The release of NVIDIA Ampere graphics cards, the hype in the processor market and the announcement of a new generation of consoles made major brands stir. Many of them have audited their shelves and got rid of outdated series, replacing them with more relevant products. For example, the giant Hewlett-Packard has redesigned its flagship Omen gaming series to zero, and also introduced a new family of affordable gaming laptops, Victus.


Like the Omen models, the Victus laptops have followed a new course laid out by the company's designers. The deliberately elaborate massive hinge, aggressive air intakes and chopped lines have been replaced by calmness and tranquility. Updated devices from HP have become thinner, neater and stricter, resembling strict office laptops rather than colorful laptops for video game fans. In addition to a unified appearance, other distinguishing features of Victus laptops are a full-size keyboard with a numeric keypad, dedicated arrows and solid colour backlighting, an enlarged touchpad and extended battery life. Also, many laptops in this series stand out due to the atypical diagonal for laptops - instead of the traditional 15 or 17", the user can choose an intermediate 16-inch diagonal.

The specs of these laptops make it clear that they are designed for the low-cost conscious user who wants a rigorous and powerful gaming laptop but doesn't plan to pay extra for the Omen models. As a motor, Victus devices of the first wave use 6- and 8-core AMD Ryzen 5/7 or Intel Core i5/i7 processors. The basic equipment, usually, includes 8 or 16 GB of overclocked DDR4 memory and an SSD from 512 to 1024 GB. Depending on the price and configuration, inside you can find a graphics card of the caliber NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti or a slightly more powerful RTX 3060. Less commonly, there are versions with AMD / Radeon video cards on the market.