When HP offered me the chance to check out the HyperX Omen 16 Valorant Edition gaming laptop I leapt at the opportunity. Despite a reputation as a game for degenerates, Valorant is one of my favorite multiplayer shooters right now. I’m not good at the game — silver for life! — but I enjoy it all the same.
This machine is more or less an HP Omen Max with a Valorant skin, which is fun, and offers the same slick features you’ll find in the best gaming laptops. The Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU and 32GB of RAM in the laptop can run most graphically demanding games at a decent frame rate. And games look great too, thanks to the 16-inch 240Hz LCD display.
