KUALA LUMPUR: HP Malaysia yesterday introduced its refreshed lineup of Omen products, as part of the revolution involving gaming-specific products.
Inspired by fighter jet and spacecraft designs, the new Omen laptops have been completely reinvented to offer a design built for gamers with more expansion capabilities, additional ports and Virtual Reality (VR) compatibility.
High performance appears to be a priority on the Omen 15, with graphic cards up to Radeon RX 550 or Nvidia Ge Force GTX 1060 with Max Q technology made available, which allows the laptop to give a GTX 1080’s worth of graphics power.
The Omen 17, meanwhile, can be configured with up to Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or Radeon RX 580 graphic cards, and with the same technology allows the graphics horsepower to push games at a resolution of 1440p and higher.
Its dragon-red backlit keyboard has been optimised for gaming with red accented WASD keys and white backlight for easy identification, 26-key rollover anti-ghosting function and separated, full-size arrow keys to help reduce accidental key presses.
Meanwhile, the new Omen desktop offers advanced thermal engineering, a modern powerful design and access to industry standard parts for easy upgradability.
It features dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (SLI) or dual Radeon RX 580 (Crossfire) for the graphics horsepower to run the most demanding games at maxed out settings and resolutions higher than 1080p.
There’s a choice of 7th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 cards, with unlocked options for over-clocking for raw computing power to handle massive multiplayer games or serious multi-tasking.
The price for Omen 15 and Omen 17 laptops starts from RM4,499 and RM8,899 respectively. The Omen desktop is available from RM5,999.
Engineered to optimise competitive gaming, HP is making investments in the community with its first sponsorship of a major e-sports event, the Omen by HP Tournament.
Commencing from July 20 to July 28, the tournament is a community-driven Dota 2 championship, which will see up to 256 teams nationwide battle it out to reach the finale on Aug 12.