The usual catch with such devices, sadly, is an overeagerness to appearaspirational.
Not that the Omen Transcend 16 is lacking in modernity otherwise.
Those connections are high-spec, too, with HDMI 2.1 and two Thunderbolt 4-ready USB-C ports as standard.
At 2.2kg, the Omen Transcend 16s weight is well below average for a 16in gaming notebook.
The 1920x1200 display, meanwhile, is excellent.
The 1920x1200 resolution is less exciting, being just a hair above boring old Full HD.
Or, in other words, not that many pixels to spread across a 16in panel.
Still, it looks sharp enough, and at least the resolution isnt overtaxing that RTX 4060.
Add in DLSS 3 frame generation, and that jumps up to 76fps.
That said, ray tracing is still best accompanied by some upscaling, even at 1200p.
In pure performance terms, then, this is a decent gaming laptop for the money.
Though it is less impressive as a multipurpose workstation, a semi-shortcoming owed to its Intel Core i7-13700K processor.
Its fine for games, but lacks multitasking prowess, scoring just 6012 in the Cinebench R20 multicore test.
Fine for games, especially older ones that dont make extensive use of multithreading.
It’s harder, unfortunately, to find the bright side of the Omen Transcend 16s battery life.
That was with screen brightness on max, but otherwise on a pretty everyday batch of prefs.
The SSD is nothing special, either.
The drives inside higher-end notebooks, including the ROG Strix Scar 17, will regularly outpace it.
