hot when playing most demanding games. But in all, it's a good laptop and I'm satisfied with it.
Build quality seems great. Performs well. However too much HP bloatware that you can’t seem to get rid of. A lot of ads built in that appear every time you turn it on.
This is as advertised. I play Wuwa at max settings and this thing doesn't even get phased. I crashed once but I think it may have been the new nvidia drivers. The one thing I wish was better (this is prolly only applicable to my setup) is that when I disable the laptop screen to just use my monitor, the laptop builtin monitor will still have back light. Every time I boot up I have to re-disable the builtin monitor to make the laptop screen complete dark. A minor issue but that's the only thing I came across that qualifies as an issue.
I was very happy with my purchase of the HP OMEN MAX. The price was right for my budget, and I was not disappointed by its performance... It handled demanding local AI and LLM workloads. The RTX 5080 GPU and Ryzen AI 9 processor appear to be a great combination. The machine is a powerful, stable, and well-designed laptop that feels more like a mobile workstation than a typical gaming system.