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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @07:14AM
I use 1Gbps wired everyday too. WiFi is flaky and slow. In theory 1Gbps WiFi is possible in practice not if there are other people trying to use it too. Copying gigabytes of stuff over WiFi takes longer than I wish to wait.
USB A is also a required.
Anyway the Blade Pro seems to have the ports I want and the ports you want: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro#specs [razerzone.com]
Except for perhaps the video bit - it's only got an HDMI port, no VGA port. But that's acceptable to me.
So your original rant mostly doesn't apply to the Blade Pro, but then you can add a rant on if they can squeeze those ports into a Blade Pro they should be able to squeeze those ports into something fatter and lower spec.