1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,640 for a limited time only buy an Intel Core I5 or core i7 CPU and get a free 2 00:00:04,759 --> 00:00:10,679 3-month subscription to iracing.com available from participating retailers 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:16,960 click the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing 4 00:00:13,799 --> 00:00:20,240 and overview it's not a first look 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:23,000 because I broke the seal already this is 6 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:27,880 the Razor Edge gaming tablet what makes a tablet a gaming tablet well for one 7 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,960 thing if a tablet's performance was measured by weight then the Razor Edge 8 00:00:29,599 --> 00:00:34,399 would defin itely be the highest performance tablet out there the other 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:39,200 thing is if a tablet's performance was measured by performance then the Razor 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:44,480 Edge would be the highest performance tablet out there so yes it is a gaming 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:47,800 tablet what comes inside is pretty straightforward Razor's usual attention 12 00:00:46,239 --> 00:00:52,920 to detail with the packaging with their matte black whatnots and all that the 13 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:59,199 first thing we find is a power brick so it's got a short AC cable right here 14 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:03,920 quite short see only about one Linus ARM length long okay so that plugs into the 15 00:01:01,559 --> 00:01:08,240 wall wart which you'll notice doesn't look much like a tablet wall wart this 16 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:14,320 looks like a notebook wall wart because this basically is a notebook in a tablet 17 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,240 form factor it's got all the power you'd expect from a notebook so it needs all 18 00:01:15,759 --> 00:01:21,840 the power you'd expect to need to give a notebook now it has a much longer thin 19 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:26,320 cable so that's the DC power cable that goes out to the tablet itself and 20 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:29,960 terminates in a proprietary connector on a right angle I would have liked to see 21 00:01:28,079 --> 00:01:34,159 some kind of a connector that was nonproprietary in some way um I mean I 22 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,520 guess I can kind of understand why Razer did this it gets it sort of out of the 23 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,960 way while you're holding the device so next up inside here we've got just 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:44,920 basically some documentation welcome to the cult of Razer and all that sort of 25 00:01:43,399 --> 00:01:49,560 good stuff that they usually include with their gear for gamers by Gamers why 26 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:54,200 do we make these products because well no one else did so we thought we'd do it 27 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:57,520 there's are some razor stickers as well as oh look a little cleaning cloth for 28 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:00,680 your product that's all good stuff all right so that's pretty much it that 29 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:05,920 comes with the tablet now this is the Razer Edge Pro which is the 30 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,799 $1,500 version of the tablet and this is 31 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:12,120 the but wait there's more moment because the $1,500 version of the tablet doesn't 32 00:02:10,399 --> 00:02:15,680 come with everything you need necessarily there's a couple of other 33 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,400 accessories that razer's been shipping out to the press that really help you 34 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:23,800 have the full experience so number one is The Edge docking 35 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:27,680 station so the docking station is pretty straightforward you plug that same 36 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:32,400 proprietary power connector into it you can plug headphones microphone so 37 00:02:30,519 --> 00:02:36,280 dedicated headphone and microphone jacks as opposed to the integrated one that's 38 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:41,680 on the tablet itself you've got an HDMI port three USB port so it also acts as a 39 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:48,640 USB hub uh the tablet itself only has one USB fre port and then 40 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:51,400 finally the actual dock 41 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:54,400 itself yeah right there so it sits just like that it's a little bit of an angle 42 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:58,879 so you could sit and use it connected to the dock it's got some heft to it so I 43 00:02:55,959 --> 00:03:03,879 would actually trust my $1,500 tablet to not be dropped by it and it has one of 44 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:08,560 the best rubberized sticky bottoms that I think I have ever encountered if I put 45 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:12,200 this down on the table I couldn't move it pretty much no matter how hard I 46 00:03:14,239 --> 00:03:21,480 tried so oh my goodness it's like stuck look at this I can't even lift it oh 47 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:25,840 there it goes detached now so it's an excellent rubberized grip I wish 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,799 everything had Supple soft rubber like this on the bottom of it it's 49 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:32,319 outstanding so there you go the D the dock is intended for people who are 50 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:36,680 going to use the Razor Edge as something like a gaming console where you leave 51 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,959 the dock next to your TV for example and then you plug in the edge whenever 52 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:43,319 you're going to use it with a wireless controller say for example now not 53 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:49,200 everyone's going to use it like that a lot of people are going to go well if I wanted to play games on my TV I could 54 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,640 build a media PC or I could um use a 55 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:57,120 console or I could do any number of those other things that people do to play games on their TVs so that's where 56 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:01,360 this one comes in this is the game controller accessory so it's got a 57 00:03:58,799 --> 00:04:06,680 welcome to the cult of razor piece of soft foam inside and the game controller 58 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:10,000 itself so the game controller adds some functionality that you don't have with 59 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:13,439 the tablet on its own for example it adds a game 60 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,120 controller which I'm sure you didn't figure out based on the name of the 61 00:04:14,799 --> 00:04:20,199 device so let's go through and let's have a look at what buttons it adds so 62 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:24,320 you've got two auxiliary auxiliary buttons here on the left and here on the 63 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:28,880 right handles you've got a dad on the left with abxy buttons on the right so 64 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:33,479 that's how you could play your your legacy game all right then you've got 65 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:37,199 two analog sticks one on the left one on the right nice rubberized Tops on them 66 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:44,039 that feel like they're should be quite durable then on the shoulders you've got 67 00:04:40,479 --> 00:04:47,840 three buttons each so two top buttons L1 68 00:04:44,039 --> 00:04:50,880 and L2 R1 and R2 and then two triggers 69 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:52,960 so left trigger and right trigger you've 70 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:57,000 also got an extended battery included in this unit that adds while in sort of a 71 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:01,360 hardcore gaming scenario probably about 45 minutes of extra battery life and 72 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:05,960 while not in a hardcore gaming scenario up to a few hours of extra battery life 73 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:09,400 and then you've got an illuminated razor logo on the back you've got pass 74 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:15,039 throughs for all of the important functionality on the top of the tablet 75 00:05:11,039 --> 00:05:16,479 so your keyboard um button your rotation 76 00:05:15,039 --> 00:05:21,560 lock your power button your volume rockers your headphone port and your 77 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:23,960 usb3 Port ventilation ports here and 78 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:27,319 you've got nice little rubber pieces here that are going to keep the tablet 79 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:31,680 from getting scratched up as you insert it into the controller dock now it does 80 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:36,080 add here I'm just going to put this in you can do it pretty quickly so you pop 81 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:40,360 that in pop this in here and then lock it in from the bottom it does add a fair 82 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:44,639 bit of heft to the tablet in fact with the whole setup configured I'm just 83 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:51,759 going to get this box out of the way oops with the whole setup configured 84 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:54,479 the total weight in pounds all right is 85 00:05:51,759 --> 00:06:00,039 about pounds 3 lb 11 o and I can't remember 86 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:05,039 how many ounces there are in a pound but that sounds to me like about 3 and 3/4 87 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:10,199 lb with the whole thing set up so it does get quite heavy and I it's not the 88 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:15,560 kind of thing where you'd be sitting and gaming with it like this sort of like 89 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:19,560 holding it up like this for an extended period of 90 00:06:16,759 --> 00:06:23,199 time so let's now that I've covered all the accessories which I sort of meant to 91 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:28,759 do near the end let's talk about the Razor Edge itself so it's over 2 lb just 92 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:33,280 with the tablet alone it's thick so if I pull out my HTC1 I can do my trademark 93 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:36,400 size comparison here which don't worry about getting too close to cuz I'm going 94 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:40,000 to do an overlay for this and you can see that this is not a thin tablet by 95 00:06:38,639 --> 00:06:44,840 any stretch of the imagination if you want a thin tablet you're going to want to be buying yourself something ARM 96 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:50,840 based or something with an apple processor such as an iPad uh this is 97 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:55,520 pretty much a PC it has a core i7 processor that's clocked at 1.9 GHz so 98 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:59,879 this is the pro model and up to three gigahertz when using turbo boost which 99 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:04,000 means you've got great performance but you compromise that thickness it's got 100 00:07:01,919 --> 00:07:07,759 an aluminum backing which feels really nice it feels really premium and it 101 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:12,280 should help to dissipate some of the heat from the tablet itself particularly 102 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:16,520 when you're gaming this side acts as an intake and this side acts as an exhaust 103 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:21,639 so what I found was that while holding the device my right hand got significantly warmer where my left hand 104 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,080 was actually cooled by the device which created a bit of a weird effect but I 105 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:30,360 can understand why they did it this way because it makes the cooling extremely efficient they only have to have one 106 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:33,360 channel for the air moving through the entire tablet see I wanted to call it a 107 00:07:31,919 --> 00:07:37,440 notebook there because the back of it really does look kind of like a notebook 108 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:41,520 and Razer is going to have a keyboard accessory that you can get in the future 109 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:46,560 as well so they've borrowed some styling from their uh from their blade which my 110 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:49,879 my razor blade video actually got blocked by YouTube because I had the 111 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:53,520 word switchblade in the description so I wasn't able to put ads on that for a 112 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,680 long time but that's just a random vent not really about anything uh the build 113 00:07:55,319 --> 00:08:02,400 quality is outstanding it really does feel like a premium tablet so you can see here there's almost no flex to it 114 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:05,560 whatsoever no matter what I do to it part of this is going to be a function 115 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:08,599 of the glass top and aluminum back and part of it is going to be a function of 116 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:12,440 the fact that it's just thicker but remember guys thickness does not 117 00:08:10,159 --> 00:08:16,319 necessarily make it well built whereas this one really does feel quite well 118 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:20,400 built the front is completely plain pretty much exactly what you'd expect 119 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:25,520 from a tablet these days 10in tablet wider than usual bezel which at first I 120 00:08:23,599 --> 00:08:28,759 kind of went oh that's kind of weird but then I understood why it's got to be a 121 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:32,560 little bit thicker because of a couple things it's a thicker tablet so the the 122 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,959 the grip you have when holding it is going to be maybe a little bit bigger 123 00:08:34,279 --> 00:08:38,800 and the other thing is if you're gaming on the device if you're meant to be sort 124 00:08:37,479 --> 00:08:44,560 of holding it like this it's not necessarily a bad thing to have a bit of a wider bezel so I again I so I 125 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:48,160 understood why they did that other than that in the front all you've got is a 2 126 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:53,000 megapixel camera add that you can use for you know I don't know video calling 127 00:08:49,959 --> 00:08:55,360 or whatever else and a dedicated Windows 128 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:00,040 button on the sides of the device you find nothing so there's completely plain 129 00:08:57,959 --> 00:09:03,320 right side complet completely plain left side on the bottom you find two speaker 130 00:09:02,079 --> 00:09:07,959 grills which actually worked surprisingly well I love the 131 00:09:05,079 --> 00:09:11,560 front-facing speakers on the HTC1 and I think everything should be front facing 132 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:15,000 however if we can't have front facing then I'll settle for bottom facing 133 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,640 because at least with bottom facing you don't cover them up when you hold the 134 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,680 device by the side so many devices do this same thing with back facing a lot 135 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:25,560 of the time you'll cover them up when you're holding it bottom facing I don't 136 00:09:23,959 --> 00:09:29,880 really see anyone using a tablet like this so should be fine not too worried 137 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:34,240 about that then on the top is where we find all the serious business IO oh and 138 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:37,720 I okay so I complained about the proprietary connector I do understand 139 00:09:35,839 --> 00:09:42,160 why they have it because it acts as a dock and an HDMI and a USB hub and all 140 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:45,320 that stuff I just just don't necessarily like it that's all that's all I'm just 141 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:50,519 throwing that out there um so we've got our power button our keyboard button 142 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:55,959 which is awesome this was a lifesaver because the keyboard button just is like 143 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:00,279 okay if you're using it as a gaming device how often do you end up needing a 144 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:03,560 keyboard just to I don't know just get out of a menu or navigate something or 145 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:07,920 whatever else because many games for Windows are not optimized for a just a 146 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:11,959 purely touch device so it was really nice to have that dedicated keyboard 147 00:10:09,399 --> 00:10:18,399 button you've got a rotation lock volume rocker as well as a headphone microphone 148 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:21,240 Jack and a single usb3 149 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:27,040 port spec-wise like I said this is the pro so I mentioned the core i7 processor 150 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:28,680 it's got 8 gigs of RAM a 256 gig SSD 151 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:34,160 which means you've got enough space toess put a fair number of games on it 152 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:36,639 and it has a GeForce gt640 Le that's 153 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:41,120 what makes this tablet gaming grade as opposed to just another tablet that's 154 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:47,360 using the Onboard video on the processor built into the ivybridge pro CPU so okay 155 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,880 what does a 640m really mean in terms of a gaming experience I'm going to show 156 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:54,760 you guys how quickly it boots up there you go you can uh you can thank the SSD 157 00:10:52,680 --> 00:11:00,120 for that so what does that mean in terms of oh it looks like uh oh that's kind of 158 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:02,560 funny my sibling were playing games on this thing and apparently they left it 159 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:07,600 in a game which is Handy for doing product demos there we go so let's reconnect 160 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:10,720 that controller and we got some Dirt 3 going on here so what does that mean in 161 00:11:09,079 --> 00:11:17,040 terms of the gaming experience it's legitimately better it's way better than 162 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:19,600 on board is it a GTX Titan no it's not a 163 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:22,800 GTX Titan is it intended to be a GTX Titan no I mean this device actually 164 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:29,800 doesn't cost that much more than a Titan for the whole thing okay it does cost more but not that much more so what does 165 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:33,839 it actually do well it runs modern games with the exception of super super 166 00:11:31,839 --> 00:11:38,079 high-end games like Crisis 3 at acceptable frame rates at the native 167 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:43,560 resolution so I've seen people complain about the 1366 X 768 display on the 168 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,720 Razor Edge and my response to this is well what else were they supposed to do 169 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:51,200 it's not like they could put a Titan in here and I would rather have a lower 170 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:56,399 resolution screen than deal with dithering so if this had a 1080p screen 171 00:11:54,160 --> 00:12:00,360 what you'd run into is you would have it downscaling in order to run it 172 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:04,160 resolutions that the onboard GPU could handle so you'd actually have to have 173 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:07,920 did I say did the ring I think I meant interpolation one way or another they're 174 00:12:06,639 --> 00:12:13,880 bad things and you don't want to do either of those things pretty yeah interpolation sorry my bad um it's an 175 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:17,880 IPS display so while it wasn't the most vibrant IPS display I've ever seen there 176 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:22,240 wasn't really any detectable motion blur or ghosting as it's colloquially 177 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:25,120 referred to so it delivered a very acceptable gaming experience so we've 178 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:30,079 got Dirt 3 going here and this highlights sort of what I meant before when I said the lack of a physical 179 00:12:28,079 --> 00:12:33,639 keyboard hampers the gaming experience somewhat because how do I Alt Enter I 180 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:37,639 don't know how to full screen a program without Alt Enter I rely on my keyboard 181 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:41,880 a lot in a Windows environment and it's not the Edge's fault it's just the way 182 00:12:39,519 --> 00:12:47,000 Windows Works they expect you to control C control V so now that the game isn't 183 00:12:45,199 --> 00:12:50,519 in full screen if the game itself doesn't have an option to go to full 184 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:54,639 screen then you're just kind of boned because you've got control you got I 185 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:58,440 don't know where's like can you shift where's shift tab because shift goes 186 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:02,240 away when you go into the number pad here so how do you get rid of something 187 00:12:59,839 --> 00:13:07,600 like a steam overlay um it can be a little bit frustrating but once you get 188 00:13:04,279 --> 00:13:10,199 past the the issues that are present so 189 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:14,399 we're going to continue our race here whoops I'm going backwards there we go 190 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:18,040 the gaming experience is actually really cool so I hope you can get in close 191 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:21,800 enough that you can see this I did turn the screen resolution up so this is Dirt 192 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:26,760 3 which may not be the most hardcore title by any stretch of the 193 00:13:23,639 --> 00:13:29,199 imagination but it is a totally 194 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:32,680 acceptable gaming experience on modern title that looks absolutely fantastic 195 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:36,160 which isn't going to prevent someone like me from crashing the car 196 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:41,320 necessarily so I'm going to go ahead and pause that and we'll move 197 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:44,480 into what's what's it what's it what's it like overall using this thing so I 198 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,680 was playing around with it for a couple days again so more difficulty with 199 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,839 things like an SNES emulator that runs in like Doss mode uh so it was difficult 200 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:57,920 to navigate through it with touchcreen things like that but if you use Steam 201 00:13:55,560 --> 00:14:01,440 Big Picture which I found to be not that bad of of an experience I wish that 202 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:05,519 Steam Big Picture was a little bit more touch optimized but we know how Gabe new 203 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:09,160 feels about Windows 8 and all that noise I wish he'd kind of get over that and 204 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:13,880 and help us with the gaming experience as opposed to sit and be upset about it 205 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:17,839 um but with big picture it was a little bit better it did make navigation a 206 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:21,079 little bit easier there are ways to add here we go so I'll just click this 207 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,959 button there are ways to add your Steam games as tiles so there's a couple of 208 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:29,480 different apps that do that in the Windows 8 store and it was pretty it was 209 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:33,279 pretty darn cool the things to look out for is some USB devices won't work with 210 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:37,399 the game controller on because of the depth of the connector however I only 211 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:44,199 had one in the house that had that issue but check this out even though it adds 212 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:46,680 some uh some bulk to the key H to the 213 00:14:44,199 --> 00:14:50,560 keyboard uh to the headphone microphone Jack I was able to plug in right angle 214 00:14:48,839 --> 00:14:54,600 headphones without the the mic not working or the headphones not working or 215 00:14:51,959 --> 00:14:58,880 whatever else like that so what does all this mean I 216 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:04,120 guess Graphics you can actually play PC games on in a tablet uh Power that is 217 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:09,240 really more equivalent to something like a low-end to mid-range gaming notebook 218 00:15:06,759 --> 00:15:12,560 in a form factor that is phenomenally impressive looks 219 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:22,160 beautiful is different from anything else that's out there but at a price 220 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:24,560 where really um you got to pay to play 221 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:28,279 it's not cheap if you want this unique device that is able to game in a tablet 222 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:33,079 like form factor if you're willing to accept the hour and change of battery life that 223 00:15:31,079 --> 00:15:37,959 comes with it when it's actually running games and the sort of you know three to 224 00:15:36,839 --> 00:15:43,720 three and 1 half hours that you're going to get out of it when you're not running games it is a completely unique 225 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:47,399 experience that is unlike anything else thank you for checking out this unboxing 226 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:51,720 and overview of the Razor Edge don't forget to subscribe for lus Tech tips 227 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:54,720 for unboxings reviews and other computer videos