Gaming laptops do not hand over their positions, and are still pretty popular segment of the computer market. In an attempt to surprise the experienced user manufacturers tend to introduce their products in innovative ideas. And there was a laptop HP OMEN 15 review: memorable due to the red color, which draws attention to the appearance and powerful, because filling consists of the last generation. The novelty has all chances to become a favorite of both gamers and casual users, because the pre-established good impression adds Full HD-quality display, an ergonomic keyboard and a capacious battery. But what actually happened?
DESIGN
To begin with, the device HP OMEN 15 review is completely made of graphite plastic. This color is dominant, while it is partially diluted red elements. Get at least cover: Centre flaunts a bright red logo with beautiful mirrored shimmering. The surface of the panel has a textured structure, why it is a kind of duality: on the one hand, it looks quite interesting, but on the other – adds soiled. Even if cleaned regularly cover anyway, in its “decorative” clogged dust, which eventually becomes only more.
The working area HP OMEN 15 review is as same as the cover, with a similar grooved surface. Smooth touchpad, certainly stands out against this background, but look at this perfectly. Keyboard – ergonomic in appearance, even a bit aggressive at the expense of keys with a red light. The bottom is connected to the top of the housing by means of two hinges. Those, in turn, have an average degree of rigidity: to open the lid with one hand actually, however, it is easily fixed in a predetermined position, and tries not mislaid backward or forward.
To upgrade the unit, remove the lid, the pre-loosening several screws around the perimeter. Upgrading can be RAM, hard drive and RAM. A few words about the overall and mobile devices: its dimensions are 382h253h25 mm, weight – 2.2 kg. In general, to take with you anywhere HP OMEN 15-ax006ur can safely, without experiencing discomfort.
DISPLAY, AUDIO AND WEBCAM
Resolution 15.6-inch screen is 1920×1080 pixels (142 ppi). Perhaps, already traditional for gaming laptops display surface – anti-glare. But do not rejoice in brightness fairly low rate – only 200 cd / m2, which is enough for the room, but not too much open space. By the way, the contrast is also “lame”, her figure is 764: 1, the black level – 0.28 cd / m2.
Compliance with sRGB color space is 60%, AdobeRGB, and even less – only 38%. Actually, how to perform some complex tasks, such as photo processing, can not be considered. But there are good moments: for example, IPS matrix allows you to change the angle of view and save at the same time as the image. In summary, we note that for professional use, which need high levels of color and other characteristics, the laptop is hardly useful, but for everyday work, as well as games, the device features will be enough.
Laptop HP OMEN 15 review Speakers represented by two speakers Bang & Olufsen. Their potential is relatively modest: enough bass, and treble to say to please. But at maximum volume the sound quality is not degraded, which is nice. In general, the headphones in this case – is not a whim, but a necessity, they are much more comfortable to listen to music, and sound effects in games they will be very helpful.
Of course, the notebook HP OMEN 15 review provides a front webcam with HD resolution. Trying to take pictures with it is doomed to failure, because the photos will turn out somewhat out of focus and blurry. This camera is great for communication via Skype, and for other tasks better to use specialized equipment.
KEYBOARD AND TOUCHPAD
The keypad HP OMEN 15 review is slightly recessed into the surface. It is made on island principle, the keys have a square around them a lot of free space. The buttons are pressed moderately hard, they have a short stroke and good feedback. Of course, there is also a digital unit.
To some extent the quality of typing depends on the characteristics often keystrokes. In this case, nothing unusual there, their location and appearance of the familiar to everyone. For example, the button [Enter] – single-row, both [Shift] – large enough, the same can be said about the other: [Caps Lock], [Tab], etc.
By the way, there is a key illumination, however, it has only two modes, ie, there is no possibility to adjust the intensity of illumination. When the backlight is off, the button is still red, and it’s not always convenient, because the same white provides visibility is much better. Laptop Power key located above the keyboard unit in the upper left corner. It is a large, oblong and easily even groped blindly.
The touchpad has turned out long, but not wide. It has a smooth surface on which it is pleasant to drive with your finger. Pointing device supports multi-touch gestures, and perform their very high quality, with no hitches. The touch pad does not have the physical buttons, many of this fact is probably not going to like. However, whatever the quality was not the touchpad for game battles still worth to buy a special mouse.
PERFORMANCE
Notebook HP OMEN 15 review (X5E28EA) comes with pre-installed Windows 10 Home 64-bit. Quad-Core Intel Core i5-6300HQ generation Skylake is made according to the standards 14 nm process. Its working frequency range from 2.3 to 3.2 GHz (four cores at boot time – up to 2.8 GHz), multi-threading support Hyper-Threading is not available. Cache level 3 is 6 MB, the maximum power consumption (TDP) of the chip – 45 watts, which, in general, quite a lot. The processor is good at multitasking and calmly handles the most demanding applications.
Intel HD Graphics integrated graphics card 530 has in its arsenal 24 unit and frequency of 350-1150 MHz. It is able to cope with everyday tasks like web surfing, video playback, etc., it forces even some toys last year, provided that they are running at low or even at medium settings. As for discrete graphics, it is responsible for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M with 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM own standard. This graphics accelerator complies with the 28-nm process technology, operates at frequencies of 1096-1202 MHz (Boost), consumes up to 60 watts and supports DirectX 12, Shader 5.0.
The amount of RAM in the laptop is 8 GB of DDR4-2133 MHz standard. With regard to the storage of information, for this purpose, the manufacturer provides a hard disk capacity of 1 TB (spindle rotation speed 7200 rpm). By the way, the top trim provides a combined version, that is, there is also a SSD.
GAMES
With games, the situation is as follows: Doom (2016) with a native resolution settings on high-going with 17 fps. Racing Need For Speed 2016 with the same figures show 20 frames per second, Far Cry Primal (2016) – 17. FIFA 16 (2015) with ultra settings start with 96 fps, and the Dirt Rally (2015) with the same settings with playable 33 frames per second.
PORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS
The set of interfaces can be described by the word “discreet” because in HP OMEN 15 review provides only the most necessary. On the left side you can see the USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, combo audio jack and a slot for a Kensington lock.
The right side has another USB 3.0, video output HDMI, RJ-45 network connector, card reader 3-in-1 (SD / SDHC / SDXC) and socket for recharging.
Wireless communications are represented Wi-Fi 802.11 ac and Bluetooth 4.2.
BATTERY
The HP OMEN 15 review set 3-cell lithium-ion battery capacity of 5150 mAh (61.5 Wh). Indicators of autonomy with the battery turned out pretty good, for a gaming notebook. For example, in idle mode, it lasted almost 8 hours of web surfing defused the device for 4.5 hours. Enjoy watching videos get about 4 hours, and the maximum load “plant a” laptop for half an hour.
Since the device is intended for use primarily in game battles, it is important how far it is heated. Under the maximum load the laptop body gets hot, so keep it on your lap – a bad idea. However, during the daily work, it behaves impeccably, and the work area is not heated, so hands cool, and so comfortable.
CONCLUSION HP OMEN 15 REVIEW
HP OMEN 15 review – another contender for the role of a favorite among gamers. But subjectively it is unlikely that it will enter at least in the top three, not to mention the championship title. Take, for example, design: it like it is not boring, but the red color in the gaming segment has long been not something original, rather the contrary. In addition, the body is made of plastic, and looks, frankly, a cheap. At IPS-display has all the prerequisites to stand high quality and excellent color reproduction, if there were no objections to the lowest brightness and contrast.
By filling no complaints, it is certainly not the most powerful, but the range and top-end model includes a configuration with more powerful hardware components, so that you are not deprived of choice. But the meager set of interfaces should be noted, would be to extend its good, for example, replacing the outdated USB 2.0 standard USB Type-C. The average cost of a laptop in the described configuration is $ 1170, but we are confident that the potential buyer will think ten times, because for the money, there are more decent options.
