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hi-y yes that is BioShock Infinite and it was playing on a tiny little Windows 8 tablet I'm Scott Stein and this is the razor edge what is it it is a tablet designed for gaming and it is very versatile it comes in a variety of different forms a base 10 inch tablet that is touchscreen the coolest thing about the razor age are the accessories and this gamepad that it docks into really turns into something that looks like it escaped III but it's gonna cost you this is $249 extra that's the cost of a regular video game console ladies and gentlemen on top of a tablet base price which can range anywhere from $9.99 up to 1449 for the unit that we have which is a core i7 processor 256 gigabyte SSD eight gigs of ram and then nvidia geforce 640 le processor 2 gigabytes those are nice specs they definitely compete with the high end of the Ultrabook market and with a decent laptop but they're not going to match what you would get on a sort of quad-core CPU or higher end Nvidia graphics the sort of stuff that comes to the Territorian that you'd be paying for with this so you're paying up for the design but it's a very cool design keep in mind though that this interesting gamepad which docks nicely and cleanly is heavy it's about 4 pounds for this entire configuration here so it's not sunk you're gonna want to hold in your hands although it's kind of comfortable to do that it's more of a lap gaming system and hey you'll impress your friends on the train the buttons here match where you expect on a console dual analog pads that click full backlit LED buttons here analog triggers shoulder buttons dual shoulder buttons on each side and vibration feedback so you know soup-to-nuts it's got it all though the layout feels a little bit different than you get on a gaming console maybe a little shifted to the front sometimes it can feel a little bit awkward but far better than you get on a gaming handheld like a 3ds or a PlayStation Vita there's also a battery pack an additional battery pack option inside the gamepad itself which is good because the battery runs out fast when you're playing games maybe as only as little as an hour if you're playing with all the game settings a ratchet so put in that sliced battery which costs extra again and you're gonna be able to boost up your gameplay a little bit the tablet has decent specs similar to a surface pro in terms of a four hour ish battery life enough to get your work done but nothing that's going to not you know blow you away in terms of battery performance in the tablet landscape who is this for clearly gamers this is a gaming device they got a credit razor here because no one's entered this landscape yet nobody's come up with this type of versatile solution to gaming and you are really kind of paying for that design and that concept more than you're paying for something that is a top-of-the-line performance product although what's nice is that this all works as advertised there's no and a special software or or features that you're waiting to be unveiled later everything plugs in and goes it worked with steam it works of origin you know and then the controller buttons map very nicely and if you don't like that again you can use the touchscreen you can use a mouse or a keyboard you could even set this thing up like a little PC in the corner and a lot of the games look pretty nice just looking at this 1366 by 768 screen but keep in mind that's not a great resolution compared to other ones you get in this landscape the surface pro is a 1080p screen so other tablets at this point are really ratcheting up the the resolution and this lacks a few extra features that you do see in those there is no SD card slot in here and there is also no rear camera although I don't know if you want to take pictures with this thing there is a single USB 3.0 port right up here now if you connect the dock you get three more USB 3.0 ports which covers your bases there is no built-in HDMI on the tablet itself you'll need the dock for that and it connects via the same pin port that this game bag controller and the charger pop into and connecting this game pad is really not so bad there are latches on the bottom so you pop it out here and then you detach it and that's it once it's in it's pretty solid it doesn't like to detach you load it in the top you put it in yes snap it in it gives you a little bit of a vibrational feedback to tell you that locked and it won't fall out and you know actually feels kind of nice and sturdy to hold next-gen consoles maybe around the corner and there's a lot more to come this year where will the Razer edge fit in this kind of feels like the future of PC gaming and the fact that it can work just as well on your TV or in your hands or with a keyboard and mouse is a great sign of where pcs could go the question is will the Razer edge be the ultimate product in that territory or will it be stuff coming down the road that might even beat it at its own game we'll have to see but if you want something that does for gaming what the surface pro does for computing well take a look at the Razer edge and be ready to pay up I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the Razer edge Windows 8 gaming tablet