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Reminds 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 c

Reminds 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 ago
I 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 ago
  Maybe 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 ago
    I 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.

mjolk 10y ago

I 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 ago
Maybe 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 ago
  I 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.