Double Your Gaming Pleasure With HP’s Dual-Screen Laptop

We can start with the honorifics. HP calls the Omen X 2S the “world’s first dual-screen gaming laptop”—presumably with no apologies whatsoever to the Asus ZenBook Pro Duo (not a gaming machine) nor to Razer’s Blade R2 or its Project Valerie (technically triple-screen and not really in existence).

With that out of the way, we can move to definitions. What does dual-screen mean on a laptop? Banish thoughts of two monitors side by side like you might have on your desk; that’s simply impractical. Instead, what HP—and others before it—have done is embed a second screen into the chassis of the laptop, sliding the keyboard down to the bottom of the laptop’s base, leaving a space above the keyboard which allows for a small, second monitor to be embedded in the frame.

It’s a neat trick, and it sure does make for a striking appearance. If you didn’t look closely, you might well assume someone had laid their phone down across their open laptop to more easily multitask.