While it's an out of the ordinary pierce is to marginal maker, it's not a leaving from their core competency. Gaming laptops might have whittled down the bulk compulsory for a high-end gaming experience but they're still far from portable. Inversely, netbooks are usually apropos increasingly able laptop replacements, but drop partial when conducting the many rigorous tasks ... similar to video gaming.
But you do know what the Switchblade looks like. We had a luck to fool around with it at Razer's CES counter and came divided really tender with what you saw. In partial the Switchblade is a netbook running Windows 7 on Intel hardware. Up tip is a 1024x600 7" multitouch display; on the bottom is a flattering fancy set of keys featuring an LCD shade covered in a touchscreen covering and pure set of keys keys. That set of keys offers two poignant features: 1) the aptitude to emanate custom, game-specific controls and 2) the give of UI elements from the already tiny shade to the far more organic keyboard.
And that's the representation is to Switchblade. When asked (repeatedly) about the cost or let go date, a Razer repute told us that they were targeting a netbook cost operation since, simply, that's the competition. They can't cost it ample aloft and can't means to cost it ample lower, so you suppose a aim label of rougly $300 to $500. As for when we'll see it on store shelves, he was ample cagier. This section is a antecedent and even the name "Switchblade" is a codename (you can discuss it given it doesn't follow Razer's increasingly nonsensical "deadly predators" fixing convention). Razer will positively have more to share at E3, but we're guessing a 2011 launch is out of the question. But until things are a little more official, you can all suppose a future where pocket-sized gaming PCs thrive ... and where MMO junkies leave their gaming caves.
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