HP says the HyperX Omen Max 16 is essentially the most highly effective 16-inch gaming laptop computer on the earth

This 12 months HP is making an necessary change by taking its identify off its gaming {hardware} totally and letting its HyperX branding take heart stage. At CES 2026, the corporate is celebrating this transition in an enormous method with Omen Max 16, which is being heralded because the world’s strongest gaming laptop computer with totally inner cooling.

Now the final a part of that declare is a little bit of a cop out, however contemplating that the majority players in all probability don’t wish to lug round a pocket book with hoses popping out the again, it’s an comprehensible qualifier. Plus, with a complete platform energy of 300 watts that features help for the newest chips from Intel and AMD and as much as an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU, this factor definitely received’t be missing in pace. Under the hood, the Max 16 encompasses a third cooling fan to forestall throttling beneath sustained workloads together with HP’s Fan Cleaner tech that reverses the route of the laptop computer’s followers to forestall mud from increase inside.

As for its design, the Max 16 doesn’t stray too removed from HyperX’s signature matte black shade scheme, although I do recognize that the corporate stored a handful of accents just like the RGB lightbar mounted on the laptop computer’s entrance lip. The pocket book additionally encompasses a per-key RGB backlit keyboard with a 1,000Hz polling charge, which ought to all however remove any points with ghosting or rollover throughout hectic facerolling classes.

However, one quirk concerning the system I observed when checking it out first hand is that even with above common brightness of 500 nits for its 2.5K OLED show, the display screen additionally comes with an unusually shiny coating. The good thing about that is that colours seem tremendous saturated. The draw back is that particularly in well-lit rooms with a whole lot of daylight, there’s extra glare and reflections than you may anticipate.

Another good enchancment concerning the Max 16 which may go unnoticed in case you solely take a look at its spec sheet is that regardless of having a TPP of 300 watts, its energy brick is comparatively compact. It wasn’t all that way back {that a} laptop computer with this sort of efficiency may need required twin energy cables in an effort to provide the pocket book with the quantity of juice it wants. That mentioned, weighing between 6.1 and 6.5 kilos relying on the precise configuration, the Max 16 nonetheless isn’t the form of laptop computer you’re going to wish to carry round on a frequent foundation.

Regardless, in case you’re available in the market for what is actually an old-school desktop alternative laptop computer with out transferring as much as even bigger 18-inch machines, HyperX’s newest flagship gaming laptop computer ought to be a powerful contender that received’t be missing in pace.

Unfortunately, HP doesn’t have concrete information about how a lot the HyperX Omen Max 16 will price or when it can go on sale. However, we should always know extra when it turns into obtainable someday later this spring. And lastly, in case you’re on the lookout for one thing barely smaller or a extra inexpensive system (we do not have official pricing, however the Max 16 will not come low cost), HP can be updating the Omen 15 and Omen 16 with contemporary elements and new HyperX branding for 2026 as effectively.