The Omen Transcend 14 (2024) is almost everything I want out of the lineup: sleek, stylish, portable, comfortable to type on, and offering more than enough gaming performance for modern games at 1080p, all for a pretty reasonable price tag. Its 120Hz in particular is a jaw-dropper and made me realize what I’m missing out on with my usual . The Transcend 14’s classy, portable design made me feel at ease taking it out to work.
And it offered enough gaming performance to keep me gaming from the comfort of my bed rather than in my office on my gaming PC. There are a couple of pain points with the Transcend 14, though. First, its battery life is seriously bad.
Second—and admittedly this might only be a problem for those like myself who like to pretend they’re “competitive” gamers—it has a 16:10 aspect ratio display, which means you see less on the horizontal axis while playing . I could find no easy fix for this, as enabling 16:9 resolutions with black-border GPU scaling proved difficult. Despite this, for casual or non-FPS gaming, this laptop is stylish, comfortable, and performs well enough that it would certainly be in the running for becoming my own personal gaming laptop.
Its is a little underpowered (even with a 15W boost in the Omen software) compared to similar laptops, but not enough to detract from the value offered by the Transcend 14’s stellar design, cooling, and display. So, if you’re fine with these battery life, resolution, and GPU caveats, I can .
