Or basically, another attempt at a gaming tablet. Razer’s latest attempt at another gaming device has spawned a Windows 8 powered tablet with buttons. Designed solely for PC gaming, the device simply looks like a tablet with two PlayStation Move controllers attached to it.
With a dinky 10.1 inch 1280×800 display, and an estimated price tag of $1,000, you may need some very good reasons to justify the purchase.
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The idea itself it somewhat sound and innovative, but the price and battery life is what really turns the majority away. With that said, it is cool to see a tablet with a Ivy Bridge Core i7 processor under the hood.
If it’s a full desktop processor the battery will last like five minutes. Most likely they’ll use the upcoming i7 ULV. The problem is it’s going to suck for gaming. The price means they won’t add a dedicated GPU, most of the cost will go into the design and Razer tax.
The price is around 1000 bucks I beleive one exectuive said, so im sure there will be a pretty decent GPU inside.
Here is it running Space Marine one what looks like Max settings
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The price was mentioned in the article above, but have you seen the price of Windows slates? They’re well over $1000 and that’s without the Razer tax. It’s a small tablet with a low res. They’re not going to be able to put a powerful dedicated solution if they even do put one in. If Razer isn’t beyond stupid they’ll want the battery to last a few hours and not overheat prior to that. And with any prototype you see at CES you need to take a “I’ll believe it when I see it” approach. I think as a general purpose Windows tablet with real PC hardware at that price they could make it competitive. As a “gaming” tablet. It has no real chance.
you can get a laptop with pretty good laptop hardware (that can definitely push space marines max on 1280×800) for $1000 so you can definitely design and build a tablet for cheaper than this.
$1000 laptop
15″ screen
i7 quad core or high end i5 dual core for cpu
GTX 560m or 6770m for gpu
4-6 gb of ram
only problem is the battery life, weight, and size… and probably cooling/ventilation cause those gpus get pretty hot…
pretty sure you can push it on a dual core with higher clock… for lower power consumption…
wielding around a 3-4 lb tablet might get tiring though lol
the current windows tablets run pretty decently. they run low/medium end hardware and die after like 4 hours on normal use lol don’t think any of them have a dedicated graphic card though…
if my 14″ lenovo can run on a 6 cell battery for 2 and half hours gaming on the dedicated graphic card… pretty a tablet can do it longer on the same battery… and will weight less too…
And how exactly do you think they’re going to put a 6 cell battery in a tablet? There won’t be a dedicated card simply due to the form factor. Lenovo doesn’t have it’s head up it’s ass and believe that their brand names means they can add cost to an item (hence Razer Tax). It’ll probably only have a gig or two of RAM, but the ram used for tablets is much more expensive due to it’s size (the smaller parts get the more they cost to produce). If Razer isn’t totally insane they’ll use the ULV i7 which won’t perform anywhere close to it’s desktop counterpart.
Even ignoring that who the hell wants to spend $1000 to play games at the lowest possible settings?
They could fit cells inside the controllers on the sides, either way its looking more and more attractive with what it can do, this is still a prototype btw.
Here is it running skyrim on ultra so its pretty awesome imo if they can nail price, battery life, and performance
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Yeah I read an article from DToid earlier talking about them going hands-on with it. It peforms a lot better than I thought, but Skyrim on Ultra was only pushing 15-20 FPS so nothing to get too excited about there. The article brought up my point of battery life though. According to the article Razer is using a full desktop processor. The GMA3000 series can’t push games to that level so they’re probably running a dedicated chip with it and it has to be at least 2GB of RAM. So spec wise it is great for $1000, BUT if I’m right about the specs battery life will still be dismal. I’m guessing maybe 1-2 hours of gaming from a full charge. Though that’s based on Win7 power usage, Win8 might be better on battery life so we’ll have to see. I’m a lot more interested in it as a concept device now, I just still don’t think there is any real consumer market for it.
With all that I’ve read and seen, I believe it comes down to two things: Price and consumer market. With the price of $1,000 I don’t think many will want to make that kind of investment on a tablet, whether it is for gaming or not. Also, aside from playing games like Angry Birds and such, I don’t see much of a market for gaming on a tablet (although I may be wrong).
Also, and this is minor, I wonder if it will be possible to take the controllers off. Since it is a tablet after all, I can see the controllers being tedious and getting in the way if you want to use just the touch screen when utilizing the tablet for basic applications.