I’m a gamer. And, like most gamers, I prefer huge, liquid-cooled, multiple-graphics-card-sporting desktops to laptops (even gaming laptops). But sometimes you need a machine that’s as portable as it is powerful, and that’s where Origin’s extreme gaming laptop, the EON17-S, comes into play.
This hulking desktop replacement is pretty sexy, considering it’s an 11.25-pound monster. That’s without the two-pound power brick you won’t be able to ditch, because the EON17-S gets only two hours of battery life, despite the presence of a mobile Haswell CPU (then again, we’re talking about one of Intel’s Extreme Edition parts).
The base model EON17-S is pretty reasonably priced (for a gaming laptop) at just $1,616. But our review model isn’t the base model—it’s the EON17-S on steroids, and it’ll set you back a whopping $3,760. That’s actually not a bad price for its impressive specs: A fourth-generation Intel Core i7-4930MX Extreme Edition processor, 16GB of DDR3/1600 RAM, a discrete Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M graphics card, 240GB of solid-state drive space, and a 750GB hard drive that spins its platters at 7200 rpm. The EON17-S also features a Blu-ray writer and runs Windows 8.1 Home.
Performance
The Core i7-4930MX processor doesn’t disappoint: In our Notebook WorldBench 8.1 benchmark tests, the EON17-S scored a 449, which means it’s more than four and a half times faster than our baseline test model, an Asus VivoBook S550CA with a third-generation Intel Core i5 processor and integrated graphics.
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