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HP gives gamers what they came for: big honkin’ power in a laptop

The HP Omen line is for committed gamers, and we are tempted to ask, is there any other kind? HP segments the gamer community into three categories: mainstream, performance, and enthusiast and they line up about how you’d expect, mostly male and mostly young. The large mainstream gamer group, tends to be younger, more cost conscious. They buy OEM machines ...

Kathleen Maher

The HP Omen line is for committed gamers, and we are tempted to ask, is there any other kind? HP segments the gamer community into three categories: mainstream, performance, and enthusiast and they line up about how you’d expect, mostly male and mostly young. The large mainstream gamer group, tends to be younger, more cost conscious. They buy OEM machines to use for gaming as well as other tasks. Performance gamers are also young, also cost-conscious but they are slightly more likely to build their own systems. The top 5% of gamers are enthusiasts, almost half of them build their
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