It’s possible I scraped it with another piece of hardware, but this does show that it’s possible to chip the paint off the key caps if you’re not careful enough.Ī handy battery indicator helps you know when you’ve turned the keyboard on or off (or if the battery’s running low). Also, I noted a small chip in my Esc key’s black finish after a few weeks of heavy use. The key caps themselves are built comfortably with comfortable grooves for your fingers, but they also attract fingerprint smudges. They’re each stamped with a modern font that’s both slender and strong and looks unique whether lit up in backlighting or not. Indeed, the plastic theme, in a more mundane way, carries over to the key caps. But for others, it’ll be hard to ignore the lack of customization options that similarly priced and cheaper gaming keyboards offer. Some will rejoice at this scaled back approach to gaming peripheral lighting, and the Omen Spacer is still a looker. The WASD and arrow cluster can only be red, never white. Other effects, such as MOBA, turn off all the lights except for on certain clusters, like white for 1-6, Shift and Ctrl and red for WASD. If you download HP’s Omen Gaming Hub software (more on that in the Features and Software section), you can choose among premade effects that are mostly white except for the WASD and arrow keys.
In a world where the ability to pick the color of each individual key is commonplace among gaming keyboards, especially expensive ones, this stands out. Instead, the Omen Spacer’s backlighting is red and/or white only. HP makes its attempt without the colorful LEDs available in a countless range of colors. Up to 32GB of DDR4/2666 can be installed from the factory.With a notable price tag, there’s a lot that has to be done for the Omen Spacer to look like it’s worth the cost. The bottom is removable for access to the hard drive bay, M.2, and memory slots. HP said the Omen 15 with the hotter GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q will get additional venting on the bottom, while the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will skip it.
The Omen 15 appears to share two heat pipes for cooling. You can glimpse one example setup below, though it will vary depending on the GPU. Cooling appears to feature a total of two flat heat pipes: The CPU and GPU share one complete pipe, while they also get their own dedicated half-pipes. Thermally speaking, HP said it’s moved to more advanced 3-phase fan motors for more consistent and finer control of the blades. While the previous version featured single-color backlighting, the 2018 goes to RGB in four zones. The updated Omen 15, with its narrower bezels, is on the right, while the previous-generation 15-inch Omen laptop is on the left.
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