The 16-inch gaming laptop is a wonderful invention. The slightly larger screen over a 15.6-inch model, made even wider thanks to modern slim bezels, looks great, and allows for a chassis that's just that tiny bit roomier, so we get full-size keys, numpads, even speakers. They're not as ridiculous as 18-inch laptops—those silly machines—and you can actually use them as portables instead of being tied to keeping them on a table somewhere.
HP has taken the opportunity to cram this 16-inch Omen Max 16 with the latest gaming technology. There's a Core Ultra 9 and an RTX 5080 laptop GPU in there, along with lots of RAM and a decent SSD. It's a complete package, albeit a bit of a heavy one.
