While some high-profile custom PC vendors are
on their way out, Origin PC is just getting started. The company recently launched the
Genesis, a desktop that melts gamers' faces at the same time it incinerates their wallets, and the
Eon18, a laptop that... honestly does just the same. Come to think of it, flame seems to be a recurring theme for the company, but before you work yourself into a burning hot rage because of your inability to afford Origin product, consider the new Eon15. With only room for a single powerful mobile graphics chip and a single storage drive, it won't be setting new 3DMark or I/O benchmarks like its cousins, but it will let you get away with a 1080p screen, Core i7-820QM processor, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, a GeForce GTX 285M and even a snazzy paint job for a merely
painful, rather than excruciating, price. Configurations start at $1,900 -- hey, it's not like you were gonna be using those paychecks for anything else, right?
posted March 23rd 2010 11:46PM
This think looks like it just hopped off the DeLorean, on its way back from from 1997.
So suppose you're on a rocket ship flying towards me at twice the speed of light, and you have a flashlight on board. Suppose that you shine the light towards me, then continue flying towards me. On reaching me, you drop a big curtain in front of me that blocks any light behind you from reaching me. Now the question is, do I see the light from your flashlight or not? From your perspective, I do. The light from your flashlight traveled away in front of you at c; as the light was always in front of you it must have reached me before you did, so your dropping the curtain doesn't block the light. From my perspective, I don't. You're approaching at 2c, and the light is only approaching at c. You both left the same place at the same time, so the light will be arriving after you do; you dropped a big curtain, so I don't see the light at all. So I both see and don't see the light - pure nonsense. Where was the flaw that let this happen? It was when I assumed you *could* be on a ship traveling at 2c. It's clear that it simply doesn't make logical sense to consider faster-than-light travel.
@Alexster404
Why? Does someone mentioning back to the future require a physics class example of the impossibility of >speed of light travel?
@Alexster404
No one said this laptop is faster than light, Einstein fanboy.
@Alexster404 Found the link you copy and pasted your explanation from:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/computer-processes-faster-speed-light
Commenter screen name: dontbother
Pre-packaged responses FTL - seriously.
@Alexster404
Look up Inertial and Non Inertial frames of reference
The space ship is a Non Inertial Frame of Reference because it is moving at a constant speed. You aswell are a non inertial frame of reference because you are moving at constant speed (Even if this is 0ms), The light projected from the spaceship moving at 2c would travel at 3c to a stationary observer watching this all happen, so. you would see the light, then when the curtain dropped, to the observer on the spaceship the light would stop immeadietly, because to the observer on the spaceship the light is only travelling at C. aswell to you because the spaceship is moving at a constant velocity, I.E An Inertial Frame of Reference, the light would also immeadietly be blocked to you. Dont ask how it works just accept it.
@InspectorEngadget
Hahaha Good Job!
@Alexster404 Lol, there are no secrets on teh interwebz. +1 for taking you licks like a grown-up.
Is it just me or does it seem like the title and the post contradict?
What game is that?
@HurricaneDC Battlefield Bad Company 2
I love the look, I'd buy this if i had the cash just for that look actually.. its spec's are just a nice extra..
@Jordo1234 The specs are nice, but the bottom looks like a foundation for a house.
@InspectorEngadget
ah im one of the people that liked the look of the old chunky laptops
remember those? i do.. i loved my IBM Thinkpad, cant remember the model .. but i reckon it was one of the awesomest designed laptops ever
@Jordo1234 I remember my Dell Inspiron rocking that 600Mhz Pentium III and 64Mb of SD RAM. Used to run 3d modeling software on it - *chug*....*chug*......*chug*.....*chug*. I also remember the scrolling blue screen of death it always used to give me. Ah, the sweet nostalgia of foregone days...
@InspectorEngadget
I still have it sitting around here somewhere, old Pentium II thing, 32MB Ram, 4gb HDD, Man that thing was the bomb in its day.
@Jordo1234
Mine finally got unusable. Took it out in the front yard and put a .40 caliber bullet through the screen. It needed to go out with some dignity.
@InspectorEngadget
Mines still usable, barely, experimented with it, installed winXP on it, it runs, sure, but yeah logging in even takes 5 minutes.
@Jordo1234 XP? You were blessed. Mine shipped with Windows ME. Like I said, unusable.
@InspectorEngadget
Haha yeah mine Shipped with ME, but i decided to have a little fun with it, Installed XP onto it. wooo..
See now for that price i would get a brand name... Like the ASUS G73jh- A1 or A2 for $1,645 and $1,515 respectively.
Specs are:
Core i7 720qm
ati mobility 5870
8gb ddr3 ram
2x 500gb @ 7200rpm
More bang for your buck, no? :)
@DefusedHero
A1-(blu-ray)
http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g73jha1-order-p-2731.html
A2-(sans blu-ray)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220704
IMO, i want it.. badly. *sighs*
if only money weren't an issue. :|
$1900 is how much people drop on Macbook Pro's that aren't nearly as up to speed with this thing.
I would know... that's what I'm saving those paychecks for. *hangs head in shame*
B-BUT. STEAM IS COMING TO MAC.
@ZaxCG2 *Frowning and shaking head* For shame, ZaxCG2, for shame.
@InspectorEngadget
I also... have a brushed aluminum fetish... ;_;
My name is Zax... and I'm a Mac.
@ZaxCG2 It's OK...there's an app for that.
@ZaxCG2 Its also probably like a third of the weight and size...
From my perspective, I don't. You're approaching at 2c, and the light is only approaching at c. You both left the same place at the same time, so the light will be arriving after you do;
@udtekbattery
Your approach speed is added to the speed of the light.
Because the flashlight producing the light is also travelling at 2c relative to you.
Hi Sean!
Welcome to Engadget! I look forward to reading more of your blog posts except the ones about boutique computer vendors releasing "new" rebadged laptops from the likes of Compal, Clevo (mostly rebadged as Sager), etc. I'd prefer to hear of new releases from the companies that actually make the product and not some garage shop.
http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/prodinfo_2.asp?productid=235
Cheers!
i know it's the hardware that counts but man... how much more it's gonna cost to jazz it up a bit... i cant tell it from your typical Acer/Dell machines... or maybe the purpose of it is to keep it safe by making thieves think it's a cheapo, nice < in that aspect.