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posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 24 2016, @12:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the me-wants dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

If you want hardcore gaming performance, but need it in a system that's portable, if not completely lightweight, then Razer's new Blade Pro could be just the ticket. Razer is calling it the "desktop in your laptop," and they the company has a point.

On the inside, the system packs a quad core Skylake processor, an 8GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, 32GB RAM, up to 2TB of NVMe SSD storage in RAID 0, Thunderbolt 3, and a 4K G-Sync capable screen. That's a machine that isn't giving much up in performance to most desktop PCs, so already justifies Razer's strapline... but it's the next thing they did that really makes this a laptop desktop.

The Blade Pro doesn't have the usual membrane keys found in laptops. It has a full mechanical keyboard, with switches—not rubber domes—beneath each key. OK, it's still a laptop, so it's a low profile mechanical keyboard with reduced key travel and chiclet style buttons. But it's a mechanical keyboard nonetheless (Razer also has a similar mechanical mechanism for its iPad Pro keyboard). And of course, being a Razer laptop, it's not just a mechanical keyboard. It's a mechanical keyboard that can be lit up with any color of the rainbow. Alongside it sits a giant touchpad.

[...] There is of course the small matter of the price; it's a little eye-watering. With 512GB of storage, it starts at $3,699/€4,199/£3,499.


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  • (Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Monday October 24 2016, @03:40AM

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Monday October 24 2016, @03:40AM (#418029)

    Except that most computers now don't have much above 2~3GHz in them. You have to customize the machine to add the 4GHz part, which adds more money to the build (obviously).
    So for my eight core 4GHz I7, that's a damn sight better than the mobil version that most makers tend to foist upon folks.
    I'd love to have something in the TeraHertz range by now if Moore's Law held true, but then I'd probably wet myself in squealy glee at that much computational horsepower.
    *Sheepish grin*

    Razor's "desktop in a laptop" is a nice enough concept, but it falls far short on too many points to make it much of anything to crow about.
    I've just bought a better system for less money (including shipping!) & it'll be in my greedy little paws by end of day tomorrow.
    Razor can bite me. =-)p