Razer Says Small PCs Are In Its Future, Maybe The Switchblade?
Razer Says Small PCs Are In Its Future, Maybe The Switchblade?
Posted 11/22/2011 at 11:33am
| by Brad Chacos
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After the whole brouhaha over the cryptic “PC Gaming Is Not Dead” website, Razer’s big secret – as we told you back in August – was the Razer Blade gaming laptop, a 17-inch notebook with a i7-2640M dual-core 2.8GHz CPU, 8GB of memory, and an NVIDIA 555M discrete GPU. Now, reports say they have a bunch of little secrets in the works, too, in the form of smaller, more portable PCs.
"More products will follow including small form factor systems," Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan told PC World. They won’t start appearing until sometime next year, however, as the Razer Blade itself isn’t due to hit the streets until November. The report doesn’t go into much detail other than the single quote. Perhaps one of the “small form factor systems” he’s talking about is the Razer Switchblade, a netbook-like “mobile PC gaming concept design” that Razer showed off at CES 2011 (and supposedly served as the genesis of the larger Razer Blade). Remember the Switchblade? It had an interesting “dynamic tactile keyboard” that changed depending on the game being played. In any case, expect to hear more details as time goes on.
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praack
November 23, 2011 at 10:32am
You do have to Love Marketing and also how differing industry viewpoint/research cloud the space
last month we heard how portable game consoles such as PSP VITA and Nintendo 3ds would be the last Hurrah- since portable gaming would be Phone or Tablet based
Now we have the release of a formfactor larger than the PSP VITA and Nintendo 3ds to do what? Portable gaming?
and use your thumbs to move? so remap to console controls from standard keyboard WSAD?
not seeing it fly
Holly Golightly
November 23, 2011 at 1:43am
To be honest with you, I do not know if people really like the clamshell design anymore. Netbooks have been out of style for a while already. Clamshell form factor reminds me of how popular flip phones were back in the 1990s. Today is all about touchscreen and true mobility. So if I was Razer, I would bet my money on tablets as they seem to outsell laptops.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/best_buy_ipad_cuts_laptop_sales_50_percent
I love the innovative keyboard design they use in the Razer Switchblade. All keyboards now-a-days should have had this already. I do not understand what the hell is taking so damn long. Perhaps a Patent Troll is what happened. Anyhow, I want the Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus keyboard. I can game with that till I am old and gray with my big gaming rig. Razer was right about one thing, PC Gaming is definitely NOT dead.
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