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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is my review of the Origin PC evo 15 s so origin PC they are a boutique PC company they make custom desktops custom laptops and this is their 15-inch gaming laptop that's pretty thin let's take a look the packaging is pretty nice it's a big box so you get the laptop the AC adapter a branded neoprene sleeve and you also get an Origin t-shirt the top surface is a black anodized aluminum with the origin logo etched in it doesn't light up or anything if you want there are a bunch of paint options to choose from when you order and it's not too expensive the bottom is also aluminum there's some speaker grilles venting and then some suede material here to keep the temperatures tolerable when it's sitting on your lap you can open it up easily to swap out the two and a half inch drive but if you want to upgrade the RAM or the PCIe Drive you have to open it up a bit more the screenflex isn't bad and the chassis is also pretty rigid but there's a little bit of flex on the palm rest area the hinge up top has good tension but it doesn't run the full length of the screen it's only at the edges so some cheaper plastic laptops can bust at the hinge when they're designed like this but this particular hinge seems solid and well made so it shouldn't be a problem ports around the side on the right we have a USB 3.1 type-c an SD slot HDMI mini display and an Ethernet jack on the left side we have USB 3 and audio ports the power connection is closer to the center of the laptop instead of the back so the cables can get a little messy if you have a couple peripherals attached the evo 15 s retails for around 2,200 dollars there's an almost identical laptop from MSI called the GS 60 Ghost Pro and when you configure it to match this the origin is around $200 more but you're getting a much more customer oriented experience with stuff like lifetime support for the laptop on the inside we have the same material as the outside surface it shows smudges but it's easy to clean the keyboard is off-centered because the number pad but it's excellent for typing or gaming the key travel is good feedback is good and it's a keyboard that I think you'll immediately enjoy using it also has SteelSeries lighting which is pretty customisable it works in zone and not individual keys but you can adjust the colors and settings extensively the trackpad is okay it's a textured plastic surface the tracking is okay but I don't like the buttons the activation pressure doesn't feel particularly consistent and it's not a very satisfying click but you'll probably have a mouse connected to this for gaming anyways one thing that does kind of worry me is this grille up here so if you spill a drink and I mean it's never a good idea to spill stuff on a laptop but this grille goes directly onto the fans and the motherboard so yeah don't spill stuff on this one the screen is a 15.6 inch 1080p IPS panel it's a matte finish it's bright it has good contrast and the viewing angles are good there's a little bit of light bleed on the top corners and the bezels are wide but overall they did a great job on the screen there is an option for a 4k display and it costs around $100 more but if you're just playing games the 1080p panel here is more than sufficient the solid-state drive the included is 256 gigs and it's really fast I'm happy they put a high-end SSD in here the second drive is a 7200 rpm hard disk for storage it's running a quad-core skylake i7 the 6700 HQ it's like the standard skylake gaming laptop CPU and when you combine it with the 970 m and 16 gigs of ram this setup is a great performer light and moderately demanding games running at 1080p are easily handled you'll be able to hit 60 frames per second at 1080p on ultra moderately demanding games can still hit 50 to 60 frames per second on Ultra I mean depending on the game but the most demanding games like 3d open-world games and triple-a shooters you might need to be on medium settings to hit that 60 frames per second mark on ultra these super demanding games will run closer to 30 or 40 frames per second this particular 970m has 6 gigs of video ram but it doesn't make a significant difference for gaming over the more common three gig version the power button switches from blue to red when the discrete video card is being used and even with this graphics switching battery life is really short it's a 47 watt hour battery which is on the smaller side for 15-inch laptops and you're only going to get around 2 hours of regular use and around an hour of gaming now it's a thin laptop so there's only space for a smaller battery but you're going to need to bring the power adapter around with the speaker is project out from the bottom which I'm usually not a fan of but these sound good the Evo 15s actually has an upgraded sound card over the MSI ghost so if music and sound are important to you keep that in mind the fans are audible even when they're idling and under load it gets pretty loud it does a really good job cooling the device so there isn't much throttling and honestly it's a good thing that it's loud because the 970m is a very hot chip if you don't blown off air out you're just going to throttle the system down okay the origin evo 15s it's a thin laptop made with a lot of aluminum 4.2 pounds overall build quality is good the screen is reasonably color accurate and it's great for gaming the keyboard is excellent very responsive and the lighting system is fun to customize the trackpad is mediocre it doesn't have great texture and has shallow buttons inside the skylake i7 and gtx 970m are both very strong performers the fans are a little noisy but the device is well cooled it has 16 gigs of RAM which is plenty for any game you play on this device but it's upgradeable to 32 the storage they've included is very fast and they're both upgradeable if you want gaming laptops that are thin and actually powerful are kind of rare so it's nice to see another device with a 970m in this kind of form factor now it's an expensive laptop because all the components they put in here are super powerful and just really fast nothing in here is a value or budget oriented it's all top tier components so if you're looking for a top-end gaming experience in a thin package this is one of very few options and it's actually a very good option but keep in mind that you're going to have loud fans you're going to have a lot of heat because that's just the nature of the beast thin powerful you gotta cool it properly and they've done that that's the honest review hope you guys liked it thumbs we liked it subs if you loved it it's nice I'll see you guys next time you