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If you’re looking for a gaming device and a portable space heater that is…

I will be writing from the perspective of a HP-Omen 15.6″ owner.

Laptop parts often hit in excess of 90 degrees Celsius (there are 12 countries at best that use Fahrenheit, but 194 degrees Fahrenheit for those people from those 12 countries’ benefit ). Gaming laptops – mine in particular – can hit 100 degrees before the device throttles the CPU like an old-fashioned strangling serial killer.

But without a doubt, modern laptops can become desktop replacements since my laptop has now replaced my desktop as my main gaming device being more powerful, which isn’t exactly a difficult feat nowadays considering full-fat top-of-the-line desktop cards being crammed into smaller and smaller packages.

This isn’t an in-depth review on either my own laptop or a recap of the development of gaming laptops as a whole but rather of my experience as someone who transitioned from a crappy ultrabook and a semi-decent mini-tower PC to a more modern gaming laptop.

If it weren’t for it’s purchase price of £1400 I’d say they make incredible console replacements as it was capable of playing any AAA title in 2019. Though with a little bit of creative accounting, we can determine that it’s gaming capability being equal or greater to a console constitutes a value of £500 meaning that really it was a £900 purchase making it an awful value portable computer. It still served me well in my studies and enabled experiences I otherwise could not have.