Apple
MacBook Air (13-inch, M4, 2025)
$925.65
HP
Based on 33 Reddit mentions
$2889.00
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Seems like the OLED displays and the inclusion of the 9955HX AMD chips are the big changes for the next year. Shame the most powerful AMD CPUs are not going to be paired with the best GPUs and cooling in the Max systems. HP used the 8940/45HX AMD chips in the regular Omen this year already but it's
...fastheadcrab in r/hardware
December 29, 2025 9:22 PM
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You probably don't need your CPU boosting that hard for most games. Disable boost or lower it and you won't see it throttle so bad. That said, it's unfortunate that the 2025 HP Omen Max 16 has poor cooling and can't handle the 275HX despite their fancy cooling / vapor chamber / thermal paste that th
...santcasmic in r/HPOmen
June 17, 2025 1:38 AM
3
So I got an HP Omen Max 16 last week with a 255HX. Noticed high temps (hitting 102 degrees) and intermittent throttling that I could temporarily solve by turning down cores 1 and 2 down to 51x core ratio and core 6/7/8 down to 49x. Decided to replace the liquid metal with Thermal Grizzly phasesheet
...Trzlog in r/HPOmen
February 21, 2026 1:49 PM
1
I have new omen max 16, when I open programs the first time after power up they are extremely slow to open. It has core ultra 9 and 32gb ram, it is way slower than my elitebook x360 g2 with 7th gen i7 to open the same program. HP Omen max is brand new updated drivers etc., have raised issue with HP
...AdLatter567 in r/HPOmen
March 21, 2026 3:29 AM
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