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and overview it's not a first look
because I broke the seal already this is
the Razor Edge gaming tablet what makes a tablet a gaming tablet well for one
thing if a tablet's performance was measured by weight then the Razor Edge
would defin itely be the highest performance tablet out there the other
thing is if a tablet's performance was measured by performance then the Razor
Edge would be the highest performance tablet out there so yes it is a gaming
tablet what comes inside is pretty straightforward Razor's usual attention
to detail with the packaging with their matte black whatnots and all that the
first thing we find is a power brick so it's got a short AC cable right here
quite short see only about one Linus ARM length long okay so that plugs into the
wall wart which you'll notice doesn't look much like a tablet wall wart this
looks like a notebook wall wart because this basically is a notebook in a tablet
form factor it's got all the power you'd expect from a notebook so it needs all
the power you'd expect to need to give a notebook now it has a much longer thin
cable so that's the DC power cable that goes out to the tablet itself and
terminates in a proprietary connector on a right angle I would have liked to see
some kind of a connector that was nonproprietary in some way um I mean I
guess I can kind of understand why Razer did this it gets it sort of out of the
way while you're holding the device so next up inside here we've got just
basically some documentation welcome to the cult of Razer and all that sort of
good stuff that they usually include with their gear for gamers by Gamers why
do we make these products because well no one else did so we thought we'd do it
there's are some razor stickers as well as oh look a little cleaning cloth for
your product that's all good stuff all right so that's pretty much it that
comes with the tablet now this is the Razer Edge Pro which is the
$1,500 version of the tablet and this is
the but wait there's more moment because the $1,500 version of the tablet doesn't
come with everything you need necessarily there's a couple of other
accessories that razer's been shipping out to the press that really help you
have the full experience so number one is The Edge docking
station so the docking station is pretty straightforward you plug that same
proprietary power connector into it you can plug headphones microphone so
dedicated headphone and microphone jacks as opposed to the integrated one that's
on the tablet itself you've got an HDMI port three USB port so it also acts as a
USB hub uh the tablet itself only has one USB fre port and then
finally the actual dock
itself yeah right there so it sits just like that it's a little bit of an angle
so you could sit and use it connected to the dock it's got some heft to it so I
would actually trust my $1,500 tablet to not be dropped by it and it has one of
the best rubberized sticky bottoms that I think I have ever encountered if I put
this down on the table I couldn't move it pretty much no matter how hard I
tried so oh my goodness it's like stuck look at this I can't even lift it oh
there it goes detached now so it's an excellent rubberized grip I wish
everything had Supple soft rubber like this on the bottom of it it's
outstanding so there you go the D the dock is intended for people who are
going to use the Razor Edge as something like a gaming console where you leave
the dock next to your TV for example and then you plug in the edge whenever
you're going to use it with a wireless controller say for example now not
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
build a media PC or I could um use a
console or I could do any number of those other things that people do to play games on their TVs so that's where
this one comes in this is the game controller accessory so it's got a
welcome to the cult of razor piece of soft foam inside and the game controller
itself so the game controller adds some functionality that you don't have with
the tablet on its own for example it adds a game
controller which I'm sure you didn't figure out based on the name of the
device so let's go through and let's have a look at what buttons it adds so
you've got two auxiliary auxiliary buttons here on the left and here on the
right handles you've got a dad on the left with abxy buttons on the right so
that's how you could play your your legacy game all right then you've got
two analog sticks one on the left one on the right nice rubberized Tops on them
that feel like they're should be quite durable then on the shoulders you've got
three buttons each so two top buttons L1
and L2 R1 and R2 and then two triggers
so left trigger and right trigger you've
also got an extended battery included in this unit that adds while in sort of a
hardcore gaming scenario probably about 45 minutes of extra battery life and
while not in a hardcore gaming scenario up to a few hours of extra battery life
and then you've got an illuminated razor logo on the back you've got pass
throughs for all of the important functionality on the top of the tablet
so your keyboard um button your rotation
lock your power button your volume rockers your headphone port and your
usb3 Port ventilation ports here and
you've got nice little rubber pieces here that are going to keep the tablet
from getting scratched up as you insert it into the controller dock now it does
add here I'm just going to put this in you can do it pretty quickly so you pop
that in pop this in here and then lock it in from the bottom it does add a fair
bit of heft to the tablet in fact with the whole setup configured I'm just
going to get this box out of the way oops with the whole setup configured
the total weight in pounds all right is
about pounds 3 lb 11 o and I can't remember
how many ounces there are in a pound but that sounds to me like about 3 and 3/4
lb with the whole thing set up so it does get quite heavy and I it's not the
kind of thing where you'd be sitting and gaming with it like this sort of like
holding it up like this for an extended period of
time so let's now that I've covered all the accessories which I sort of meant to
do near the end let's talk about the Razor Edge itself so it's over 2 lb just
with the tablet alone it's thick so if I pull out my HTC1 I can do my trademark
size comparison here which don't worry about getting too close to cuz I'm going
to do an overlay for this and you can see that this is not a thin tablet by
any stretch of the imagination if you want a thin tablet you're going to want to be buying yourself something ARM
based or something with an apple processor such as an iPad uh this is
pretty much a PC it has a core i7 processor that's clocked at 1.9 GHz so
this is the pro model and up to three gigahertz when using turbo boost which
means you've got great performance but you compromise that thickness it's got
an aluminum backing which feels really nice it feels really premium and it
should help to dissipate some of the heat from the tablet itself particularly
when you're gaming this side acts as an intake and this side acts as an exhaust
so what I found was that while holding the device my right hand got significantly warmer where my left hand
was actually cooled by the device which created a bit of a weird effect but I
can understand why they did it this way because it makes the cooling extremely efficient they only have to have one
channel for the air moving through the entire tablet see I wanted to call it a
notebook there because the back of it really does look kind of like a notebook
and Razer is going to have a keyboard accessory that you can get in the future
as well so they've borrowed some styling from their uh from their blade which my
my razor blade video actually got blocked by YouTube because I had the
word switchblade in the description so I wasn't able to put ads on that for a
long time but that's just a random vent not really about anything uh the build
quality is outstanding it really does feel like a premium tablet so you can see here there's almost no flex to it
whatsoever no matter what I do to it part of this is going to be a function
of the glass top and aluminum back and part of it is going to be a function of
the fact that it's just thicker but remember guys thickness does not
necessarily make it well built whereas this one really does feel quite well
built the front is completely plain pretty much exactly what you'd expect
from a tablet these days 10in tablet wider than usual bezel which at first I
kind of went oh that's kind of weird but then I understood why it's got to be a
little bit thicker because of a couple things it's a thicker tablet so the the
the grip you have when holding it is going to be maybe a little bit bigger
and the other thing is if you're gaming on the device if you're meant to be sort
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
understood why they did that other than that in the front all you've got is a 2
megapixel camera add that you can use for you know I don't know video calling
or whatever else and a dedicated Windows
button on the sides of the device you find nothing so there's completely plain
right side complet completely plain left side on the bottom you find two speaker
grills which actually worked surprisingly well I love the
front-facing speakers on the HTC1 and I think everything should be front facing
however if we can't have front facing then I'll settle for bottom facing
because at least with bottom facing you don't cover them up when you hold the
device by the side so many devices do this same thing with back facing a lot
of the time you'll cover them up when you're holding it bottom facing I don't
really see anyone using a tablet like this so should be fine not too worried
about that then on the top is where we find all the serious business IO oh and
I okay so I complained about the proprietary connector I do understand
why they have it because it acts as a dock and an HDMI and a USB hub and all
that stuff I just just don't necessarily like it that's all that's all I'm just
throwing that out there um so we've got our power button our keyboard button
which is awesome this was a lifesaver because the keyboard button just is like
okay if you're using it as a gaming device how often do you end up needing a
keyboard just to I don't know just get out of a menu or navigate something or
whatever else because many games for Windows are not optimized for a just a
purely touch device so it was really nice to have that dedicated keyboard
button you've got a rotation lock volume rocker as well as a headphone microphone
Jack and a single usb3
port spec-wise like I said this is the pro so I mentioned the core i7 processor
it's got 8 gigs of RAM a 256 gig SSD
which means you've got enough space toess put a fair number of games on it
and it has a GeForce gt640 Le that's
what makes this tablet gaming grade as opposed to just another tablet that's
using the Onboard video on the processor built into the ivybridge pro CPU so okay
what does a 640m really mean in terms of a gaming experience I'm going to show
you guys how quickly it boots up there you go you can uh you can thank the SSD
for that so what does that mean in terms of oh it looks like uh oh that's kind of
funny my sibling were playing games on this thing and apparently they left it
in a game which is Handy for doing product demos there we go so let's reconnect
that controller and we got some Dirt 3 going on here so what does that mean in
terms of the gaming experience it's legitimately better it's way better than
on board is it a GTX Titan no it's not a
GTX Titan is it intended to be a GTX Titan no I mean this device actually
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
it actually do well it runs modern games with the exception of super super
high-end games like Crisis 3 at acceptable frame rates at the native
resolution so I've seen people complain about the 1366 X 768 display on the
Razor Edge and my response to this is well what else were they supposed to do
it's not like they could put a Titan in here and I would rather have a lower
resolution screen than deal with dithering so if this had a 1080p screen
what you'd run into is you would have it downscaling in order to run it
resolutions that the onboard GPU could handle so you'd actually have to have
did I say did the ring I think I meant interpolation one way or another they're
bad things and you don't want to do either of those things pretty yeah interpolation sorry my bad um it's an
IPS display so while it wasn't the most vibrant IPS display I've ever seen there
wasn't really any detectable motion blur or ghosting as it's colloquially
referred to so it delivered a very acceptable gaming experience so we've
got Dirt 3 going here and this highlights sort of what I meant before when I said the lack of a physical
keyboard hampers the gaming experience somewhat because how do I Alt Enter I
don't know how to full screen a program without Alt Enter I rely on my keyboard
a lot in a Windows environment and it's not the Edge's fault it's just the way
Windows Works they expect you to control C control V so now that the game isn't
in full screen if the game itself doesn't have an option to go to full
screen then you're just kind of boned because you've got control you got I
don't know where's like can you shift where's shift tab because shift goes
away when you go into the number pad here so how do you get rid of something
like a steam overlay um it can be a little bit frustrating but once you get
past the the issues that are present so
we're going to continue our race here whoops I'm going backwards there we go
the gaming experience is actually really cool so I hope you can get in close
enough that you can see this I did turn the screen resolution up so this is Dirt
3 which may not be the most hardcore title by any stretch of the
imagination but it is a totally
acceptable gaming experience on modern title that looks absolutely fantastic
which isn't going to prevent someone like me from crashing the car
necessarily so I'm going to go ahead and pause that and we'll move
into what's what's it what's it what's it like overall using this thing so I
was playing around with it for a couple days again so more difficulty with
things like an SNES emulator that runs in like Doss mode uh so it was difficult
to navigate through it with touchcreen things like that but if you use Steam
Big Picture which I found to be not that bad of of an experience I wish that
Steam Big Picture was a little bit more touch optimized but we know how Gabe new
feels about Windows 8 and all that noise I wish he'd kind of get over that and
and help us with the gaming experience as opposed to sit and be upset about it
um but with big picture it was a little bit better it did make navigation a
little bit easier there are ways to add here we go so I'll just click this
button there are ways to add your Steam games as tiles so there's a couple of
different apps that do that in the Windows 8 store and it was pretty it was
pretty darn cool the things to look out for is some USB devices won't work with
the game controller on because of the depth of the connector however I only
had one in the house that had that issue but check this out even though it adds
some uh some bulk to the key H to the
keyboard uh to the headphone microphone Jack I was able to plug in right angle
headphones without the the mic not working or the headphones not working or
whatever else like that so what does all this mean I
guess Graphics you can actually play PC games on in a tablet uh Power that is
really more equivalent to something like a low-end to mid-range gaming notebook
in a form factor that is phenomenally impressive looks
beautiful is different from anything else that's out there but at a price
where really um you got to pay to play
it's not cheap if you want this unique device that is able to game in a tablet
like form factor if you're willing to accept the hour and change of battery life that
comes with it when it's actually running games and the sort of you know three to
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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