The HP Pavilion Aero 13 was revealed this week for the 2021 season claiming it's HP's "lightest consumer laptop". This machine weighs in at less than 1 kilogram (less than 2.2 pounds) and comes in a variety of fashionable colors. This is also the company's first laptop with a 13.3-inch display with a 16:10 Aspect Ratio, 2.5k resolution, and a potential 400 nits of brightness.
In addition to refreshing its Omen line of laptops today, HP also announced a new gaming laptop brand called Victus by HP 16. The Victus, it seems, is for those who are new to the world of PC gaming and may not necessarily want to buy a top of the line gaming laptop as their first foray. While that suggests hardware that’s more accessibly priced, it seems that the Victus 16 will still offer some solid hardware for those who know they want something in the higher tier.
It’s been a pretty big day for HP, as the company has announced refreshes for its Omen 16 and Omen 17 gaming laptops along with revealing an entirely new gaming notebook brand called the Victus. The announcements don’t stop at just laptops, however, as HP also announced a new gaming monitor today. In addition, it appears that the Omen gaming hub is getting an upgrade with a new add-on called Omen Oasis that allows you to live stream your game to friends.
HP today announced that it’s refreshing its Omen lineup of gaming notebooks. Both the Omen 16 and 17 are getting new silicon, with HP outfitting these notebooks with 11th Gen Intel Core and AMD Ryzen 5000-series CPUs. As you’re expect out of many gaming notebooks these days, they use NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs, and in fact might wind up being one of the best ways to get one of these in-demand graphics cards.
Like a number of other companies, HP today is announcing a new line of notebooks using Intel's 11th Gen Core H-series CPUs. While Intel's announcement focused mostly on the gaming prowess of these new CPUs, HP's new lineup of notebooks is targeted more toward professionals and content creators who need a powerful laptop to do their work. While full specifications haven't been announced yet, HP's announcement covers the major talking points for each of these three laptops.
This week NVIDIA revealed their new laptop gaming graphics processors and a series of notebooks that'll house them. These laptops have the ability to deliver DLSS and RT Gaming, 60FPS+ (image refresh rate for games, depending on display), and "AI Content Creation and Video Conferencing." The first wave of notebooks with NVIDIA RTX 3050 graphics processors inside will be coming from brands like Razer, HP, Dell, MSI, Lenovo, ASUS, and Alienware.
HP has revealed its latest all-in-one PC, and we can't help thinking it's wasted in businesses. The HP EliteOne 800 G8 All-in-One comes with a choice of 23.8- or 27-inch displays, with a pop-up camera on top that includes video call-friendly face tracking.
Today we're taking a peek at HP's latest in a wide variety of Chromebooks. Given the 7(!) Chromebooks currently in production with HP, with at least one more on the way soon, how might one decide which is best? First, the newest: HP Chromebook x360 14c, with a 14-inch display, fingerprint reader, HP Rechargeable Pen, and up to 10:45 hours of battery life. How does this 14-inch machine stand up to the others that've been released by HP in the recent past?
HP today announced that it has entered an agreement to purchase HyperX, one of the more well-known manufacturers of gaming accessories out there. HP is no stranger to gaming peripherals itself, but with this acquisition, it'll have a much larger stake in the space. Not only that, but with its OMEN brand of gaming PCs, it'll be particularly well-suited to outfit budding PC gamers with everything they need to get up and running.
It would seem that the shifting state of the world through the course of events that was 2020 made a big impact on sales of Chromebooks and tablets at the tail end of the year. Canalys records of device shipments showed Q4 as the third consecutive quarter of annual growth for the global PC market. The global PC market saw 143.7 million units shipped in Q4, a whopping 35% growth VS the same period the year before.
CES 2021 might be over, but that isn't stopping companies like HP from revealing new products. Today, HP announced a collection of new Chromebooks meant primarily for education, whether those Chromebooks are for teachers or students. Given that there's seemingly no end to the pandemic in sight, these Chromebooks are being positioned as machines that are good for blended or remote learning.
Last year saw a surge in PC demand and sales thanks to remote working arrangements imposed by COVID-19 measures. As the world continues to shift, adjust, and even recover, workplaces are shifting to hybrid setups where people come and go more often than stay in the office. Notebook PCs are, of course, at the center of these new arrangements, and at the virtual CES 2021, HP is introducing its 2021 lineup that it says is designed to let people work together even when far apart.