HP Omen Slim 16 (2025) review

HP Omen Slim 16 (2025)

The Omen Slim 16 arrives at $1,440 wearing the Omen badge but not the Omen arsenal: a Core Ultra 5 225H paired with Intel Arc 130T integrated graphics and 32GB of RAM. It shares its price tag with the RTX-carrying Omen 16 Slim and Transcend 14 of this same batch, which makes what its sheet does not show the whole story.

Where it holds up

The platform itself is sound: light office work reads 84.85 in the high band, overall performance at 49.58 is mid-tier, reliability at 87 runs 64% above the gaming-class median of 53, and mobility at 45 beats the class median of 29 by half. Value at 52.45 is mid-band, and 32GB of RAM is comfortable for everyday work. In other words, everything the CPU and chassis contribute is respectable.

Where it falls short

The graphics score comes back as zero — a coverage gap rather than a measured zero, since the Arc 130T integrated GPU simply has no matched entry in the scoring tables. The downstream axes tell the same story from the other side: gaming at 19, modeling at 25, engineering CAD at 30 and photo design at 24 all sit in the low band, and portability at 24.7 makes it five low-band axes on one sheet. This is an Omen in name and price but not in gaming capability.

Price and depreciation

At $1,440 with a 20% annual depreciation rate, the two-year projection lands near $920 — the same steep curve as the rest of the 2025 Omen family, without the performance that usually justifies it.

Alternatives to consider

The Omen 16 Slim in this batch costs the same $1,440 and adds a real RTX 5050: gaming 89 versus 19, modeling 90 versus 25. If the integrated-graphics route is genuinely fine, the OmniBook machines below carry bigger battery-friendly numbers for less money.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class only if the class is premium general-use laptops. As a gaming purchase the sheet collapses — buy it for the chassis, screen and office competence, never for the frame rates the badge promises.