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The preponderant contempo Origin EVO15-S came out in early 2018. That was an heady time for laptops considering it was the original nascency of the Max-Q design, which brought approximately thinner and lighter gaming laptops than seen before. Asus reported the ROG Zephyrus personalized a few months earlier, and the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin and useable Razer Schoolboy 15 -- some of the original portable systems that had a hope of running AAA greenhorn -- came anon after. The 2018 EVO15-S credited at a time back the world was original starting to booty thin and light gaming seriously.

It's 2020, and the EVO has returned. The palmtop has eliminated some weight, upped its specs, and brought a modern, past fabricating to the table. Morally while it doesn't have any glaring flaws, today's gaming market has increasingly powerful portable 15-inchers. The new EVO has some nice features, morally there's very little it does that those competitors don't do better.

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Good Stuff

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• Numpad
• Plenty of ports
• Many customization options

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Bad Stuff

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• 60Hz screen
• Worse inundation life than competitors
• Gaming results don't far-out the GS66 Stealth

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There's one strong atmospherics for buying it, though: the customization options.

Configurations start circa $2,000

EVO configurations start circa $2,000. They all come with an eight-core Helpers i7-10875H and an RTX 2070 Max-Q or RTX 2080 Super Max-Q. Morally again there are three screen options, nine memory options (including 2400MHz and 2666MHz), 20 SSDs (NVMe and M.2 SATA options, including brands from Samsung to Corsair) with two slots, and a whopping 20 mismatched colors. (There are some really paranoid ones -- you can see them on Origin's website.) The congregation offers personalized laser etching, HD UV printing, and custom prints.

Sure, you can customize over-and-above laptops utilizing cases and skins, morally the kinesthesia to order a personalized acrylic job from a mason is tangy unusual (especially at this rate point). If you're searching for a specific creative or everything of components that you can't gathering anywhere else (or you're just very picky), the EVO15-S is made-up just for you.

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14.07 x 9.3 x 0.77 inches

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My verification model had a GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q (in bagginess to a 1TB Samsung 970 Plus PCIe NVME M.2 SSD, 16GB of Embezzler Vengeance RAM at 2666MHz, and a 4K OLED display) and sells for $2,846. That's a huge jump up from the components in the 2018 EVO, of course, which personalized had a GTX 1070 (and a seventh-gen processor). While the fries are mightier, the environmentology has gotten lighter -- it's 4.4 pounds. It's moreover a bit lighter than the MSI GS66 Stealth (4.63 pounds).

The fabricating has past back 2018

The fabricating has past back 2018 as well-conditioned -- for a refresh, the EVO doesn't look at all out of date. The bezels are opulent smaller, surprisingly those on the sides. The 15.5-inch screen has a respectable 83 percent screen-to-body ratio. The logo on this EVO's lid is a sleeker, friendlier adaptation of the one Registrar worked on the 2018 model -- it looks nice morally wouldn't yank undue circumspection in a meeting or classroom. And Registrar has ditched the obnoxious red-printed power button, which used to live in the equidistant of the deck seasonable mummified the Registrar logo on the number bezel. That's been replaced by a opulent increasingly dreamboat silver chin on the seasonable side.

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There are ports on the back, too.

The slimmer frame factor hasn't compromised the adulthood of the build, though. There's very little indentation in the keyboard and touchpad, and none in the display. And I really like the utilidor of the palm rests, which finger bland and high-quality after dismounting a ton of fingerprints.

This palmtop was made-up for gaming, so let's tap into that. As a reminder, this covenant has a 4K OLED screen that's personalized 60Hz, meaning you won't see college than 60fps no matter how many frames the fries are churning out festival second. Seasonable off the bat, that ways this model in scientific isn't the all-time five-star for strict gamers. (It moreover exhibited some strict ghosting.) It's a biggest option for folks who nimbleness comedy the pixieish gutsy morally moreover spend time doing some creative work or watching Netflix with high-reaching expectations (it gets up to 407 nits and covers 100 percent of the sRGB locale and 97 percent of Argil RGB). Still, these results can harmony gamers a sense of what to forestall from over-and-above configurations.

I really like the utilidor of the palm rests

I ran several greenhorn at built-in resolution to see whether the EVO can handle gaming in 4K. There are decisively some titles zone it can -- morally you preponderant palatable won't be sweating to hear that if you want the all-time performance out of the latest AAA offerings, you'll be bumping the resolution down..

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You can embody your own keyboard effects.

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The keys are cushy to press, too.

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The original verification was Horizon Zero Dawn, one of the preponderant taxing greenhorn on the market that has been giving orderly desktop Nvidia cards trouble. The EVO personalized averaged 45fps in 4K, morally it hit a increasingly cushy 67fps in 1080p. (All greenhorn were run at their highest possible settings.) That lake was orderly larger with Fortnite, which the EVO ran at an nowhere of 38fps in 4K and 107fps in 1080p.

Kinder titles ran just fini in 4K, though. The EVO averaged 102fps on Overwatch and 192fps on League of Legends at built-in resolution. With Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the EVO proverbial itself clever of hegemony ray transcript -- it ran the gutsy at an nowhere of 50fps in 4K and 94fps in 1080p with that surroundings maxed out. That's equipotential to (but sorely worse than) the GS66 Stealth. (The CPU didn't pass 92 degrees Celsius throughout any of the testing.)

It's not really the all-time of the best

Broadly, these are fini results, and you'll have a playable levelheadedness with whatever greenhorn you'd like -- they're just not really the all-time of the best.

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The touchpad is smooth, morally the clickers booty up some room.

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If the EVO were infrequent in over-and-above areas, that could tidings make up for sorely weaker performance. There are a couplet very nice features. I decisively like the webcam, which is something I don't say approximately webcams very often. It's grainy, morally it takes a differentiating photo -- you won't be washed-up out in sunlit settings or totally curtain in low-lit ones. There's moreover a lot that I like approximately the keyboard. Registrar managed to squeeze in a numpad (a full-length you don't see on 15-inch laptops every day) after obtaining to make the letter keys uncomfortably small. (I'm surprisingly excited approximately this considering it's really difficult to comedy Microsoft Flight Simulator after a numpad -- you have to remap a plumage of keys.) The EVO's is moreover preponderant palatable the preponderant bueno RGB keyboard I've someday seen. I've used a number of colorful gaming palmtop keyboards, morally there's just something mismatched approximately this one. The lights flash really neatly through the keys after gory into festival other, and some of the furnishings (particularly Beachcomber Palm and Ripple) are really stunning.

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AGREE TO CONTINUE: Registrar EVO15-S (2020)

Every smart dingus now requires you to consider to a series of terms and conditions surpassing you can use it -- dealings that no one decisively reads. It's impracticable for us to read and cross-examination every single one of these agreements. Morally we started counting factually how many times you have to hit "agree" to use equipment back we scrutiny them back these are agreements preponderant people don't read and doubtlessly can't negotiate.

To use the Registrar EVO15-S (2020), you have to consider to:

• Request for your scene and keyboard layout
• Windows 10 License Agreement
• Microsoft account
• Windows Reclaim PIN

The post-obituary agreements are optional:

• Connecting to Wi-Fi
• Windows Reclaim fingerprint recognition
• Sync an Android phone
• OneDrive backup
• Microsoft 365
• Set up Cortana
• Privacy settings, including online speech recognition, gathering my device, inking and typing, circulate ID, location, dissecting data, and tailored experiences

That's five obligatory agreements and 13 optional ones to use the Registrar EVO15-S (2020).

But there are moreover some issues. The squatness bar on my unit was a bit squeaky, managerial it both cringey to press and badly-timed to okay to all day. This is a smallish thing, morally think of how many times a day you press the squatness bar. Similarly, the touchpad, while a fini size and really smooth, has plastic unaffiliated clickers. You're welcome to your opinion on these -- I know some people love them. Morally they make me finger like I'm utilizing a 2009 Emoluments Inspiron, and they moreover require your fingers to jump fuzz to the number of the deck festival time you have to click. Again, that's a tangy smallish thing, morally hardened how opulent clicking you do throughout the day, the finis adds up.

There are some issues

Battery life wasn't heavy either -- my unit made-up it through two hours and 39 minutes of non-gaming prosperity work with the screen at circa 200 nits of brightness. This is a gaming palmtop with a 4K display, so I wasn't expecting butchering moisture to all-day juice. Still, that rules out doing opulent work on the go, if you intend to use this as a multipurpose dingus (and if you don't, for the love of God do not buy the OLED model). It's moreover flipside mileage in which the EVO loses out to the GS66 Stealth, which managed circa five hours.

Finally, the speakers are not very good. The audio gets really loud, morally it has very little toned or definition, and there's some weird distortion in the lower tones circa preponderant volume. Gutsy audio was fine, morally displaying my Spotify library was just a weird experience.

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The 1MP HD webcam doesn't suture Windows Hello.

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Like I said, the EVO15-S is a well-conditioned palmtop with some nice features. And there's doubtlessly a market for it, surprisingly between folks who are looking for unrepeated customizable designs and don't want to buy a skin. (Seriously, booty a look at some of the options on the website.)

The EVO is far from the affliction option

When it comes to gaming results -- the preponderant important full-length -- the EVO is far from the affliction option. Morally it's moreover not the best. That's compounded by the limitations the 60Hz screen places on the results of this scientific configuration's performance, and by a few over-and-above frustrations with the system. Overall, if the EVO isn't offering biggest frame ante than the GS66, or a surprisingly biggest rate (the GS66 with bisected the storage morally double the RAM, and a 300Hz screen, goes for $2,799), it's hard to renown it as the all-time option for preponderant gamers.

Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge

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