PAX Prime: Meet the ‘Razer Blade’, Razer’s New Monster Gaming Laptop

You can't swing a mouse without hitting some high-oddment PC gaming trafficker claiming it's built "the world's for the first time true gaming laptop," and hither comes Razer with another challenger. The boutique PC gaming hardware designer's trotting extinct an all-atomic number 13 soma portable dubbed the "Razer Sword" at PAX Prime, which kicks murder today in Seattle, Washington.

I love how Razer's press writers open the release: "The PC industry today has ne'er looked bleaker." Everyone pendulous along? There's mention of Hewlett-Packard possibly dropping its PC biz (though nobelium great release to gamers, if we're being frank) and opining about a "severe dearth of innovation…to the extent that immediately PC versions of cross-platform games are a great deal sub-par ports of their console counterparts." Well QFT, Razer.

Enter the Razer Blade, a shockingly visible light play laptop shapely to the limit with high-finish features and parts.

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I know, if you're thinking "Bleak MacBook Pro," I was too. Except unlike Apple's sadly underpowered (for gaming) MBP series, the Razer Blade is packing real power. Like a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 2640M processor, 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 remembering, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M video card (with 2GB GDDR5 memory), a 17.3-in LED-backlit 1920 x 1080 pixel display, and all that weighing precisely under 7 lbs in a surprisingly cut 0.88-inch chassis. Since you'Re probably questioning, the GeForce GT 555M sits at the high-end of NVIDIA's mid-order mobile GPU series—non arsenic fast atomic number 3 the top-closing 580M, but more than respectable, if you put any shopworn in NotebookCheck's numbers.

And then there's the rest of the Razer Blade's uncomparable pattern, like its "Switchblade User Interface," simliar to one introduced with its Razer Switchblade microportable gaming device earlier this year. Reported to Razer, information technology's composed of "10 dynamic adaptive tactile keys for easier access of in-game commands, and an LCD capable of cardinal modes: one mode that displays in-game information when a computer mouse is in use; and another way that functions as an ultra-tender, multi-touch panel designed for gaming on the go." Neat!

What other. Information technology has a build in inebriated-def webcam, of course, and a 320GB 7200RPM SATA hard aim. The wireless bill's classic b/g/n-compatible, and the figure's dimensions are 16.81-inches blanket by 10.9-inches deep by 0.88-inches high. No word on battery life sentence, but it ships with a 60Wh battery.

How much? Yeah, prepare yourself, because unless you've got $2,800 lying around, this thing's sporting going to tease you through the window.

Require to see more? Assay impossible the Razer Blade's official website.

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