HP’s Omen Max 16 uses AI to optimise your game performance [Video]

With AMD, Intel and Nvidia all launching beefy new mobile chips at this year’s CES, I can totally believe HP when it says the new Omen Max 16 is its most powerful gaming laptop ever. The 16in monster also has two clever ways of maintaining that performance over time – one using AI, and one using a “so simple why doesn’t everyone do it” mechanical trick.

It doesn’t look all that different from the outgoing Omen 16, but goes all-out on RGB with a colour-changing light bar at the front of the laptop and a per-key illuminated keyboard.

Internally, the Max adds a vapour chamber and uses liquid metal thermal compound to maximise its cooling potential. That’ll keep the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 or Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processors tamed while under heavy load, and ensures the Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU can pump out frames.

The clever bit is …