Due to a significant lack of reviews/information on this laptop, I decided to make this post. I have only had the laptop for 24 hours so these are initial impressions

Specs:

16" 2560x1600 (16:10) touch screen

i7-12700h

RTX 3060 mobile (idk wattage)

512gb SSD

16GB DDR5 @ 4800mhz

5MP Webcam with Windows Hello

Screen: the screen is awesome. It is the best I've ever had on a laptop. The colors are great, and it gets really bright. At 2560x1600 120hz it is really clear and smooth. The touch screen is nice to have. Backlight bleed is not an issue at all.

Size/Weight: about the size of a 15 inch laptop because of the aspect ratio (16:10). It's quite heavy. Not because it's bulky but because it's built so solid. There is nearly zero flex in the chassis if you pick it up and try to "twist" it

Speakers: not as good as I was hoping but they are above average. The speakers on the Zephyrus G14 are probably better. The speaker grilles on the top next to the keyboard are just for looks unfortunately, the speakers are bottom-firing in the front.

Keyboard/Touchpad: pretty average laptop keyboard. keys are slightly stiff and I'm hoping they break in a bit. The touchpad is pretty large and I find myself resting my palm on it when typing. It doesn't seem to cause any issues though and the palm rejection seems to work well. Touchpad has excellent tracking but sort of a mushy click. I'm guessing they tried to make the click inaudible, which they did, but it's slightly mushy. There is absolutely no annoying vertical play in the trackpad like I've had on my last 2 laptops (Dell, Asus). Edit: I take back my comment about it being mushy. There isn't an audible click but it isn't mushy.

Software/Bloat: The amount of bloatware on the computer was pretty intense. Never had an HP before so compared to other brands I would say it definitely had more. Some of it was 3rd party stuff and a ton of it was useless HP stuff. I found none of it to be of any use and ended up doing a clean installation of Windows.

Battery Life: Still putting it though its paces but so far the battery life is amazing. Seems like battery lasts 16 hours basically idle and about 10 hours doing web browsing or light work (at about 35 percent screen brightness)

Performance/Thermals (updated): Chassis gets hot, fans get loud. Expect throttling under sustained workloads (~100c on processor, ~80c on GPU). Part of this is due to the agressive boost nature of modern processors and GPUs. Essentially if you aren't thermal throttling then you are leaving performance on the table.

Feel free to ask questions. A few pictures below.

https://imgur.com/a/cZ9sQrw

Edit: I'm having some kind of performance issue with the 12700h, not sure whats going on....

Reinstalling Windows a second time seemed to fix processor issue.

Edit 2: Timespy results here https://imgur.com/a/DHLFdq5

Edit 3: Made some minor edits above. After about 5 days I am really liking it, no complaints