The OmniBook 5 laptop is a great improvement over my last HP laptop. Even with a screen size decrease from 17 to 16 inches, it is bigger, brighter and easier to see. The keyboard is softer and smoother to the touch, and the keyboard backlight is a great feature. The keyboard and the screen are well made and not a bit of wasted space. The speed at which the page loads is definitely an improvement from my last HP laptop. Unfortunately, it has a lot of apps and AI that I will never use, and I turned many of the apps off. Overall, a great improvement with both looks, feel and speed over my last HP. My largest complaint is that each new laptop requires you to buy Microsoft Office or sign up for an annual subscription, and it really seems like a "junk fee", Microsoft should be including it as part of the laptop price. Overall great buy.
I am just starting to use the OmniBook as a replacement/upgrade to a 5 year old HP Pavilion.
(The Pavilion is working again, even though I had to reinstall the W11 to fix a blue-screen-of-death during my migration process. The time & pain of recovering was offset from initializing the OmniBook simultaneously. Pavilion had been in-sleep mode when an unattended update left it in the BSOD while I was preparing to transfer files. I had just verified my M$ ID & pw before closing the Pavilion to go out for dinner).
So, in this light of the anxiety from this potential disaster, I am initially delighted with the new OmniBook. I was able to use W11 file & print to move the large files between the laptops. It seems to run cooler that the Pavilion so far, plus has four time the screen resolution than the old one.
My only gotcha is that HP moved the keyboard backlight control key F5 to a little more obscure fn-F10.
I am kind of biased to HP as I have been using their product for 40 years. Even though they are not perfect, HP products for me have been innovative & dependable, lasted well past their warranty, and have been worth the investment.
The Omnibook is awesome, speedy. The AI to help print not so much. It’s fun watching it wipe things off the screen, but it takes all but the title. Thankfully there is a button to print the original. I tried one email and one web page and then disabled it.
So far so good. It performs as expected and does everything I need it to. Nothing out of the ordinary for now. The build is of good quality and I do like that it feels heavy like it's build well.