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Razer is calling the edge or edge Pro depending on which view you go for the first tablet truly designed for gamers welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner now there's a number of different models available they start at $9.99 that gets you a core i5 with 8 gigs around the 64 gig SSD although remember guys it's a Windows 8 tablet so in terms of actual usable storage space you're looking at about 32 gigs left over ok it has a GT 640 and in fact all of the models have that the highest end model is at $14.99 gets you a 256 gig SSD as well as a core i7 and then the one in between do I say $14.99 mm 1449 and then there's a $12.99 model that gets you a core i7 with a 128 gig SSD so there's a pretty natural progression here in terms of price points the unit is capable of running as you can see dirt showdown it is actually gaming capable or at least as gaming capable as a lightweight laptop with any kind of a GT 640 M type of GPU in it in terms of expansion they've got a whole bunch of really cool accessories so there are actually bundle packs where you can get it with the controller that you see this gentleman using right here that fits the tablet inside of it and then adds 2 analog sticks a d-pad as well as buttons that you can push it looks like there are some shoulder pads shoulder keys up at the top as well and we're going to get over there in a moment anyway so here we're just running it with the little dock station you can see how smooth it's running actually that I'm going to turn this away from you so you're gonna crash for sure adds extra expandability to the unit so you can add three USB ports you can add HDMI headphones microphone and this right here is for power you can see there's two vents on the back for cooling you've got a volume rocker up here as well as you know what I'm just gonna pull it right off the dock on you here okay power here power input here that looks like USB 3 USB 3.0 speakers down here on the bottom are in stereo so if you're holding it the way you'd normally hold it tablet you're gonna get decent audio out of it unlike Apple with their older iPad speakers where it's like right under where you hold the tablet which is ridiculous and I would like to emphasize that while it is capable of running heart and look at that it goes right away while it is capable of running hardcore games like this guys it's not gonna run forever on battery life we're looking at a couple hours of battery life if you're running an all-out 3d title but what you're getting is the versatility so it is a Windows 8 tablet running GeForce GPU and Intel processor that means you can run anything you want on it you're not limited to plants vs. zombies but you could still play fountain plants versus zombies if you wanted it's also available with a keyboard dock and we're gonna actually cut this and show you that in just a moment now the keyboard docks not coming till q3 it will make the unit a little bit bigger I realized I didn't talk much about the overall thickness and weight but you can see this gentleman over here is actually using it fairly comfortably what would you say about the weight sir you say it's more optimized for something like sitting on a couch or would you ride the bus with it that's what I was just figuring out like holding it up it's really difficult but if you aim it down like it's clearly meant for sitting on your lap or you know you know on the couch you know it's definitely not something you hold up like this yeah thank you for your fair and unbiased feedback he had no idea we were gonna do that to him so the point is that there will be a variety of docs available with it this is a keyboard dock that's the gamepad dock they've got expansion docks there's going to be an expansion dock that comes that enables more i/o and all kinds of good stuff like that but peripherals are gonna come out for it over time I want to actually drift us back over to the original one we checked out so that I can show you guys with my trademark iPhone comparison how thick the unit is now most Windows 8 x86 server x64 tablets are a little bit thicker than the ARM based ones that it's something we've come to expect this one is thicker than those but remember guys this has a dedicated GPU in it not an IGP and I can actually this is cool razor didn't tell me this but all of the heat being generated is here these are still cool to the touch very nice touch because this has been sitting here running dirt showdown which means that if it's not hot now it's not getting hot thank you for checking out the razor oh shoot I forget what it's hot razor edge check thank you for checking out the razor edge with us don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage subscribe to Linus tech tips thanks for watching - 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