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I'm down acronym we are here taking a look at the origin Yuans 11s this is a rare bird indeed it is an 11 inch gaming laptop you really don't see a lot of these Alienware actually had one for a couple years they've just discontinued that model at almost exactly the same time as origin has come in to fill that hole by coming out with this 11 inch model right here now if this looks you know not like a super fancy light-up Alienware gaming laptop that's because smaller companies like origin where they make a laptop they can't go and build it from scratch themselves they kind of get off-the-shelf laptop bodies often from a company named cleveo and they customized a little bit they put their own components in in this case they put a back panel on there that has their logo in two little fins kind of Alienware like on the back but you still have kind of a generic look and when you're buying something that's more than $1,000 you know you may want something that's a little bit fancier but there are not that many choices out there if you want an 11 inch gaming laptop what they do is they put a a high end intel core i5 or i7 chip in here we've got an i7 in here and an Nvidia graphics card and that's powerful enough to drive a lot of games now the screen is only 11 inches it's a 1366 by 768 resolution you're not going to need a lot of muscle to push a game on that so I think what most people are gonna end up doing is what I did which is take the HDMI output and send the signal to a big let's say a 24 inch mono that's running at 1920 by 1080 and then play your games like that I loaded up the I'll blow through like that worked great so if you want to throw this in your bag take it to a friend's house hook up to their big monitor or go to a land party or something if people still have those this is a way you can bring a pretty decent gaming machine with you but you're not stuck to just using the screen here or the keyboard and touchpad I mean they're fine for casual use but for serious gaming you know the keyboards kind of small the touchpad is not super sensitive but you probably hook up your own mouse and your own external keyboard if you're connecting to an external monitor there are a lot of configuration options this actually starts at 999 but I think you're going to want to spend a couple hundred dollars more than that to get a current generation Intel processor and the kind of GPU that you need with this I am Dan Ackerman and that is the origin Aeon 11s