Razer Edge Gaming Windows 8 Tablet with GT 640M Graphics - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·2013-05-07
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Razer is calling the edge or Edge Pro depending on which skew you go for the
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first tablet truly designed for gamers welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013
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linkis now there's a number of different models available they start at $9.99
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that gets you a core i5 with 8 gigs RAM a 64 gig SSD although remember guys it's
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a Windows 8 tablet so in terms of actual usable storage space you're looking at
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about 32 gigs left over okay it has a GT
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640m in fact all of the models have that the highest end model is at $14.99 gets
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you a 256 gig SSD as well as a core i7
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and then the one in between did I say 1499 I me 1449 and then there's a $1299
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model that gets you a core i7 with a 128
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gig SSD so there's a pretty natural progression here in terms of price
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points the unit is capable of running as you can see dirt showdown it is actually
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gaming capable or at least as gaming capable as a lightweight laptop with any
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kind of a GT 640m type of GPU in it in terms of expansion they've got a whole
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bunch of really cool accessories so they're actually bundle packs where you
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can get it with the controller that you see this gentleman using right here that
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fits the tablet inside of it and then adds what is that two analog sticks a
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d-pad as well as buttons that you can push it looks like there are some
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shoulder pads shoulder keys up at the top as well and we're going to get over
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there in a moment anyway so here we're just running it with the little dock
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station you can see how smooth it's running actually that I'm going to turn
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this away from you so you're going to crash for sure adds extra expandability
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to the unit so you can add three USB ports you can add HDMI headphones
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microphone and this right here is for power you can see there's two vents on
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the back for cooling you've got a volume rocker up here as well as you know what
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I'm just going to pull it right off the dock on you here okay power here power
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input here that looks like USB 3 USB 3.0
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speakers down here on the bottom are in Stereo so if you're holding it the way
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you'd normally hold a tablet you're going to get decent audio out of it unlike apple with their older iPad
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speakers where it's like right under where you hold the tablet which is ridiculous and I would like
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to emphasize that while it is capable of
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running hard look at that it goes right away while it is cap of running hardcore
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games like this guys it's not going to run forever on battery life we're
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looking at a couple hours of battery life if you're running an allout 3D
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title but what you're getting is the versatility so it is a Windows 8 tablet
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running GeForce GPU and Intel processor that means you can run anything you want
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on it you're not limited to Plants versus Zombies but you could still play
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Plants versus Zombies if you wanted it's also available with a keyboard Dock and
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we're going to actually cut this and show you that in just a moment now the
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keyboard Dock's not coming till Q3 it will make the unit a little a little bit
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bigger I realized I didn't talk much about the overall thickness and weight
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but you can see this gentleman over here is actually using it fairly comfortably
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what would you say about the weight sir uh pretty hefty pretty hefty yeah okay
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would you be able to would would you would you say it's more optimized for
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something like sitting on a couch or would you ride the bus with it or well that's what I was just figuring out like
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holding it up is really difficult but if you aim it down like it it's clearly
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meant for sitting in your lap or you know uh you know on the couch you know
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it's definitely not something you hold up like this got it all right thank you
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for your fair and unbiased feedback he had no idea we were going to do that to
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him so the point is that there will be a variety of docks available with it this
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is a keyboard dock that's the GamePad dock they've got expansion docks there's
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going to be an expansion dock that comes that enables more IO and all kinds of
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good stuff like that but peripherals are going to come out for it over time I
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want to actually drift us back over to the original one we checked
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out so that I can show you guys with my
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trademark iPhone comparison how thick the unit is now most Windows 8 x86 or
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x64 tablets are a little bit thicker than the ARM-based ones that it's
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something we' come to expect this one is thicker than those but remember guys
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this has a dedicated GPU in it not an igp and I could actually this is cool
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Razer didn't tell me this but all of the heat being generated is here these are
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still cool to the touch very nice touch
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because this has been sitting here running dirt showdown which which means
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that if it's not hot now it's not getting hot thank you for checking out
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