Stefan Mileschin

HP today announces plans to upgrade its OMEN 15 gaming laptops with NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce GPUs, a display panel featuring a 240 Hz refresh rate, and a new WiFi 6 (802.11ax) controller. Planning to release the updated models in a piecemeal fashion, in February the company will release OMEN 15 notebooks powered by NVIDIA’s new GeForce graphics boards. Then in July the manufacturer will start adding the rather unique display panels as well as the new Wi-Fi controller to the OMEN 15 family.

The OMEN 15 by HP, as the company prefers to officially call this product, is a ‘classic’ 15.6-inch gaming laptop that comes in relatively thick 2.48 cm (0.98 inch) chassis and weighs 2.38 kg (5.26 lb). The enclosure enables HP to install a fairly sophisticated dual-fan cooling systems with large radiators and four thick heat pipes capable of dissipating well over 100 W of heat. The cooler allows HP to install processors as high as Intel’s six-core Core i7-8750H processor (45 W) and NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU (80 W – 90 W), which is what's features in the company's current OMEN 15 machines.


Other specs of today's OMEN 15 system are in-line with contemporary high-end laptops: up to 32 GB of DDR4-2667, a hybrid storage subsystem (SSD + HDD), Thunderbolt 3, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and so on. Being aimed at enthusiasts, OMEN 15 offers a single-panel access to the compartment where SO-DIMMs, M.2 SSD, and HDD are located for easier upgrades.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13770...omen-15-240-hz