Razer Unveils 'Switchblade' Concept Portable Gaming PC With Dynamic Keyboard

Dayum. If you can play quake on that thing you can play anything.

wow they are pushing the boundaries to re-invent pc gaming and blow you away with their expertise!

It's a cool idea I suppose, but it's made by Razer...the quality of their products isn't exactly top-notch.

DOTA type games on the go FTW PLEASE ON MY FACE

what about those of us who like to reconfigure the default controls?

Sweet, I had this idea 10 years ago. Keyboard with LCDs on keys so that when you press Ctrl, C turns into Copy, V into Paste, etc.

Let's see how it'll work out.

someone needs to autotune this guy.. even though i hate those videos and they are annoying as shit.. it still would be funny

Man that guy is really fucking serious.

At first glance this looked like a joke, but the reconfiguring keyboard is awesome and would be great for a n RPG -- especially a sci-fi one.

BUT, it better support a real mouse for input. The touch screen would be awesome for some aspects of a game, but having to hold one's hand up and in front of the screen for any game that requires constant and quick pointing -- so a FPS to state the obvious -- is not ideal. It would lead to fatigue and be an obstruction to one's view.

Anyways, if this thing is well under $500, i'm sold!

Looks meh, I'd rather buy a Pandora.

This would be awesome... if it was not mounted on an atom pc, because that sucks for gaming.

If it was mounter on a normal pc, and managed to keep the battery consumption low, and the response time too, this can be the keyboard of the future

This looks pretty neat, but the keyboard looks too similar to the Optimus Maximus keyboard, which was prohibitively expensive:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/9836/

Still, neat concept.

id buy it if it was 300$ and can run crysis... im going to guess its 700-1000$
wait...INTEL ATOM????? i guess wow might be the highest quality game it will run

Yeah, but they didn't solve the Mouse problem in the Mouse and keyboard equation. Which is, arguably, the biggest problem that plagues PC games. You gotta have this seperate offhand device which is prone to running out of batteries, or slipping off the tiny tray table on the friggin plane.

But how does one make a peripheral that feels just like a mouse, without that pesky cord/seperation from the device problem. If that thing slid out the side of this device, I'd buy it in a second.

I want one that's twice s big and includes a hideaway mouse (as well as not atom based).

hey alice, the link to "SWITCHBLADE" is broken.

So... where exactly does this fit? I know it's cool, but other then that, how is it better then a net-top or just a laptop? Devices with a ill thought out purpose or role seem rather pointless.

If you want something more for games you could just get a psp or a DS too...

didn't that asian guy crack you up?

his voice so did not match his face

This is a curious product.
First off, it's essentially a Netbook with more power and half of an Optimus Keyboard.
I also think 7" would be too small for most of the gaming I'd want to do on it. I have a 15" Macbook Pro and it's almost too small to use.
Secondly, what about hardware upgrades? If this is marketed toward gamers, most of them want to upgrade over time. Can I swap parts out?
I'd think that this is cost prohibitive for a long term solution for gaming.

Lastly, Razer can eat a dick. I splurged on a Razer Mamba and the damned thing broke on it's own (with ZERO force from me) and they essentially refused to warranty it because I had no receipt, despite the fact I registered it the day I bought it.
It took over two months of hassling them before they replaced it.
So I have very little hopes of the build quality of this.

Still, interesting concept.

for what this thing will probably retail for one could just go and pick up an Alienware M11x which is essentially a full featured PC in an 11 inch screen form factor

http://tinyurl.com/22o2fuk

no ESDF key layout?

You gotta have the pinky for something with pc gaming instead of hanging of the side.

I was not sure if it was a parody video or not with the way that first guy presents.

This would be THE must have gadget for me. It would truly make me feel like a kid again waiting for that next big thing.

Looks pretty cool, I'll need to use it personally before I write it off. I expect ~$1,000 price tag though.

I think it's a great idea. So I can download my own templates for a game and customize them myself. What kind of hardware will it run? Will they go with a mobile GPU or something like NVidia's ION. Intel Atom isn't enough to play some of the newer games, not to mention Intel has shoddy drivers.