Project Fiona - New Tablet concept from Razer

psychas said:
they should have made only tablet without controllers sticking out , and you could able to plug mouse & keyboard to it and play or wireless controller.
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...but that would be a completely different product. They're clearly trying to make a device that lets you play PC games on the move, what you're describing would just be a crap laptop.



I think this would be better if the controllers were a cradle that you could place a normal tablet into and connect via bluetooth or something. Of course you'd be limited to mobile games but that is a growing market.
 
Naffa said:
Someone from Razer said that they could potentially have it out at the end of the year, and that it would cost around $1,000.

No thanks. :p
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I'm out.
 
And also, it has USB connectivity and support mouse and keyboard.

I haven't been in the hardware game for a while now, but for approximately $1,000, surely I could purchase a half decent laptop that could run some modern games on it?
 
So.. what OS will this be running? A Core i7 suggests Windows, but W8 isn't due for a while?

I can kind of see the point of what they are trying to do, but I get the feeling its an answer to a question nobody asked...

A Windows tablet with a keyboard peripheral that would also allow adding Bluetooth joypads would be a far more interesting prospect.
 
Eames said:
Yeah, two kids in the back of a car would like it I'm sure.
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You're kidding right? No way is it big enough to have between you in a car and even if it was, for a fraction of the cost you could buy 2 PSPs or DS's.

Why would retail outlets use it to showcase PC games? Its not as if retail outlets even sell PC games in most places and they would more than likely just hook it up to a console and use that version instead because its quick and easy.
 
I love being able to sit in bed and browse or read or email on this ipad2, have wondered in the next year or so will any tablet be made powerful enough and designed in such a way as to allow me to play the likes of lotro. Now clearly i can do this on a lappy, but it misses the lightness and mobility of a tablet.
Just wondered what is ahead for that style of system.
 
I really dont see why people are so upset about this? It looks like an interesting solution. The price is a little high but it's not that much more expensive than an iPad and presumably has regular tablet function as well as being able to play real games on it.

A laptop may present better value for money but a laptop isn't a portable gaming device in the same vain. Laptop keyboards are weird, and you need an external mouse (thus a surface to play on) to make the most of it's gaming. If you use a gamepad with your laptop, you still need somewhere to put the laptop while you play. I've got a dirty great gaming laptop (Asus G74SX) and while it's fine for taking home for the holidays it's not a portable solution. At 5kg it's as heavy as a small child, and it only fits in 3 laptop bags produced on Earth. At twice the price as the Fiona, it really isn't twice as good (as a portable gaming device).

I'm interested.
 
DampCat said:
I really dont see why people are so upset about this? It looks like an interesting solution. The price is a little high but it's not that much more expensive than an iPad and presumably has regular tablet function as well as being able to play real games on it.

A laptop may present better value for money but a laptop isn't a portable gaming device in the same vain. Laptop keyboards are weird, and you need an external mouse (thus a surface to play on) to make the most of it's gaming. If you use a gamepad with your laptop, you still need somewhere to put the laptop while you play. I've got a dirty great gaming laptop (Asus G74SX) and while it's fine for taking home for the holidays it's not a portable solution. At 5kg it's as heavy as a small child, and it only fits in 3 laptop bags produced on Earth. At twice the price as the Fiona, it really isn't twice as good (as a portable gaming device).

I'm interested.
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I think people do see it as being a alternative to a laptop in terms of size, but does it have the gaming credentials of a laptop in terms of hardware is the question.

There is a video of it playing skyrim so perhaps concerns are unjustified, its just that we have yet to see a tablet device that can match a gaming laptop in its main selling point - 3D processing.
 
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