HP boards the MacBook Neo competitor train
HP is the latest to announce a MacBook Neo competitor before the holidays. Its OmniBook 5, starting at $699.99, will use Intel's Wildcat Lake chips and come in a series of colors. What stands out is HP's choice of OLED screens for every model.
Like Apple's Neo and Dell's upcoming 14S, HP is offering four colors: peony pink, starlit blue, smoke silver, and soft honeydew.
8, 12, or 16GB LPDDR5-6400 (12GB option planned for November 2026), soldered
256GB, 512GB, 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD (1TB planned for November 2026)
14-inch, 1920 x 1200, OLED, touch or non-touch. 2560 x 1600 OLED touch planned for March 2027
HP is following steps we've seen from Lenovo, which recently announced its colorful IdeaPad Vibe lineup; Dell's XPS 13 and forthcoming 14S; and Acer's Swift Air 14.
The company is promising up to 42 hours of battery life, with the catch that that's measured with local video playback. …
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