Origin NS-17

By Desire Athow

We recently reviewed the Origin EON17-X, and this is another spin on the laptop which turns it into a Windows 10 Pro-toting workstation.

That underlines one fundamental shift currently happening in the world of high-end computing. The growing popularity of portable gaming rigs has been beneficial to the mobile workstation market as a number of niche vendors have embraced a new potential audience by exploiting economies of scale.

Put simply, a powerful gaming computer can also be – with a few tweaks – transformed into a capable mobile workstation, although you shouldn’t expect advanced functionality like support for Intel Xeon CPUs, professional graphics cards (Quadro or Fire Pro) or ECC RAM.

And to make things even simpler, most of the non-branded laptops on the market are manufactured by a couple of vendors (Clevo and Compal). This helps keep prices down, but the downside is that models are very similar and there’s little opportunity for vendors to set themselves apart.

The Origin NS-17 perfectly illustrates these two points. At its core, it is a gaming laptop (the EON17-X) with Windows 10 Pro (rather than Home) which explains why both versions of the notebook …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac