Not really. Touchpad on the right has a target audience of... left handed gamers. Wait what? Yeah, they didn't think that through.
Left handed gamers?
The trackpad is on the right, which is where I keep my mouse and everyone else I know keeps their mouse. That's more in line with -right- handed gamers. And given that it hasn't launched yet, we don't know if there is a left-handed option with the trackpad on the other side. Shouldn't be that hard to manage.
Dual core, albeit the fastest one in existence, is still a notch below quads. The ODD was likely sacrificed for better cooling, which... Apple take note please . In any case, bluray drive would've been impossible anyway, given it's even thinner than MBPs.
Up until recently dual-cores were better for gaming than quad or hexa cores. Cycles trumped threads. This trend is shifting, and the next generation of games will be more multi-core friendly. In the battle of balancing performance over portability I can't fault them for dual-core with hyperthreading. And I think they trashed the drive for height and power more than cooling.
This is a swing and a miss by every standard. Keep it under an inch thick, 0.98 is perfectly acceptable, but fit it with a REAL GPU, at least in the orders of the the GTX 560m.
That would defeat their intent entirely. If you wanted to build the current generation of "desktop replacements" aka the current view on gaming laptops.. then yea, that makes sense. If you want to build a laptop designed to be asthetically pleasing, with a respectable battery life, without weighing a ton.. then going with an high-end midrange card is just fine.
Same specs in a 15" package for around $1800 and they'd have an audience. Same specs in a 13" package for ~$2000, they'd have an audience. Specs improved to 560m and quad core in a 17" package for ~$2200 and they'd have an audience. Anything else? Not really.
Alienware: m17x - $1800 for comparable specs but no battery life and 30% more weight.
Asus G73S - $1500 for comparable specs but again, bigger and poorer battery.
Macbook Pro (stock with everything except ram upgrade) - $2699
Pricey? Not too much I'd say. Given the innovation of the touchpad/display (similar tech was seen in a $1600 keyboard) and Razer's lack of a supply chain (unlike proven vendors like Apple, Dell and Asus).. the price is actually reasonable for what you're getting.
The MBP is actually a larger, more powerful, more cost efficient Razer. Yeah, the Razer Blade is the MBP's MBP.
Not really!
17" macbook with 8GB DDR RAM? $2,699.00. You're paying $100 for a smaller dual core pro in a black finish with an LCD touchpad. That isn't too bad of a price for a cool feature.
This isn't saving PC gaming (not that it needs saving any way).
Agreed. PC just needs less pandering and more innovation. Something Razer is trying to do that the other gaming companies aren't. The old philosophy of as much power crammed into a "smaller" frame is a model Razer is trying to push away from.
