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Ginaz
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OK, I don't know much about this new mobile gaming system from Razor. It sound interesting but who knows how it will end up. The best part, however, is the video Razor made to promote it. Pay particular attention to the asian guy at the beginning CEO and "Chief Gamer" of Razor. Chief Gamer. Really???). Its hilarious how serious he is when talking about it, almost like they've found the cure for cancer or made peace in the middle east.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQ0AnlfBu4&feature=player_embedded |
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« Last Edit: January 06, 2011, 01:08:00 PM by Ginaz »
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Mrbloodworth
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Thats rather cool. Wish it was simply a keyboard though.
My first thought was "I hope a key never goes bad or someone spills coke on it".
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NiX
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Meh. I just want the tron Mouse and Keyboard.
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Prospero
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Why does every fucking CEO have to sound like Steve Jobs? Is this some new CEO meme?
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Trippy
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Its hilarious how serious he is when talking about it, almost like they've found the cure for cancer or made peace in the middle east. He doing a very poor job of trying to channel Jonathan Ive. |
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HaemishM
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They sound like geeks trying to emote momentous importance to trivial gaming shit.
Also, where's the goddamn trackball/mouse interface for that thing?
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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They sound like geeks trying to emote momentous importance to trivial gaming shit.
Also, where's the goddamn trackball/mouse interface for that thing?
I think the USB port they showed in the rotating shot is for one of their $$ mice. meh |
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Surlyboi
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Why does every fucking CEO have to sound like Steve Jobs? Is this some new CEO meme?
Been that way for almost five years now. |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Ghambit
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As much as I'd like to bash this device, in the 7" tablet/ipad market it could be a VERY strong player if priced right (I anticipate toughbook type pricing), just simply due to the fact it's a "flip" e.g. it has a fuckin keyboard (along with the touchscreen). Sure, one could buy a netbook, but good luck doing any kind of hardcore media stuff on one. The caveat? No one knows what the vid. card will be.  If it's priced near the iPad I'll probably buy one instead of getting a 'Droid based tablet. |
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Malakili
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I sort of like the idea of it, though frankly I don't have time to game in any of the places I normally go when I leave the house soooo...
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Trippy
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You aren't going to do anything hardcore on an Atom CPU. I built myself an Atom D525 based file server over the holidays and that CPU, which is one of the faster ones in the family, is fucking slow. It does work fine as a file server but you aren't going to be doing any hardcore PC gaming on an Atom-based platform even if it did have a beefy GPU.
Edit: PC gaming that is
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« Last Edit: January 07, 2011, 09:32:14 AM by Trippy »
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Malakili
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You aren't going to do anything hardcore on an Atom CPU. I built myself an Atom D525 based file server over the holidays and that CPU, which is one of the faster ones in the family, is fucking slow. It does work fine as a file server but you aren't going to be doing any hardcore PC gaming on an Atom-based platform even if it did have a beefy GPU.
Edit: PC gaming that is
Well, in that video they showed like...WoW, league of legends (maybe HoN? I can't tell the difference just by looking quickly, either way though), and Quake 3. Sort of hardcore, but hardly cutting edge. |
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NiX
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Well, in that video they showed like...WoW, league of legends (maybe HoN? I can't tell the difference just by looking quickly, either way though), and Quake 3. Sort of hardcore, but hardly cutting edge.
They showed video, that was definitely not running live on the laptop. |
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Prospero
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I think they've been playable at CES for press.
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slog
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I bought a Razor DeathAdder mouse and a Razer Lycosa keyboard. The mouse is great, but the keyboard randomly stops working. When I googled this, it turns out that the Lycosa has had hardware problems from day 1 which Razor claimed that they fixed, but obviously didn't.
Buy from Razor at your own risk.
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Malakili
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I bought a Razor DeathAdder mouse and a Razer Lycosa keyboard. The mouse is great, but the keyboard randomly stops working. When I googled this, it turns out that the Lycosa has had hardware problems from day 1 which Razor claimed that they fixed, but obviously didn't.
Buy from Razor at your own risk.
I have a Lycosa and haven't had a single problem with it, like it a lot. *shrugs* |
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Ghambit
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Did they not say the Atom they're using in this is an unseen prototype?
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Vaiti
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At CE5 they have also been touting off L4D2 as one of the playable titles. So I'm guessing it isn't too underpowered.
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Sheepherder
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The Atom is horrible at 3D, multi-threading, and overclocking. It's not a gaming processor, and it's not something they're going to fix with a few revisions.
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rattran
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I went through 3 Lycosas. Razer replaced the first with the next hardware refresh, and the second with the NEXT hardware refresh. Then the 3rd had the same unresponsive key issues start and I just retired it. And their Black Widow Ultimate is somewhat underwhelming. Brown Cherry switches, weird font, off design.
And the atom 525 paired with an ion2 is not terrible, plays torchlight fine, handles 1080p h.264 video. I wouldn't want to try l4d2 on it unless settings were 'terribad' graphics level. It makes an admirable irc/torrents/server box
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