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Project Valerie – The world's first triple display laptop
- Skunkleton 10y agoThat is awesome! I cant wait to see one of those in a coffee shop.
- tln 10y agoI can't wait to see one of these on an airplane... just hope I'm not the poor sod in the next seat!
- Skunkleton 10y agoThat would be a hell of sight. Bonus points if they have all the displays folded out while reading their kindle :p
- coldtea 10y agoObviously those who can afford them also fly first class.
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- slantyyz 10y agoI'm curious how long the battery lasts. That thing must have a beefy discrete GPU given Razer's pedigree. I'm guessing 2 hours might be wishful thinking (which is actually OK for me, since I'm plugged in >90% of the time).
- mschuster91 10y ago> I'm curious how long the battery lasts. That thing must have a beefy discrete GPU given Razer's pedigree. I guess that the dGPU is only used when all three screens are extended or an application that requires a dGPU is running. Similarly to MBPs which by default use the Intel GPU and only on demand switch to the dGPU.
- slantyyz 10y agoI think the latest onboard Intel graphics (the ones used on gaming laptops at least) can drive a trio 4k screens [1] - I assume that would allow the battery last longer when not gaming. FWIW (anecdotal), I have a 4K non-touch Windows laptop with nVidia dGPU switching, and I can barely get 3h on battery (am a heavy Chrome user). [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/88967/Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz?q=6700hq http://ark.intel.com/products/88967/Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ-Pro...
- mschuster91 10y agoThat might be due to a lack of Chrome optimization on Windows - on OS X Chrome activates the dGPU for me only when something employs WebGL or plays any form of media.
- yuhao 10y agoNot just any beefy discrete GPU... a GTX 1080.
- walterbell 10y agoPlease support vPro (VT-d, TXT and TPM) and lots of RAM for security virtualization use cases, e.g. Qubes secure compositing desktop with colored borders around VM windows, or Windows 10 Enterprise virtualization-based security.
- Roritharr 10y agoThey really should walk over to LGs booth and take a look at their small, flexible OLED screens. These babies would make great panels for foldout screens as they are crazy slim. Even the TV-Size ones are only 2.57mm thick. (I badly want slideout screens, although at a 13 inch formfactor. My Dream would be something like the Surfacebook, with the option to slide out screens on both sides)
- colept 10y agoIt looks nice and all, but Razer's customer support and driver software is abysmal - that cannot be overlooked.
- Slackwise 10y agoLet's not forget build quality. They're the only¹ brand of mouse I've ever had die on me — multiple models, within 6 months of use. A Boomslang or whatever it was called back in the day, then two Diamondbacks within a year, in like 2007. I've had friends say their Naga and Lachesis or whatever die within a year too, usually the buttons or entirely. I've now used a Logitech G1 since 2007 or so, with extremely heavy gaming abuse, and no problems at all. I am considering buying several more off eBay just so I can use it forever in the case this one breaks. ¹: Okay, I had the wheel go out on my $20 "Logitech Wheel Mouse" from 1999 after 10+ years of heavy use, and a $10 Dell generic mouse at the office after 5 years of heavy use. Just the wheel though. Might have just been dust, really, and fixable for both. The Logitech was used to death in gaming for at least 5+ years.
- slantyyz 10y agoMy Razer DeathAdder (which I bought because it was the top pick on the Wirecutter) lasted about a year before it started giving me phantom clicks. I bought the DeathAdder after a similarly priced Logitech bricked itself after about six months. These days, I just buy cheap wired mice, because I don't really trust the expensive ones.
- billylo 10y agoQuick, @TimCook... look here.
- wonko1 10y agoReminds me of Lenovo's dual display laptop, and its truly awful advert: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhGkxkzmPbQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhGkxkzmPbQ
- petepete 10y agoThat advert is amazing. It's as if they gave $200 to a couple of their staff and said "we need an advert by this afternoon!"
- nekohacker 10y agoIsn't the W-series business-class? This seems pretty out of place for marketing towards corporations.
- coldtea 10y agoYou'd be surprised before 2000 or so.
- ryandrake 10y agoWow, when I went to hit the back button in my browser, a jarring "HEY, BEFORE YOU GO" pop-up appeared on the page, prompting me to do whatever. Haven't seen that trick before! Nice to see annoyance-delivery is still an area of active innovation.
- guessmyname 10y agoGood old times when the "window.unload" and "mouseout" events were used to annoy people. At least it only does it once, unless you clear the browser cache. // view-source:http://www.razerzone.com/project-valerie:1667 setTimeout(exit_signup, $('#signup_new_exit').data('popout-exit-time') || 15000); function exit_signup(){ if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined") { if(!localStorage.getItem("exitintent_signup")){ addEvent(document, "mouseout", function(e) { e = e ? e : window.event; var from = e.relatedTarget || e.toElement; if (!from || from.nodeName == "HTML") { if( e.clientY < 0 && !localStorage.getItem("exitintent_signup")){ signup_new_exit_popout(); localStorage.setItem("exitintent_signup", "true"); } } }); } } }
- SamBam 10y agoOh man, I see that all the time. Mouse leaves the window and I get a fullscreen ad begging me to sign up. Half the time, I'm still reading the damn article, I was just playing with the mouse. Now I have to find your hidden Close button to keep reading. Go to hell, marketers.
- ryandrake 10y agoYea I see the "subscribe to our newsletter popup before I even get a chance to read anything" pattern all the time. This is the first time I've seen it actually wait and trigger on my taking an action to close the site. I mean, I guess that's kind of better than doing it just as I've read 3 words into a 3000 word article...
- kossae 10y agoFWIW, the Esc key normally gets rid of these. Regardless, it is such an annoying marketing trick. Who knows... it must still provide a positive ROI if so many sites are still using it, unfortunately.
- anotherboffin 10y agoThe first thing it reminded me of was the ThinkPad W700ds, but I didn't remember the second display was that small.
- LeifCarrotson 10y agoI wonder if something like that was the reason they keep calling it "the world’s first AUTOMATED triple display laptop" (emphasis added). Is/was there another triple display laptop for which you had to manually extend the screens?
- anotherboffin 10y agoI previously ran a quick Google search and found no other triple-display laptop, but I must admit I didn't spend too much time looking.
- Johnny555 10y agoLooks heavy. And fragile.
- BlackjackCF 10y agoProps on them doing something new, I guess. But also yeah, looks like a hinge can easily snap off... and knowing Razer's wildly fluctuating quality in its products, this thing is "Hingegate" in the making. Calling it right now.
- stargrazer 10y agoDoes razer do Linux at all?
- tln 10y ago3x 17.3 inch screens < one 40" screen The 40" will have double the surface area. And can be had for under $500! http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-usage/pc-monitor/best http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-usage/pc-monitor/best
- slantyyz 10y agoThat's a misleading metric. You could just as easily say this laptop has the equivalent of a dozen 1080p screens, but at that pixel density, it's misleading too.
- pmontra 10y agoBut the 40" it doesn't fit into a 11" × 6.2" box when you carry it around. And it doesn't have the wow factor with friends.
- fao_ 10y agoFinally, I can program on the go :^)
- vinayan3 10y agoReminds me of the Dell XPS laptops which were like bricks, incredibly heavy. Not to mention the battery life was awful and the power brick was huge. Two of my college roommates had them and I remember they had huge backpacks and lugged them around campus. I guess the people who would want these laptops don't care too much about portability or battery life?
- mjolk 10y agoI imagine this Razer "laptop" will have a price-tag of at least $5,000 and will have a battery life of less than a movie. This is a dogshow hardware to give to a few enthusiasts, industry people, and trade floors to build up the brand; it's more of a "we're enthusiasts too" brand pitch than it is a product.
- errantspark 10y agoMaybe not at that price point, but I would consider buying one. I normally use 3 screens and I like to travel. The segment of the population that requires a real GPU to get work done buys desktop replacement laptops and probably always will. Not everyone is a "digital nomad" or whatever. Sometimes you've just got to show a client a few tens of millions of polygons of art/CAD and you want to apply the finishing touches on the plane ride over cause you're way behind. Though admittedly it's more likely to be a Dell Precision or a BOXX than this monstrosity I think there's more room in this market segment than you might think.
- mjolk 10y agoI wouldn't bet on a lower price point or any sort of portability with a GTX 1080 (the lightest 1080-equipped single-screen laptop I could find is over 7lbs). > I think there's more room in this market segment than you might think. I have an external display that I bring along to try to bridge the gap in loss of productivity of working in annoying places, but it (asus mb168+) has garbage drivers (can't adjust brightness on OS X or windows 10; crashes OS X), which is why I'd even consider a native multi-screen device. I think there's more room in the "external displays that aren't terrible" market than the big/heavy performance desktop-replacement market.
- lawless123 10y agoCall it "The Homer"
- chrischen 10y agoIts got a GTX 1080 so they can ditch the screens and bundle a VR headset and give you virtual screens through Big Screen!
- ggame 10y agoYou can't read in VR for very long and it's probably the number one thing you do with your screen.
- vorotato 10y agoGood on them for calling it a "Mobile Desktop" instead of a laptop.
- kbenson 10y agoThis might be when calling something a notebook instead of a laptop and making a big deal about the name is worthwhile. I can't really imagine trying to use this on my lap.
- baldfat 10y agoOpposite meaning today? I went to check and 9 years ago laptops were bigger then notebooks. Back in 2008 - What is a Laptop Computer? (n.) A laptop is a small, portable computer -- small enough that it can sit on your lap. Nowadays, laptop computers are more frequently called notebook computers, though technically laptops are somewhat larger in size than notebooks, in both thickness and weight. - http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/laptop_notebook.asp http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/laptop...
- kbenson 10y agoInteresting. I was never aware of any actual distinction between them, I always assumed they were alternative names for the same thing. A niche technical marketing failure, at least in my case.
- richardboegli 10y agoAWESOME. I want one. :) Now if they only did it in the 12" and 15" as well....
- 51Cards 10y agoreally not feeling that keyboard layout. I really hate an off-center keyboard on laptops (like ones with a number-pad). I actively seek out machines that have the keyboard centered. Otherwise really interesting concept.
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoOooh, a laptop with the touchpad next to the keys, not underneath! I want one!
- unstatusthequo 10y agoShit! I didn't realize that until I saw your comment.
- owenversteeg 10y agoAt first, I thought "damn, I want one right now." But then I realized something - most of the time, when I use a laptop, I'm fairly space-sensitive. You can't use one of these on a train, tram, bus, plane, or in any situation where there are people next to you. And even when there is enough room, you pretty much instantly give up any semblance of privacy. Even though 99.9% of the time what I have on my monitor isn't something that I'd mind a random person seeing, sometimes it is. My current laptop's an Ideapad Yoga, 13" screen, and if I close a window and a sensitive document, or picture, or what have you is on the screen it's not a big deal. My body easily hides the screen from anyone behind me, and since the laptop is so small it's usually kinda tricky to see stuff on the screen from the sides anyway. Besides, I'm one of several people in the (train car|bus|plane|area) that have a laptop open, so usually nobody's watching my screen anyway. If someone's got one of these things? I'm going to take a look at it, probably look at what they've got open and what they've got on the screens. So are the other 40 people around me. When they say "mobile desktop", that's exactly what it is, to me. If you use the 3 screens anywhere you wouldn't use a desktop PC, things become awkward. The problem is that the vast majority of places where I use my laptop aren't places I'd use a desktop PC.
- bkane521 10y agoI wonder if there will be an option to keep the two extra screens collapsed. Certainly there's still the weight factor, but this would allow it to be more compact and would probably extend battery life considerably (though I imagine it will still be laughably bad). I think it would be awesome to have access to three screens when you're on the road, but this thing definitely won't be replacing any ultrabooks anytime soon.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoI think there is a comedy routine in there somewhere. Imagine the passenger in the middle seat of a crowded flight and suddenly their laptop keeps growing and growing :-). IBM did a similar idea with a dual screen thinkpad, it was not very successful. My impression was that it just didn't make a lot of sense. Imagine a couple of USB-C connected displays on either side when you wanted them, no need to lug them around when you didn't. That would seem to be a bit more sensible to me.
- egypturnash 10y agoOnly the hugest of laps will do for Project Valerie. https://twitter.com/egypturnash/status/817111039519010817 https://twitter.com/egypturnash/status/817111039519010817
- supermatt 10y agoI never seem to have been able to purchase a razer laptop. I recall there was one with a built in touchscreen at one point, possibly a keyboard with a built in touchscreen too, but have never seen it for sale. Do they ever come to fruitition? :(