HP OMEN Gaming Notebooks. Yeah, you should be scared.

[Ronnie012]

It's actually the people who hate change and are not capable of taking risks.

There are. Unfortunately the "System" doesn't welcome/support such people.

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Sorry for getting offtopic,

Its not about the revenue being within the country. Its about showing off the bling.

"oh, thats a shiny piece of metal/stone. I must have it at any cost. It'll be mine forever. blah blah blah"

Why not spend on something useful like food and education instead of that?.

^You just wrote my mind! Totally agree.

100k Laptops are actually useful compared to 1000k of jewellery.

Depends on the kind of usage. Being a gamer myself, I'd say gaming laptops are not useful for other purposes. What's really required is an allrounder - Aka Gaming/Designing/Business laptop all rolled into one. Yet to see one. HP Omen, Dell Alienware etc are primarily gaming laptops and not all rounders I think?

 

[seamon]

Depends on the kind of usage. Being a gamer myself, I'd say gaming laptops are not useful for other purposes. What's really required is an allrounder - Aka Gaming/Designing/Business laptop all rolled into one. Yet to see one. HP Omen, Dell Alienware etc are primarily gaming laptops and not all rounders I think?

Why can't the be used for other purposes?
Does being a gaming laptop make it lose other functionality like the refusing to run Word, Autocad etc?

 

[Night-Rider]

Even I have bought the ASUS G551JK "GAMING" laptop not just for gaming as I would be using it for hosting VMs for testing the various scenarios which is part of my Job as I am a System Admin. In such cases that quad-core i7 processor really helps.

In addition to that the full HD IPS display is for watching movies as I watch a LOT of them.

 

[Ronnie012]

Why can't the be used for other purposes?
Does being a gaming laptop make it lose other functionality like the refusing to run Word, Autocad etc?

^I'll draw a blank to that one. Frankly I'm not quite sure. I used to work with a designing firm 4 years back(despite not being a designer myself, my dute was to scrutinize and supervise their work ) and most of the time we'd need to work overtime. The AMD Pc's would hang a lot (Though they might be good for gaming). The Intel were better but costlier and even then, they'd hang. Quite honestly I found Macbook's the best to work with (though our company couldn't afford them).

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Even I have bought the ASUS G551JK "GAMING" laptop not just for gaming as I would be using it for hosting VMs for testing the various scenarios which is part of my Job as I am a System Admin. In such cases that quad-core i7 processor really helps.

In addition to that the full HD IPS display is for watching movies as I watch a LOT of them.

^Hmm, could be.

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Even I have bought the ASUS G551JK "GAMING" laptop not just for gaming as I would be using it for hosting VMs for testing the various scenarios which is part of my Job as I am a System Admin. In such cases that quad-core i7 processor really helps.

In addition to that the full HD IPS display is for watching movies as I watch a LOT of them.

^Hmm, could be.

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Even I have bought the ASUS G551JK "GAMING" laptop not just for gaming as I would be using it for hosting VMs for testing the various scenarios which is part of my Job as I am a System Admin. In such cases that quad-core i7 processor really helps.

In addition to that the full HD IPS display is for watching movies as I watch a LOT of them.

^Hmm, could be.

 

[seamon]

^I'll draw a blank to that one. Frankly I'm not quite sure. I used to work with a designing firm 4 years back(despite not being a designer myself, my dute was to scrutinize and supervise their work ) and most of the time we'd need to work overtime. The AMD Pc's would hang a lot (Though they might be good for gaming). The Intel were better but costlier and even then, they'd hang. Quite honestly I found Macbook's the best to work with (though our company couldn't afford them).

Laptops with AMD CPUs are trash and are not gaming laptops. They are entry level budget laptops.

A gaming laptop with a SSD , powerful quad core proccy(core i7MQ) and a good GPU is the best portable machine period.
PS:They never hang. Never ever. You couldn't possibly do a thing which can make these machines hang.(Running Prime 95 does not count)

 

[Ronnie012]

Laptops with AMD CPUs are trash and are not gaming laptops. They are entry level budget laptops.

A gaming laptop with a SSD , powerful quad core proccy(core i7MQ) and a good GPU is the best portable machine period.
PS:They never hang. Never ever. You couldn't possibly do a thing which can make these machines hang.(Running Prime 95 does not count)

Could be. I'm just citing from experience (that too 4 years back). Back then most manufacturers were using 2D Cad (Forget 3D) and most of their Pc's would hang even while running 2 D (would take hours just to make a simple layout.) Hopefully systems have evolved much more since then.

 

[Nerevarine]

Laptops with AMD CPUs are trash and are not gaming laptops. They are entry level budget laptops.

A gaming laptop with a SSD , powerful quad core proccy(core i7MQ) and a good GPU is the best portable machine period.
PS:They never hang. Never ever. .You couldn't possibly do a thing which can make these machines hang(Running Prime 95 does not count)

Things like Seismic processing, CFD, CAE,Computational chemistry and Physics, Satellite imaging, Weather modeling require 2 Dedicated GPUs (one for display usually a quadro/firepro or a super high end Geforce/Radeon series and another for computational rendering (nvidia tesla)..
Some high end workstations require atleast 4-6 displays
So no, there's plenty of workstation stuff that is impossible with that

 

[seamon]

Things like Seismic processing, CFD, CAE,Computational chemistry and Physics, Satellite imaging, Weather modeling require 2 Dedicated GPUs (one for display usually a quadro/firepro or a super high end Geforce/Radeon series and another for computational rendering (nvidia tesla)..
Some high end workstations require atleast 4-6 displays
So no, there's plenty of workstation stuff that is impossible with that

Say hi to Eurocom Panther 5 featuring a core i7 4960X desktop CPU or any compatible Xeon processor. It has 2x Nvidia Quadro K5100M in Maximus. It supports upto 3 external monitors so 4 total. Also 32GB RAM+3 HDD slots.

 

[ankush28]

Keyboard is CR@p (after looking at photos and video)

 

[Ronnie012]

Things like Seismic processing, CFD, CAE,Computational chemistry and Physics, Satellite imaging, Weather modeling require 2 Dedicated GPUs (one for display usually a quadro/firepro or a super high end Geforce/Radeon series and another for computational rendering (nvidia tesla)..
Some high end workstations require atleast 4-6 displays
So no, there's plenty of workstation stuff that is impossible with that

Whew. Thanks for the info.That was the point I was trying to make but couldn't. Are you a Designer btw?

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Say hi to Eurocom Panther 5 featuring a core i7 4960X desktop CPU or any compatible Xeon processor. It has 2x Nvidia Quadro K5100M in Maximus. It supports upto 3 external monitors so 4 total. Also 32GB RAM+3 HDD slots.

^Think that's pretty much it. Equivalent to most high - capacity workstations. Though the weight could've been lighter and battery life longer.(Also priced lesser)

 

[$hadow]

Gaming laptops are meant to be plugged in all the time. You can never expect great battery life.