Razer Edge and Edge Pro Owner's Lounge

Yeah yeah, it's fine, just don't use the integrated graphics. I just played defense grid for a bit and it got the same stop error, but it was using the integrated graphics for some reason too. It's totally stable now that I forced it to the Nvidia chip. Bioshock Infinite runs awesome btw, no need to turn the settings to low.

 

Have you guys all purchased the gamepad controller ($250) accessory or are you using a combination of dock keyboard/mouse/xbox controller ??? was wondering if $250 is a necessary expense for the complete experience ???

 

Mine is backordered with BestBuy until the end of the month, but no... I passed on the controller and the accessories. I may get the controller handles sometime in the future if they come down in price, but the only attachment I'm really interested in is the keyboard dock (which I'm told won't be out until Q3)

I spent way too much on this tablet already...

 

How much did you spend and which model 128/256??? Also you got the dock right ?

I am considering selling my macbookpro and getting this since I have a m18x ... any suggestions ... since this will get me mobile

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I had some store credit w/ Best Buy from a TV I returned last christmas, so I only ended up paying about 1340.00 with tax for the 256GB model. The retail price is like 1499.99 or something. I probably shouldn't have dropped this much money on a tablet, but I'm really in love with the form factor and the coolness of this device. I'd like to use it as a media center to drive my TV, maybe do some light gaming on it when I travel, and so forth...

but to answer your question, I didn't get the console dock, controller dock, or anything else... just the tablet. After dropping like 1300 bucks, I'm pretty much wiped out. I will definitely end up picking up one (or a few) of the attachments later when I have the money, but for now I'm just going with the tablet. I have a wired Xbox controller that I think will suffice just fine.

 

I just got the tablet, the accessories are nice but too much more $$. I have enough laptops and other devices, I won't be hooking this up to my TV ever. The keyboard might be worth it though.

 

Has anyone here tried opening the Edge to see if it can be upgraded? There is a guy on ebay selling an Edge that he upgraded to 10gb ram and a 240gb SSD. If it's an easy process, it would probably be cheaper to get the lowest end model and then throw in a upgraded SSD and ram. I will post the link but remember that I do not know this guy and it's not my auction.

Razer Edge i5 Upgraded to 240GB and 10GB RAM New One of A Kind not Pro | eBay

 

The only issue is that the warranty is totally voided.

 

hmm, don't think i'd buy an i5 edge for that much money considering the i7 256gb with 8gb ram is cheaper... now if it had 512gb or 480gb ssd maybe...

 

Awesome ...thanks for the info ...so I'm wondering ...how do you game on it ...without the stand ...as in how do u keep it from falling .....I thought the dock is a must have ...cause I'll buy it if I can save on the dock

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I may try to get the stand next week, but so far Amazon doesn't have it listed anymore.

 

True. With all the talk about heat issues, it wouldn't be worth it to void the warranty out of the box unless someone has money to blow.

 

Got mine yesterday , so far so good... Only issue is that when searching through Google or Yahoo search , touch screen won't open search results with touch, have to hold link to open tab icon to force the link open.... is this a normal or a windows 8 issue?

 

Hey can I ask... Who did you order through?

 

I order through amazon...Got lucky as they had a few in stock on Thursday. Maybe I spoke to soon , tried running Street Fighter 4 but can't get to launch, steam says there is an error, maybe not compatible with windows 8... not sure why it won't start.

Civilization 5 is working fine, Street fighter 4, I will try and reload again...should mention I got the i7, 128gb version....

 

Did you order the dock ? How are you guys playing without the stand?

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Do you have a lot of compatibility issues with games? I thought Windows 8 was just a reskin of Windows 7

 

Got mine all set up. Razer Edge powering four screens!!

 

that's hilarious. got mine hooked up my 23" Samsung when not in controller mode. really rarely use it standalone in tablet mode. as for touchscreen search boxes, I've found you have to hold your finger a little longer to make the kb pop up. no big deal. installing batman arkham city goty now. need to try the tomb raider patch. anybody open theirs up yet (brave soul), besides the guy claiming to on ebay?

 

I have only downloaded 2 games civilization 5 worked, street fighter 4 will not load. someone had success earlier in this thread with street fighter 4... I will post which games will work and those i have issues with , maybe others can do the same.

 

Best Buy has an estimated ship date for the 28th - 5th for my Razer Edge. I really hope it ships out early... I've called them twice last week and they keep telling me they're waiting on Razer to ship more product to them.

I gotta say... this whole experience has been frustrating. How does a company make money when 90% of its products are out of stock and take 4-6 WEEKS to ship? I understand Razer is a small company, but this is ridiculous. They should have stockpiled warehouses of these tablets before they opened up orders. This whole "Let's let the tablets trickle out as we make them" model is frustrating and dumb, especially since I know people who have been waiting about 2 months now.

 

I understand your frustration , because I have been thinking of buying an edge but what puts me off is the 2+ month wait .....i honestly would pay someone almost full price for there edge on marketplace ....provided someone decided to sell it !!

 

It seems like all new Razer releases are always sold out for a long time. Off the top of my head, the Tiamat, Sabertooth, Blade Gen 1, and the Onza were all OOS for months when they came out. Hell, even the Ouroboros came out last year and I still haven't been able to find one at retail price. I guess they underestimate demand for each and every product that they release.

 

Best Buy is telling me that if they can't fill my order 14 days after the estimated shipping date, they're gonna cancel my order. I really hope this isn't the case...

 

Let us know what happens. I have credit at Bestbuy and that's where I plan to order one from in a few weeks.

 

the thing is, for any company, when you build a product, you can only build so many based on your allotted capital, which is based off how many you think you can sell at initial release balanced by how much money you can invest into that particular product. that makes it extremely hard for a company to keep a large stock pile of a certain product at launch, particularly an expensive product that they arent 100% confident of profitability yet. what makes it worse, is they also have to budget in all the other products they make as well. Im sure any company would love nothing more than to supply each and every customer that wants a product at launch, a copy of that product, but realistically they cant due to budgeting, time to manufacture and other costs. not to mention the fact that on a new product like the edge, they have some amount of money spent on R&D which most likely came from that initial budget as well. Hence, why Razer continually changes their newer products on the store page from notify me to preorder and back, as they can only fulfill so many pre-orders per batch that are created. now this is not to say that they probably dont have a few hundred squirrled away but those are most likely held back for RMA purposes, contests, press events etc. where they need to have one. otherwise, you would end up having a huge waiting game if you needed to RMA your shiny new edge pro, and had to get in line with all the next run produced.

Im not sure how Razer deals with the third party sellers like amazon and best buy, but logically i would think they would take their batch, lets say 10,000 and divide it up based on what they project the sales and particular markets would be. so maybe 2000 for the razer store, and 4000 each for amazon/best buy or whatever. im guessing at the numbers obviously, but i would bet money they have a similar system.

i know, im not really sure what is up with the Ouroboros. i seem to recall it being announced last year towards fall. i saw it once at best buy near me, and i havnt seen it since. for the longest time it was listed as coming soon since then on razer's site or something similar to that. and then i just got an email last week announcing the release of the ouroboros. i should have bought it when i saw it then.....

 

The Ouroburos is in stock at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008U5ZM7I/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1366768448&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

 

I've been watching that one but the thing is that he is selling it for $185 (including shipping) while the msrp is only $129. I guess I don't want it bad enough to pay the markup lol.

 

An Update has landed:

Razer Launcher

Features:
- Full keyboard layout for in-game virtual keyboard.
- User can switch Razer in-game virtual keyboard like the Windows desktop virtual keyboard.
- Offline mode.
- FPS features will work when launching games from desktop shortcuts.
- Auto-launch Launcher & Bypass Metro mode.
- Launcher is locked to landscape mode.


Release Log:
- User no longer needs to press the F13 key twice to launch the Windows desktop virtual keyboard.
- Virtual keyboard no longer shows up automatically when launching a game or returning from alt-tab.
- Virtual keyboard will no longer sometimes show itself after pressing the F13 key to hide the keyboard.
- Installing Comms will no longer disable the virtual keyboard.
- Launcher is no longer blocked from starting when running Game Booster with Screencast on.
- Taps to virtual keyboard in-game will no longer move the game’s point of view in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Left 4 Dead 2, and Call of Duty: Black Ops.
- Guild Wars 2 is found properly in the Game Scanner.
- Guild Wars 2 launcher interface no longer gets stuck by the virtual keyboard.
- Virtual Keyboard will no longer appear when travelling across map sections in Guild Wars 2.
- Screen will no longer have visual distortion when the user moves the Razer cursor to the side of the screen when running a game in 4:3 aspect ratio.

 

Looks like both high end models are back in stock at razerzone.com.

 

Oh wow that's awesome! I hope they sent some to Best Buy...

 

I know I might not be in the right place but maybe you guys can help me out. I'm looking at a Eurocom Panther 4.0. It can be configured with 2x 4GB 680M SLI, and an Intel Xeon E5-2687W Cpu, 16Gb 1600 Ram, and a 660W PSU for $6407 USD. Can anyone give me some info on this company and the build quality of their notebooks? Thanks

 

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Yeah, just got my email. (Two actually, one saying the preorder date has been changed to April 25th.). The second saying my order would cancel if it can't be shipped by April 30th

 

I only got one email, saying the release date had changed to today (the 25th)... I didn't get any email about an order cancellation if it hasn't shipped by the 30th

 

Lame, Razer store isn't taking Paypal any longer. Or at least not for me which is weird as I literally ordered an orbweaver stealth on sat with paypal

 

head over to the clevo/sager part of the forum. They will help you out.

 

Just got an email from Best Buy saying they're gonna cancel my order if it doesn't ship by the 30th.

Anyone else heard from Best Buy?

 

Maybe you could change your order to the 128gb model since it's still in stock at bestbuy.com. If you are a rewards zone silver member, you can return it in 60 days and buy the 256gb model then.

 

Amazon had a few of the regular Edge and Edge Pro in stock this morning ...They usually don't last long..... no dock or game pad yet..

 

It seems that razer store usa i guess has all models in stock right now
Ordered mine on Bestbuy.com though they said i should have it by tomorrow when i called the order in but they haven't even validated my payment........
or give me a tracking number actually..... not seeing how this is going to be possible lol

 

I just checked and the 256 Pro model is out of stock again. It's also listed as sold out on Best Buy. This was the model I ordered on the 16th and has been backordered since.

 

Does anyone know of a place to buy the controller from? Since the controller is pretty much a necessity, I thought they should be available at least in a 1:1 ratio to the tablets. I have yet to see any controllers in stock for the past couple weeks.

 

Does anyone know if you can get a replacement battery and/or of any external batteries that might work with the Razer Edge? (Since it features a proprietary charger there's no tip on your typical external batteries)

The biggest issue I'm going to have when it gets here (due for delivery on Wednesday) is battery life, a second battery (if you can even open the back?) or an external battery (maybe one with an actual outlet?) would help correct the problem..

 

I read in a review (don't remember which) that you can charge the extended battery directly without attaching it to the Edge. If that's the case, you can buy a couple of extra extended batteries and keep them with you while swapping them out on the charger. The only issue is that you cannot use the extended battery without either the controller or the upcoming keyboard dock.

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-accessories/extended-battery-pack-for-the-razer-edge

 

I don't much like the gaming controller and the keyboard dock isn't released yet, it poses a problem for me because I can neither use the extended battery nor use any alternative..

 

Where did you order from?

 

The Razer store, i'm located in the USA east coast.

 

Amazon on the 256 model
$1669.99 $1,449.99
Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
ouch 1 - 3 months good grief

 

The 256 model is 1-3 months but the 128 model is 5-7 business days?

 

I just placed a order for the 256gb. With newer games that are 20-30gbs, 128gb is not enough for me. Hopefully they put the controller up for pre-order soon.