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Razer’s “Project Fiona” is a High Performance Gaming Tablet

By Brian P Rubin | 11 January 2012 | 6 Comments   

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The folks behind the gaming laptop for crazy millionaires is back, this time with “Project Fiona,” which is the codename for the high-end gaming tablet from Razer. The tablet was unveiled at CES in Las Vegas yesterday, and it features an Intel Core i7 processor to allow for high-quality PC gaming performance, says a post on GamesIndustry today.

As you can see from the image of the prototype device above, the tablet comes with two mounted handles, each with analog sticks and four face buttons. The GamesIndustry post explains that the tablet will also feature standard issue accelerometers and a multi-touch screen—though the accelerometers are being billed as “ultra-precise.”

Brad Graff from Intel offered this statement about the device:

“Project Fiona’s combination of high performance Intel-based gaming hardware and innovative tablet design is specifically focused for PC gamers […] It will unleash the PC gamer to play their existing and future high-end games in one of the most exciting new form factors—a tablet.”

The price of the device is projected at being under $1,000. Which, last time I checked, is a shit-ton of money for even just a PC, let alone a tablet.

I’m going to say it right now: this thing sounds ridiculous. Just because tablets are popular right now does not mean that we need a $900 tablet that’s built for playing games…and has two giant controllers attached to its sides. Isn’t the whole point of a tablet to eliminate the physical inputs of the computer? If you’re going to go to all the trouble of shrinking things down into a single screen, why would you tack to sticks on the side?

Tablets are also built for portability—and I cannot fathom how anyone taking this thing out of their backpack in a coffee shop wouldn’t look like a first-class tool box.

I just—I just don’t know about this one.

Via GamesIndustry

6 Comments

  1. Posted by Lawrence Sonntag on 11 January 12 at 10:14am

    I want it god damnit. I want it so much. If I had disposable income I’d get this so hard.

  2. Posted by tehfreddie on 11 January 12 at 10:38am

    One step forward, two steps back …
    What’s next an iPod with a mouse?

  3. Posted by zx2654 on 11 January 12 at 1:54pm

    I don’t want to sound like an idiot but I want one if it has steam support PC gaming is difficult on my computer and a gaming PC is way more expensive than this. It seems so simple to me but I also bought a 3DSso don’t judge me to hard

    • Posted by Jessey on 12 January 12 at 5:19pm

      A gaming pc isn’t way more expensive than this.. its cheaper, you can make 700 dollar budget builds that’ll wreck this POS tablet any day.

  4. Posted by tehfreddie on 12 January 12 at 1:36am

    Don’t get me wrong if someone were to give it to me for free, I wouldn’t throw it away. It’s just that I feel my hard earned money would be wasted on this. Especially because I have a decent PC.
    @zx2654
    The good thing about PCs is that you don’t have to buy a complete new one everytime it gets too weak for your games but you can just exchange the weaker parts. So if you have some parts left from a previous PC I’m not a 100% sure it really is much more expensive.

  5. Posted by Mr.Me on 12 January 12 at 6:49pm

    I would rather buy not 1 or 2, but 3!! graphics card to install into my pc. Tablet? Just Laughable

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