HP has been earning a lot of attention from me lately, and it's mostly been great. The company's investments in the AI PC craze have helped HP stand out from the crowd, and its laptops have evolved to match. I recently reviewed the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 (2024), and it's one of the best laptops I've tested in recent memory. On the other hand, HP's enterprise efforts have begun to draw me away from those consumer-focused devices.
Ahead of CES 2025, HP sent me a pre-production sample of the HP EliteBook Ultra 14 (G1i), one of three professional laptops announced during the latest Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. All three devices, including the EliteBook Ultra 14, are powered by Intel Core Ultra (Series 2), making them potent work machines with some serious AI chops. My early hands-on time with the EliteBook Ultra has been extremely positive, and in some ways, I'm honestly more excited about EliteBook than OmniBook lately.
