Origin’s EON17-X3D laptop includes two GeForce 580M GPUs

UPDATE: Alienware have since been in touch to point out Origin isn’t the first to offer two GPUs in a laptop. The Alienware M18x also has the option of dual 580M GPUs.

There are a few laptop manufacturers that focus on providing high performance and gaming machines in a portable form, the most popular of which has to be Alienware. But it’s Origin making the headlines today by creating what’s thought to be the first laptop to contain two GPUs in SLI configuration.

The laptop in question is called the Origin EON17-X3D. Its default option is to include a single 2GBNvidia GeForce GTX 580M GPU. That should be more than capable for any game you care to throw at it. However, you can upgrade the configuration to instead include dual 2GB 580M GPUs, giving you unprecedented graphical power in a laptop form factor.

The rest of the EON17′s specs will have gamer’s mouths watering too. In its top configuration you can have:
Intel Core-i7 3960X 3.3GHz CPU with 15MB cache
32GB dual-channel DDR3 1333MHz RAM
17-inch 1920 x 1080 120Hz 3D display with Nvidia 3D Vision Active Glasses
6x Blu-ray burner
512GB Samsung 830 Series SSDs
Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate Edition

Due to the size of the case required to fit and cool those components, Origin allows you to have up to three hard drives configured, or four if you forego the optical drive.



Of course, such a laptop does not come cheap, and you will pay anywhere between $3,000 and $8,000 depending on the configuration you select. That’s not surprising when the dual-GPU option alone adds $877 to the price.

Origin will take your order now if you want or need this much power in a “portable” unit. The EON17-X3D won’t start shipping until March 30, though.