Origin PC Evo17-S

I saw Origin PC is touting a relatively thin core-i9 17" laptop with a 4k display, something I very much want. I would be using it mainly for video/photo editing. As such I need a fast UHS-II speed SD card reader, one capable of true UHS-II speeds. Also I need a display capable of reproducing a decent color space, preferably 100% adobe or near that, something 87% or more in actual testing.

Is Origin PC a reputable brand, are these just generic MSI's? The MSI 17" has a VERY low speed card reader which makes it a non-starter.

Probably I should just wait but I really could use a new more capable laptop soon.

 

Origin PC is a reseller, you are likely looking at Clevo units under the Origin PC moniker.

That said I dont know much about the individual unit. Hopefully someone else can chime in

 

Clevo would be better than MSI for me this time around. The Clevo's still seem to have fast UHS-II card readers. The new MSI's have very very slow SD-Card readers.

Edit- oops, checking the benchmarks it seems the latest Schenker models all have slow card readers. I guess most manufacturers stopped using UHS-II card readers for some reason...I should wait for new NVidia chips at this point anyways.

 

There's still no word on the next-gen GPUs. If you need a PC now then buy it now, the GTX 10 series is still plenty powerful for modern gaming. Single-card 4K gaming still isn't realistic unless you're planning to dial down the settings a lot. The upcoming graphics cards might change that, but probably only at the very high end; 1080p/1440p gaming will likely remain the performance sweet spot for a few years yet.

Origin is a reputable brand, I've reviewed their products before. Their notebooks aren't designed in-house, they are branded Clevos in some cases. I'm not familiar with all of their models. Either way they have good after-sales service so it might be worth paying a little extra if you value that.

For the card reader, you might just have to bite the bullet and go external.

Charles

 

I have external card readers now, I am using an older Sager with a UHS-I card reader, gtx 980M GPU and 6820HK CPU. But my display is only 6 bits which is not ideal for editing, and since I'm updating the one other thing I'd really like to have is a fast internal card reader.

Seems like all the 2017 models had fast UHS-II card readers but this time around they are all slow UHS-I or even worse USB 2.0 card readers. Gigabyte and Dell seem to still have fast UHS-II readers but Sager/Clevo and MSI seemed to have taken a huge step back in that dept.

 

The EON15-S is only 3.41 pounds. With 1060, 16gb ram and 500gb 970 EVO PCIe it is $1817. I would be tempted but not until I see a review on the cooling and I'm hoping the mobile GTX 1100 series mobile cards are out before the end of the year.

 

Notebookcheck says the Origin is a Clevo similar to the Eurocom Q8. Origin says their 4k Panel supports 100% Adobe colorspace, and the review shows that Eurocom has a fast UHS-II card reader so I may buy the Origin 17". I don't care for 4k vs 1080p in a 17" display but I can't deal with 6 bit panels anymore. I need a decent colorspace to edit video/photos.

If the 4K Panel supports G-Sync I may just buy one now rather than later.

 

The EVO17-S is based on the Clevo PA71ES with Origin PC's own branding, storage and RAM options.

You would need to call Origin PC to confirm that.

You can just use a USB UHS II SD card reader if you want performance: https://www.sandisk.com/home/memory-cards/memory-card-readers/extremepro-sd-uhs-ii-reader-writer

More reviews of this chassis are available below:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-evoc-pa71es-g-review.817866/
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Eurocom-Q8-i9-8950HK-GTX-1070-QHD-Laptop-Review.313514.0.html

This laptop seems to throttle out of the box and will require some tweaking to get it to perform as it should.

 

I have external card readers now, I want to get away from that. The Origin PC seems to have a true UHS-II speed card reader so it's not an issue, it's fast.

The panel they use is noted below. It does not have GSync but it's an 8 bit panel with good colorspace coverage. Now I have to decide whether or not I want to wait for the new NVidias.

17.3 inch 16:9, 3840 x 2160 pixel 255 PPI, AU Optronics B173ZAN01.0 (AUO109B), IPS, UHD, AHVA, 60 Hz, Matte

 

I wonder how long it will be until PCIe based SD cards make it into consumer laptops

 

Video editing doesn't scale as linearly with GPU compute power: https://www.techspot.com/article/1270-premiere-pro-cpu-gpu-performance/page2.html

Photo editing doesn't benefit from a dGPU at all.

I'd expect that an external Thunderbolt 3 pcie sd card reader would be made once pcie sd cards become popular.

 

I play games on it as well, waiting for a new GPU would be for games, the effect on video or photo editing would be negligible they use the CPU for almost everything.

 

How do you play games at 1080p on a 4k laptop? If I just set the resolution in-game to 1920x1080 is that enough, or will I see a lot of scaling artifacts. Trying that on my desktop things don't look nearly as good as they do at 4k.

 

Laptops do not have hardware scalers, and most desktop monitors with scalers still interpolate at half resolution. The only screens that I know of that can do 1920x1080 without ANY interpolation at being 4k native screens are some TV's.