HP Omen 17

By Seth G. Macy

It seems like crazy talk to call a $1,799 or AU$3,699 (about £1,470) laptop a good value, but that’s exactly what the HP Omen 17 is. It’s like the design process began with someone walking into HP’s engineering lab, tossing a GTX 1070 on a table and telling the team “Here, build a computer around this.” It feels as though HP found a gamer’s check list of “dream features in a laptop,” and focused on graphics, screen, and storage.

The Omen 17 is a 4K, G-Sync enabled 17-inch laptop that actually makes Quad-HD gaming seem like a viable option. It’s not a budget computer per se, but when you see what it can do, the price tag seems like a downright bargain. More powerful than the ASUS Rog Strix GL502 and less expensive than the Gigabyte P57X, the HP Omen 17’s price tag almost seems too good to be true.

Design

As far as gaming laptops go, the HP Omen 17 is conservatively designed. It lacks the aggressive angles and sharp lines of most other high-powered laptops. Apart from its enormous size, you’d be hard pressed to know it’s a gaming laptop at all save for the throwback HP …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac