HP Omen Pro: The laptop for gamer

The HP Omen Pro is definitely known among gamers: the American company has announced a professional variant, with technical features aimed at productivity and a more sober.

HP Omen it sets a tone and changes in appearance and features to be better accepted in professional circles. He does it with a new variant, HP Omen Pro, where it becomes a workstation that borrows the design of the traditional model. The chassis is the same product from a monocoque aluminum anodized, as well as size and weight: 19.9 mm thickness and slightly more than 2 kg total weight.

In terms of technical specifications, HP chose an Intel Core i7 with 16 GB of DDR3-1500 RAM, and offers two cuts for the SSD Z Turbo integrated PCI-e: 256 or 512 GB. On the chart we find a NVIDIA Quadro K1100M with 2GB GDDR5 dedicated memory, which will have to manage a display of 15.6 ” in Full-HD resolution can accept input through a matrix touch screen.

Completing the HP Omen Pro list of technical specifications four USB 3.0 ports, mini DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI ports for connecting any external monitors, a card reader SD memory and support for Wi-Fi networks dual-band and Bluetooth 4.0.

We spoke of similar appearance, but made it more suitable for working environments. HP has chosen to abandon the light-colored model from gamer with white LEDs decidedly more sober, while the red details of the body are now much less obvious.

It is curious that HP has decided to continue to use the brand Omen for his new professional product, a brand that had done just with the acquisition of Voodoo PC.

HP Omen Pro is already available in the US starting at $ 2,200, with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installed natively. The American company has chosen the older version of the operating system, probably considered more suitable for the professional user.