When it comes to performance, let’s not kid ourselves—the HP Omnibook X isn’t going to leave scorch marks on the racetrack. It’s not built to. This isn’t your top-of-the-line, game-changing machine that’s going to outpace everything else in its class. In fact, even among its Snapdragon-powered peers, the Omnibook X is playing catch-up at least on paper.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 that powers this laptop is decent, don’t get me wrong, but it’s hardly the star of the show. Meanwhile, the Dell XPS 13 (9345) and Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge are lounging in the VIP section with their beefier Snapdragon X Elite chips—the X1E-80-100 and X1E-84-100, respectively. Both of those come with a dual-core frequency boost, which, guess what, you don’t get in the Omnibook X. Of course they cost a pretty penny more but here’s the surprising bit…
While running benchmarks and in real time, we didn’t find the Hp lagging too far behind at all. It is in fact quite neck to neck albeit the other two do surpass it by a small margin in benchmarks. If you’re running regular tasks you aren’t going to notice that big of a difference at all when comparing both side by side. The long term usage needs to be tested out though.