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A closer look at OMEN Transcend 16 gaming laptop and HyperX Cloud III headset
Here we stopped by HP's booth where OMEN's worldwide category gaming manager Prasanna Moghe and HyperX's field application engineer Mark Fuller detailed their latest products and showed off how the two brands are coming together. For the laptop we learn about its innovative audio solution and elegant white finish, whereas for the headphones there's some really smart engineering going into them.
Audio transcription
"Alright, we are at Gamescom 2023 and it's the second day and we are very happy because it's the final appointment and also because we are with our friends over at both OMEN and HyperX and we are here with Prasanna, thank you so much for joining us to learn a little bit more about the OMEN Transcend 16 which, you know, I took a brief look at in Madrid and I found something very interesting which to me is a highlight, I don't know, of course it's full of features but one of the highlights is that the audio chip to connect with HyperX headphones is included in the laptop so even though it has a dongle that you can connect, you automatically get the best connection with no lag and this is also like a testament of HyperX and OMEN coming together, right?
Yeah, totally. First of all, thanks for joining us today here and very pleased to have you here You are absolutely right. We have this biggest innovation which we have done this year OMEN and HyperX are coming together and complementing each other to bring best of innovation to all our gamers We are always bringing best to our gamers This is the biggest innovation which we have for this year Combining and bringing OMEN and HyperX into one box We are shipping it together but that's not all We are also sending a headset which is paired together with our new OMEN Transcend 16 which is not just pre-paired but when you switch it on, it is automatically sending the signal to our laptop which switches the input from laptop speakers to headphones and when you switch it off, it automatically sends it back to the laptop speakers So because it is pre-paired, we have something called ULL which we call Ultra Low Latency Dongle which sits inside this and this ULL actually talks to the headset here and because of this ULL, the latency or the lag which we experience in the wireless headphone significantly goes down and that's the beauty of this because typically gamers have this latency issue when they play for a long time on wireless headset because of the ULL, thanks to the innovation which we did, the latency goes down significantly So it's not just pre-paired and shipped together with OMEN Transcend but also latency is significantly down thanks to the innovation which we have Well, that's not all. We have something more OMEN Transcend 16 also hosts a unique 16 by 10 aspect ratio We have mini LED display here and with mini LED display, it has brightness up to 1180 nits So if you are a gamer playing outside, outdoors, brightness really makes your gameplay immersive That's what we want gamers to experience So you are in darkroom or you are in outdoors, 1180 nits brightness really helps with mini LED display to have fast and immersive gameplay And this PC is not just for gamers This is designed for people or customers who need PC for their life Not just for gaming but beyond gaming, for creation, for work, for study So this suits needs for all the customers who are requiring this PC for gaming and beyond On which configurations can we buy the Transcend 16?
Also you have a white model, right?
But what about the specs that we can buy, the price point and the white version?
Well, we have available this up to i7 and up to RTX 4070 So this is configured in various configurations supported up to RTX 4070 and Intel i7 And as you rightly mentioned, we also have a beautiful white color in this You know it's my birthday today, right?
Thank you I was about to say this So we have beautiful, nice white color in this And it looks even beautiful when I open this And it has nice white keyboard with RGB light, right?
And this big sort of thing to Manua So with these two, black as well as white We hope that our customers are gonna like this We call it crossover laptop So this actually is crossing over between performance and lifestyle So we hope our customers and gamers would like both black and white variants of our OMEN Transcend And what is the approximate price point for the different, you know, in Europe more or less We know it changes depending on the region itself But for the different configurations that you mentioned Well, it starts at 1899 euros Yeah, that's what the starting price is And then as you mentioned, it varies by configuration But it starts at 1899 And the base RAM is?
It's 16 GB Yeah, but you can configure in 8 GB also, but the base RAM is 16 GB All right, so now let's take a look at the HyperX side of things Thank you so much for your time Let's move on to HyperX Thank you Enjoy the show Thank you Okay, so now we moved over to the HyperX side of things But we saw here, Mark, how you guys are coming together But the headphones that are included with the Transcend are the Cloud II But you have an even newer, even more top-of-the-line model now Which are the Cloud III, both wired and wireless So what can you tell us about the differences coming from the Cloud II to the new model?
Okay, so yeah, the Cloud III has been a long time coming We've basically taken that time to listen to feedback from customers About what was good, what was not so good for the Cloud II And try and improve on everything that we could into that package So the Cloud III wired was the first one to come out This one actually came out in around June So it's been out for a little while And a lot of the features are very similar between the wired and the wireless I'm just going to go through this one first Both of them have an improved headband You have a lot more memory foam in there I don't know if you want to give that a test there It's a lot thicker than the previous one, so it's very comfortable Same with the ear cushions, there's a lot of memory foam in them And the idea is with the Cloud that you can wear it as long as you want It feels like a cloud, that's the whole sort of premise of it And we have the aluminium side forks in here And good torsional strength in the headband So you can really twist and pull the headband You can DJ with those And the idea is that they are gamer-proof essentially So still got that HyperX build quality Still got the comfort, everything that we could for the original one we brought over with it And then the feedback I mentioned One of the key things was the microphone A lot of people said the Cloud 2 is an amazing headset But the microphone could be better So what we've done is we've increased the size of the sensor in the microphone From a 6mm sensor to a 10mm sensor So almost a 50% increase And that gives us room to do two things Obviously a larger sensor gives you a better quality signal in general But also the fact that it's larger Means that we have enough space to build the pop filter into it So with the old one, I don't know if you can see it up there We had the sort of foam pop filter on the end of it like this one And this one actually has the pop filter built in It's an aluminium mesh pop filter And it's a lot harder to lose Because you'd have to lose the whole microphone Rather than just a little bit on the end So there's also two sensors in here There's one on the outside, one on the in It gives you a bit of noise cancellation When you're speaking on Discord or anything like that So hopefully in noisy environments like this one People will still be able to hear you speaking What's the price point for the wired version?
This one is €119.99 And it's a standard stereo plus mic mini jack So it comes with a CTIA single jack And it also comes with a USB dongle One of the other key differences I was moving on to Is the dongle itself Because on the Cloud II, we had all of the controls on the dongle And people said it would be much more convenient If they were on the headset So on the back of the headset here You have the volume control and the mic mute And those actually function via the 3.5 As well as via the USB dongle The USB dongle is there to provide a better digital signal On PC, that means you can use DTS Headphone X Which is a 3D audio program And you can use it in two ways You can either use it via Ngenuity Our own proprietary software If you have lots of HyperX peripherals Or you want to use the equalizer that we have in there Or you can use it directly via DTS' own app, Sound Unbound And it's a lifetime activation You just plug the dongle in and it works There's no code to put in or anything like that So it's quite a good feature for customers Power unlock, ok One thing I really like about this one Is a little bit of technical engineering I don't know if I'll be able to demo it easily But I have here a phone And if I plug the jack into the phone With any luck If I press this mute button The mute light will come on Even though it's only connected via 3.5mm jack A lot of headsets do require the USB to be plugged in To have that mute LED How does that work?
Well, that we can't tell you It's patented probably, it's magic It's magic Moving on to a different type of magic It's a kind of magic to have the wireless headphones today They are less laggy They have more quality So what are the differences in terms of features The quality you get being wireless With the Cloud 3 wireless version And how do you connect it to the PC?
Ok, so the Cloud 3 wireless also comes with a dongle And both of the Cloud 3 wired and the Cloud 3 wireless Are supplied with USB-C connections And then a USB-C to A adapter So you can pick and choose between them So this is the dongle for the wireless version And C connector on the end there Plug that into the PC and you have your DTS Headphone X Same as with the wired one You can also plug these directly into a USB-C port On a PlayStation 5 for example It will not have the DTS But it will be compatible with it Or plug directly into the bottom of the Switch I do that a lot, I was about to ask about that Yeah, so Switch compatible with the USB-C Then you can put the A adapter on it And that's compatible with PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 And the dock for the Nintendo Switch It's 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi And the rest is pretty much the same So it's just about the battery and the Wi-Fi connection Yeah, so obviously it's a little bit heavier Because there is a battery in it The big thing though is the battery life We've gone from the Cloud II Wireless Which had a 30 hour battery life at 50% volume To 120 hours at 50% volume Can you gain that much?
Exactly, well I mean personally I use it at home now If I'm working from home That gives me about 2.5 weeks of 8 hour shifts Without needing to charge it Right, and the price point for the wireless version is?
€179.99 Fantastic, I think that's it So yeah, one other thing that I just wanted to mention Is we did also change the driver slightly Between the Cloud II and the Cloud III So we went from a completely flat driver At 53mm To an angled curved driver And you can see it It looks kind of like an ear And the idea is that it will direct more sound into the ear So the same volume should sound louder and clearer That's the overall benefit of that one Lots of engineering going into this new model So thank you so much for your time and for your knowledge Mark Alright, thanks very much Have a good day"
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