An expensive plastic laptop with gimmicky extras we'll never use. Let's watch this disappear without a trace...

" An expensive plastic laptop with gimmicky extras we'll never use. Let's watch this disappear without a trace...

"[q] An expensive plastic laptop with gimmicky extras we'll never use. Let's watch this disappear without a trace...

"[q][q] An expensive plastic laptop with gimmicky extras we'll never use. Let's watch this disappear without a trace...

Especially now that Apple is insanely mainstream and boring.

I appreciate that it has some fun toys for the tech enthusiast, but laptops are commodity items, you need to really appeal to the general public if you want to make a success of it.

Since you so loudly stated in a previous thread that you own an iPad, does that make you insanely mainstream and boring as well?

nah I don't want to be very harsh, I'm just surprised at the overly negative response to this. Regardless of the price, they did came out with something unique I think. Thing is, we are not the target audience for this - but I can imagine a sizeable rich parent's kids market who would want this gadget

Since you so loudly stated in a previous thread that you own an iPad, does that make you insanely mainstream and boring as well?

Did I ever claim I wasn't?

So...when you criticize Apple, you are criticizing yourself?

Interesting.

What?

I bought an iPad 2 because I wanted the best tablet. The choice was a no-brainer. Other than editor at OSNews, I'm also a simple consumer with limited funds. I never made a secret of the fact that when I go out to buy stuff with my own money, I buy what's best value. Simple. I have never condemned anyone for buying Apple, since it is unreasonable to expect regular folk to know what kind of an anti-competitive company Apple really is.

I know you are sitting all smug in your chair thinking you scored a point or something, but I've always been open about the fact that I do, yes, buy Apple products. I'm nothing if not a massive hypocrite - I've said that numerous times on OSNews. Unlike most other bloggers out there, I do not hide my hypocrisy.

That's why I have such a good insight into how Apple products work, what their failings are, and so on. I do not spout uninformed crap about Apple and its products - I most likely know more about both than all MDN or DaringFireball readers combined - *exactly because* I use their products.

It's aluminium unibody, not plastic.

Especially now that Apple is insanely mainstream and boring. This could be just what the rich hipster ordered - gamer or no.

And once a few of these sell, you can expect Razor to produce cheaper versions - 15", maybe 13". That's a very common strategy for new toys like this.

Um, what? I don't even like laptops. I try to avoid using them whenever possible.

I've never ever been WOWed by any laptop. There's a first for everything I guess. It looks amazing. Works amazingly well - according to engadget. I had to say that - now let the cynical "meh" comments commence.

No matter what nice it is, the fact that it's an LCD with info on it and has 10 programmable keys.

That place is wrong for a touchpad.

One of the nice things of using a laptop is having the touchpad within reach of your fingers without having to raise your hand -like you do when typing- because it's just there.

Building a new OS just for games?

And why based on FreeBSD in particular?

It seems like instead of wanting to spread PC gaming to the masses, they want to further exclude people and turn it into some sort of elitist club for people with more money than sense.

I would love to know what, exactly, crawled up your ass and died. It must be very painful.

That place is wrong for a touchpad.

I'm really glad to see a company trying something that isn't the same old rehash of what everyone else is doing. If everything is the same, there's no point in even having different companies!

FreeBSD does have the best performance of all the x86-based open-source Unix-like OSes. I just don't see any generic PC hardware company going to the trouble of making a custom OS in this day and age. On the other hand it'd be pretty cool if whoever buys HP's PC division decides to offer support for something like Haiku or AROS (don't think WebOS is suitable for desktop use unless you basically make a touchscreen iMac).

Would be interesting to see open-source support for the Razer Blade's touchpad. I'm assuming only Windows is supported OOTB, same as those dual-touchscreen laptops.