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the new 15 inch HP Roman laptop is between worlds it's not as felt as a razor blade nor is it as powerful as a heftier rog or MSI laptop instead it walks a line between those two options the laptop can be configured to pack an nvidia geforce 1060 GPU which gives it enough graphical grunt to play almost anything you throw at it including VR games and while it's not what I'd call ultra portable it's also far from being a behemoth the 15-inch German comes in many configurations starting for around a thousand bucks the model we reviewed will set you back $1,700 and runs on an intel cabling i7 processor 16 gigabytes of ram and the aforementioned 1060 graphics card with 6 gigabytes of video read the 1060 that HP uses is one of the more efficient masks you variations from Nvidia which are designed to fit into smaller machines the first such laptop with the max Q branding was the rog Zephyrus but that's a different beast to the omen the Zephyrus is thinner and has the considerably more powerful 1080 GPU it's also about $1,000 more expensive so don't dwell too much on that max q branding HP last year issued the gaudy look that characterizes most gaming laptops instead opting for a more subtle design for the omen range this year that's all changed it's got a to turn shell that's liven dark with carbon fiber and the blood-red omen logo there are also a lot of annuals going on but that's not just for sure the frame slopes inward under the ports so when you grip the laptop it doesn't feel too thick The Omen 15 does a lot of the boring stuff right - its keyboard is comfortable it's got decent speakers and this trackpad is weighted actually expected to be the one thing it doesn't do well is survived without a power cord thanks in large part to the 4k screen which is gorgeous the battery gets eaten up real quick in practical terms I watched an hour of Netflix at full brightness and sound and the battery went from 100 to 30% there are more powerful laptops out there some of which are slimmer than the omen 15 but they're all at least a couple hundred dollars more expensive the omen strikes a good balance is powerful and stylish but not so powerful and stylish that has to cost a fortune I'm Daniel Vaughn boom and for more news and reviews head back to cnet.com