Razor Switchblade.

[cerbrus2]

Just saw this wile surfing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQ0AnlfBu4&feature=player_embedded

I have to say it looks awsome. Although its only a concept at the momeant I am actualy hoping this gets released. You can keep your PSP's and DS's lol.

I wonder how much it will retail for if it is released lol.

 

[SPS]

The new Razer Blade features the switchblade UI, but it's way overpriced

 

[cerbrus2]

The new Razer Blade features the switchblade UI, but it's way overpriced

Yeah I saw their new "gamign laptop" and yeah its very expencive. They are also using the same tech on the new starwars keyboared. I am hoping they release a standerd version. as for RTS games the ability to see the whole map on your keyboared will be very handy especially for starcraft 2.

 

[KaraMurat]

So what does this do that a laptop can't, aside from the fancy keyboard tricks.

 

[jonowee]

It's not April is it?

The CEO really takes himself far too seriously. So can this fancy keyboard netbook run Crysis? WoW and Quake... meh...

 

[Lollipop]

So what does this do that a laptop can't, aside from the fancy keyboard tricks.

By the looks of it it is very small

i would love a little gaming rig on the go

 

[cerbrus2]

So what does this do that a laptop can't, aside from the fancy keyboard tricks.

Looking at the screens of it. it would seem its running wndows mobile. So it will do basically everything a computer will do.

It does look awsome. And the best part is it has a proper keybored instead of these stupd touchscreen things like the Ipad. that only men with clamy hands and girl like fingres can use.

 

[SPS]

Looking at the screens of it. it would seem its running wndows mobile. So it will do basically everything a computer will do.

It does look awsome. And the best part is it has a proper keybored instead of these stupd touchscreen things like the Ipad. that only men with clamy hands and girl like fingres can use.

Its a variant of windows 7

 

[Stryker64]

The Switchblade in the demos used an Intel Atom processor and lagged on Warcraft 3, but it's only a concept, if they were to bring it into production AMD Fusion would probably be the way to go.

As for the Razer Blade Gaming Laptop, it doesn't really pack much performance. Looking at the specs, you would be better off buying a MacBook 15 or 17 because they will have roughly the same GPU performance, but the Mac will have significantly better CPU performance and battery life. Also the MacBook Pro is cheaper. Personally I don't think the extra costs justifies slightly worse performance with only the inclusion of a gimmicky touchscreen/pad and 10 OLED buttons.

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

Razer Switchblade - AKA Waste of money

They had concepts of this about a year or so ago, and it didn't impress me then and it still hasn't. From what I hear the price tag is 2.8k upwards. Sounds fair though considering the screen is 13 inch from the looks of it, and it probably has some terrible battery life powering that fantastic keyboard that in actual fact isn't really helping with anything because you keybind most of your shit anyway.

Thanks Razer for turning my WASD keys into arrows, just in case I forgot

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[DwarfAdigginAhole]

Razer Switchblade - AKA Waste of money

They had concepts of this about a year or so ago, and it didn't impress me then and it still hasn't. From what I hear the price tag is 2.8k upwards. Sounds fair though considering the screen is 13 inch from the looks of it, and it probably has some terrible battery life powering that fantastic keyboard that in actual fact isn't really helping with anything because you keybind most of your shit anyway.

Thanks Razer for turning my WASD keys into arrows, just in case I forgot

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Well I want you to think, hook this thing to AT&T 4G and get this instead of buying a PSP VITA or the 3DS and you have WoW, TF2, and etc on the go. This is for a very limited market of people who just want a small HandHeld Gaming System, I mean the VITA has PS3 Graphics so this thing should easily be able to hit Gamer Settings at about 35-46FPS in Crysis 2 if done right.

 

[SPS]

Razer Switchblade - AKA Waste of money

They had concepts of this about a year or so ago, and it didn't impress me then and it still hasn't. From what I hear the price tag is 2.8k upwards. Sounds fair though considering the screen is 13 inch from the looks of it, and it probably has some terrible battery life powering that fantastic keyboard that in actual fact isn't really helping with anything because you keybind most of your shit anyway.

Thanks Razer for turning my WASD keys into arrows, just in case I forgot

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It's the Razer Blade that cost 2.8k and has a 17" screen, still not worth the money though

 

[Ya93sin]

Would rather have a Vita than this, even the Slim and Lite PSP's fit into my pockets, so its great, I even took it on holiday this summer. Vita will be good too, maybe get that for Xmas

Razer things are often overpriced, except the Deathadder, which at liek £45 is extremely good value imo

 

[cerbrus2]

Would rather have a Vita than this, even the Slim and Lite PSP's fit into my pockets, so its great, I even took it on holiday this summer. Vita will be good too, maybe get that for Xmas

Razer things are often overpriced, except the Deathadder, which at liek £45 is extremely good value imo

only thing putting me off the Vita is the bloody touch sensative back plate. i hate the idea of it.

 

[rishisen]

saw this a while back, pretty nice idea dunno how well it wil work if it ever does get made

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

Well I want you to think, hook this thing to AT&T 4G and get this instead of buying a PSP VITA or the 3DS and you have WoW, TF2, and etc on the go. This is for a very limited market of people who just want a small HandHeld Gaming System, I mean the VITA has PS3 Graphics so this thing should easily be able to hit Gamer Settings at about 35-46FPS in Crysis 2 if done right.

Yeah that's true, but the price difference is huge. I understand the market, but how everyone thinks the keyboard is revolutionary, is completely stupid. Honestly, it's just swapping the keys over basically for a picture of what they do. Not worth the cash at all, I'd rather just get an MSi lappy

 

[Lollipop]

Yeah that's true, but the price difference is huge. I understand the market, but how everyone thinks the keyboard is revolutionary, is completely stupid. Honestly, it's just swapping the keys over basically for a picture of what they do. Not worth the cash at all, I'd rather just get an MSi lappy

True, but if they can sort the battery life i will almost certainly get one, jsut because it is very small and it is muuuuuuuuch better than a crappy netbook

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Should take a leaf out of Google's book and have their own Gamer OS that runs DX11 without being a Windows clone/ derivative, where it has a closed ecosystem of hooking up to game servers and using the local storage only for installing games to, but other than that no other functions outside of what you can do with their gamer suite. Like the Chromebook, but for gaming on rather than office tasks. Locked inside something similar to Steam, rather than a browser.

That said, they could easily team up with Steam/ Valve to make a gaming OS and gaming only notebook.

A console without the console junk

 

[Ya93sin]

There were rumours that Valve was looking into making a gaming OS.

However its much more likely that Windows introduce a "gaming mode", and it loads its own Windows environment, so you get way better performance.

 

[Stryker64]

Should take a leaf out of Google's book and have their own Gamer OS that runs DX11 without being a Windows clone/ derivative, where it has a closed ecosystem of hooking up to game servers and using the local storage only for installing games to, but other than that no other functions outside of what you can do with their gamer suite. Like the Chromebook, but for gaming on rather than office tasks. Locked inside something similar to Steam, rather than a browser.

That said, they could easily team up with Steam/ Valve to make a gaming OS and gaming only notebook.

A console without the console junk

Well the only reason why a console can get such good performance from the GPU that is around 8 years old is due to the software optimization, in other words, DirectX is the limiting factor for performance. If someone did make a dedicated Gamer OS that works for just one set of specifications on a laptop, you would see phenomenal performance. If I recall correctly, AMD did state that if it wasn't for software issues associated with DirectX, hardware would perform around 10 times better. Now 10 times performance from a mid range laptop GPU would be amazing making gaming laptops a proper choice, but the whole reason for DirectX's existence is the game developers just develop games to work with DirectX instead of tailoring it for each type of GPU on the market because there are just so many of them.