Best Buy Wants to Send You Back to School With a 4.8-Star HP 2-in-1 Laptop for Mere Peanuts

Gizmodo

6 days ago

A new school year probably means a new laptop, especially for someone headed off to their freshman year of college. The helpful orientation guides will no doubt direct you to the campus bookstore to check out their laptops in all their outrageously overpriced glory, so the smart move is to hit Best Buy's Back to School sale and snag the HP OmniBook 5 Flip 2-in-1, a touchscreen laptop-tablet hybrid that can do it all for just $400 — a huge price break from its usual list price of $700.
Everything a student needs, or frankly everything anyone in the market for a great laptop needs, is present and accounted for in the OmniBook 5. Start with the 14-inch touchscreen that gives users a full tablet experience on a 2K resolution screen. Add the Intel Core 5 processor, 512GB of storage, greasy-fast WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 connections, and high-end camera and speakers built in, and this is a $400 steal for student and parent alike.
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We love how the HP OmniBook 5 can take on four different configurations and be equally productive and effective in all of them. There's conventional laptop mode, tent mode for using the touchscreen while the OmniBook stands on its own, reverse mode for screen-sharing, and full tablet mode, where an optional stylus would be a great addition.
Regardless of how you decide to fold it, the Intel Core 5 120U processor is your ticket to great productivity and multitasking, and when combined with the 2K Full HD+ display and the Intel Graphics card, turns the OmniBook 5 into an amazing streaming device. The videoconferencing and video calls run through the 5MP infrared camera which has a built-in shutter you can close for privacy, an integrated dual-array digital microphone setup, and HD Audio through the stereo speakers.
The HP OmniBook 5 looks great on a desk, but it's really made to use on the go. It's a teeny 0.73 inches 'thick' with the lid closed and weighs barely over 3.5 pounds, so it's an easy add to any backpack or other carrying bag. The 21.5-hour battery life is proof HP had students in mind when they designed the OmniBook 5, to have things covered when they rush out the door without the USB-C power adapter.
The HP OmniBook 5 was released just this year, and has all of the built-in features and perks to be future-proof for a four-year school stint and possibly longer. Make Best Buy's big sale your first Back to School shopping stop and grab this 14-inch 2-in-1 laptop-tablet hybrid down for just $400.
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