As we're sure you can imagine, such an intense graphical workout comes with some caveats when it comes to heat, noise and battery life - but more on this point later. This goes all the way up to DirectX 11 behemoths like Metro: Last Light or Crysis 3. Whether you go with touch controls, a wired 360 pad or Razer's optional gamepad accessory, the device takes every measure to make playing the most demanding PC games on the go possible at circa 30FPS. The control methods are geared towards the enthusiast gamer crowd also. Rather than running on Microsoft's Windows RT kernel (designed for ARM-based tablets), the Intel 圆4 architecture of the device means it can run a full-fat version of Windows 8, making it open season for all of the Steam games in your existing library. It's just as well that the raison d'etre of the Edge is as ambitious as its specs. Although Razer is reticent to disclose an official UK price at the moment, this is always destined to convert to a daunting minus number on your credit card bill. At its most expensive, the tablet also comes installed with a 256GB SSD, where this higher-tier unit is setting US buyers back by as much as $1499 - obviously not an impulse buy, then.
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At $999 the cheapest edition comes equipped with a Core i5 CPU clocked at 1.6GHz, while the Pro edition we have for review boasts a Core i7, with its two cores running at 1.9GHz apiece.
Processor-wise, we're looking at Intel's ultra-low voltage Ivy Bridge processors. It's a full-on 28nm Kepler chip with support for PhysX, too, which sets it a league apart from the performance of the Intel HD 4000 found in Microsoft's current pack-leader, the Surface Pro. With a discrete Nvidia GT 640M LE GPU, the graphical horsepower of this device is absolutely unprecedented in the tablet space. However, that's because the Edge first and foremost strives to be the most powerful gaming handheld in the market, and it's safe to say that it makes good on that pledge. On first glance the Edge presents itself as a conventional black-bezeled tablet with a 10.1-inch IPS screen - nothing out of the ordinary, though perhaps a bit over-bulked for the purposes of web browsing and a spot of Angry Birds HD. With the US launch of the Razer Edge in March and a UK release pending for later this year, we have a device that dares to declare itself all things to all users.
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Your expectations of cutting-edge portable gaming are about to be challenged.
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