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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the origin Aeon 17 SLX as you can see this is a huge massive desktop replacement laptop meant for gaming big gaming laptop and the big difference between this origin and some previous very similar models we've looked at is that this guy finally has Windows 8 now interestingly you can still order it with Windows 7 at least for now and origin tells me that more people are currently ordering this system with Windows 7 than Windows 8 you know honestly despite all the complaints people have had about Windows 8 and how it works with different game apps really doesn't make a huge amount of difference once you actually get your games installed on here you're just gonna be running them from the traditional desktop most of the time instead of from this tile based windows 8 experience and of course this is something fairly rare for Windows 8 laptop so we've seen so far this is not actually a touchscreen most Windows 8 laptops that we've at least revealed so far have been touch screens I found myself the first time I turn this on instinctively reaching out and trying to swipe on pass that Windows 8 lock screen until I remembered that I actually have to go to the keyboard and touchpad or external Mouse in order to interact with it now the chassis here a little generic looking that's because boutique PC makers like Origen use off-the-shelf cleveo bodies or from other laptop companies and just kind of build their own components into them and tweak them a little bit I will say this cleveo case is a little bit different from the last couple of ones we've seen they made a couple of improvements the touchpad has been replaced with a click pad version that's just a big pad with no buttons that means they move the fingerprint reader over here to the side they move some of the ports around they made it a little bit thinner and more tapered in the back you still do get a lot of ports and connections which is good for a multimedia friendly desktop replacement laptop but really the real star here is the internal components the stuff you don't see this particular version very high-end it's got an Intel Extreme Edition quad core Core i7 processor it's got two video cards it has got two 120 gig SSDs and a one terabyte standard hard drive and when you put all that together this particular configuration cost about $4,500 which is certainly a lot to spend you can change the configuration and get it down to about 1800 or so you're not gonna get nearly the performance out of it and of course at this super-high in level we're at it pretty much killed any gaming tests we threw at it you can just take any new game pretty much cranked everything up to the maximum settings and it's gonna play just fine now of course you're gonna pay a lot for that privilege and honestly you're not paying for the looks it's kind of a boxing not very modern looking laptop but you aren't paying for it not just the super advanced components but all the hand assembly and hand testing that Origen does and they're really well regarded support services we can get people on the phone easily if you have any kind of problem they'll take care of you and that's the sort of you know hand-holding that you can't get with the bigger PC brands and that's why people who are really into gaming and performance laptops often don't mind spending a little bit more on something like this I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the origin Eon 17s LX