HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 (2024)  Laptop Review

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 is available in an Eclipse Gray or Atmospheric Blue colorway. See the bottom of the laptop.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip feels remarkably well-built, with no obvious gaps in the construction. Its full-aluminum chassis is very sturdy; there's some flex on the lid and keyboard deck, but only when applying a lot of force, so it isn't a concern in regular use. The finish doesn't scratch easily, though the touchpad, keycaps, and bottom of the laptop attract a fair amount of fingerprints and smudges. The feet feel solid and stick firmly to the bottom.

The hinges feel smooth when opening and closing the lid, and they're very stable, exhibiting little to no wobble when typing heavily. Opening the laptop with one hand isn't possible, as the base isn't heavy enough to remain in place.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip's serviceability is okay. Accessing the internals is straightforward; you only need to remove four T5 screws and undo a few clips with a prying tool. There are two screw sizes; the ones at the bottom (where the battery is) are shorter. The storage slot supports M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs.

See HP's online maintenance and service guide.

• 65W USB-C power adapter and cord
• Documentation

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip's OLED display looks very sharp and provides just enough screen real estate for split-screen multitasking. Its 16:10 aspect ratio is great for productivity, as the increased vertical space in landscape mode (compared to a 16:9 display) lets you see more information at once when reading a document. However, some may find 16:10 a little too narrow when using the device as a tablet in portrait mode, as most people are more accustomed to Apple iPad's 4:3 or Microsoft Surface Pro's 3:2 aspect ratios. OLEDs are susceptible to permanent burn-in, so you'll have to take active measures to prevent it, like hiding Windows' taskbar. If you need a lot of screen space, check out the ASUS Zenbook DUO UX8406 14 (2025), a dual-screen laptop with a kickstand and detachable keyboard.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 is only available with a 120Hz OLED display. A 120Hz refresh rate provides a better user experience than a standard 60Hz display, as it makes motion look smoother and improves input responsiveness. However, setting the refresh rate to 120Hz will drain the battery faster. You can set it to a fixed 60Hz to save battery, and there's also a setting that automatically switches the refresh rate between 60Hz and 120Hz, depending on whether you're actively using the laptop or looking at static content. As for the response time, it's a little slow for a 120Hz OLED display, but pretty good considering this is primarily a productivity laptop. Dynamic Refresh Rate isn't the same as FreeSync or G-SYNC, so you may still see some screen tearing when gaming with an uncapped frame rate.

The display's contrast ratio is effectively infinite since OLEDs can turn off individual pixels to produce perfect blacks.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14's display gets bright enough for use in most indoor settings. However, you may still have some visibility issues if lights shine directly at the screen because the glossy finish struggles with bright reflections. The display gets very dim at the lowest brightness setting, which helps reduce eye strain when viewing content in the dark.

We've also tested the HDR peak brightness. The display can reach 553 cd/m², which is bright enough to deliver a fairly decent HDR viewing experience.

The display's glossy finish mainly struggles with bright light sources, like a lamp or open window during the day. These reflections are visible even when viewing light-color content with the screen at maximum brightness.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14's display accuracy is good out of the box. There's no major issue with the white balance, and the color temperature is only a tad warmer than the standard 6500K target, not enough to make a huge difference visually. The color dE is high mainly because the display is in DCI P3 by default, resulting in oversaturation. Some people might prefer this over-saturated look; just know it isn't accurate. The gamma isn't too far off except in very dark scenes where it's far too high, crushing blacks.

The posted results are measurements taken in the default color profile. You can change the color profile in the myHP app. Here are the results for the sRGB, P3, and Adobe RGB profiles:

sRGB

• Avg. White Balance: 1.31
• Avg. Gamma: 2.17
• Avg. Color dE: 1.29
• Avg. Color Temp: 6358K

P3

• Avg. White Balance: 1.31
• Avg. Gamma: 2.17
• Avg. Color dE: 1.25
• Avg. Color Temp: 6366K

Adobe RGB

• Avg. White Balance: 1.03
• Avg. Gamma: 2.17
• Avg. Color dE: 1.33
• Avg. Color Temp: 6367K

The display's color gamut is superb. It has full coverage of the sRGB and DCI P3 color spaces, as well as near-full coverage of the Adobe RGB color space. It's suitable for media consumption, professional photo editing, and HDR video production.

The display's flicker is unlikely to be an issue for most people, as the flicker frequency is relatively high. However, it may still cause eye strain if you're sensitive to display flickering.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip has a great keyboard. Its layout is fairly standard, so it doesn't take long to get used to it. Most people probably won't have a problem with the size, although those with larger hands may find this keyboard a tad cramped since this is a fairly small laptop. You need to do a long press on the power button to put the laptop to sleep, so you don't have to worry about accidentally pressing it when using Delete or Backspace.

The overall typing experience is great, though opinions may vary depending on your preference. Essentially, this keyboard has completely flat keycaps and very short key travel, similar to Apple MacBooks. You need to apply a fair amount of force to actuate the keys, which can be both good and bad, as it may help reduce unintentional presses but can cause more fatigue. The tactile feedback feels clear and satisfying, and the typing noise is very low.

The backlight is white and shines well through the legends. You can toggle between two brightness levels or turn it off completely using the F5 hotkey.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip has an outstanding touchpad. It's large, and it tracks all movements and gestures well. Palm rejection works with no issue. This is a haptic touchpad, meaning it uses a haptic engine to simulate clicks instead of mechanical buttons, allowing you to click anywhere on the touchpad. The haptic feedback feels satisfying, giving you a clear indication when an actuation occurs.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip's speakers sound clear, natural, and well-balanced, with a decent amount of bass. They get very loud with minimal compression artifacts at high volume levels.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip has an outstanding webcam. It captures a sharp and detailed image, with only a tiny amount of noise here and there. The only complaint is that the color temperature is quite warm, affecting the overall color accuracy. Voices sound loud and clear over the microphone, with little to no background noise. The privacy cover is just a physical barrier, meaning it doesn't disable it at the software level. You can turn off the microphone using the F9 shortcut.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip has a decent port selection. The two USB-C ports on the right side support Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40Gbps data transfer speed and two 4k @ 60Hz displays) and DisplayPort 2.1, while the one on the left supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 data transfer speed (up to 10Gbps) and DisplayPort 1.4a. All three USB-Cs support Power Delivery as well as Sleep and Charge. Power Delivery lets you fast charge the laptop and other mobile devices connected to the port, while Sleep and Charge lets you charge a device even when the laptop is in sleep mode. Check out the Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition 14 (2025) if you want a similar laptop with a USB-A port.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip's wireless adapter is an Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE201. Like Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7 gives you access to the 6GHz band but with even faster speeds and lower latency. However, you need a router that supports Wi-Fi 7 to benefit from these features. See our best routers recommendations if you want to upgrade your home Wi-Fi.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip is available with the following SoCs:

• Intel Core Ultra 5 226V (8 cores/8 threads, up to 4.5GHz, 8MB L3 cache, Arc Graphics 130V, 16GB RAM)
• Intel Core Ultra 7 256V (8 cores/8 threads, up to 4.8GHz, 12MB L3 cache, Arc Graphics 140V, 16GB RAM)
• Intel Core Ultra 7 258V (8 cores/8 threads, up to 4.8GHz, 12MB L3 cache, Arc Graphics 140V, 32GB RAM)
• Intel Core Ultra 9 288V (8 cores/8 threads, up to 5.1GHz, 12MB cache, Arc Graphics 140V, 32GB RAM)

The available processors are low-power chips designed for general productivity tasks like web browsing, text processing, spreadsheets, and video playback. Unlike their Meteor Lake predecessors, these Lunar Lake processors are proper SoCs (System on Chip) with the RAM built in. This change limits the RAM configuration, meaning you can only get 16GB of RAM with the Core Ultra 5 or Core Ultra 7 256V SoC, while the 32MB memory configuration is only possible if you upgrade to the Core Ultra 7 258V or Core Ultra 9. Another change is the lack of Hyper-Threading, resulting in slightly slower multi-thread performance compared to Meteor Lake CPUs. All four SoCs have the same core count and composition: four performance and four efficiency cores. There isn't much performance difference between these processors—the top-end Core Ultra is around 10% to 15% faster than the lowest-end Core Ultra 5 in most workloads. Finally, all four SoCs have an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) to handle AI tasks, like Windows Copilot, image generation in photo editing apps, and background-blurring on video calls. The Core Ultra 5 226V's NPU has a rated performance of 40 TOPS (Trillions of Operations per Second). The Core Ultra 7s have a rated performance of 47 TOPS, and the Core Ultra 9 288V has a rated performance of 48 TOPS.

You can see more information about the Lunar Lake SoCs in Intel's press brief.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip is only available with integrated graphics; the Core Ultra 5 226V uses Intel Arc Graphics 130V, while the Core Ultra 7s and Core Ultra 9 use the marginally faster Arc Graphics 140V. These integrated graphics are low-power GPUs designed primarily for light productivity tasks; that said, they're a nice step up from the GPUs on previous Intel chips, performing close to the discrete, albeit quite old, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (mobile) in synthetic gaming benchmarks. This means you can get pretty decent frame rates at 1080p in demanding games, provided you turn down some settings. There's technically some graphical performance difference between the four available SoCs; however, it isn't huge, as we're talking only a difference of a single core (the Core Ultra 5 has seven Xe cores, while the others have eight) and minor differences in clock speeds.

You can get this laptop with 16GB or 32 GB of RAM. However, as mentioned in the CPU section, you can only get 16GB if you get a Core Ultra 5 or Core Ultra 7 256V model, while 32GB is only available on models with a Core Ultra 7 258V or Core Ultra 9 SoC. The RAM isn't user-replaceable.

You can configure the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 with 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB of storage. The 1TB option is also available with a 'Performance' drive when purchasing directly from HP, though the exact model of the SSD is unknown. The 2TB drive is always a 'Performance' SSD. The storage is user-replaceable; the slot supports M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip with an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V SoC scores well in the Geekbench 5 benchmarks. While its multi-thread performance is a step backward compared to the last-gen Intel Meteor Lake CPUs, this performance level is still more than adequate for the type of workload this laptop is designed for, namely general productivity tasks like web browsing, text processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and video playback. There are significantly faster CPUs and SoCs on the market if you need more processing power to run heavily multi-threaded applications, like Intel or AMD's HX CPUs and Apple's M4 Pro and Max SoCs. As for the GPU, while the new Arc Graphics are a step up from previous generation integrated GPUs, they're still pretty weak compared to discrete GPUs, at least when it comes to non-gaming, computing tasks.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 with an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V SoC performs relatively well in the Cinebench R23 benchmarks, at least for an ultraportable. Its multi-thread performance is good enough for light to moderately intensive workloads. There are much faster CPUs on the market if you need to perform highly demanding multi-threaded tasks, like the Razer Blade 18 (2024)'s Intel Core i9-14900HX and the Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2024)'s M4 Max SoC.

While you can render 3D images in Blender using the CPU, getting a laptop with a discrete GPU is best, as even an entry-level GPU, like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, can render images much faster.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 256V's integrated Arc Graphics 140V scores decently well in the Basemark GPU benchmarks. This performance level is roughly in the same ballpark as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (mobile), an entry-level discrete GPU first launched in 2019. It can handle some demanding games at 1080p, though you'll have to lower some graphical settings to get playable frame rates.

Drive speeds vary depending on the size and type of SSD you get.

We performed the web browsing and video playback tests using the default Balanced mode and the gaming test using the Performance mode, which is more representative of real-world usage. If you want a similar laptop with a longer battery life, check out the Apple MacBook Air 13 (M4, 2025).

Borderlands 3 runs poorly at 1080p on the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip with a Core Ultra 7 256V SoC. Although you can get over 60 fps with low settings, the gameplay is choppy due to frame drops. Lowering the resolution to 720p will likely reduce the stuttering but won't completely fix it.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip can run Civilization VI and other similar strategy games smoothly with few tweaks in the settings. The turn time is a bit long, though, averaging in the same ballpark as older Intel 12th Gen U-series CPUs.

Counter-Strike 2 runs reasonably well on the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip with a Core Ultra 7 256V SoC. You can easily get well over 60 fps with a couple of tweaks in the settings, but you might still experience occasional stutters, which isn't ideal for a competitive FPS game such as this.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is playable at 1080p with low to medium settings. However, performance can vary due to thermal throttling. The large frametime spikes are scene changes and aren't representative of the performance.

The keyboard only gets mildly warm under load, and the fans are relatively quiet. Using the device on your lap won't be a problem either, as the bottom of the laptop is even cooler at 38 °C (100.4 °F). The posted results are measurements taken in the Performance mode. The myHP app has a few performance modes. Here are the results in the other modes:

Cool:

• Keyboard Temp Under Load: 33.4  °C (92.12 °F)
• Fan Noise Under Load: 32.7 dBA

Quiet:

• Keyboard Temp Under Load: 38.9 °C (102.02 °F)
• Fan Noise Under Load: 31.9 dBA

Balanced:

• Keyboard Temp Under Load: 40.8  °C (105.44 °F)
• Fan Noise Under Load: 40.1 dBA

Power Saver:

• Keyboard Temp Under Load: 33.9  °C (93.02 °F)
• Fan Noise Under Load: 32.2 dBA

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip has many pre-installed applications; see this video for the full list. You can choose between Windows 11 Home or Pro when purchasing the laptop directly from HP.

We've experienced some display flickering issues during testing that required a few restarts to fix. There were also instances when the laptop didn't wake from sleep after closing the lid. These are likely issues that HP or Microsoft can fix via a firmware update; we'll update the review if anything changes.

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip has a Windows Hello IR camera and a fingerprint sensor. You can use either to log in quickly, authorize purchases in the Windows Store, and auto-fill saved passwords on supported websites.

The display supports pen input using Microsoft Pen Protocol technology (formerly N-Trig). Depending on the region and retailer, a stylus may come with the laptop. The stylus is an HP rechargeable (via USB-C) MPP 2.0 pen with 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity and tilt support. It attaches magnetically to the right side of the laptop for transport.