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click the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing

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and overview it's not a first look

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because I broke the seal already this is

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the Razor Edge gaming tablet what makes a tablet a gaming tablet well for one

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thing if a tablet's performance was measured by weight then the Razor Edge

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would defin itely be the highest performance tablet out there the other

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thing is if a tablet's performance was measured by performance then the Razor

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Edge would be the highest performance tablet out there so yes it is a gaming

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tablet what comes inside is pretty straightforward Razor's usual attention

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to detail with the packaging with their matte black whatnots and all that the

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first thing we find is a power brick so it's got a short AC cable right here

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quite short see only about one Linus ARM length long okay so that plugs into the

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wall wart which you'll notice doesn't look much like a tablet wall wart this

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looks like a notebook wall wart because this basically is a notebook in a tablet

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form factor it's got all the power you'd expect from a notebook so it needs all

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the power you'd expect to need to give a notebook now it has a much longer thin

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cable so that's the DC power cable that goes out to the tablet itself and

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terminates in a proprietary connector on a right angle I would have liked to see

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some kind of a connector that was nonproprietary in some way um I mean I

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guess I can kind of understand why Razer did this it gets it sort of out of the

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way while you're holding the device so next up inside here we've got just

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basically some documentation welcome to the cult of Razer and all that sort of

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good stuff that they usually include with their gear for gamers by Gamers why

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do we make these products because well no one else did so we thought we'd do it

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there's are some razor stickers as well as oh look a little cleaning cloth for

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your product that's all good stuff all right so that's pretty much it that

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comes with the tablet now this is the Razer Edge Pro which is the

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$1,500 version of the tablet and this is

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the but wait there's more moment because the $1,500 version of the tablet doesn't

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come with everything you need necessarily there's a couple of other

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accessories that razer's been shipping out to the press that really help you

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have the full experience so number one is The Edge docking

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station so the docking station is pretty straightforward you plug that same

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proprietary power connector into it you can plug headphones microphone so

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dedicated headphone and microphone jacks as opposed to the integrated one that's

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on the tablet itself you've got an HDMI port three USB port so it also acts as a

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USB hub uh the tablet itself only has one USB fre port and then

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finally the actual dock

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itself yeah right there so it sits just like that it's a little bit of an angle

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so you could sit and use it connected to the dock it's got some heft to it so I

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would actually trust my $1,500 tablet to not be dropped by it and it has one of

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the best rubberized sticky bottoms that I think I have ever encountered if I put

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this down on the table I couldn't move it pretty much no matter how hard I

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tried so oh my goodness it's like stuck look at this I can't even lift it oh

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there it goes detached now so it's an excellent rubberized grip I wish

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everything had Supple soft rubber like this on the bottom of it it's

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outstanding so there you go the D the dock is intended for people who are

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going to use the Razor Edge as something like a gaming console where you leave

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the dock next to your TV for example and then you plug in the edge whenever

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you're going to use it with a wireless controller say for example now not

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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

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build a media PC or I could um use a

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console or I could do any number of those other things that people do to play games on their TVs so that's where

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this one comes in this is the game controller accessory so it's got a

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welcome to the cult of razor piece of soft foam inside and the game controller

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itself so the game controller adds some functionality that you don't have with

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the tablet on its own for example it adds a game

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controller which I'm sure you didn't figure out based on the name of the

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device so let's go through and let's have a look at what buttons it adds so

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you've got two auxiliary auxiliary buttons here on the left and here on the

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right handles you've got a dad on the left with abxy buttons on the right so

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that's how you could play your your legacy game all right then you've got

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two analog sticks one on the left one on the right nice rubberized Tops on them

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that feel like they're should be quite durable then on the shoulders you've got

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three buttons each so two top buttons L1

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and L2 R1 and R2 and then two triggers

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so left trigger and right trigger you've

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also got an extended battery included in this unit that adds while in sort of a

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hardcore gaming scenario probably about 45 minutes of extra battery life and

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while not in a hardcore gaming scenario up to a few hours of extra battery life

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and then you've got an illuminated razor logo on the back you've got pass

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throughs for all of the important functionality on the top of the tablet

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so your keyboard um button your rotation

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lock your power button your volume rockers your headphone port and your

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usb3 Port ventilation ports here and

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you've got nice little rubber pieces here that are going to keep the tablet

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from getting scratched up as you insert it into the controller dock now it does

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add here I'm just going to put this in you can do it pretty quickly so you pop

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that in pop this in here and then lock it in from the bottom it does add a fair

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bit of heft to the tablet in fact with the whole setup configured I'm just

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going to get this box out of the way oops with the whole setup configured

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the total weight in pounds all right is

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about pounds 3 lb 11 o and I can't remember

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how many ounces there are in a pound but that sounds to me like about 3 and 3/4

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lb with the whole thing set up so it does get quite heavy and I it's not the

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kind of thing where you'd be sitting and gaming with it like this sort of like

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holding it up like this for an extended period of

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time so let's now that I've covered all the accessories which I sort of meant to

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do near the end let's talk about the Razor Edge itself so it's over 2 lb just

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with the tablet alone it's thick so if I pull out my HTC1 I can do my trademark

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size comparison here which don't worry about getting too close to cuz I'm going

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to do an overlay for this and you can see that this is not a thin tablet by

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any stretch of the imagination if you want a thin tablet you're going to want to be buying yourself something ARM

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based or something with an apple processor such as an iPad uh this is

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pretty much a PC it has a core i7 processor that's clocked at 1.9 GHz so

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this is the pro model and up to three gigahertz when using turbo boost which

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means you've got great performance but you compromise that thickness it's got

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an aluminum backing which feels really nice it feels really premium and it

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should help to dissipate some of the heat from the tablet itself particularly

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when you're gaming this side acts as an intake and this side acts as an exhaust

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so what I found was that while holding the device my right hand got significantly warmer where my left hand

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was actually cooled by the device which created a bit of a weird effect but I

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can understand why they did it this way because it makes the cooling extremely efficient they only have to have one

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channel for the air moving through the entire tablet see I wanted to call it a

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notebook there because the back of it really does look kind of like a notebook

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and Razer is going to have a keyboard accessory that you can get in the future

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as well so they've borrowed some styling from their uh from their blade which my

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my razor blade video actually got blocked by YouTube because I had the

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word switchblade in the description so I wasn't able to put ads on that for a

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long time but that's just a random vent not really about anything uh the build

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quality is outstanding it really does feel like a premium tablet so you can see here there's almost no flex to it

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whatsoever no matter what I do to it part of this is going to be a function

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of the glass top and aluminum back and part of it is going to be a function of

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the fact that it's just thicker but remember guys thickness does not

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necessarily make it well built whereas this one really does feel quite well

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built the front is completely plain pretty much exactly what you'd expect

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from a tablet these days 10in tablet wider than usual bezel which at first I

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kind of went oh that's kind of weird but then I understood why it's got to be a

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little bit thicker because of a couple things it's a thicker tablet so the the

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the grip you have when holding it is going to be maybe a little bit bigger

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and the other thing is if you're gaming on the device if you're meant to be sort

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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

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understood why they did that other than that in the front all you've got is a 2

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megapixel camera add that you can use for you know I don't know video calling

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or whatever else and a dedicated Windows

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button on the sides of the device you find nothing so there's completely plain

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right side complet completely plain left side on the bottom you find two speaker

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grills which actually worked surprisingly well I love the

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front-facing speakers on the HTC1 and I think everything should be front facing

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however if we can't have front facing then I'll settle for bottom facing

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because at least with bottom facing you don't cover them up when you hold the

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device by the side so many devices do this same thing with back facing a lot

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of the time you'll cover them up when you're holding it bottom facing I don't

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really see anyone using a tablet like this so should be fine not too worried

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about that then on the top is where we find all the serious business IO oh and

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I okay so I complained about the proprietary connector I do understand

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why they have it because it acts as a dock and an HDMI and a USB hub and all

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that stuff I just just don't necessarily like it that's all that's all I'm just

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throwing that out there um so we've got our power button our keyboard button

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which is awesome this was a lifesaver because the keyboard button just is like

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okay if you're using it as a gaming device how often do you end up needing a

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keyboard just to I don't know just get out of a menu or navigate something or

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whatever else because many games for Windows are not optimized for a just a

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purely touch device so it was really nice to have that dedicated keyboard

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button you've got a rotation lock volume rocker as well as a headphone microphone

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Jack and a single usb3

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port spec-wise like I said this is the pro so I mentioned the core i7 processor

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it's got 8 gigs of RAM a 256 gig SSD

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which means you've got enough space toess put a fair number of games on it

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and it has a GeForce gt640 Le that's

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what makes this tablet gaming grade as opposed to just another tablet that's

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using the Onboard video on the processor built into the ivybridge pro CPU so okay

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what does a 640m really mean in terms of a gaming experience I'm going to show

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you guys how quickly it boots up there you go you can uh you can thank the SSD

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for that so what does that mean in terms of oh it looks like uh oh that's kind of

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funny my sibling were playing games on this thing and apparently they left it

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in a game which is Handy for doing product demos there we go so let's reconnect

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that controller and we got some Dirt 3 going on here so what does that mean in

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terms of the gaming experience it's legitimately better it's way better than

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on board is it a GTX Titan no it's not a

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GTX Titan is it intended to be a GTX Titan no I mean this device actually

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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

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it actually do well it runs modern games with the exception of super super

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high-end games like Crisis 3 at acceptable frame rates at the native

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resolution so I've seen people complain about the 1366 X 768 display on the

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Razor Edge and my response to this is well what else were they supposed to do

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it's not like they could put a Titan in here and I would rather have a lower

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resolution screen than deal with dithering so if this had a 1080p screen

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what you'd run into is you would have it downscaling in order to run it

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resolutions that the onboard GPU could handle so you'd actually have to have

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did I say did the ring I think I meant interpolation one way or another they're

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bad things and you don't want to do either of those things pretty yeah interpolation sorry my bad um it's an

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IPS display so while it wasn't the most vibrant IPS display I've ever seen there

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wasn't really any detectable motion blur or ghosting as it's colloquially

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referred to so it delivered a very acceptable gaming experience so we've

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got Dirt 3 going here and this highlights sort of what I meant before when I said the lack of a physical

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keyboard hampers the gaming experience somewhat because how do I Alt Enter I

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don't know how to full screen a program without Alt Enter I rely on my keyboard

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a lot in a Windows environment and it's not the Edge's fault it's just the way

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Windows Works they expect you to control C control V so now that the game isn't

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in full screen if the game itself doesn't have an option to go to full

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screen then you're just kind of boned because you've got control you got I

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don't know where's like can you shift where's shift tab because shift goes

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away when you go into the number pad here so how do you get rid of something

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like a steam overlay um it can be a little bit frustrating but once you get

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past the the issues that are present so

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we're going to continue our race here whoops I'm going backwards there we go

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the gaming experience is actually really cool so I hope you can get in close

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enough that you can see this I did turn the screen resolution up so this is Dirt

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3 which may not be the most hardcore title by any stretch of the

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imagination but it is a totally

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acceptable gaming experience on modern title that looks absolutely fantastic

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which isn't going to prevent someone like me from crashing the car

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necessarily so I'm going to go ahead and pause that and we'll move

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into what's what's it what's it what's it like overall using this thing so I

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was playing around with it for a couple days again so more difficulty with

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things like an SNES emulator that runs in like Doss mode uh so it was difficult

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to navigate through it with touchcreen things like that but if you use Steam

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Big Picture which I found to be not that bad of of an experience I wish that

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Steam Big Picture was a little bit more touch optimized but we know how Gabe new

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feels about Windows 8 and all that noise I wish he'd kind of get over that and

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and help us with the gaming experience as opposed to sit and be upset about it

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um but with big picture it was a little bit better it did make navigation a

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little bit easier there are ways to add here we go so I'll just click this

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button there are ways to add your Steam games as tiles so there's a couple of

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different apps that do that in the Windows 8 store and it was pretty it was

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pretty darn cool the things to look out for is some USB devices won't work with

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the game controller on because of the depth of the connector however I only

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had one in the house that had that issue but check this out even though it adds

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some uh some bulk to the key H to the

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keyboard uh to the headphone microphone Jack I was able to plug in right angle

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headphones without the the mic not working or the headphones not working or

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whatever else like that so what does all this mean I

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guess Graphics you can actually play PC games on in a tablet uh Power that is

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really more equivalent to something like a low-end to mid-range gaming notebook

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in a form factor that is phenomenally impressive looks

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beautiful is different from anything else that's out there but at a price

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where really um you got to pay to play

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it's not cheap if you want this unique device that is able to game in a tablet

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like form factor if you're willing to accept the hour and change of battery life that

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comes with it when it's actually running games and the sort of you know three to

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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

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experience that is unlike anything else thank you for checking out this unboxing

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