An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The HP OmniBook 3 16 hits different in an era of expensive laptops. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU, RAM, and storage options because that stuff was comparatively cheap; the difference was often in build quality and screen rather than power. But RAMageddon has thrown everything off. Even laptops like the $950 Surface Laptop now start with 8GB of RAM, which isn’t enough. And on the lower end, where manufacturers are struggling to compete with the $700 MacBook Neo, they