Razer, saviors of PC gaming have presented two new projects at CES 2017 - Polidicks

[video=youtube;q2ZXagqnOL8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ZXagqnOL8[/video] i dont know if this counts as a laptop but its from 6 years ago and is intended to be portable.

[QUOTE=darth-veger;51626766][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QdGmRoW.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Looks retarded; I want one.

[QUOTE=NightmareX91;51626998]tbh a triple monitor laptop would be dope imo Not for gaming, but for general productivity that would benefit from triple monitors Plus I can imagine the feeling of busting that thing out in class[/QUOTE] The feeling of having to sit next to the total tool who would bust that out.

[QUOTE=benzinxrm;51628266]So like all things razer it'll be good on paper, terrible in practice, and break after 6 months.[/QUOTE] My keyboard and mouse disagrees. My experience with Razer stuff is that it's: - cheap (deathadder & blackwidow were the cheapest gaming mice & mechanical keyboards respectively at the time i purchased them) - durable (bought them like 4-5 years ago) [editline]6th January 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Ax3l;51626788]Also, "saviors of PC gaming"? The fuck.[/QUOTE] It's a joke from that one time when they saved PC gaming

I never understood gaming with more than one display anyway. Surely the black lines separating the monitors must drive you insane?

Airplane seat friendly, i assume

That's actually pretty interesting. There have been dual-display laptops before, using that "slide out from behind" model - some have the back one just come out to one side while the main screen stays put, others have the two "scissor" out from each other to keep things balanced horizontally - but I've never seen anyone tuck [i]two[/i] screens behind the main one or have arms angle a screen for surround like that. Pretty impressive just from an engineering standpoint. Having the "fins" on the back open up when it happens is a pretty sweet effect too, I might add. Very mecha anime. I'm also pleasantly surprised to see that Razer would actually open up Chroma like this. Yeah, it's just pretty lights on your gear to match your game, but I've been seeing more and more games add support for it, which always seemed weird to me considering it was a technology specific to only one manufacturer, so I actually think it's pretty nice gesture of Razer to let free what has been a major USP for their gear up until now. I guess they figured they'd gain more by heading up what is now an open standard rather than the profits they'd get from being the [i]only[/i] provider of something more and more games are using. Sure would like to more manufacturers *coughNVIDIAcough* do that; competition and USPs are great for consumers while everything is still experimental, but once a technology matures and is adopted widely, it really should become standardized. Allow the creator to continue collect royalties if you must, but if they just keep a stranglehold on the tech instead, things'll reach a point where that only benefits them.

You know, a laptop with 3 displays could work... For desktop space and lots windows at once. Not fucking 4k gaming.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;51630506]I never understood gaming with more than one display anyway. Surely the black lines separating the monitors must drive you insane?[/QUOTE] I don't game on my two display setup but it sure is handy to put spotify and other programs on the second screen, or a wiki/guide for some games

So whats the lifetime on the battery? 4 minutes? [editline]6th January 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=darth-veger;51631020]I don't game on my two display setup but it sure is handy to put spotify and other programs on the second screen, or a wiki/guide for some games[/QUOTE] This. It's super convenient having an extra screen where you can have other programs open, instead of having to alt-tab every time you need to look at something else.

There's one upside to it tho. I'm using a laptop with a single 1366x768 display and its terrible for my IT education at college to be honest. I have to run a quite a few VMs every once in a while and the display is just terrible as nothing fits and just a few windows already makes it cluttered as fuck. This is better but maybe overkill however.

[QUOTE=darth-veger;51631020]I don't game on my two display setup but it sure is handy to put spotify and other programs on the second screen, or a wiki/guide for some games[/QUOTE] That's what I do but when I play games I just use the one screen. Using 2 or 3 for one game seems like it'd provide less than no benefit and just be annoying overall.

That Laptop is going to cost like $6000 calling it now.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;51631048]That's what I do but when I play games I just use the one screen. Using 2 or 3 for one game seems like it'd provide less than no benefit and just be annoying overall.[/QUOTE] Games that have a proper borderless windowed mode are a godsend when you have two monitors, jst hit esc in the game and you can browse reddit/fp for a while while you can tab back into the game at any point

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;51630506]I never understood gaming with more than one display anyway. Surely the black lines separating the monitors must drive you insane?[/QUOTE] It's a bit like when you're wearing glasses, after a time your brain ignores the lines.

[video]https://youtu.be/KagoB8G-63A[/video]

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;51631048]That's what I do but when I play games I just use the one screen. Using 2 or 3 for one game seems like it'd provide less than no benefit and just be annoying overall.[/QUOTE] 3 is great for flight sims and racing games. 2 is pretty useless unless it still centers on one screen so whatever you're looking at isn't split in half. Burnout does dual screen well. The car and HUD elements are on one screen with the other used for peripheral vision. [t]https://baksteenbrick.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/photo0071.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=laserpanda;51628687]There's also the gScreen Space Book with two identically dozed monitors.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/utR0IFx.png[/img] ...huh

[QUOTE=paul simon;51630497]My keyboard and mouse disagrees. My experience with Razer stuff is that it's: - cheap (deathadder & blackwidow were the cheapest gaming mice & mechanical keyboards respectively at the time i purchased them) - durable (bought them like 4-5 years ago) [editline]6th January 2017[/editline] It's a joke from that one time when they saved PC gaming[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure I've told you this already but razer from 4-5 years ago is not at all the products today. The original run of the blackwidow and the older deathadders are great devices, though their software is basically malware. The newer ones are pretty trash.

The razer blade was phenomenal, this should be interesting.

[QUOTE=GammaFive;51626927]Outside of the whole gaming thing, the triple display laptop could be neat for productivity as it's essentially a portable workstation.[/QUOTE] Productivity, yes, absolutely. To the point I'm almost surprised Microsoft hasn't tried to implement the idea. But for gaming? Triple monitors is extremely superfluous on a desktop, let alone a laptop.

[QUOTE=GammaFive;51626927]Outside of the whole gaming thing, the triple display laptop could be neat for productivity as it's essentially a portable workstation.[/QUOTE] or for tradeshows and stuff where you just pop it out and all the screens fold out, nothing to fiddle around with just 1 power cord, 1 very hot power supply... [editline]6th January 2017[/editline] i wonder if they'll make a keyboard out of that new low profile laptop mechanical keyboard

[QUOTE=darth-veger;51631020]I don't game on my two display setup but it sure is handy to put spotify and other programs on the second screen, or a wiki/guide for some games[/QUOTE] Likewise. I have a 1280x1024 off to the left of my main 1080p display. I only ever put games on the main screen and it's fine, but the second screen is a major boon for productivity or multitasking or even just throwing up a guide when I [i]am[/i] gaming. I don't always use it, but the times it's been essential to doing something more than makes up for the times it just sits there. Speaking of odd laptop form-factors like this and with all the crazy screen-flipping going around with 2-in-1s, why no one's ever tried to do something like the Flybook VM ever again: [img]http://i.imgur.com/rahdFAB.png[/img] One of my biggest problems with laptops has always been how low the screen is and how bad that is ergonomically, and you'd think more people would jump on the telescoping neck thing. Think about a 2-in-1 with a build like that. Just have it flip all the way over and shut itself for tablet mode. Imagine the Surface Book with a neck like that (I guess the screen can still pop off if you [i]really[/i] wanted it to.) Surface Studio is already halfway there, just adopt that for a laptop form factor.