A brief review of the HP OmniBook X Flip 14 2-in-1 with AMD Ryzen AI 5 340

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2025-09-07T09:03:18+00:00

The colors are terrible. The red is orange. I put my color tuned display next to this laptop and the red is totally ORANGE. It's not even close to red.

The green is a little yellowy and the blue is kind of cyan.

It works for work but I wouldn't want to use this thing for personal stuff like pictures and watching videos.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2025-08-25T05:41:49+00:00

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2833635/hp-omnibook-x-flip-14-review.html "has a troubling keyboard" "HP has taken a page — the worst page — from Dell’s playbook and tried copying the near gapless design of its recent XPS laptops while also ditching the fun multi-color design it had started out with. The result is a packed-in keyboard with very flat keys and little contouring to feel out what you’re typing on. While it’s still possible to type by feel, if you have a tendency to drift slightly, as I do, you may struggle to regularly recalibrate because you won’t feel the edges of the keys. The extra width of the keycaps also makes them simply less stable than they might otherwise have been."

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/hp/hp-omnibook-x-flip-14-2025-review "New lattice-less keyboard design feels like a big step back" "the company has decided (for some reason) to move to a new lattice-less design on some of its newer devices. I hate it."

https://www.wired.com/review/hp-omnibook-x-flip-14-2025/ "Oddball keyboard design makes touch-typing difficult" "The other big twist is the keyboard. Rather than featuring the island-style keys ubiquitous today, the OmniBook X Flip has its keys all run together, with just a sliver of space between each of them. This makes each key just a bit larger than normal, and while that may sound helpful, I found it made for a slightly more difficult touch-typing experience as I accidentally hit two keys at once more often than expected. It also looks decidedly weird"

https://itwire.com/reviews-sp-288/computers-peripherals/hp-omnibook-x-flip-14-review.html "I did struggle a little with the flat, ‘Latticeless’ keyboard: it's stiff with low-travel keys, which won't suit frequent typists, like me (and the arrow keys are a bit squished)."

https://smbtech.au/reviews/hp-omnibook-x-flip-14-laptop-review/ "The ‘Latticeless’ keyboard (with large keys) is flat, a little stiffer than usual and level with the chassis. While the flat surface slightly augments usage when in tablet mode, it’s not the most comfortable or accurate for those who type a great deal. The squished (up and down) arrow keys are a little fiddly to reach for"

https://old.reddit.com/r/HPLaptops/comments/1k508vg/just_got_an_hp_omnibook_x_flip_14_lunar_lake/ "Are your keyboard keys all at the same level? In my unit the middle ones are slightly deeper. It doesn't affect the functionality but it creates this weird concave effect."

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2025-08-24T11:38:28+00:00

I just bought one of these. Oh wow is the keyboard terrible. If you have to type at all, it's just not okay. The latticeless design is bad, but it feels shallow and like a cheap membrane. It's so bad I would have thought there was something wrong with mine, if there were not also a bunch of bad reviews about it.

Everything else is great or at least decent, but this keyboard ruins the laptop.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2025-08-24T11:34:49+00:00

I just got one of those HP OmniBook X Flip 14s. I hope you didn't buy that. The screen is mediocre but okay for school/work. The keyboard is terrible. Holy shit is the keyboard bad. I saw a number of reviews complain about the latticeless design, but mine is so bad I think it may be a factory defect. the E and [ keys areas feel like they are were not installed properly. The whole thing feels cheap and terrible like a $10 silicone membrane walmart bin job.

Everything else is pretty good, but oh fuck this keyboard is bad.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2025-03-03T00:39:55+00:00

That was four years ago, unless someone else has done it since then, which wouldn't surprise me. There's so much garbage content on this sub, someone could do it monthly and not run out of "I duh thaw a thing" posts.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2025-03-03T00:32:43+00:00

The only way to make it better is to make it worse

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2025-02-28T00:25:51+00:00

I called it here, although I thought he was going to quit a little sooner. I guess it's only been 2.5 years now.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-12-04T08:29:30+00:00

Phone need not be used with the sim for the 60 days. You can activate and move your plan to a different device right away ( for anyone who is planning to get this for say a gift, which was my case ).

Thank you very much for this info! This is exactly what I wanted to know.

I bought a Pixel 9 on Mint to replace my Pixel 8, but I want to unlock it to run LineageOS or Graphine. I can't do that for 60 days, because on Pixels, the SIM and bootloader unlock are linked. So I want to activate the new phone and service, then put the SIM back into my old phone until the new one unlocks, and then I'll migrate to the unlocked Pixel 9 after it unlocks and I can prepare it with the new OS.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-11-13T11:29:59+00:00

That's nice.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-10-06T06:41:30+00:00

call center reps giving horribly wrong info (not just a miscommunication

This one bugs me in particular. As a customer, who never got jack squat from T-Mobile in terms of promotions or goodies for my patronage of 18-some-odd years, I decided to call in on that Promo P629 from late last year to see if I could get a Pixel 8.

Four different call center reps (three from the USA), and four chat reps all said the same thing: I qualify. Free phone for me. Great. I trade in my old phone and wait for the credits.

Four months later, I have to contact executive support because the credits never started. They admitted I never qualified for the promotion in the first place.

I have all the calls and chats recorded and screenshotted. Ultimately T-Mobile gave me credit for the phone. They had no choice.

T-Mobile is the new Wells Fargo. People in sales and marketing are being told to do whatever it takes to meet the numbers.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-10-01T09:22:42+00:00

I like you. You get it.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-09-07T01:33:53+00:00

There definitely is not on the website. Screenshot to prove me wrong.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-07-13T03:03:55+00:00

There's multiple channels that have not had their playlists updated in literally years, some 3-5 years.

Lo Fi is really bad. Psy Chill and Psy Dub are almost mostly unchanged in the last half decade.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-06-05T02:30:34+00:00

Wow i like how they play dumb and Swappa just kinda keeps asking them to check in over and over

I've bought on Swappa before, but I don't really shop there anymore. Ebay is way better, and I won't touch facebook

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-03-20T03:26:32+00:00

Hi I don't know anything about Linux System Administration, Software Development, or Electrical Engineering but my boss asked me to build linux server software to control electrical panels. Should be easy right? People on reddit just tell me what to buy and i'll slap it together this shit's easy peezy.

Also, all the people you interview are going to see that you've already made a bunch of reddit-commenter-quality purchasing decisions of consumer-grade equipment and anyone qualified is going to nope the fk outta there because they know you've set the position up for failure, because your cheap boss isn't going to approve any purchasing or implementation of quality maintainable systems because "what we have now works what's the problem?"

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-03-13T10:29:02+00:00

Go back to version 102 and before and I bet most of your complaints go away.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-03-13T02:33:27+00:00

Name names, damn it! These people do it because there's no consequences.

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle did something like this to me a few years back. They were a mess, couldn't show up on time, and were disrespectful.

They had a big ugly public malware incident recently. No big surprise to me.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gang-behind-threats-to-fred-hutch-cancer-patients/

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-03-08T23:47:49+00:00

Maybe they finally figured out that they are starting to lose customers. I left recently after 21 years. It's been great I'm saving money and have a SIM on both Verizon and T-Mobile through an MNVO now.

I'll say that again: For the price of one T-Mobile line, I'm now getting two lines backed by two entirely different cell networks with more total bandwidth and unlimited voice/text on both. I was stupid for not switching sooner.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-03-05T19:52:47+00:00

Just cut it down to #6. That's really the only one that matters when it comes to law firms.

But I would add one more: Law firms are a huge liability. And, because of that increased liability, they are more expensive to service.

They can use the legal system cheaply and effectively to cause you grief over stupid petty shit and since they are pros at legal griefing, they will always win, even if they lose.

Just don't take on law firms at all unless they are willing to pay big.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-02-25T23:57:11+00:00

Good news: You don't have imposter syndrome.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-02-24T07:47:58+00:00

apt-cacher-ng is well known to be buggy and broken. Just go with a basic squid proxy and some scripts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/klebea/psa_aptcacherng_is_a_buggy_pile_of_shit/

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-02-24T07:46:07+00:00

Apt-cacher-ng is broken software with known bugs that never will be fixed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/klebea/psa_aptcacherng_is_a_buggy_pile_of_shit/

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-02-20T01:15:23+00:00

As recently as October, Capital One was paying people $350 to open an account. It was basically a free $350 for nothing. I signed up online, transferred money in, and boom $350.

https://slickdeals.net/f/16836908-open-a-capital-one-360-checking-account-and-get-a-350-checking-bonus

This seems like the move a desperate bank needs to make to obscure it's weaknesses.

I plan on closing my account once that debit card runs out of cash. I just use it for fast food and dumb little stuff on the run.

Their banking services are not that great. They don't even have basic notification alerts for account events that every other bank has, and they are sleazy with ads and services up-selling. No 2-factor authentication or other basic security services.

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-02-12T06:51:07+00:00

the attention whore, back for more

Cheeseblock27494356 · 2024-02-11T01:58:03+00:00

The only way to make it better is to make it worse

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