Thursday 6 November 2014

The Omen: HP’s new Gaming Laptop is incredibly Thin and Powerful

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Hewlette Packard's The Omen



Hewlett Packard has just taken the wraps off from its latest dedicated gaming Laptop: The Omen. This seems that Hewlett Packard is directly taking the fight to Razer gaming laptops.

The Omen has got a 2.5Ghz Intel Core i7 quad-core processor (4710HQ) with a 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860m GPU with a memory of 2GB. This awesome machine has a 15.6-inch 1080p touch screen display. Solid-State drives (SDDs) handle the storage duties in all configurations. However, the base system will come with SATA-based Solid-State drives with storage capacity of 128GB but the higher-end SKUs come with PCIe connectivity supported for their Solid-State drives.

The Omen is just 0.78 inches at its thickest point with its CNC machined aluminum frame and this gaming laptop has a reasonable weight of 4.68 pounds. With these high-end specifications under the hood, the Omen is powered by a 4-cell 58 WHr battery that has a heavy load to bear. But this battery can keep the Omen running for just a period of four hours and forty five minutes (4-hours 45-minutes) per charge that I think is not enough for a gamer, but this can be brushed aside by the promising features the laptop has.

The Omen with backlit keyboard and speaker grilles.
 

Some of the key features of the Omen include four USB 3.0 ports, mini-Display Port, 802.11ac, HDMI, a backlit keyboard and backlit speaker grilles which add up to the Omen’s beauty.

The Hewlett Packard company has tagged the Omen at a price of $1,500, however if you want to step up to a 256GB PCIe- based SSD and a dedicated GPU with 4GB of DDR5 memory, you will have to pay a price of $1,700. The Omen also comes with a 16GB of RAM and a 512MB PCIe-based SSD but the prices are not yet announced for this model.

Those who want the HP Omen can preorder the gaming laptop right now, and the machine will be shipped at a later point this month.

 

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