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hey guys this is Austin it's Tim here at CES 2018 with razors project Linda so what might look like an ordinary laptop this is actually being powered by the razor phone so essentially the hardware is kind of similar to something like the razor blade stealth so you're still getting a 13-inch display but instead of having windows and a standard like core processor inside everything is being run off of the razor phone now the idea has been done before what hasn't is something that well actually isn't terrible now to be clear this is still a concept so it's not necessarily going to be on sale and there are some changes before this would hit production but the idea of being able to take your phone spend all day using it as a standard phone and when you're ready dropping it in and turning into a laptop is really cool so it all starts with the razor phone now say what you will about the hardware but it is beefy and it actually matches the laptop pretty well so instead of having a standard trackpad what we do is we actually just drop the phone in and then with one button it motorized 'as the little USB C port and the actual laptop will turn on so it takes just a second right now obviously this is a prototype once it's up and running these phone screen just turns into a trackpad they've actually done a lot of interesting engineering to make this work so we hit the button to detach the phone there's just going to be a little cutout here where we can actually can grab it what's cool is not only does this keep the power button exposed we also still have access to the fingerprint sensor now what's cool is we can actually even motorized it without the phone ends you can see the USB port which kind of pops in and pops out also I just really like the noise just sounds so cool not only does the phone serve as the trackpad right now but it also is still going to be using these speakers now if you guys caught my best smartphones with 2070 video you know that the razor phone has these best speakers of any phone I've ever tried so using this for a laptop should work just fine the rest of the hardware should be very familiar if you tried a recent razor laptop we have full control over the RGB lighting so even though the configurator is a little bit lighter than what you're gonna get on Windows we can still do things like getting full RGB wave because you know I should not have any say of that it's very colorful beyond that the rest of the hardware is fairly straightforward so there is a actual battery inside they'll be able to charge the phone while it's docked but beyond that you've got a USB C port for charging a headphone jack as well as a full size USB a and they said they would like to add an HDMI port at a later date but for a prototype this is actually pretty close it feels fairly straightforward as far as the the build quality it feels a lot honestly like a razor blade stealth which is definitely a good thing this guy is rocking a 13.3 inch panel with a 1080p resolution at least for now so the main issue is with the prototype at least it is not a touchscreen so the final version it would be nice to at least have that touchscreen that you could use alongside the phone but if they could bump it up to say 120 Hertz or maybe even 1440p that would be awesome because this is all Android some apps will look better than others but for example YouTube actually is not too bad I will also say is really nice to have a proper keyboard so while the actual touchpad experience is maybe not quite fully fine-tuned you can't just plug a mouse in and it should work just like this dude this sounds like proper laptop speakers I've listened to lots of laptops they're nowhere near this loud but it's all just coming from the phone well most Android apps are going to run fine some are actually going to be specifically optimized for a larger display such as Lightroom now this is maybe not going to be the full experience but what you're getting here is something that isn't going to be pretty impressive especially considering that it is after all running on a phone so this is how I edit photos just crank everything up you know we just saturation it's just yeah crank that and that's obviously a beautiful beautiful image Wes doesn't approve I can I can feel it right now so it's a hard no the paint look on your face like pink of saturation no no of course as a Razer product Gaming has to be on the agenda and here we're going to play a little bit of vainglory this is a game that obviously we run fine on the razer phone but with a mouse and keyboard make it curious to see how it plays I'm still really impressed with just how close this feels like I'm playing on an actual laptop the screen is nice the speakers are solid especially with this keyboard it does make a big difference the reason Project Linda is surprisingly close to being ready however it is still a concept right now sonali does the hardware need some tweaks specifically by adding a touchscreen maybe something like an HDMI ports but the software also could use some work but my big question here is what is the price going to be considering that this only works with the Razer phone if this was somewhere around $300 I think would be a pretty solid deal but if it gets closer to four or five or six hundred dollars that's or becomes a little bit more questionable but I'm curious what do you guys think about Razer Project Linda let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one