The HP 14-ep0199nr has a physical footprint of 323 mm wide by 214 mm tall, with a 17 mm thickness that keeps it relatively slim for everyday portability. Its total volume comes in at 1175.074 cm³ and it weighs 1991 g. The laptop does not use a fanless design, meaning it relies on active cooling to manage heat. It lacks a backlit keyboard and is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash or moisture protection.
The laptop features a 14″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting and a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 px, delivering a standard full HD image across its screen. It runs at a 60 Hz refresh rate and includes an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare in brighter environments. The display does not support touch input, and the system is capable of driving up to 4 connected displays simultaneously.
The system is powered by a processor with 2 performance cores running at 1.7 GHz and 8 efficiency cores at 1.2 GHz, reaching a turbo clock speed of 5 GHz across 12 threads, with multithreading and 64-bit support both enabled. It comes equipped with 16GB of DDR4 RAM at 3200 MHz, expandable up to 64GB, paired with a 512GB NVMe SSD operating over a PCIe 4.0 interface for fast flash-based storage. The integrated GPU runs at a base clock of 400 MHz with a turbo of 1300 MHz, and supports DirectX 12. The CPU is built on a 10 nm semiconductor process, contributing to its power efficiency profile.
In Geekbench 6, the processor scores 2458 in the single-core test and 7122 in the multi-core test, reflecting its capacity to handle both single-threaded tasks and parallel workloads. PassMark results follow a similar pattern, with a single-core score of 3436 and an overall multi-threaded PassMark result of 14252.
For wired video output, the laptop includes one HDMI port and a USB Type-C connector, while DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Wireless connectivity is handled by Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), and the machine also supports AirPlay. There is no external memory card slot available on this model.
The laptop is rated for 8 hours of battery life on a single charge. It does not include sleep-and-charge USB ports, so connected devices cannot be charged while the system is powered off, and there is no MagSafe power adapter support.
Audio output is handled by stereo speakers, and a 3.5 mm headset jack is available for wired headphones or headsets, though there is no Dolby Atmos support or S/PDIF output port. The laptop includes a single microphone and a front-facing camera, but lacks a fingerprint scanner and does not use 3D facial recognition for authentication. Voice commands are not supported, and no stylus is included. On the sensor and navigation side, the device has no gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS. There is also no optical disc drive built into this model.
The laptop CPU is a mobile-class processor with a clock multiplier of 17 and a 15W TDP, operating with big.LITTLE technology for mixed-core efficiency; the multiplier is locked and the maximum supported RAM speed reaches 5200 MHz across two memory channels, with ECC memory not supported. Cache consists of 9.5 MB of L2 and 12 MB of L3, and the processor supports NX bit along with instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, with a maximum CPU temperature of 100 °C. Graphics are handled by the integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU, featuring 96 execution units, 768 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, and 24 render output units, with support for OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6.