HP "OMEN" for £666?
Genius.

My gf is a college student doing HND would she be able to get student discount ?

Just for the record, this arrived a few days ago.

Initially the laptop booted up with an error from the BIOS which didn't inspire confidence levels much :-( - according to the bios there was a cooling system issue! However fans did spin up so *shrugs* weird. HP troubleshooting suggested updating the bios (hmmm....) - I did that but nothing changed. Oddly enough upgrading Windows to a newer build fixed it! (bizarre - it makes no sense - but hey - the system error isn't there anymore.)

Calls to Microsoft weren't helpful at all - I'd saved an extra £20 over the price listed here and worst case scenario I'd have to return the laptop, and get those Microsoft credits back, lol. Don't know what I'd use £250 of MS credits (sometimes the whole bargaining thing isn't what you bargained for.)


Now onto the laptop:

It's brilliant. The plastics feel cheap - they flex under tension. And as much as its designed to be a gaming laptop it isn't as garish as I first thought which is a plus point. It looks quite nice!

The earlier comments on the screen are a misnomer - the screen is lovely. The matt effect makes it appear a little washed out - every matt screen I've seen looks that way tbh. Viewing angles are great, responsiveness is great, detail is great.

Performance is amazing - I'm running most games on high to maximum settings at native HD resolution.

Sound is above average - though could do with more bass. I don't believe the bang and olufson hype. Basically it's "good" but nothing amazing.



Verdict: For £620 - Initial hiccups don't inspire confidence but I think the error is moot, and aside from the cheap flexing of the plastics [my only real negative about the laptop] - I don't imagine anything would come close for a while.

I would definitely buy this again at this price :-P basically.

OOS.

I might have gone for it too (well, my daughter would have as she is at uni).

The screen isn't bad at all. You wouldn't find a better screen on a £500 laptop anyway. In fact unless your are spending over a grand you won't get a better screen.

Tempted but apparently it's one of the worst IPS screens out there.

You're right! I just needed to buy the vouchers and redeem against the Microsoft Account.

I couldn't buy more than 5 * £50 vouchers though :disappointed: they restricted it.

Still, a further saving of £15, + 1% quidco + cdkeys quidco + student discount. Fingers X'ed they deliver :-(

Na not student related, got the styudent discount and microsoft points both available for me on checkout.

Not showing up here - is it because I've selected student discount?

Only options I get are Credit and Paypal :-/ do I need to actually have MSPoints on my balance before it shows up?

XBox Live Microsoft Points are out of stock at cdkeys - they have the other XBox Live vouchers but everywhere seems to imply it only works on digital downloads, not hardware.

Yes, when I get through to payment options I can pay with my microsoft balance.

You could get this even cheaper by buying mspoints from somewhere like cdkeys and using that to pay for it.

HP "OMEN" for £666?
Genius.

Duck it, went for it. Can always return it.

The i7 of this was on very once you receive the credit for £680 and I got one

• 15.6-inch Full HD display
• Intel i5 7th Gen
• 8GB memory/1TB HDD + 128GB SSD
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics.