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New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer

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Re: New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer

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It also looks to have an innovative lawsuit inducing ID. Seems pretty lazy to just anodized a MacBook Pro black, swap the logo and call it a day.

It looks like a simple purist one color professional notebook. The curves are all different. As a apple zealot you surely see how the Macbook is a whole different league in terms of style and smart-term-that-ends-with-ility (and by that obviously different).

Re: New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer

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The last thing the PC gaming community needs right now is another insanely expensive piece of hardware with a gimmick attached. I really cannot see this going anywhere within the community. I'm guessing that those who largely play the PC games that would require such high specs aren't likely to want to play them outside of their homes. Besides you can purchase a comparably spec'd desktop system for a quarter of the p…

I would definitely consider buying one. Why do people think that high priced, high design PC's can't sell when Apple has been selling exactly this with great success? The PC crowd has been lulled into cheap hardware but not everyone wants that. I typically buy high end Sony Vaio's just because of the sheer elegance of the product. I have raved on here about my Vaio Z, portable "workstation" power in 3 pounds of 13" goodness. I think there is a market for this.

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I understand they say they don't care if there's no market, but I'm curious who's going to buy it. Pro gamers will not care about a trackpad, or dynamic key-screens, as they don't want to spend time looking at the keys when they're looking at the screen. They have everything memorized anyway. But they are the ones who can justify spending ~$3000 on a laptop. Casual gamers would like these features, but don't spend $2…

I would buy it if I had the money. I was looking to build a gaming desktop and that's what I would end up paying anyway.

You're right it's not for a casual gamer but all Razer's products are not for casual gamers and somehow they can make living.

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Whenever I play a game with a laptop I use a real mouse. Anything else is a bit painful for me. Because of that, as a righty I'd rather have the dynamic buttons on the left side of the keyboard. Heck, make the whole keyboard dynamic. Then when you're playing a game, instead of an alphanumeric symbol on the key being displayed, the action it's bound to can be displayed.

A person using hotkeys probably never has to look at the keyboard, I don't know how useful a fully customizable keyboard would be.

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Man, geeks are a tough crowd. I for one applaud their effort to shake things up. You say there's no market for this, well they say they're building it for themselves. I think chances are good there are lots of people out there just like them.

Agreed! Expensive? Sure it is. But I applaud Razor for trying something daring. Given how slim it is, those specs are pretty outrageous.

I don't see anything about a CD drive. Perhaps that's how they were able to make it so slim.

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I didn't realize MacBook Pros had touchscreens on the keyboard...

Look at this gallery of product shots: http://www.engadget.com/photos/razer-blade-0/ That is Apple's industrial design language. They could have made it look like anything and they chose to ape apple, that's lazy.

I think the presentation of it is more Apple-like than the design of the computer itself.

Re: New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer

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I've always found the idea of a secondary display on a laptop intriguing. Would be nice to be able to look down at the keyboard and have docs for whatever I'm working on already there, without having to page over to another screen or such. I would presume the screen has some sort of API (or at least a WebView mode) so this sort of thing would be possible.

On the flip side, a 17" display means you have room to keep both on the screen at once, negating the extra display. 15" model please?

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