HP has announced a revamped version of the current
generation x360 15 convertible laptop that comes with a 15.6-inch AMOLED
display since the display is key hardware for the laptop, it is a significant
upgrade. Apart from this, the company has also announced upgrades to OMEN 15
gaming laptops with NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce GPU and introduced
Chromebook 14 at the CES.
The AMOLED panel offers very bright and accurate
colors, a very high contrast ratio, wide horizontal viewing angles, deep
blacks, fast response time. The company says that the display will support HDR,
but doesn’t specify whether it is HDR10 or Dolby Vision spec. HP didn’t reveal
the screen resolution as well. It is powered by the powered by Intel’s
quad-core Whiske Lake-U processors coupled with NVIDIA’s discrete GeForce GTX
GPUs.
The HP OMEN 15 gaming laptop comes with NVIDIA’s
next-generation GeForce GPUs. It packs a 240Hz refresh rate display and a new
WiFi 6 (802.11ax) controller. The OMEN 15 notebooks are powered by the Intel’s
six-core Core i7-8750H processor and NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU. It
packs 16GB DDR4 RAM and 128GB M.2 SSD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD.
Towards the end of the year, the company said that
it will bring new models with unique display panels as well as the new Wi-Fi
controller to the OMEN 15 family. It comes with a 15.6-inch Full HD (1920×1080)
display that comes with a 2.48 thickness chassis and weighs 2.38 kg. It comes
with up to 32 GB of DDR4-2667, Thunderbolt 3, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and so on. There
is a front-facing HP Wide Vision HD Webcam.
HP has also introduced the Chromebook 14 which is
also the first ChromeOS-powered PC featuring an AMD processor. It sports a
14-inch HD (1366×768 resolution) SVA display panel with anti-glare coating. It
is based on AMD’s A4-9120C processor running at 1.8 GHz and the GCN 1.2-based
Radeon R4 iGPU with 128 SPs operating at 720 MHz.
It packs 4GB of DDR4 RAM and 32GB of local eMMC
storage, and has a Qualcomm 802.11ac Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 4.2 controller, two
USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C ports, two USB 2.0 Type-A ports, a microSD card reader, a
dual microphone array, B&O-badged speakers, a webcam. The company says that
it can last up to nine hours and 15 minutes on a single charge.
HP Spectre X360 with AMOLED display-equipped Spectre
x360 15 will be available in March. The company says that it will disclose
exact specifications and prices closer to the actual launch. The HP OMEN 15
gaming laptops will be made available in the coming months and the NVIDIA’s
next-gen GPUs will start at US$ 1,370. The exact availability
details will be announced closer to launch.
