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The laptop market right now is extremely competitive. With Dell and other big players offering cut throat prices, it is difficult for many companies to get a foothold at all. This is not putting off Razer, a company best known for their quality range of peripherals.
The Razer Blade is a Windows 7 laptop which is set to be sold at $2,800 later this year.
Company founder/CEO and Creative Director Min Liang Tan told USATODAY “The key for us was to have something that was so portable, that you could pull it out of your bag with a single hand and be something you could bring along with you,” he says. “And not only is this thinner than the Alienware (laptops), but by the time we were done (designing) it, it is thinner than a MacBook Pro and more powerful. It's the most powerful and thinnest 17-inch laptop today.”
Tan says that their knowledge and reputation for user interface design will really help their development of a laptop range. He is also not too impressed with the current range of gaming laptops saying they are too heavy and thick and not portable at all.
They had help from Nvidia and Intel in the creation of this new design. The key talking point is the thin design, which they claim is less than one inch thick and has an aluminum chassis, a common feature with Apple machines.
Tan understands that at $2,800, they wont be selling a lot of these machines, but he says “We are just here to sell products that we can be proud of.”
Kitguru says: A company who seem more interested in quality rather than quantity. We like that.
I love their products, this should rock.
“It’s the most powerful and thinnest 17-inch laptop today.”
Thinnest 17 Inch Laptop currently on the Market? Yeah, sure. For now. The most powerful? No. The most overpriced? Possibly.
Since he wants to compare to the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Pro for 2.800$, which is how much this costs, will give you a lot better hardware. Any model you choose. Why? Because Razer’s Blade runs a Dual-Core CPU and a GTX 555M GPU. All MBPs pump a Quad Core and at least mid-end AMD Radeon HD 6xxx Mobile GPUs. And for 2.800$ you can throw in a 256GB SSD too. Go slightly over 2.8K and you can make the jump to 8 GB of RAM too.
For having a Dual-Core, a Mid-End GPU Card, a 1.8 Inch 320GB Hard Drive with no SSD Option on the Menu, 2.800$ is ridiculously overpriced. Sure, its got a fancy Touchpad and special Buttons. So what? Did I mention the heating will probably be terri-bad? Even for something so thin, they could have found a way to throw in a PCIe SSD. Sure, not the same size as the Hard Drive, but still. Least you’ve got speed, and it makes the price look friendlier. And even if you wanted to leave the Hard Drive for Storage purposes, 8GB PCIe SSDs are thinner than pencils (for the OS at least). That could have easily fit into there. Somewhere.
The Razer Switchblade was a good concept. It had a small screen, a lame Atom Processor to power it, but it was a better concept. This is just dumb. Nobody takes a Gaming Laptop to a Cafe, you don’t stand around with it anywhere, you take it to LAN Parties, you take it with you to College since you can’t drag a Tower with you. If you buy a Gaming Laptop you don’t care about how big it is, it gets the job done, and that’s all you care about. This is just…. Pointless.
^ I agree…. for that price …… MBP would be better…..and even better would be the MBP’s battery life………. I expect at that price range an i7 + some serious graphics power…… not a measly dual core….