CES 2017: Razer Debuts 'Project Valerie' Triple Display Laptop

[ArtOfWarfare]

This implementation is ugly, but I love the concept.

They need to get rid of the black edges between the screens... then you could have an ultrawide display.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Dear Apple,

This is what courage looks like. Not just removing ports and audio jacks that millions use. Granted it's ugly as sin but at least they are trying.

Yeah, if Apple brought out products as ugly as sin people and the media would surely say "at least they are trying". Going out on a limb and going to say nothing comes of this attemp at a fad. And yes, given the expected sugar-storm of criticism Apple knew they would get for removing the headphone port, it does take a certain amount of confidence and courage to go ahead and remove it. For audio Bluetooth is the future. In five years time people will say it was obvious. For Apple it was obvious two years ago. 3 displays hanging off a laptop is about as far removed a sensible direction for Apple as you can get.

 

[rickyipcw]

This thing is impractical, but it is a starting point nonetheless.

 

[Bubba Satori]

I was getting ready to post this, but you beat me too it! Lol. Actually it looks impressive... just don't want to use Windoze...

Why don't you want to use Windoze?

 

[nurban1992]

"Trying" to be innovative and actually being innovative are two very different concepts. "Trying" usually entails throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. The concept of this machine is cool, but given its thickness and weight it most likely won't be anything more than a niche product. The technology is present, but it isn't refined enough for convenience for the general public to want.

I agree that all of these new technologies being introduced at CES are cool and are innovative concepts, but what would make them *truly* innovative is for the technology to be implemented in such a way that is desirable and convenient on a consumer level.
That is the type of innovation that Apple does. They re-invent the innovation to make it comprehensive and desirable for anyone. And that's why Apple's products sell millions of units each quarter, despite costing more than just about the entirety of their competition.

 

[ocnitsa]

Lol.

1. This thing is massive and ridiculous. It's not meant for portability, and wouldn't even be able to game on all three screens.
2. This thing will never come out.
3. Is this really what you want from Apple? Giant, three-screened vaporware?

Good points, I agree. How about Apple gives us an option for a rig with ONE decent dedicated GPU, then? I'd settle for a 1060. Then, we all can be happy.

 

[DevNull0]

Lol.

1. This thing is massive and ridiculous. It's not meant for portability, and wouldn't even be able to game on all three screens.
2. This thing will never come out.
3. Is this really what you want from Apple? Giant, three-screened vaporware?

1. Not sure why you seem to think it's a problem that it's not meant for portability. Not everyone values tiny and light as the primary focus.

2. It's a concept that may or may not come out. But it shows what sort of innovation and tech is currently doable when you focus on your products instead of buying headphone companies, ride sharing companies, etc.

3. I'd love to see something like this from Apple, but they'd probably have the "courage" to underpower the GPU for 3 screens, cut the battery in half, remove the drive bays for a single proprietary stick, take away all the ports, give you a butterfly keyboard, and make the power brick a $999 optional purchase.

But then I still think the 2012 17" MBP was the best mac ever built, and I'd much rather have that 5 year old machine than anything Apple makes in 2017.

 

[lincolntran]

I'm not a gamer and this is not MacBook Pro, but this is just awesome!

 

[atlatnesiti]

How is it that everyone is at least 'trying' to be innovative... except Apple?! How did we get to this?

Correct, everyone is trying to be innovative, but only Apple is.

 

[DevNull0]

"Trying" to be innovative and actually being innovative are two very different concepts. "Trying" usually entails throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. The concept of this machine is cool, but given its thickness and weight it most likely won't be anything more than a niche product. The technology is present, but it isn't refined enough for convenience for the general public to want.

Once again, it's a concept machine. Do you have any idea how thick the early Powerbook concepts were. Maybe Apple should have scrapped them as too bulky 20 years ago rather than refine them to what was brought to market.

And why do you keep repeating "what the general public wants". You don't need every single machine to appeal to the majority of users. No single Apple computer ever made has come close to the Commodore 64 in unit sales. What is wrong with making a machine that will sell to a niche of power users?

If this thing costs $10,000 and they only sell 20,000 units, it's a $200 million product. Not bad for something that "isn't refined enough for convenience for the general public to want."

 

[44267547]

Dear Apple,

This is what courage looks like. Not just removing ports and audio jacks that millions use. Granted it's ugly as sin but at least they are trying.

No. It doesn't. Don't even compare Apple to this company. It's not even directly correlated.

 

[Kabeyun]

If you know gaming, they don't care about THINNESS. It's all about what you can pack inside a laptop as much as possible for as little as possible. This is actually around the average specs of gaming laptops, albeit, a lot heavier.

Does this product even have a market that makes development worthwhile? Gaming desktops are better in every way gamers care about.
http://www.maketecheasier.com/shouldnt-purchase-gaming-laptop/amp/
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/106446-13-hardcore-gamer
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/whats-real-difference-gaming-laptop-desktop/

Even if the gaming community wanted to haul a twelve pound laptop plus accessories to Starbucks, I'm not sure the place would take kindly to someone deploying a 3-screen laptop and gaming furiously.

 

[Vicric]

Razer, known for its gaming laptops and accessories, today unveiled its latest product, the world's first triple display laptop. Project Valerie features a Razer laptop that's equipped with one main display and two fold out side displays, all of which are 4K.

Each display measures in at 17.3 inches, for what Razer says is the most expansive viewing experience in a notebook. Project Valerie is powered by an NVIDIA GeForce 1080 GPU and supports NVIDIA Surround View with a resolution of 11520 x 2160 for an immersive gaming experience.

While the three displays can be used as a single display, they can also be used individually to run multiple applications at the same time. An automated deployment system that uses durable aluminum hinges lets the laptop be set up in a matter of seconds, with perfect display alignment.

According to Razer, though its equipped with three displays, Project Valerie has a form factor that's comparable to other 17-inch gaming laptops on the market, fitting neatly into a laptop bag so it can be taken anywhere. It's about 1.5 inches thick and weighs approximately 12 pounds.

Project Valerie is still a prototype machine and it is not clear if it will eventually see a release. No launch date information or pricing details are available, but interested customers can sign up to learn more about it on Razer's website.

Article Link: CES 2017: Razer Debuts 'Project Valerie' Triple Display Laptop

 

[keysofanxiety]

Not just gamers. Imagine pulling this beast out at an office meeting, unfolding the screens and watching all the ultrabook and mac users around the table get an instant inferiority complex.

This is sarcasm, surely. If anybody went to a board meeting and pulled out a Goliath like that, they'd be laughed out of the office.

 

[rickyipcw]

For audio Bluetooth is the future. In five years time people will say it was obvious. For Apple it was obvious two years ago.

There are many problems with BT headphones imo. First is lifetime. Portable BT devices run on rechargeable batteries, and they can have a very limited lifetime. The worse part is that the batteries are mostly not user-replaceable, and you are forced to get a new one.
Second is waste. Each BT devices must need an onboard DAC to convert signals, but auxiliary devices don't, as long as the source device has one. Chip makers are gonna be happy because more chips are required/wasted for every new generation of BT devices coming out.

BT is simply not "the future", but only a part of it. Auxiliary ports are not going to be replaced perfectly anytime soon.

 

[Appleaker]

It's 1.5 inches and 12 pounds. For goodness' sake, there's no justifying this. I'd take any Mac over this, any day of the week. An iMac would be more portable.

It's not an actual retail product just a concept. And what Klae17, while it may not be true for this product, it is true for Razer.
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Your comment is exactly why this is not what courage looks like and is why what Apple does really does take some balls. This is called throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks...and releasing horrid products that people are spending money on and this particular company has the worst customer support outside of South Korea. So yeah, courage.

No, this is just a concept product that Razer are showing at CES. If it was a retail product, I would agree with you. What Razer is doing is equally impressive compared to Apple, but it's more obvious in the Blade Stealth and Blade.
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No. It doesn't. Don't even compare Apple to this company. It's not even directly correlated.

Do you know who "this company" is and what they have done?
In terms of notebooks, they are more comparable to Apple than any other company.

 

[ocnitsa]

No. It doesn't. Don't even compare Apple to this company. It's not even directly correlated.

Absolutely don't compare. We all know how long it took Razer to update their Stealth line after introducing it. Not to mention that year old processor they threw in the so-called update. It simply can't be compared to the length of time for Apple laptop updates and their bleeding edge implementation of the latest hardware components.


Oops. Forget that. Less than a year. Kaby Lake. Don't know what I was thinking.

 

[b11051973]

I think it is cool, but I'd never buy one. Well, if I won the lottery I'd buy one.

I have a 17" laptop for work. I then have a second monitor at work and home that I hook up to it. It would be cool to just have 3 displays always with you.

 

[Internet Enzyme]

Three 4K displays? What the ****. Three! Gawd damn. The GTX 1080 would not be capable of that resolution. No way.

 

[Appleaker]

If you know gaming, they don't care about THINNESS. It's all about what you can pack inside a laptop as much as possible for as little as possible. This is actually around the average specs of gaming laptops, albeit, a lot heavier.

Do you know gaming?!
This has the top of the line specs for any gaming notebook today (unless you use 2 graphics cards) and Razer cares a lot about thinness - they make some of the thinnest gaming (and non-gaming) notebooks.
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Three 4K displays? What the ****. Three! Gawd damn. The GTX 1080 would not be capable of that resolution. No way.

If a Radeon Pro 450 is capable, a GTX 1080 is more than capable.

 

[cube]

I'm not even mad...except that it's 12 pounds

Did you see the 17.6 pound dual GTX 1080 21" curved Acer laptop that costs $9000?

 

[Appleaker]

And if you know Apple, they don't care about GAMING. You can't compare the two machines as they have different purposes.

No, you can't compare this concept to Apples notebooks.
But you CAN compare Razer other notebooks (the Blade and Blade Stealth) to the MacBook Pros.

 

[44267547]

It's not an actual retail product just a concept. And what Klae17, while it may not be true for this product, it is true for Razer.
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No, this is just a concept product that Razer are showing at CES. If it was a retail product, I would agree with you. What Razer is doing is equally impressive compared to Apple, but it's more obvious in the Blade Stealth and Blade.
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Do you know who "this company" is and what they have done?
In terms of notebooks, they are more comparable to Apple than any other company.

Exactly, "Comparable." Other notebooks are also comparable, but Razer can't complete here. If you think you are going to start an argument relating to Apple and Razer, then you clearly are not factoring in professional aspects, component hardware and technical aspects.

 

[Appleaker]

This will never see production. There might be exactly 5 people in the world willing to put up with a 12 pound laptop, and I doubt any of them have the $10,000+ this would cost. Trying to drive AAA games at 4k is difficult even with a desktop 1080, much less trying to run THREE with a mobile version of that GPU.

It was never intended to see production! It is purely a concept device!
And it wouldn't be that much, Razer pricing isn't as ridiculous as Apple any more.
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Exactly, "Comparable." Other notebooks are also comparable, but Razer can't complete here. If you think you are going to start an argument relating to Apple and Razer, then you clearly are not factoring in professional aspects, component hardware and technical aspects.

What do you mean "Razer can't compete here"? They are competing in the MacBook Pro space. Yes, the Blade is different to the new MBP but it's not that different (in terms of design and size) to the previous MPB design while having much more power. For many people disappointed by the new MBP, Razer is often at the top of the list.

 

[hiddenmarkov]

And if you know Apple, they don't care about GAMING. You can't compare the two machines as they have different purposes.

this gets old.

the 1060 or 1080 in the rig has Nvidia Cuda cores.

Install a CUDA aware application, have a blast. Most any pro/semi pro video or picture editing application they will see the cores and go alright, CPU is pegged at 100%, let me wake up these cores and they will do some work to help out.
Lots of others as well. I also do stuff in science realms. Code written to support CUDA, many have it.

Various gaming tech crosses over to non gaming. If a gaming card tries really hard to control Anti-aliasing for games guess what happens when not in a game. Thats's right....its does anti aliasing for work applications. The same tech that can help remove "jaggies" in a game helps a normal work application.


Razer also markets to crowds besides gaming. The current razor pro name has been dropped more than once since 2016 release. 1080 and 32 gb of ram....this directed dead center mass at a few targets. Creative content and video people among them. Yes...that argument. and yes....if you drop 28gb of video files straight into ram it will process much faster. I know.....I never use even 16gb argument. Some people do...and oddly enough its the "gaming" laptops that are saying pssst.....looky what I have here.


its just really friggin cool when done and you want to fire up a game after...you can. Won't lie about that.