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I'm Dan Ackerman and we're here taking a look at the origin PCE on 13s and that is a very rare feast indeed in that it is a 13-inch gaming laptop you very rarely see smaller gaming laptops so usually 17 inches 18 inches lately we have seen a bunch of 14-inch ones here's the 13-inch example it's it's looks thick and chunky for a 13-inch laptop it almost looks like a system that sort of skipped the last couple of generations of thin sort of Ultrabook and Ultrabook style designs but that's because you need to have a certain amount of hep to fit in all these high-powered components you can configure this a lot of different ways I think it starts off at about $1,200 but really you need to get about sixteen seventeen hundred to get something that's good for gaming this particular configuration is just under twenty two hundred and that's because it's got a very high-end Intel Core i7 processor pretty decent nvidia geforce 765 m graphics card and it's got three hard drives to em Sata's and then a big regular traditional 750 gig platter hard drive which means you can get that you know speed for launching applications and the OS and then a lot of storage if you want to download a lot of games I assume will be downloading them because there's no optical drive here but really everybody gets their games through download services like Steam now anyway for gaming the system I thought really works fairly well overall it's got a 1920 by 1080 screen now that's a very high resolution for a 13-inch laptop but when you're gaming you really don't want anything less the keyboard kind of a generic keyboard Alienware for example does a better job of having custom keyboards and really custom bodies for gaming the touchpad nothing special most of the time you're just gonna hook a mouse up for gaming anyway and you'll probably do what I did which is at least half the time use the HDMI output to go into a bigger monitor so then you've got an external mouse an external keyboard and a big let's say a 27 inch 1080p monitor and you're just sort of using this as the gaming back-end now the battery life isn't killer so if you're looking to let's say play a high-end game on a cross-country flight using this and not plugging in that's really not going to work for you the only time someone really get thinner than this in the gaming laptop is that razor blade 14 which was super ambitious super nice but that system was held back by a lower resolution really low quality screen that made it really hard to enjoy I would much rather trade up to a a super high resolution 1920 by 1080 screen like we have here I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the origin PCE on 13s