For the original German review, see here.

While HP leaves the absolute high-end segment to other manufacturers (Alienware, Acer, Asus, Clevo, etc.), in the price range between 1000 and 2000 Euros ($1150 - $2300), the Omen laptops belong to the most important and successful gaming representatives. To cover a target market as large as possible and attract as many customers as possible, the 15 and 17-inch models are available in various feature variants.

The Omen 15 is equipped with 8 to 16 GB of DDR4 RAM and a CPU from Intel's Kaby-Lake generation that can either process four (Core i5-7300HQ) or via Hyperthreading eight threads (Core i7-7700HQ) at the same time. The graphics accelerator comes from Nvidia, and here the offerings range from the GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB of VRAM) and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB of VRAM) mid-range chips up to the GeForce GTX 1060 high-end GPU which features an impressive 6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM. Depending on the model, the data is stored on a smaller 256 GB SSD and/or a large 1 TB HDD. A non-reflective Full HD screen, which supports 120 Hz in some configurations, is responsible for the image display.

Our test unit, which is the Omen 15 ce002ng model and costs 1665 Euros (~$1900; note that while we could not find the exact same configuration in the US, various configurations are available, such as an HP Omen with 15.6" FHD, i7-7700HQ, NVIDIA GTX 1050, 8GB, and 1TB HDD for $1070), is really the top configuration. The competitors of the Omen naturally include primarily the 15-inch notebooks from the multimedia and gaming segment. To keep things from becoming too chaotic, we have limited ourselves to four comparison devices in this article. With a maximum case height of 3 cm (~1.2 in), the MSI GS63VR 7RF, the Schenker XMG P507, the Gigabyte Aero 15, and the Acer Aspire VX5-591G are also quite slim.