HP wants $699 to buy you a laptop with an OLED screen, a new Intel chip, and a battery that supposedly outlasts a cross-country flight twice over.
HP's OmniBook 5 lands at $699, undercutting pricier ultraportables while still offering a 2.5K OLED display. It runs on Intel's new Wildcat Lake processors, the chipmaker's latest low-power silicon. HP wraps that hardware in an ultralight chassis built for all-day carry. The headline spec is a claimed 42 hours of battery life, a figure that comes from HP's own testing rather than an independent lab.
That battery number matters because specs like it usually show up on laptops with dim screens or weak processors, not OLED panels. If HP can actually deliver both, it resets expectations for the sub-$700 tier, a price bracket long associated with compromises. Wildcat Lake's efficiency gains look like the real story here, with the battery claim doing the marketing heavy lifting.
Manufacturer battery claims rarely survive contact with real-world use, so treat 42 hours as a lab number until independent reviewers get a unit on their desks.