Razer Takes a bite out of Apple's Air

[beebskadoo]

Razer is a company known for its gaming peripherals and for its ‘cult of Razer’ Branding. It is slightly less well known as a manufacturer of tablets and pc’s. They tested the waters by teasing a new line of product called the switchblade which was a netbook sized ‘gaming’ pc in early 2011. That never actually hit the market but what did was Razer’s Blade notebook that hit shelves in early 2012 and was refreshed in late 2012. Well another refresh was just announced and I am thoroughly impressed. Packed with the latest gen Intel CPU’s and high end 700 series GPU’S from Nvidia it’s sure to be a great performer. That’s all fine and dandy, but why am I so impressed? Well it’s the fact that it’s thinner than Apples MacBook Air. I actually didn't think anything like this was achievable but Razer has engineered a special cooling system to keep the monster well ventilated, after all a laptop is useless if it scalds you when you use it on your lap. It’s 14’’ with a 1600X900 display and weighs 4.1 Lbs. As expected with a notebook this small the storage is completely flash based with the base storage set to be a 128GB Msata ssd which should make windows 8 even snappier.  The starting price comes at a premium $1,799 and it is set to be released later in Q2. Here are a full list of system specs taken from Razer, try not to drool too much.

 

Processor

 

    Future 4th gen Intel® Core™
    processor (formerly codename Haswell)

Memory

 

    8GB onboard memory
    (DDR3L-1600MHz)

 

Graphics and Video

 

    NVIDIA® GeForce®
    GTX 765M (2GB GDDR5
    VRAM, Optimus™ Technology)

Display

 

    14.0" HD+ 16:9 Ratio, 1600x900,
    with LED backlight

 

Storage

 

    256GB SATA III SSD

Power

 

    Compact 150W Power Adapter
    Built-in 70Wh rechargeable lithium-ion
    polymer battery

Communications

 

    Killer™ Wireless-N 1202

    (802.11a/b/g/n + Bluetooth® 4.0)

Size and Weight

 

    Width: 13.6” / 345mm
    Depth: 9.3" / 235mm
    Height: 0.66"/ 16.8mm
    Weight: 4.1 lbs / 1.88kg

Operating System

 

   Windows® 8 (64-Bit)

[beebskadoo]

Is anyone exited about this at all or is it just me?

[DLM_012]

When this becomes $1K or less, I'll be excited.