{"id":91815,"date":"2016-05-19T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T09:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91815"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T09:12:45","slug":"the-best-hp-consumer-laptop-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91815-the-best-hp-consumer-laptop-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"The best HP consumer laptop in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming set out to find the best consumer laptop in South Africa, and asked John Geypen, consumer lead for PC at HP. His answer was short and sweet &#8211; the HP OMEN.<\/p>\n<p>According to HP, this laptop packs the power of a desktop, and offers \u201cstunning graphics, lightning-fast processing, immersive sound, and customisable features.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The HP OMEN features an<strong> Intel Core i7-4720HQ<\/strong> <strong>CPU<\/strong>, <strong>16GB DDR3L<\/strong> <strong>SDRAM<\/strong>, and a <strong>512GB M.2 SSD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It sports an <strong>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M<\/strong> graphics card to feed its <strong>15.6-inch<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>1,920 x 1,080<\/strong>\u00a0IPS LED-backlit touch screen.<\/p>\n<p>Other cool features are Bang &amp; Olufsen sound, a HP TrueVision Full HD WVA Webcam, and 802.11a\/b\/g\/n\/ac (2&#215;2) and Bluetooth 4.0 combo for connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>HP also\u00a0promises great battery life.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cPlay for hours with more performance using less power, thanks to battery optimization technology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/HP-OMEN-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91819\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/HP-OMEN-front.jpg\" alt=\"HP OMEN\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/HP-OMEN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91821\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/HP-OMEN.jpg\" alt=\"HP OMEN\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on hardware<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91737-nvidia-gtx-1080-ultimate-guide-performance-and-specifications.html\"><strong>Nvidia GTX 1080 ultimate guide \u2013 performance and specifications<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91673-nvidia-unveils-geforce-gtx-1080-and-insane-new-technology.html\"><strong>Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 1080 pricing and insane new technology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best consumer laptop HP currently has available in the traditional retail channel is the HP Omen, with impressive specs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":91817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,12245,13072,18573],"class_list":["post-91815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-hp","tag-hp-omen","tag-john-geypen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91855,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815\/revisions\/91855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}