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I've been activated we are here taking a look at the digital storm x17 now I'm not gonna lie to you this is not the prettiest laptop on the block although it may look very familiar because if you've seen some other reviews we've done at boutique gaming laptops we've got shopping for one yourself or maybe from digital storm from origin or anyone those other little companies they all kind of the same because they're all built around the same off-the-shelf chassis in this case from a company called cleveo and what boutique gaming laptop and desktop companies do is they get these generic cases then they open them up put in their own high-end components assemble it by hand burn it in test it and then send it to you so you're really paying for the assembly the high-end components the testing the really in-depth support that comes with it not for the actual look and feel of the laptop because this is a very premium price product it's $2,000 doesn't really look and feel like a $2,000 laptop all the value is really on the inside rather than the outside but if you're ok with that this is actually the best price I've been able to find for this particular set of components which has a quad core Core i7 processor the highest end of AMD's current graphics cards and 16 gigs of ram which is pretty cool coupled with unfortunately a keyboard that's backlit but not a fantastic keyboard a touchpad that's pretty small with little clunky buttons down there at the bottom at least if you're gonna be gaming a lot on the big 17 inch 1080p screen you're probably gonna have an external mouse plugged in all the time so the touchpad shouldn't bother you too much some companies customized this case a little bit like by putting a different back panel on it in this case digital so I'm just kind of wrote their name over here and again on the back that actually kind of takes away from looking little bit more you don't want rather be sort of you know generic and understated you may not want to take this let's say to the coffee shop not that you'd fit in one of those little coffee shop booths with a big honking laptop like this so unlike some other gaming big systems like I'll say the Razer Blade that a very slim or or an HP Envy they can also be reasonably slim this is big its it's chunky it's heavy however the performance is fantastic and even though it's still expensive at $2,000 it's a couple hundred bucks less and you'll be able to put the same system together from from other boutique PC vendors I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the digital storm x17