As we are used to, gaming laptops are being designed to look dangerous and aggressive. Often, these devices come with angular bodies, big stylized fan vents and multicolored light on the lid and keyboard.
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Customers who are buying these kind of laptops will also see that they have extra buttons or other controls on the keyboard desks.
These tweaks are making these gaming laptops to appear more like a mobile command center than a regular laptop. HP took an interesting approach with its new Omen 17-inch laptop.
If the company didn’t add the old Voodoo PC logo on the lid and glowing keyboard, people would have thought that this is just a regular laptop.
So, this means that for the HP Omen, the huge difference is given by the components on the side, which are highly powerful.
The new HP Omen is available at the price of 1.800 dollars, and it is considered to deliver a top-of-line configuration.
HP Omen has a VR-ready Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card paired with a sixth-gen Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor.
Moreover, under the hood there are also 16GB of memory, 256GB solid state drive and 1TB 7.200rpm hard drive. All these amazing hardware perform through a full 3.840 x 2.160-pixel resolution.
But, customers should know that they can also opt for a less powerful configuration and the price will also go down to approximately 1.600 dollars.
Moving to the design, we must say that this new gaming laptop is really huge. But, for a 17-inch gaming laptop’s standards, we must say that this device is not jaw-dropping big. There are many other 17-inch laptops on the market that are bigger than the new HP Omen.
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This new laptop comes with rounded edges and subtle cooling vents, which are making sure to not look as bulky as other laptops at this size.
As we mentioned, thanks to its design, people will be able to use this laptop as a working day-by-day and day-out device. It is a huge difference moving from a 13.3-inch system to a 17-inch system.
The extra space is fantastic and for gaming it allows people to sink into the experience. We must add that the matte ultra HD-resolution display is sharp and it delivers excellent color performance.
Moreover, the GTX 1070 card has no problems keeping up with most high-end games on the market.
The full-sized keyboard is very comfortable and offers enough travel even for people who have big hands. This keyboard comes with red backlight and offers a reasonably bright light.
But, we must say that people have two options with the backlight keyboard, it is either on or off because there is no dimming feature.
As for the clickpad, we must say that it works really great and people don’t have to worry about experiencing any cursor jumping, because there will be none.
In the end, we must say that the new HP Omen comes with three USB 3.0 ports, a separate mic and headphone jacks, an SD card reader, an HDMI port, Ethernet Jack and Mini DIsplayPort output.
