{"id":70268,"date":"2014-11-05T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70268"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:58:16","slug":"hp-launches-omen-gaming-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70268-hp-launches-omen-gaming-laptop","title":{"rendered":"HP launches Omen gaming laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hewlett Packard is not a name I would normally associate with flashy, powerful gaming laptops – that was until I saw the HP Omen.<\/p>\n

Launched this week, the Omen looks pretty slick with its red and black, slim design. The internals are not to be scoffed at either, with the 15.6-inch gaming laptop packing an i7-4710HQ 2.5GHz CPU, up to 16GB of RAM, and a 4GB GTX 860M GPU.<\/p>\n

The full HD screen supports touch functionality, too, for those of you who like smudges on your gaming display.<\/p>\n

What does make the laptop quite attractive for those who are constantly on the move is its light weight, just over 2kg, and thin profile – it’s less than 2cm thick according to the manufacturers.<\/p>\n

The Omen’s key specifications are listed in the table below.<\/p>\n

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HP Omen<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU<\/td>\nIntel i7-4710HQ 2.5GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAM<\/td>\n8GB\/16GB DDR3 1600MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GPU<\/td>\nNvidia GeForce GTX 860M 2GB\/4GB GDDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SSD<\/td>\n128GB\/256GB\/512GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Display<\/td>\n15.6-inch 1920×1080 touchscreen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battery<\/td>\n4-cell 58Wh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dimensions<\/td>\n383×245.5×19.8mm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weight<\/td>\n2.13kg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
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HP Omen<\/p><\/div>\n

Naturally, the Omen comes with the standard laptop\/gaming necessities.<\/p>\n

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, built-in speakers (by Beats Audio), USB 3.0 ports, HDMI port, Mini DisplayPort, and a built-in webcam are all included. What is missing is an Ethernet port, which is negated by the fact that HP provides a USB Ethernet adapter with the Omen.<\/p>\n

How many gold coins?<\/h3>\n

The Omen is available to order in the States, starting at $1,499 for the 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, GTX 860M 2GB version.<\/p>\n

For $100 more than the base price, you get a 256GB SSD. For $200 more, HP will give you the 256GB SSD and the 4GB GTX 860M.<\/p>\n

(The pic below is relatively high-res – mobile users be warned.)<\/p>\n

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HP Omen<\/p><\/div>\n

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HP has introduced a rather slick and powerful gaming laptop – the HP Omen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":70272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1702,21,2233,13072],"class_list":["post-70268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gaming-laptop","tag-headline","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-hp-omen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70282,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70268\/revisions\/70282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}