Gaming laptops with a really good spec can set you back well over five grand. There are a few RTX 4090 laptops available for under AU$5,000, but finding one under AU$4,000 is basically impossible unless you're lucky. This HP Omen 17 isn't just under AU$4,000, though: It's just AU$3,599, which drops it at a price point putting most RTX 4080 laptops to shame.
It's listed for AU$4,499 at HP's eBay store, but the kicker is you can take another AU$899 off that by applying the HPWARE20 code at checkout, bringing it down to its final AU$3,599 price. And there's really no catch, as this unit features an excellent all-round spec.
As a gaming laptop, the obvious highlight is the inclusion of Nvidia's top mobile graphics card. The RTX 4090 is well matched to the Omen 17's 2,560 x 1,440 240Hz screen. This machine will play anything you care to throw at it, even if you want to turn up all the ray-tracing options. Perhaps you might want a Mini-LED or OLED screen, but that's about all that's missing, and that's one of those options that makers use to justify those AU$6,000+ price tags.
It's not lacking in other areas either. The Intel Core i9 13900HX is within touching distance of Intel's absolute best mobile CPUs. It gives you 24-cores and 36-threads of grunt, while it can boost up to 5.4GHz. That's power enough for any game, and there's little better if you want to do some creative work on this Omen 17 either. It's a true desktop replacement.
On the topic of desktop replacements: to be honest, that's its best use case. A laptop with this much power won't last long if you're gaming on its battery, but that can be said for basically any high spec gaming laptop.
Other key specs include a 2TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD and 32GB of DDR5-5600 memory. You get Bang and Olufsen speakers, a Thunderbolt 4 40GB/s port with power delivery support, and of course it wouldn't be a gaming laptop without some splashes of RGB, including the keyboard.
Though I can't monitor every retailer, this is the cheapest price I've ever seen for an RTX 4090 equipped laptop. If you want an off-the-shelf unit with say, 64GB of memory, a 4TB SSD or an OLED screen, you're really looking at spending thousands of dollars more. But such a machine would have to be very special indeed if it's to come anywhere near the value for money you're getting with this HP Omen 17.
