Oh, interesting to hear opinion of someone who has studied this field in higher education.
True for me too. I always make sure I ask someone from the digit community before buying something, be it asking agent001, digit form or digit TG group. Saves me a hellalot of headache.
Those were good old days, nowadays it is rare to find such shopkeepers. Majority of offline shopkeepers you will find nowadays are likely to be similar to one @abhitruechamp mentioned.
Maybe in smaller cities, never seen such helpful shopkeepers in metro cities especially big showrooms.
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Omen has the best build & thermals for the price point. HP Pavilion has a 144Hz (good for gaming, but you are looking for a workstation) & Lenovo provides the cheapest option with the highest storage capacity. All 3 of them likely have the low quality 60-70% sRGB displays.Sorry guys, I got busy, had a deadline today noon. My old laptop worked okay till a few hours back when it (finally?) died completely. Needless to say, I need to buy within a few days now.
3 options which are currently available:
1. Buy HP Omen 15.6-inch FHD Gaming Laptop (Ryzen 5-4600H/8GB/512GB SSD/Windows 10/NVIDIA GTX 1650ti 4GB/Shadow Black/2.36 kg), 15-en0001AX Online at Low Prices in India - Amazon.in
2. HP Pavilion Gaming 15.6-inch FHD Gaming Laptop (Ryzen 5-4600H/8GB/512GB SSD/Windows 10/144Hz/NVIDIA GTX 1650ti 4GB/Shadow Black), 15-ec1051AX
3. Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 AMD Ryzen 5 15.6" IPS Full HD Laptop (8GB/256GB SSD + 1TB HDD/GeForce GTX 1650 Ti 4GB Graphics/Windows10/MS Office/Onyx Black), 82EY0078IN
I see pavilion has just two USB A ports, which is less for a gaming laptop, but not a deal breaker. Lenovo has ports at the correct places. and Omen has at ports, but at all the wrong places. Also, I read the posts above, and it got me scared ab out buying a laptop. But that's not practical.
A couple more doubts:
D1. I will have to put in 8GB more of memory. since none of the laptops have a 16 GB variant available.
How to do that? I'm concerned about latency mismatches, instability, and all those things. I'm hoping that I would be able to keep the included 8GB stick and add a new one, instead of buying a 16GB kit and having to find usage of the included 8GB stick
D2. Does the omen have a HDD bay (since it has a smaller 52 WHr battery. HP website doesn't mention.
How did it go?
I need to ask a few more questions. How are the viewing angles (the way you see it, forget the IPS tag
What is the memory configuration. Is there an additional slot? heating issues apart from the numpad area getting hot. Any thermal throttling?
How are boot speeds, performance benchmarks after the upgrade(cinebenchR15?)
. I guess I'll have to do with that? 
. Build wasn't great. Keyboard was awesome. How did it go?
I need to ask a few more questions. How are the viewing angles (the way you see it, forget the IPS tag
What is the memory configuration. Is there an additional slot? heating issues apart from the numpad area getting hot. Any thermal throttling?
How are boot speeds, performance benchmarks after the upgrade(cinebenchR15?)
BTW, fresh install is preferred for that.
Nah, in my city the situation is very bad(not a village city, but not a metropolitian like delhi, mumbai etc), and I thought till now that there would be less deceiving in big cities cause of the competition there.
OK, here is one on ur request
Oops . Pardon me @omega44-xt , and also @whitestar_999 @SaiyanGoku @RumbaMon19. I had resolved to give ya credits towards the end but at the "5th" point I promptly forgot about it.OK, here is one on ur request
1.(Biggest pro) Build quality is really great along with sleek and sturdy looks screen flex is too much but as @123hero said , maybe its the case with lappies with single hinge . Keyboard flex dosen't exist on this model.
2.Speaking about keyboard its really good for me , with good tactile feedback. Its not mechanical or anything and keycaps wobbles a little bit but overall pretty slick keyboard
3.Now lets come to the software . ITS CRAP. This model is infested with useless apps which add nothing to the UX. The OS was not at all updated and I didn't even got the update for ver. 2004, at last giving up I had to install windows update assistant which updates all systems to a newer windows ver. I had to even do a system restore at one point (but maybe its was chocolaty's fault more then HPs lol). They did some BSes like removing performance and battery profiles in the power menu and replacing it with HPs own. M$ office app and McAFee were included along with express VPN , but they had no license in them, making this OS basically a advert for HP. Even Omen command center which is generally applauded , was a waste in this configuration. It can be noted that U can clean install , if you wanna go that path , but even u have the B a double l s to do it, its still an inconvenience and I think HP is just trading good user experience here for pure cheap marketing.
4.The processor and graphics card is pretty great with the bottleneck here being the RAM which U can upgrade down the line, but it isn't listed on H.P's official website how much u can upgrade, and U can't believe the amazon page. So, I would like to know if someone knows till how much capacity the RAM is upgradable as we WILL upgrade the RAM down the line . If RAM is upgradable to say 32 gigs , I would suggest U to go for the gtx 1050 ti model, as its not much costly and ryzen 5 4600H is a pretty good processor. The SSD and HDD(7200RPM) are both 'good'.
5. The display is 144hz which is real good with viewing angles that I can only describe as 'wew'. The display is not color corrected , but its passable.
6. Speakers give out sound. B&O audio control application dosen't even support audio compression, and I just cannot install realtek one.
7. Touch pad is very good for me, but keep that in mind that I have not used touchpads much.
8. Webcam is abominable , but it ain't particularly useful for me. Lack of webcam cover and not support for windows hello is a real bummer. Microphone is ok tho.
9. Battery is not great with it being up for what I believe is 3.9(lol) hrs with only utube videos)
5.Its not what I would describe as exactly easy to carry, but yeah, I am too sleepy now.
Overall a solid recommendation from me, if U can put up with a few quirks (bad webcam, software , not color corrected display, not exactly portable) and if you come to know if and how much U can upgrade the RAM down the line (8gigs ain't horrible now, but its nearing its death as 16 gigs become min you can have).
Thanks man.OK, here is one on ur request
1.(Biggest pro) Build quality is really great along with sleek and sturdy looks screen flex is too much but as @123hero said , maybe its the case with lappies with single hinge . Keyboard flex dosen't exist on this model.
2.Speaking about keyboard its really good for me , with good tactile feedback. Its not mechanical or anything and keycaps wobbles a little bit but overall pretty slick keyboard
3.Now lets come to the software . ITS CRAP. This model is infested with useless apps which add nothing to the UX. The OS was not at all updated and I didn't even got the update for ver. 2004, at last giving up I had to install windows update assistant which updates all systems to a newer windows ver. I had to even do a system restore at one point (but maybe its was chocolaty's fault more then HPs lol). They did some BSes like removing performance and battery profiles in the power menu and replacing it with HPs own. M$ office app and McAFee were included along with express VPN , but they had no license in them, making this OS basically a advert for HP. Even Omen command center which is generally applauded , was a waste in this configuration. It can be noted that U can clean install , if you wanna go that path , but even u have the B a double l s to do it, its still an inconvenience and I think HP is just trading good user experience here for pure cheap marketing.
4.The processor and graphics card is pretty great with the bottleneck here being the RAM which U can upgrade down the line, but it isn't listed on H.P's official website how much u can upgrade, and U can't believe the amazon page. So, I would like to know if someone knows till how much capacity the RAM is upgradable as we WILL upgrade the RAM down the line . If RAM is upgradable to say 32 gigs , I would suggest U to go for the gtx 1050 ti model, as its not much costly and ryzen 5 4600H is a pretty good processor. The SSD and HDD(7200RPM) are both 'good'.
5. The display is 144hz which is real good with viewing angles that I can only describe as 'wew'. The display is not color corrected , but its passable.
6. Speakers give out sound. B&O audio control application dosen't even support audio compression, and I just cannot install realtek one.
7. Touch pad is very good for me, but keep that in mind that I have not used touchpads much.
8. Webcam is abominable , but it ain't particularly useful for me. Lack of webcam cover and not support for windows hello is a real bummer. Microphone is ok tho.
9. Battery is not great with it being up for what I believe is 3.9(lol) hrs with only utube videos)
5.Its not what I would describe as exactly easy to carry, but yeah, I am too sleepy now.
Overall a solid recommendation from me, if U can put up with a few quirks (bad webcam, software , not color corrected display, not exactly portable) and if you come to know if and how much U can upgrade the RAM down the line (8gigs ain't horrible now, but its nearing its death as 16 gigs become min you can have).
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Update : HP, support is useless as expected.
Check service manual. I'll link it here in some time.
N.P, I feel you. I have been in this situation many times. Omen one is a not a bad laptop AFAIK, and if you can spend the extra dough for it , it would be better ig.Thanks man.
Sorry, I didn't post earlier, I ordered Omen en0001ax yesterday evening.
I was torn between HP pavillion for 72k(the most appropriate priced model right now, since the 61k model isn't available) and Omen for 76k.
I don't have a system even for normal work right now. Only have access to home laptop(shared).
It was getting to my head. So, slept during the afternoon tomorrow, woke up to see only one available. Ordered it..
Let's see how it fares when it arrives.
I really didn't care about refresh rates or color gamut as, I do have access to external monitor if I need that. Neither of the 4600h models currently available are good in this. So, I guess that's fine.
I'm still confused. I think I will be for the time being. But, I'm hoping the omen works fine. And the hinge issue isn't too much of a deal breaker.
BTW, thanks everyone (@whitestar_999, @123hero, @abhitruechamp, all) for suggestions and all. I hope my decision was correct.
I'll post a review when I get it (or Saturday)
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Actually, if the 61k pavilion was available, I would have bought it. That would have saved me some money for the ram and ssd, still totalling below omen. XD
. I think that might have made the decision easier.
Thanks! On amazon page it says 16. Now I can finally recommend to it someone wholeheartedly lol.
This was the first time I used whatsapp support for customer support, and I think a bot here would have been better lol, she took 5mins to more to respond to a single message and didn't even solve my query but took many details for me. I guess a scammer and whatsapp support are equal lol. By forms U mean asking users or in their official online support?
But I think it dosen't have a equally good processor and graphics card? Wouldn't acer nitro 5 be a equally lucrative option then?Actually, if the 61k pavilion was available, I would have bought it. That would have saved me some money for the ram and ssd, still totalling below omen. XD
If only lenovo had Legion 5 available
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It has the same Processor. Graphics card is 1650 (non Ti).
