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OmniBook is a line of laptop computers developed and sold by HP Inc. since 2024. It is a single brand for all consumer-oriented laptops by the company, replacing the Spectre, Envy, Pavilion and Essential lines in the United States. A previous business-oriented line under the same name was marketed by Hewlett-Packard, HP Inc.'s predecessor, between 1993 and 2002.




History


OmniBook was introduced in 1993 as a line of business-oriented laptops and subnotebooks produced by Hewlett-Packard. It succeeded the prior HP Vectra LS models of computers. It was discontinued in 2002 following the acquisition of Compaq that year, with the Compaq Presario, HP Compaq, and HP Pavilion laptops succeeding the OmniBook line.
The OmniBook brand was then revived 22 years later in 2024 as part of HP's rebranding of its PC product lines that year. The new "Omni" brand would be used for all consumer PCs (aside from Omen), with OmniBook for laptops, OmniDesk for desktop computers, and OmniStudio for all-in-one PCs. It would replace the long-running Pavilion brand in use since 1995 among other brands in the United States.




Models


The current lineup of the OmniBook as of 2024 is made up of five different grades; Ultra, representing the highest-grade model, followed by X, 7, 5, and 3, with the last grade being the lowest-grade model. The other HP consumer series under the "Omni" branding (OmniStudio and OmniDesk) follows the same format.




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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 from 2024–present.




= OmniBook 300

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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. It had two PCMCIA slots for additional memory, modem, network cards or other peripherals. It was sold in three 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 included both Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word pre-installed in ROM, a practice that was and still remains unusual to this day. 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

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The HP OmniBook X is a notebook computer announced in May 2024 as the first model of the revived OmniBook line. It is powered by an ARM64-based Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor, has a 2240 x 1400 resolution touchscreen IPS display, 16 GB or 32 GB memory, and either a 512 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB PCIe 4.0 solid-state drive. It is marketed as an "AI PC" featuring Microsoft Copilot.




Notes






See also


HP OmniGo




References






External links


Official HP pages
OmniBook search results on HP's website
OmniBook support page, with more extensive list of models here [1]
Others
HP OmniBook Information Archived September 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine by Kieran Garbutt
HP OmniBook site by Sean McCreary

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