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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I have Hp Omen Max 16 with RTX 5080, didn’t repaste. Temperatures holding well in my honest opinion. Quite a good laptop actually, never once regretted buying it.
thetasigma1993 in r/HPOmen
February 10, 2026 9:04 AM
5
Funnily enough my HP Omen Max 16 with this same CPU runs cooler on stock. Proving once again that this te pasting thing is a big scam lol
Minimum_Leadership51 in r/HPOmen
January 5, 2026 5:44 AM
3
So I got an HP Omen Max 16 last week with a 255HX. Noticed high temps (hitting 102 degrees on some cores) 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 Grizz
...Trzlog in r/HPOmen
February 21, 2026 1:49 PM
2
I have Omen Max 16 with 5090 and 275 processor. I must have won the paste lottery as my cpu temp doesnt exceed 85c. I do use a cooling pad which helps significantly. I do also keep it on performance mode full time. I believe in the omen hub i saw there were options to undervolt. Next time I power on
...someoneirrelevant17 in r/HPOmen
August 17, 2025 2:15 AM
3
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
Disclaimer: I have an Omen Max 16, IPS. The reason for the Omen to be that much cheaper than a comparable Zephyrus is that they aren’t comparable in real world performance. The Omen 14 cuts its GPU way down in power to manage the heat in the body while the zephyrus doesn’t! 14“ none OLED will be har
...MoWePhoto in r/HPOmen
April 18, 2026 10:37 AM
1
You can consider the new Hp omen max 16 , Lenovo legion 9i or, get the Asus zephyrs g14 and 16 compat and good cooling with more then enough performance for an architecture
XxKUJOxX in r/RTX5080
April 3, 2026 11:38 AM
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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
The HPs cryo-compound is ass. I got my wife an HP Omen Max 16 and had to change the thermal paste less than 3 months in. One CPU core was overheating to 100C while idle and fans going at max RPMs. There was quite a bit of liquid metal in the foam walls. It's been problem free since the change to Gri
...AbrahamZX in r/HPOmen
February 24, 2026 10:41 PM
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