Razer uncages Core i7, GeForce megaslab for hardcore gamers Games peripherals specialist Razer is finally bringing to market the concept gaming tablet it introduced at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). A year after unveiling "Project Fiona" at CES 2012, Razer used CES 2013 to unveil the Edge - geddit?! - a 1.7GHz Intel Core i5-based 10.1in, 1366 x 768 pixel megaslab. It's …
This.
PC gamers expect to have to, and be able to, upgrade all the time.
Console gamers would be the ideal market for this, 'cept they'll dislike it because it's a PC gaming rig at heart.
While I'm sure lots of people will sign up for more info, I wonder exactly how many will translate into real sales.
quote: "Console gamers would be the ideal market for this, 'cept they'll dislike it because it's a PC gaming rig at heart."
Since a lot of PC games are console ports these days (to the point where playing a PC title using the MS XBox controller even shows the correct controller button icons!) it may well appeal to the console crowd ;)
I'm more worried about the "1.7GHz" i5... since the one I recently bought was 3.4GHz, this is a significant drop in grunt for something touted as a PC gaming platform. Don't expect to play Planetside 2 at a decent framerate with that, regardless of the GPU.
For the blatant console ports though (Borderlands 2, Saints Row 3, Batman: Arkham City etc.) it'll be absolutely fine performance wise, they run ok on a 360 after all. Install Steam, look out for anything that says "controller enabled" (read: XBox port) on special, and away you go :D
Hardly gaming PC spec is it, the GPU can't even manage BF3 on low - http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-640M-LE.72199.0.html
I've got a higher spec, similar price, gaming laptop from a year or so ago. It chugs playing anything new on medium settings, the mobile CPUs aren't a patch on the desktop version either. Not really sure who this is aimed at.
I thought much the same initially, but given it's primarily aimed at gaming I expect the screen res is low to give the gpu half a chance at coping. A 1080p screen would look good outside of games but that cpu (likely the ultrabook or slower kind) and gpu would roll over and die trying to run games at 1080p. The other option would be using a 1080p screen and running games non native res, but that would likely look pants.
I'm tempted by a windows slate for tethered studio shooting, but not this for games. Theres possibly a limited market for rentals on flights and of course the more money than sense crowd might grab a few, but basically this is fecking useless. Apologies if I gave the impression I liked it in my above post, I don't, I was just attempted to explain the low res.
...that the better solution would be to have it just act as a display and controller for a desktop machine on your network. Okay, it wouldn't then be mobile... but then its limited by its battery life anyway.
Still, good to see it available; people can make their own minds up.
For really muscular forearms, there is a Nofan (nee Nofen) passive cooler good for CPUs up to 100W TDP (a bit overkill for this processor, I'm sure), that weighs 1KG. I imagine it protruding from the casing like a an air intake does from the hood of a 1970s American muscle car. Though be careful where you flash that quantity of copper... buggers thieve it round here.
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