At HP Amplify 2025, the corporate’s massive annual convention for showcasing its newest services and products, HP unveiled practically your entire set of its new PCs for the yr. I misplaced rely in some unspecified time in the future, however HP claims over 60 new fashions of laptops and PCs.
Whereas technically true, it’s a bit fudged—the corporate counts some variants of the identical laptop as separate. For instance, if the identical laptop computer is available in Intel, AMD, and Snapdragon choices, then every one is a definite “mannequin” even when every little thing else is similar. That additionally goes for display screen sizes, 2-in-1 variants, and so forth.
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Even so, there have been so much of computer systems. I used to be there in individual, wandering across the showroom with every little thing on show, together with loads of different improvements (particularly for enterprise prospects), equivalent to administration techniques, safety and printing options, and so forth. However I used to be there for the computer systems, from neat little desktop PCs to mighty workstations to laptops of all types. There have been so, so many laptops.
OmniBook takes over the laptops
It was onerous to inform them aside, however HP goals to make them simpler to differentiate than earlier than. The older, complicated sub-brands—Pavilion, Envy, and Spectre—have been scrapped and changed by OmniBook. HP ushered in that line with just a few OmniBook laptops final yr, however now every little thing might be OmniBook going ahead.
These OmniBooks are then divided by suffixes. For instance, the OmniBook 3 is reasonable and easy, the OmniBook 5 extra “regular” and mid-range, the OmniBook 7 extra luxurious and lighter, and the OmniBook X supposedly on the prime… aside from the OmniBook Extremely, which is actually the high-performance tier.
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Are HP’s laptops now simpler to parse? Perhaps. Perhaps not. I’ll have to come back again in a yr or two when all of the older fashions have disappeared and OmniBook reigns alone.
However to make issues a bit extra complicated, there’s additionally the brand new OmniDesk line of desktop PCs and OmniStudio line of all-in-one machines. HP’s gaming PCs retain the names Omen and Victus (with solely a single mannequin launched within the latter). Enterprise laptops are nonetheless referred to as ProBook and EliteBook, however specialised mannequin names are apparently being phased out right here as properly. (I didn’t see any new “Dragonfly” ultra-light enterprise laptops, for instance, however some EliteBooks had been actually slim.)
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Lastly, there’s the Z collection of highly effective workstations for professionals, which get to maintain their names. Loads of new ZBook laptops and Z desktop PCs had been additionally on present.
AI is creeping into every little thing
It’s no secret that HP is making a significant funding in AI. Count on all new releases, beginning with the OmniBook 5 and up, to be outfitted with an NPU that may run native AI options. What concerning the budget-focused OmniBook 3? It’s unclear whether or not that one can even include AI capabilities. I didn’t see any, however possibly with time.
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I couldn’t fairly work out if there was Copilot+ certification throughout the board, however HP has added a number of of its personal AI options to its machines, proper right down to the most cost effective fashions.
For instance, there are Poly Studio (which provides webcam results and controls, plus noise discount for microphones) and AI Companion (HP’s personal AI app that indexes native paperwork and allows you to do semantic searches by way of a chat interface). All of this occurs domestically in your laptop’s NPU to maintain your knowledge non-public and safe.
My 5 favorites from all those I noticed
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HP Omen 16 Slim. The brand new gaming laptop computer that’s barely 0.89 inches thick and solely weighs 5.29 kilos however has a quick 16-inch show, large cooling components, and heavy efficiency below the hood with an Intel Core Extremely 9 285H processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics. Be taught extra about it in PCWorld’s hands-on expertise of it.
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HP OmniBook 7 Aero. A really trendy 13-inch laptop computer that weighs about 2 kilos and packs loads of efficiency because of its AMD Ryzen AI 300 processor. It has respectable graphics efficiency, 50 TOPS for AI, and low-power operation. I’m actually trying ahead to attempting this one.
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HP OmniBook 5. This one is available in sizes from 14 to 16 inches and feels very secure, snug, and well-built for one thing that begins round $800. That’s an excellent worth for a high quality laptop computer with AI efficiency, and it may very well be many individuals’s first AI PC.
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HP Z2 G1a. Once I examined Asus’ monster ROG Movement Z13 pill, I questioned what a compact desktop PC with the identical processor (Ryzen AI Max Professional 395) may do with extra cooling and better energy. The reply is right here. HP has put it in a compact mini PC format and is promoting it as an HP Z workstation. It actually does go quick—and it prices. The AMD rep I spoke to stated it could be launched globally, however couldn’t say for positive if it was for all markets. I hope so as a result of I need to check it.
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HP EliteStudio 8. This all-in-one laptop severely lives as much as its “multi functional” epithet. With a big, built-in Poly webcam that pops up, audio system constructed for clear voices, and AI-powered microphone administration, together with Poly Studio software program, this machine is ideal as a video conferencing workstation. With its last-gen Intel Core Extremely processor, AI efficiency isn’t fairly as much as scratch, but it surely’s adequate for many duties. KVM performance means you may as well use it to dock your laptop computer. It definitely appears full and really all-in-one.
There may in fact be extra highlights within the deluge of laptop information. If I had been to ask HP, they’d say each single one was a spotlight, so I used to be none the wiser. However these made my tester fingers itch and I hope all of them will be discovered and reviewed throughout the yr.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.