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Midgen
PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:59 am 
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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011 ... t=My+Yahoo

For the low low price of $2800, you can have one too!

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Razer took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal refuting the idea that PC gaming is dead, and reaffirming the company's love for PC games. The company also promised an announcement today, something that would show just how much Razer loved PC gaming. Many people expected a new mouse or peripheral, but the reality is much more impressive: Razer is launching its own gaming laptop, complete with what the company is calling the "Switchblade User Interface." This includes 10 dynamic keys and an LCD screen to the right of the keyboard that doubles as a multitouch panel.

"Today, there hasn't been a single PC laptop that anyone has been passionate about for the longest time. It's not because there's no innovation, but [because] the big PC guys just don't want to innovate anymore," Min-Liang Tan, the CEO and Creative Director of Razer, told Ars.

So the company gave the finger to market research, focus groups, and arguably common sense to create a gaming laptop that's amazingly thin and light, with some very idiosyncratic design decisions. Some people are going to love it, other people will turn their noses up at it, but we're all going to be talking about it.

When's the last time anyone has been able to claim that about a gaming laptop?
Let's take a look at the specs

2.8GHz Intel® CoreTM i7 2640M Processor
8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory
17.3" LED Backlit Display (1920x1080)
NVIDIA GeForce® GT 555M with NVIDIA® OptimusTM Technology
2GB Dedicated GDDR5 Video Memory
Built-in HD Webcam
Integrated 60Wh Battery
320GB 7200rpm SATA HDD
Wireless Network 802.11 b/g/n Compatible
16.81" (Width) x 10.9" (Depth) x 0.88" (Height); 6.97lbs (Weight)
It will ship in the fourth quarter of 2011 for $2,799.99.

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Hmmms ...

Now that's a curious thing indeed ...

Riot got the nod over Blizzard.

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Interesting editorializing and scrying from the Gawker network... It's a long article, and I'm not on my PC, so I won't copy/paste.

Summarized, Kotaku/Gizmodo are suggesting that PC gaming needs to move towards standardized hardware platforms to stay competitive with consoles, and that the PC would benefit from such a move in its quest to remain relevant in the face of Apple's encroachment on the increasing share of laptop/netbook types. They're praising Razer for taking the initiative and risk in creating something with the potential for strong branding while others like HP are removing themselves from the market.

I'm not positive I agree with all of it, and even if I did, some of it's certainly news/prognostication I don't want to hear...

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Well, whatever it's future, at $2800, it's not going to become any kind of standard PC for the masses.
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That looks like a great piece of equipment if you're into LAN parties.
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I think it will be popular with a similar niche crowd as the Macbook Pros. at $2800, it's a few hundred cheaper than a 17" MBP, and has a nicer processor/graphics card to boot.

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I'm not sure why knowledgeable people would get a Macbook Pro now instead of a Macbook Air.
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Because it's "Pro" duh?
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At the 15-17 inch scale, the pros are much, much more powerful machines than the Air, especially in the graphics department.

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NephyrS wrote:
At the 15-17 inch scale, the pros are much, much more powerful machines than the Air, especially in the graphics department.


For games or video editing I could see that, but MacBook airs are not slow. I have one and it does all normal tasks quickly and can have many programs running at the same time. They have i7s. I would bet your 'much more' is only a factor of 2, which is unnoticeable for most things web-related. There's many cheap laptops with large screens and I don't see how that's a large benefit. 13 inches on the larger MacBook Airs is not bad if you are concerned about screen size. I actually bought the 11 inch though because I prefer small screens.
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Like you said, it depends what you're doing. But your first statement was that "you don't know why any knowledgeable person would get a pro over an air", and I'm pointing out why.

Increased screen size, much faster graphics (discrete graphics cards), significantly faster processor (even 2x can be quite a lot more processing power), and then there's the built in optical drive.

The airs are great computers- and probably what I'll end up getting- but there are definitely reasons to get a pro over an air.

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Pretty cool, though for that money you could get a 17" Alienware with a true quad core i7 processor and a much faster 580M video card so I don't know how much of a true gaming laptop I would call that, better CPU & GPU > gimmicky 2nd screen and customization buttons IMO when it comes to gaming
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