• http://Website Irenor

    Something I feel only Razor could come up with, and it’s awesome. Very interested in the product and how it may influence further development, should the Switchblade be succesfull.

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com/ geldonyetich

    That certainly eliminates the ambiguity from the face of PC gaming.

  • http://www.gasbanditry.com Gas Bandit

    If only. Those buttons are LCD topped, changing/programmable buttons. Push the chat button (it’s over there to the right of the “jump” spacebar) and suddenly the whole thing is a qwerty keyboard again. Saw it on Kotaku.

  • http:/./ds180.net/specialk klaitu

    Maybe I’m an old fart.. but my question is this:

    Who plays an MMO on a laptop? Get everything better for cheaper with a desktop.

  • http://Website Freakazoid

    I’ve seen something like this before. May have been a shoop, though.

    First thing I noticed, “Hey, duskwood looks pretty good for being ravaged by a dragon.”

  • http://Website Anachronym

    I’ve been running WoW on an Acer 521, upgraded with 2gb RAM and a Vertex 2 ssd, for the past few months. It’s quite snappy for a tiny little netbook. If they can reproduce the performance with this Razor thingy, I’d consider buying one. It’ll probably be in the $700-$800 range though.

  • http://Website VPellen

    mite b cool

  • http://Website Jobrill

    Man, too bad that’s just a concept. I would buy one right now to take with me on vacation next week so I can still do my dailies and get guild rep.

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com/ geldonyetich

    It’s just as well. If Razor’s making it, they’d probably charge about 400% what it’s worth. Lets see, a Thinkpad with LED keyboard and touchscreen would be about $500, so $2000?

  • http://Website Tremayne


    klaitu:

    Maybe I’m an old fart.. but my question is this:
    Who plays an MMO on a laptop? Get everything better for cheaper with a desktop.

    I take it you don’t have to travel for work very often :) At the moment I have to settle for Pocket Legends on my iPad when I’m stuck in a hotel somewhere. Show me one of these babies running LotRO and I could be interested…

  • http:/./ds180.net/specialk klaitu

    I sure don’t. I don’t travel anywhere very often, so “portability” isn’t even a blip on my radar.

    I may be an elitist or something, but I think that if I was trying to play a beloved MMO on an ipad-type-thing or even on a real laptop, I would be so disappointed that I would give up until I could return to my desktop.

    Maybe if my laptop was really, really big and somehow synced my UI key commands between my Desktop and Laptop…

  • http://Website ceolstan

    I’m not so interested in playing an MMO on this machine, but if this baby supports Steam, I can see myself using this for the backlog of single player games.

  • http://Website JeremyT

    The second I saw this product I thought “that’s a concept, it’ll never really really be made.” Like so many other “concept” products, there’s pretty much zero point to it beyond simply looking cool; from a usability perspective, having to look away from the screen and look at the keyboard to see what a button will do is a major flaw.

  • http://www.gasbanditry.com Gas Bandit


    klaitu:

    Maybe I’m an old fart.. but my question is this:
    Who plays an MMO on a laptop? Get everything better for cheaper with a desktop.

    My laptop can game a bit (no crysis, but can play most current valve games and such) and I can tell you, a gaming laptop is a hell of a lot easier to cart around to lan parties and such.

  • http://Website Andy O.


    klaitu:

    Maybe I’m an old fart.. but my question is this:
    Who plays an MMO on a laptop? Get everything better for cheaper with a desktop.

    Because WoW plays better when fueled with disgusted onlooks, great coffee, and free wifi. (Starbucks or Peets or insert your coffee shop here)

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com/ geldonyetich

    The main feature here would seem to be the portability of it. Folded up, it looks to be about a size and a half larger than a Nintendo DS, possibly able to be toed about in a generous-sized pocket. So it’s perhaps the best “PC Gaming On The Go” solution we’ve seen in awhile.

    Would the something as small as the Razer Switchblade be able to make it run games older than ten years old? The way CPUs are going, with integrated graphics cards, it’s a definite possibility.

  • http://ixobelle.com ixobelle

    dedicated keys for each bag in your inventory?!

    GEENIUS!

  • http://Website JeremyT


    geldonyetich:

    The main feature here would seem to be the portability of it. Folded up, it looks to be about a size and a half larger than a Nintendo DS, possibly able to be toed about in a generous-sized pocket. So it’s perhaps the best “PC Gaming On The Go” solution we’ve seen in awhile.
    Would the something as small as the Razer Switchblade be able to make it run games older than ten years old? The way CPUs are going, with integrated graphics cards, it’s a definite possibility.

    I didn’t even catch the true scale of this thing at first, I thought it was a standard sized netbook – but you’re right, it’s somewhere between DS and netbook in terms of form factor. You’re supposed to dual-thumb that keyboard(!) and touch the display instead of using a mouse (!!!). I’m getting hand cramps just thinking about it.