Customer Ratings & Reviews

This machine looks like it is going fast sitting on the desktop. The exhaust system vents on the back edges of the laptop brings to mind the tailpipes a supercar might be sporting. When it is cranking through benchmarking the cooling system and exhaust ports are doing a job, pushing volumes of hot air away from the machine. The HP Omen is the most bang for the buck that I have ever seen in a laptop, this box is loaded with edgy technology. Not going through a list of specs, those are easy enough to find, what is impressive is that all techs are up to date, not last year’s stuff. Too many times have seen corners cut to save a dollar. Not here. Not one USB 2.0 in sight, which is surprising seeing that we just built beast of a desktop a month ago with the latest Z270 Kaby Lake i7 7700K, USB 2.0 ports still in use on an advanced motherboard. Kudos to HP. Take a close look at the specs, you will find 802.11ac with a solid 866.7 Mbps connection. “Dual Force functionality splits traffic across two data streams, sending gaming traffic over the fastest connection available (typically wired), and all other traffic over WiFi.” Other ports of interest (not a complete listing check the spec sheet): 1 USB 3.1 Type C 3 USB 3.1 Mini DisplayPort What I love is the fact you can purchase a HDD Omen model and then add your M.2 NVMe drive of choice, that is cool. If you are not yet familiar with M.2 NVMe you should take a look. In a word (or more) they are fast, about seven times that of a standard SSD. What is interesting is that with the HDD the system boots up in 9 seconds, that is fully populated with my programs/anti-virus and all my files. Impressive. Being spoiled by SSD’s I must tip my hat to HP; this machine runs tremendously smooth with the 7200 RPM Hitachi HDD. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (4 GB GDDR5 dedicated memory) discrete GPU ran through the Unigine Heaven Benchmark smoothly turning good numbers while the cooling system kept the GPU at a respectable 68 degrees. Notable, that with all the heavy iron under the hood the system manages the temp easily. Ran my favorite game, Civilization VI through its paces today set on the highest graphic settings and it ran like a champ. Looks, it has the looks, brushed aluminum case with an excellent finish. Nice touches all-around. Know it is a way cool machine as my kid, the gamer in the house is explaining all the great and subtle reasons why it would be better for him to hang onto the machine. Yeah right! What I am getting use to is the keyboard offset, a bit to the left to make room for the full size numeric pad, which is a nice touch. Keyboard is fine and well suited for heavy accurate work, or gaming for that matter. Want a blistering rig in your hands at an excellent price point, one that can kick it at games and can be easily expanded, check out The Omen.

I am not a big PC gamer but this device can not only game with the best of them but can take care of my work related times as well. The look of the device is pretty awesome! Unless you knew better you would not know it is an HP device as they have forgone the HP logo for the OMEN logo. I have the 15" display which is crystal clear but not 4K. I watched 4K videos and they looked stunning so no miss there. The full size keyboard and separate number key pad is a nice feature. Everything is labeled well and most additional features are function key press away. The sound is amazing and very immersive. As for making connections, there are connections for a mini display port, HDMI, and both USB and USB Type C port. 1 TB of storage, a gen 7 i7 processor and 8 Gigs of memory mean that it is ready to take on just about anything.

Omen by hp Pros The build quality is absolutely amazing. The carbon fiber pattern with the brushed aluminum make for a great design. The red accents don’t hurt either. The screen has really good resolution and great viewing angles. Viewing content on this laptop is wonderful. The keyboard is great as well. The keys are responsive and have a cool red backlight(too bright at times) Battery life is pretty standard for a laptop around 5-6 hours. Cons Not being able to reduce the brightness of the keys is a turn off. It’s either on or off. This is not a deal breaker just something I do not like. Overall there is a lot of value here. A wonderfully crafted laptop with excellent resolution and pretty decent specs. Only a few minor issues that do not take away from the experience in any way but nothing is perfect. This computer is definitely worth the price of admission.