Buy yourself a high-end, boutique gaming system, and you’re sure to find some swag in the box. It may be a slick mousepad or T-shirt, or you might even score a few free games. But if your next system is an EON17-SLX laptop from Origin, you’ll be getting $500 worth of gaming gear, including a mouse, a headset, and an Origin PC messenger bag to store your new rig and accessories.
High-end systems have the price tags to go with them – especially gaming laptops – so if you’re in the market for this sort of rig, the EON17-SLX’s price of $3,399 (down $500 from the price this bundle would normally cost) won’t make you blink. The system features an Intel
Core i7 3840Q processor, two 4GB Nvidia GeForce
GTX 680M GPUs (overclocked by Origin), and 16GB of
Corsair Vengeance memory. The laptop also has 1TB of standard HDD storage and a 240GB SSD to keep Windows 7 light on its feet.
The EON17-SLX is a ready-to-ship (RTS) system, so
Origin sends it out, accessories and all, the next business day after you place an order. Origin says this is a limited-time deal, but it hasn’t provided an end-date yet.
Joshua Gulick
Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to
Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote
CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for
Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for
HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.