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Line of laptops produced by Hewlett-Packard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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OmniBook is a brand for a line of laptop computers produced by Hewlett-Packard from 1993 to 2002 and by its successor HP Inc. since 2024.
OmniBook originally began as a line of business-oriented laptops and notebooks produced by Hewlett-Packard between 1993 and 2002. After a 22-year hiatus, HP Inc., the successor company of the original Hewlett-Packard, reintroduced the brand name as part of the Omni brand of consumer-oriented computers in 2024, following a corporate restructuring of its product lines that year. It would coexist and gradually succeed the previous Spectre, Envy, Pavilion and Essential lines, effectively becoming a singular brand for all consumer-oriented laptops produced by the company.[1]
The consumer-oriented OmniBook line, like the rest of the computers in the Omni series, is part of a computing platform known as AI PCs, designed for the next generation of computing. OmniBook laptops made since 2024 featured artificial intelligence technology integrated into the hardware and software.
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In June 1993, Hewlett-Packard launced the OmniBook line of business-oriented laptops and subnotebooks. It succeeded the prior HP Vectra LS models of computers. Following the acquisition of Compaq in 2002, the OmniBook line was discontinued[2][3] in favor of the Compaq Presario, HP Compaq, and HP Pavilion laptops.
In May 2024, HP (as HP Inc.) announced its intentions on restructuring their lineup of consumer PCs in preparation for the next generation of computers with artificial intelligence, stating that most of its PC models (except Omen) would adopt a new branding nomenclature under the new Omni brand, which consisted of the OmniBook, OmniStudio and OmniDesk models. It would coexist alongside the long-running Pavilion brand in use since 1995 among many other brands. The new Omni brand of computers would feature AI-powered hardware and software.[4][1]
As part of the new Omni branding that year, HP repurposed the old OmniBook name that had been used for its former line of business-oriented laptops in the 1990s for a new line of next generation AI-powered laptops manufactured by HP, reviving the historic nameplate that had been absent for 22 years.[4][1]
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The original OmniBook line from 1993 to 2002 consisted of several different models of business notebooks and laptops produced in various sizes and configurations. Many generations of Intel (and sometimes AMD) processors were offered throughout the entirety of the original OmniBook brand, ranging from the original Pentium to the Pentium 4, with some models featuring 386, i486, and Celeron processors. Some OmniBook models from the early-to-mid 1990s also had a small pop-up mouse located on the right-hand side of the computer.
The current OmniBook line since 2024 consisted of various models grouped into five different grades from lowest to highest: 3, 5, 7, X, and Ultra; this format is also shared with the OmniDesk and OmniStudio lines as part of the Omni brand.[1] As of June 2025[update], the 3 exclusively features AMD Ryzen processors, the 5, 7 and Ultra features AMD Ryzen or Intel Core Ultra processors, and the X features AMD Ryzen, Intel Core Ultra, or Qualcomm Snapdragon processors (specifically the Snapdragon X). In terms of the previous brands OmniBook was meant to replace, the OmniBook 3 series succeeds the Essential laptop line, the OmniBook 5 and 7 series succeeds the Pavilion laptop line, the OmniBook 7 and X series succeeds the Envy laptop line, and the OmniBook Ultra series succeeds the Spectre series.
Like many models in the Omni brand, all models of the current OmniBook line (as well as the OmniDesk and OmniStudio lines) featured processors with AI technology, dedicated neural processing units (NPUs) for accelerating AI applications and featured Microsoft's Copilot chatbot software as part of a standard installation of Windows.[5]
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NOTE: This list includes the previous business-oriented models produced from 1993–2002, as well as the current consumer-oriented models with AI technologies from 2024–present.
OmniBook 300
The HP OmniBook 300 (OB300) is a subnotebook released in June 1993 as one of the first models of the original OmniBook line. It weighed only 2.9 pounds and measured 1.4 × 6.4 × 11.1 inches. It is powered by an AMD 386SX-LV processor, featured a full-size keyboard, a pop-up computer mouse (This same pop-up mouse would later be used in the OmniBook 800CT; see the image above), and a 9-inch VGA screen.[51][52][53] It had two PCMCIA slots for additional memory, modem, network cards or other peripherals. Furthermore, it came with three different storage configurations: no mass storage (F1030A at US$1,515), 10 MB flash memory disk (F1031A at US$2,375), or 40 MB hard drive (F1032A at US$1,950). Compared to the hard drive, the flash memory disk reduced the weight and storage capacity of the notebook with increased battery life. One of its outstanding features was a technology known as “Instant On”.
The OmniBook 300 came with slimmed-down copies of MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. Due to storage limitations, the OmniBook 300 includes both Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word pre-installed in ROM, a practice that still remains unusual even to this day.[54] The “International English” version of the OmniBook 300 used code page 850 (rather than the more common code page 437) as hardware code page.
OmniBook X
The HP OmniBook X (14-fe000) is a laptop first announced in May 2024 as the first model of the current OmniBook line. It is part of the OmniBook X series of laptops as a next-generation AI-powered PC. It weighs at about 2.97 pounds and measures 12.32 × 8.8 × 0.56 inches in the front and 12.32 × 8.8 × 0.57 inches in the rear. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor with a dedicated NPU powered by the Snapdragon processor for accelerating AI applications, a Qualcomm Adreno GPU, a 14" OLED IPS touchscreen display with a 2240 × 1400 display resolution, 16 GB or 32 GB memory, and either a 512 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB solid-state drive.[5][55] It also features a built-in 5MP webcam, as well as a Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 wireless card. Battery life of the OmniBook X is rated at about 26 hours.
The OmniBook X came pre-installed with Windows 11 and includes the Copilot AI chatbot, Windows Studio Effects, and Poly Studio audio tuning.[5][55] The OmniBook X is compliant with Microsoft's Copilot+ PC platform marketing brand, with also includes the addition of a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard replacing the menu key found in previous keyboards.
Later laptops in the OmniBook X lineup included Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI processors alongside the Snapdragon X Elite processor.
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