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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: 3, Interesting) by ShadowSystems on Monday October 24 2016, @04:52AM
I use a wired LAN connection each & every day. There is no wireless available in the building due to it being old, a natural Faraday Cage, & security demands that nobody be able to Man-In-The-Middle a wireless transmission that will almost certainly include data that we *Can Not* allow to get out. Not everyone works in an office with ubiquitous WiFi, lunches with their laptop at the local coffee shop & surfs via WiFi, or travels on a train/subway that allows one to do much of anything if the device can't be held in one hand with the other hanging on for dear life to the overhead strap.
You must not do much in the way of interaction with projectors nor external monitors not directly under your control. There are too many "old school" projector systems that still require an SVGA plug, or monitors that need one, or (shudders) ones that have some benighted Apple connector that refuses to accept anything but an Apple product on the other end. Colleges, Universities, small business', "Mom & Pop Shop", & private sources are all notorious for having an absurd amount of ways of connecting to their equipment, very little of which will involve a WiFi connection.
That USB connector is still used on printers, media devices, port replicators, docs, projectors, scanners, CD/DVD changers, external CD/DVD units, and nearly every single "computerized" device available from shops like Amazon, BestBuy, NewEgg, ThinkGeek, et al. You can't dismiss it so readily without also refusing to buy (or have bought) anything as an accessory... you know, like a keyboard or mouse.
As for not wanting the weight of a fat laptop to burdon your bag, then why do you like adding every dongle under the sun to your kit to cover the attachment of the devices that require the ports they ripped out of the laptop in the first place? You may save some weight by buying a "thin & light", but then you lose those savings by having to lug around a kilo or two of dongles, docks, & adapters. Wouldn't it be smarter to just buy a albeit heavier laptop that included them in the first place?
TL;DR: not everybody has a WiFi connection, we still need the ports, & we're sick & tired of the "thin & light" marketing bullocks.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Monday October 24 2016, @05:51AM
I regularly connect to my laptop: my tv, my 3d printer, my corded trackball (don't have to worry about batteries), thumb drives, external speakers and headphones. Whenever available cords work better than wireless.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @06:08AM
(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.