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The New Razer Blade

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Re: The New Razer Blade

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Post by spiralpolitik »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #8

This is actually a very very interesting laptop where my only question is: Will it run Linux without too much trouble? I have a Lenovo W530, but I have an inkling that the future of the Thinkpad is very grim for my work use cases. Laptops like the Razer Blade would be my next potential go-to if it can run Linux without much fuss.

I'm also hoping this has good Linux support when it comes time to replace my X1 Carbon at the end of the year as based on the recently updated model I also don't hold out much hope for the future of the Thinkpad.

Re: The New Razer Blade

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Post by sitkack »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #8

This is actually a very very interesting laptop where my only question is: Will it run Linux without too much trouble? I have a Lenovo W530, but I have an inkling that the future of the Thinkpad is very grim for my work use cases. Laptops like the Razer Blade would be my next potential go-to if it can run Linux without much fuss.

How so? http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/

I really like my MBP, solid fast machine. It only has 16GB and I would like a machine with at least 32 if not 64. I am a little jealous of a W530/W540 owner. You can have RAID SSD and 32GB of ram. Coupled with VMWare Workstation ... swoon!

Re: The New Razer Blade

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Post by batoure »

I feel like I am probably pretty alone in this. But I have really been hoping that they would update the razer edge pro line.

I have a surface pro 2 for work that I really like and having something close to that that could do high performance gaming has basically been a dream of mine since forever.

Sadly what they have shared on their forums seems to reflect that they don't want to do, or can't make work another edge despite its pretty wide popularity.

Re: The New Razer Blade

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Post by _zen »

nwh wrote: post #16
pseudometa wrote: post #10

Does nearly every laptop these days look like a Mac Book Pro? Once in a while I see things like the Yoga, but from the radius of the rounded corners, indents for opening the lid, shape/size of the keyboard keys, placement of inputs... They might as well have spray painted the MBP black and called it a night. Maybe they did...

It's nuts. Every laptop I see now is a plastic MacBook knockoff, and this is no exception.

What makes it a Macbook knock off? Chiclet keyboard? Sony's VAIO X505 did it first. What else? Smooth, rounded corners? (lol)

Re: The New Razer Blade

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Post by kaonashi »

nwh wrote: post #16
pseudometa wrote: post #10

Does nearly every laptop these days look like a Mac Book Pro? Once in a while I see things like the Yoga, but from the radius of the rounded corners, indents for opening the lid, shape/size of the keyboard keys, placement of inputs... They might as well have spray painted the MBP black and called it a night. Maybe they did...

It's nuts. Every laptop I see now is a plastic MacBook knockoff, and this is no exception.

After you've thinned down and chipped away as much as you can from any laptop design, that's pretty much what you get.

Re: The New Razer Blade

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Post by sitkack »

sliverstorm wrote: post #20
cfeduke wrote: post #17

Most of the specs look great, but like most made-for-Windows-8 laptops on the market there is a fixed limitation of 8GB of RAM. Its 2014. I want 32GB of RAM as an option, and 16 GB minimum. I am still looking for a great Linux development laptop but this is not it.

16GB minimum is still a little silly. My desktop has 16GB, kind of on accident, and my machine literally has no idea what to do with so much RAM. Most of the time it spends 8-10GB on disk cache. There are absolutely use cases for more. I would love to have my home machine at my desk at work, for example, for EDA tools. But that's why you make 16GB (or even 32GB) an option .

No way. Everything with a keyboard should probably ship with 16GB. My dev server has 128GB, my laptop has 16, 4GB is a toy and 8GB is the minimum for useful work. This laptop looks pretty good, but compared to a W540 which can have dual sata and 32GB I would have to pass.

My next desktop will have 64GB which is not extreme in the least. The worst trend that I don't see being fixed is the lack of ECC memory. ALL MEMORY SHOULD BE ECC!!!1! Lack of ECC is like running an open loop feedback mechanism. no good can come of it. No ECC and terabyte filesystems, recipe for horrible unrecoverable disaster.

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