HP OMEN 15-ce000 [15-CE012UR 1ZB06EA]

Aggressive aluminium laptop

The HP OMEN 15-ce000 is HP's purebred gaming laptop with a typical gaming flair. Its body with sharp aggressive lines is made of aluminium and fairly durable plastic. The most striking feature, giving it a futuristic look, is the screen cover with a geometrically correct pattern and heat sinks in the form of a pair of sports car turbines.

The 15.6-inch IPS display of the HP Omen 15 has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. It has a high level of contrast, a good margin of brightness (280 cd / m2) and a backlight uniformity of 92%. In general, the display leaves a pleasant impression, and the main complaint about it is the bias towards blue tints, which makes the picture seem too cold. However, this can be corrected in the screen calibration settings.

Comfortable stock FPS for any game

As a serious gaming laptop, the HP OMEN 15-ce000 is stuffed with no shame. At the heart of this model is a powerful 6-core Core i7 processor from the latest Intel Coffee Lake family, which runs at 4.1 GHz and boasts 9 MB of L3 cache.

The amount of DDR4 RAM is 16 GB, this is a solid supply, which should be enough for at least five years. The disk array consists of HDD and SSD drives with a total capacity of 1128 GB. Here, the Nvidia GTX 1060 with 6 GB of video memory is responsible for video processing. Such a combination of iron will provide comfortable FPS in any modern toy at high graphics settings.

Omen Command Centre

One of the laptop's standout features is the Omen Command Centre suite of software, which looks strong even by gaming laptop standards. With it, you can customize the keyboard backlight for yourself (stable colour, flashing, different colours for different keys, etc.), hang certain keyboard shortcuts on macros (17 types are supported) to make life easier in conditional Dota 2, or in general turn off the keyboard backlight. At the same time, the WASD gaming keys will still be visible, since the manufacturer highlighted them in red.

Acoustics Bang & Olufsen

I was also pleased that HP engineers did not save on speakers, but gave this work to the eminent manufacturer of Hi-Fi acoustics Bang & Olufsen. Therefore, the laptop speakers sound really loud, clear and rich, and if their volume is interrupted by the cooling system, you can pile on a couple of extra decibels using the HP Audio Boost function.

Battery life and fast charging

This is one of the rare gaming models that is not afraid to leave the outlet for a long time. With a non-gaming load (browser, social networks, video) and a screen brightness of 20%, OMEN can last up to 8 and a half hours. Without load and with the minimum screen brightness, the test Omen 15 worked for 10.5 hours. These are solid figures even by the standards of balanced work laptops. In the case of games, everything will depend on the brightness of the screen and the load on the processor with the graphics card. If the battery runs out earlier than expected, then fast charging will come to the rescue.