After a marketing campaign claiming that PC gaming was not dying (and seemingly believing that the masses assumed it was), Razer have unveiled their new product – the world’s first true gaming laptop. Dubbed the Razer Blade (catchy, I know), the laptop itself features an aluminium chassis, “true portability”, “incredible performance” and a “revolutionary user interface”.
This laptop is to encourage developers and gamers alike to return to the PC market as the main platform, but I’m somehow doubtful that’s going to happen. Why? It costs the completely unaffordable price of – wait for it – $2799.99. Yes, really.
Let me put that in perspective for you: for about $1500-2000 less you could build a high-end gaming PC that will run Battlefield 3 very nicely. Sure, it won’t be portable, it won’t weigh just under 7lbs and it won’t be the undeniably impressive 0.88 inches thin, but it will do the job very well.
The Razer Blade does feature a lovely Intel i7 processor (just dual core, mind), 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 17.3″ display and a high performance NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M GPU with 2GB dedicated VRAM, however. Another interesting feature is the Switchblade User Interface: which features 10 dynamic keys and a multi-touch LCD that can be used to display in-game information or control the game instead of a mouse when you’re on the go. It also includes a built-in HD webcam and only a 320gb HDD.
So – yes, it’s a nice piece of kit; it’s just unfortunately way out of most gamers’ (read: everyone’s)Â price range so it doesn’t look to be bringing people into the world of PC gaming any time soon. It will be available later this year, so get your pre-orders in!*
*My advice? Don’t, just build yourself a PC, get a games console and a decent laptop; you’ll still have some cash to spare.
Source: Press Release
colmshan1990
A screen over 17″?
Too big to be ultra portable then.
MrTwP
Why are they using HDD when they could just use SSD, it’s far quicker, smaller and they don’t seem to be cutting cost. The graphics card is awesome but with all that power that battery won’t last longer than an hour. My mac which I got a few months ago for £1,849. doesn’t last more than an hour on games and that’s only 15 inch.
The Lone Steven
320GB? That is not a true gaming laptop. True gaming PCs have a TB harddrive. I actually plan on building my own gaming PC once i have the proper funds and enough spare room. Who uses a laptop screen as a form of control? It would end up with fingerprints on the screen.
It’s too much for even the most hardcore gamer. You can make a Portable desktop. Get a table with wheels, strap it all down to the table, put a generator underneath and plug it all in. It’s portable*.:)
*may result in lack of interest where you are going, muscle strain,bird poo,back strain and swearing loudly in public due to getting killed because of screen glare*
colmshan1990
Hang on, haven’t Alienware been making gaming laptops for ages already?
ScottyB
This isn’t a gaming PC. the PC games i see nowadays require Quad-core proccesors and so this couldn’t play them, And to pay this much only to have it dual-core is proposterous imo.
Also 320GB is going to go very far on a gaming PC….
MrTwP
To be fair it’s an i7 processor 8GB of RAM and an awesome graphics card. It doesn’t need a quad core.