HP Announces New AI PCs for Home and Work

HP announced new AI PCs for consumers and businesses today at its annual HP Imagine event in Palo Alto, California.

“HP is deeply ambitious in its commitment to reshape the way people work, fostering growth, nurturing creativity, and unleashing limitless innovation,” HP president Alex Cho said. “We’re bringing AI to life and delivering powerful new experiences through our next-gen AI PCs, advanced audio and video solutions, and innovative AI development platform.”

On the business side, HP is introducing the new HP EliteBook X G1a, which it describes as the world’s most powerful next-gen AI business notebook. Aimed at tech experts and business consultants, the EliteBook X is clearly an updated version of the EliteBook 1040, with AMD Zen 5 Ryzen Pro processors with Radeon graphics and an HP-exclusive 55 TOPS of hardware-accelerated AI performance. It includes various 14-inch display choices, a new AI-enhanced webcam for more accurate presence detection, and HP Threat Containment capabilities, and supports up to 64 GB of 8000 MT/s RAM. It will ship in December, with pricing TBD.

HP is also adding a 8-core model to the Snapdragon X-based EliteBook Ultra laptop family, providing commercial customers with a lower-cost option that gets up to 26 hours of battery life (likely closer to 10 hours in the real world).

For consumers, HP has announced the previously disclosed OmniBook Ultra Flip as the successor to the well-regarded Spectre x360. Aimed at freelancers and creators, this new convertible PC is powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors that offer impressive gains in performance, battery life, and efficiency, a 3K OLED display option, a haptic touchpad, a 9 MP AI webcam, and an HP Rechargeable MPP 2.0 Tilt Pen. The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip is available now on HP.com with prices starting at $1450.