Wednesday, February 11th 2026 HP Does an NZXT With $49.99-129.99/month Omen Gaming Laptop Subscription by Cpt.Jank Today, 23:05 Discuss (1 ) With the increasing price of gaming memory and silicon in general, it was only a matter of time before we saw gaming laptop manufacturers lean into hardware rentals as a business model, for better or worse. HP seems to be leading the pack with a newly announced hardware subscription service, called the Omen Gaming Subscription, that offers gamers rentals of HP Omen gaming laptops and even gaming accessories, like monitors, headphones, microphones, USB hubs, and HyperX gaming mice. The subscription is charged monthly, but HP locks you into a 12-month minimum contract term, with cancellation fees between $549.99 and $1,429.99 after two months of use with a device return. If you want to keep the device, you'll need to pay a flat rate of $1,199 for the Victus 15 and $3,299 for the Omen Max 16, seemingly regardless of how long you've been subscribed to the service. The subscription starts at $49.99 with the Everyday Gaming with Great Performance HP Victus 15 with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, 16 GB of DDR5-5600, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU; the $79.99 Immersive Gaming Experiences plan gets you an Omen 17 laptop with a Ryzen AI 7 350, RTX 5060 8 GB Laptop GPU, 32 GB of DDR5-5600 memory, and 1 TB of PCIe storage; and the $129.99 High-End Gaming with no Compromises plan comes with an Omen Max 16 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, NVIDIA RTX 5080 16 GB Laptop GPU, 32 GB of DDR5-5600, and 1 TB of PCIe storage. Subscription requires a soft credit check, and the service renews annually, with new hardware available with each renewal. HP also offers a 30-day trial and an ongoing warranty, all of which is very reminiscent of HP's infamous All-In printer subscription, which starts at $7.99 per month for 20 pages of printing with a two-year commitment. Needless to say, the whole hardware subscription model has largely been met with criticism in online spaces like r/pcmasterrace, with some users calling it a scam and others recalling the time when NZXT was ripped to shreds online for a similar business model. Sources: PC Gamer, HP Omen Related News Tags: AMD Gaming GeForce GPU HP HyperX Intel Intel Core Laptop NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX RTX RTX 4050 RTX 5060 RTX 5080 Ryzen Ryzen 7 Ryzen AI service subscription Jul 23rd 2025 DDR6 Memory Arrives in 2027 with 8,800-17,600 MT/s Speeds (174) Sep 18th 2025 NVIDIA Buys $5B Worth of Intel, RTX iGPUs Coming to x86, Shares up 25% (256) Sep 10th 2025 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-Series SUPER GPUs Could Arrive at CES 2026 (69) Aug 21st 2025 Melting 12VHPWR Connector Claims its First AMD RX 9070 XT Victim (109) Dec 31st 2025 Leaks Predict $5000 RTX 5090 GPUs in 2026 Thanks to AI Industry Demand (124) Sep 3rd 2025 NVIDIA Discrete GPU Market Share Dominance Expands to 94%, Notes Report (237) Feb 24th 2025 AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Official Performance Metrics Leaked, +42% 4K Performance Over Radeon RX 7900 GRE (195) Nov 3rd 2025 AMD Clarifies Maintenance Mode for Radeon RX 5000/6000 Series, First-Day Game Support Remains (160) Dec 17th 2025 NVIDIA Plans to Reduce RTX 50 Production by Up to 40% in Early 2026 (83) Dec 23rd 2025 NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions (120) Add your own 1 on HP Does an NZXT With $49.99-129.99/month Omen Gaming Laptop Subscription #1 TheinsanegamerN It's a terrible deal, which means that its going to be a smash hit. The consooomer will look at that monthly payment and totally blank out on anything else.
