Cnet: Best gaming laptops of 2016
The Omen has a bold design, plenty of user customization options, a great keyboard, and something often missing from gaming laptops, a touch-screen.
The screen resolution is capped at 1080p, while the competition goes up to 4K.
Routing all the ports and heat vents to the rear won’t appeal to everyone, and the only graphics card available is decidedly mid-tier.
The bottom line: HP shakes up the world of gaming laptops with its unique-looking and highly portable Omen.
The Origin PC Eon17-SLX is very expensive, and none too pretty, but also one of the only gaming laptops with the specialized components needed for VR hardware such as the Oculus Rift.
The good: A rare 15-inch gaming laptop with top-end Nvidia 980M graphics, and the extra cooling required to run high-end parts in a smaller body.
Battery life is excellent for a gaming laptop.
Despite a few nice design touches, this is still a gaudy-looking gaming laptop.
All those fans can get loud when running at maximum speed.
The Acer Predator 15 one of the fastest gaming laptops we’ve tested, and wisely adds extra cooling to handle high-end parts in a smaller 15-inch body.
Performance is excellent, and a back-lighted keyboard with macro keys makes for comfortable gaming.
Despite the refresh, this still looks like something that lives in a dorm room or LAN party basement.
Even some of the more expensive configurations drop the graphics card a notch.
Asus carries its Republic of Gamers line forward with a modern-feeling overhaul, but the new Intel processors in the G752 are matched with graphics cards more than a year old.
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