This HP Omen 15 laptop may sport some subtle looks, but peer beneath the dull grey exterior and there's a lot to love about this machine. Alongside the excellent RTX 3060, you'll find a quality AMD Ryzen CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD—making for a quality specification. The fact that it's enjoying a $400 saving on its normal retail price just sweetens the deal. You're getting a solid laptop for just $899.
The GeForce RTX 3060 is hooked up to a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display that boasts a 144Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of 300 nits. The RTX 3060 is a great GPU for 1080p gaming and you'll be able to hit smooth frame rates at max settings, and even stand a chance of hitting that silky-smooth refresh rate in esports faves like CS:GO and Valorant. This is a great pairing of screen and GPU basically.
There are some great CPUs to be had in modern laptops, even at this affordable end of the spectrum, and that's a camp that the Ryzen 5 5600H happily fits into. This is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 chip capable of boosting up to 4.2GHz under load, making it a great option for gaming, and it's no slouch at more number-crunching intensive tasks either.
It's usually at this point where I have to start talking about compromises, particularly when it comes to storage and RAM capacities, but not so here. HP has fitted out this machine well, with 16GB of DDR4-3200, in a 2x 8GB config for optimal memory throughput, plus you get a perfectly healthy 512GB NVMe SSD. You won't need to plan any upgrades for the foreseeable future with this machine.
Rounding out the specs, you'll find support for the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard, as well as for 1Gb ethernet for speedy wired connections too. Bluetooth 5 support is also present and correct, and there are plenty of USB ports to plug your peripherals into as well. There's even an SD card reader.
Overall, there's a lot to like about this laptop, particularly at this price. If you're in the market for some portable 1080p gaming, then you could certainly do a lot worse.
