[CES 2026] HP CES Highlights: A Keyboard-Shaped PC, HyperX-OMEN Brand Merge, Plus New Laptops

HP’s presence at CES 2026 involves several new device announcements – mostly laptops – and one not-so-laptop device in the shape of a desktop office keyboard. Plus, the company is officially merging two of its gaming sub-brands into one, first reflected on its new gaming laptop.

HP EliteBoard G1a

This is the not-so-laptop thing we just mentioned: meet HP EliteBoard G1a, described as the company’s smallest and lightest “AI PC” (in normal speak, a PC) to date, as well as “the smartest keyboard on earth,” again using AI as the justification instead of conventional processing power. If that isn’t enough AI marketing for you, there’s of course the Copilot key within the keyboard that all the corporate executives apparently drool over these days.

Everything that’s needed to make a PC functions like a PC is all crammed within the confines of a 96% keyboard form factor, which includes a battery, active cooling system for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series processor, I/O ports (although a pair of USB-C ports are all there is), microphones, to name a few; no luck on the webcams however, you’ll have to bring your own for that one. It’s even got spill resistance, so a potentially pricey “keyboard” like this one won’t get easily damaged by toppled coffee cups.

New HP Laptops

HP also unveiled the EliteBook X G2 Series business laptops and the OmniBook Ultra 14 consumer notebook, both featuring Snapdragon X2 Elite processors; the OmniBook lineup also has been updated across multiple screen sizes, consisting of refreshed OmniBook X, OmniBook 7, OmniBook 5, and OmniBook 3 laptops, plus OmniStudio X series AIO PCs; new Chromebooks also are present to round up the announced lineups. These systems will be powered by an assortment of Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.

Here’s a full list of new and refreshed systems announced, many of which littered with assortments of “AI PC” branding (we omitted some of them, when able, just to make texts less chaotic to look at):

– EliteBoard G1a
– EliteBook X G2i
– EliteBook X G2q
– EliteBook X G2a
– EliteBook X Flip G2a
– OmniStudio X 27 AIO
– OmniStudio X 24 AIO
– OmniBook Ultra 14
– OmniBook X 17
– OmniBook X 16
– OmniBook X 14
– OmniBook X Flip 16
– OmniBook X Flip 14
– OmniBook 7 14 “AI PC”
– OmniBook 7 14 “Next Gen AI PC”
– OmniBook 7 16 “Next Gen AI PC”
– OmniBook 5 16 “PC”
– OmniBook 5 16 “AI PC”
– OmniBook 5 16 “Next Gen AI PC”
– OmniBook 5 14 “PC”
– OmniBook 5 14 “AI PC”
– OmniBook 5 14 “Next Gen AI PC”
– OmniBook 5 Flip 14
– OmniBook 3 17.3 “PC”
– OmniBook 3 17.3 “AI PC”
– OmniBook 3 17.3 “Next Gen AI PC”
– OmniBook 3 16 “PC”
– OmniBook 3 16 “AI PC”
– OmniBook 3 16 “Next Gen AI PC”
– OmniBook 3 14 “PC”
– OmniBook 3 14 “AI PC”
– OmniBook 3 14 “Next Gen AI PC”
– Chromebook Plus 14
– Chromebook Plus x360 14
– Chromebook 14
– Chromebook x360 14

OMEN Is Now HyperX

On the gaming side of things, HP has make a major branding change to its gaming laptops, gaming desktops, and gaming monitors: everything previously branded as OMEN will now be officially under HyperX branding. Effectively, this converts OMEN into one of the sub-category lineup under the HyperX umbrella (i.e. Cloud for headsets, Origins for keyboards, etc). All gaming systems under HP will from this point on bear the HyperX badge, which means the OMEN logo is now officially retired. Here’s a quickfire list of new laptops and accessories announced under this rebranding exercise:

– HyperX OMEN MAX 16 gaming laptop
– HyperX OMEN 16 gaming laptop
– HyperX OMEN 15 gaming laptop
– HyperX OMEN OLED 34 monitor
– HyperX OMEN OLED 27q monitor
– HyperX OMEN OLED 27qs monitor
– HyperX OMEN 24 G2 monitor
– HyperX Origins 2 65 gaming keyboard
– HyperX Origins 2 Pro 65 gaming keyboard
– HyperX Origins 2 1800 gaming keyboard
– HyperX Eve 1800 gaming keyboard
– HyperX Clutch Tachi leverless Xbox arcade controller
– HyperX Cloud Earbuds III
– HyperX Cloud Earbuds III S

As a bonus announcement, HP announced that HyperX is partnering with Neurable to develop a headset that literally reads your mind. “This industry-first gaming technology demonstrates how AI and neuroscience can work together to help players improve their focus and accuracy by interpreting brain activity in real time,” it said in its press statement. Exactly how that will turn out to be, no one will really know at this point – perhaps esports players in the future will be armed with brain-computer interface (BCI) to aim faster? Time will tell.

Pokdepinion: What’s with the whole “Next Gen AI PC” branding? Are we going the route of “Next-Next Gen AI PC” next?