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Award-Winning Razer Blade, Edge Pro, Now Available at Best Buy
One-of-a-kind Razer systems exclusively available for in-store purchase at renowned retailer
For Immediate Release:
CARLSBAD, Calif. – October 7, 2013 – Razer™, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, software and systems, today announced that two of its prizewinning PC systems, the Razer Blade and Razer Edge Pro, are available for in-store purchase at Best Buy.
Both the Blade and Edge Pro will be featured in approximately 100 Best Buy locations nationally, including most major markets.
“Two years ago, Razer was known as a niche company that made the world’s best gaming peripherals,” says Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder, CEO and creative director. “Today, we are leading the charge in tablet and laptop innovation with systems available at Best Buy stores across the country. This is truly a gratifying day for our company and for gamers and computer aficionados alike.”
The Blade is the thinnest and lightest 14-inch gaming laptop in history and it captured an Editor’s Choice award from PC Mag this summer. Measuring just 0.66-inches thin, the Razer Blade packs more power-per-cubic-inch than any other laptop in the world.
The Razer Edge Pro, the world’s most powerful tablet and the first designed for PC gamers, bested all comers at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), winning CNET’s “Best of Show” and “People’s Voice” awards amidst a competitive field of approximately 20,000 products. It also won several highly competitive distinctions from Popular Science, TechRadar and LAPTOP Magazine, among others.
Best Buy, one of the largest and most respected retail chains in the United States, will be the first U.S. retailer to sell Razer’s award-winning computers, and the chain is an exclusive partner to sell the Blade and Edge Pro in-store nationwide.
About the Razer Blade 14-inch Gaming Laptop
Designed from the ground up, the new Razer™ Blade 14-inch gaming laptop is designed and engineered to fit both form and function. With a 0.66-inch ultra-thin profile crafted from aluminum, along with the best performance in the 14-inch laptop class, the Razer Blade sets a new benchmark for gaming laptops.
A 4th gen Intel® Core™ i7-4702HQ, quad core processor, the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 765M graphics processor and groundbreaking storage performance are engineered into the world’s thinnest gaming laptop.
The Razer Blade is designed for gaming with essential gaming grade peripherals built-in. The laptop features Razer Synapse 2.0 pre-installed, a fully programmable anti-ghosting backlit keyboard, adjustable ultra-sensitive track pad and plenty of green USB 3.0 ports that are ready to plug and play. Do more, game more, anywhere, anytime.
Price:
$1,999
Availability:
Best Buy – For a complete list of locations in your area, visit www.razerzone.com/pages/razer-resellers
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Product features:
• Intel® Core™ i7-4702HQ, quad core processor with Hyper-Threading 2.2 GHz / 3.2 GHz (Base/Turbo)
• 8 GB Onboard Memory (DDR3L – 1600 MHz)
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 765M (2 GB GDDR5) & Intel HD4600
• Windows® 8 64 Bit
• 256 GB SSD (mSATA)
• Qualcomm® Killer™ NIC N1202 (802.11a/b/g/n + Bluetooth® 4.0)
• 14.0 in. HD+ 16:9 Ratio, 1600 x 900, with LED backlight
• Built-in stereo speakers
• 3.5 mm audio microphone/headphone combo jack
• Array microphone
• (3x) USB 3.0 port (SuperSpeed)
• HDMI 1.4a audio and video output
• Dolby® Home Theater® v4
• 7.1 Codec support (via HDMI)
• Built-in full HD webcam (1.3 MP)
• Compact 150 W Power Adapter
• Built-in 70 Wh Rechargeable lithium ion polymer battery
• Razer™ Anti-Ghosting Keyboard (with adjustable backlight)
• Razer™ Synapse 2.0 Enabled
• Kensington Lock
• 13.6 in. / 345 mm (Width) x 0.66 in. / 16.8 mm (Height) x 9.3 in. / 235 mm (Depth)
• 4.135 lbs. / 1.876 kg
For more information about the Razer Blade, please visit www.razerzone.com/blade.
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• (3x) USB 3.0 port (SuperSpeed)
• HDMI 1.4a audio and video output
• Dolby® Home Theater® v4
• 7.1 Codec support (via HDMI)
• Built-in full HD webcam (1.3 MP)
• Compact 150 W Power Adapter
• Built-in 70 Wh Rechargeable lithium ion polymer battery
• Razer™ Anti-Ghosting Keyboard (with adjustable backlight)
• Razer™ Synapse 2.0 Enabled
• Kensington Lock
• 13.6 in. / 345 mm (Width) x 0.66 in. / 16.8 mm (Height) x 9.3 in. / 235 mm (Depth)
• 4.135 lbs. / 1.876 kg
For more information about the Razer Blade, please visit www.razerzone.com/blade.
Images
http://www.razerzone.com/blade/images
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About the Razer Edge Pro:
It’s a tablet. It’s a PC. It’s a console. It’s all of the above: a full-feature PC and the most powerful tablet in the world. What’s more, it has four modes specially designed for gamers and is able to run all PC games and applications.
PC gamers ended up helping to design the most powerful tablet in the world today, the only system of its kind utilizing technology from both Intel and NVIDIA. Powerful 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors will help ensure even the most advanced, full-fledged PC games will function at full capacity, and NVIDIA GeForce graphics will offer striking visual clarity—a first for tablet gaming and a godsend for the world’s 300 million-plus PC gamers.
For more information about the Razer Edge Pro, please visit http://www.razerzone.com/edgepro.
Price:
$1,449
Availability:
Best Buy – For a complete list of locations in your area, visit www.razerzone.com/pages/razer-resellers
Razerzone.com – Available Now
Product features:
• Intel® Core™ i7 dual core processor with Hyper-Threading 1.9 GHz / 3.0 GHz (Base/Turbo)
• 8 GB Onboard Memory (DDR3 – 1600 MHz)
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640M LE & Intel HD4000
• Windows® 8 64 Bit
• 256 GB SSD (SATA-III)
• Intel WLAN (802.11b/g/n + BT4)
• 10.1 in. display, 1366 x 768, 10-point capacitive touch
• 3.5 mm audio microphone/headphone combo jack
• Array microphone
• (1x) USB 3.0 port (SuperSpeed)
• Dolby® Home Theater® v4
• 7.1 Codec support (via HDMI)
• Built-in full HD webcam (2.0 MP)
• Razer™ Synapse 2.0 Enabled
• 10.9 in. / 277 mm (Width) x 0.8 in. / 20.3 mm (Height) x 7.0 in. / 178 mm (Depth)
• 2.1 lbs. / 0.95 kg
Images
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTjBqiFr1Q4&feature=youtu.be
About Razer:
Razer™ is the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, software and systems. Founded in 1998, with its headquarters in Carlsbad, California, the company has offices in nine cities around the globe. Used by the most demanding professional gamers who compete in global tournaments, Razer provides gamers with the unfair advantage of cutting-edge technology and award-winning design. We live by our motto: For Gamers. By Gamers.™
For more information, please visit http://www.razerzone.com/.
Donate Technology for Education, we are trying to get support from Recycles.org
I had heard good things about Recycles.org
We are trying to do a documentary on autism and give the gift of music and the arts for people with autism.
I am the aspie dad of 3 with autism too.
We need help getting a color printer scanner for our office, a digital camera or 2 for the movie on autism that we are trying to get funded for as well as instruments that we can donate for people with autism or to use in our office to train people as well. We are struggling for help, no one seems to care or want to help us much, and we are in need of as much as help as we can get.
Mix 94.1 CBS FM Radio’s Bite of Las Vegas 2013 Part 1
My family and I recently had the opportunity to attend Mix 94.1 FM’s CBS Radio Bite of Las Vegas event.
In the first part of my video series, I did some videos of the One Republic and Goo Goo Dolls Bands live in Concert:
First One Republic:
And then we had the opportunity to see the Goo Goo Dolls in concert as well.
It was quite good, please check out the videos below:
Second Goo Goo Dolls:
Please help us to do a documentary on autism as well.
New AmpliTube® release for iPhone, iPad adds iOS 7 support, featuring Inter-App Audio routing system
iOS 7 support, featuring Inter-App Audio routing system
The most popular guitar-playing and recording-studio app
adds iOS 7 support and Inter-App Audio functionality
September 24, 2013 – IK Multimedia, the pioneer and global leader in music-creation software, mobile apps and music-making hardware for musicians, engineers and producers, is pleased to announce a new version of AmpliTube for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, the full-featured guitar studio and recording app for mobile musicians, which adds iOS 7 compatibility as well as the ability to use AmpliTube as a filter app in the new iOS 7 “Inter-App Audio” feature.
iOS 7 Compatibility
The new version of AmpliTube (version 3.1) is fully compatible with iOS 7, the new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which means you can create music on the go with the latest mobile functions and features available, including the new Inter-App Audio routing feature.
Inter-App Audio Support
Inter-App audio allows audio apps to communicate with each other and stream the audio output from one app to another. This feature is extremely handy for adding effects, and processing the audio stream from one app and sending it to another. AmpliTube can be used as a “filter” app in iOS 7 for processing the audio from other apps, allowing musicians to use all of the stompbox and amplifier effects with any live (real-time) or recorded material. This feature is similar to AudioBus functionality, but provides the opportunity for more complex routing. AmpliTube is fully AudioBus compatible as well, making it the most flexible audio-processing and recording app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Effects, Amp, Cabinet, Mic, Multi-track Recorder & DAW – All in One App
AmpliTube for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is a full-featured and expandable playing-and-recording studio for guitarists and bass players, vocalists and producers/engineers. It features a complete instrument signal chain, including stompbox effects, amplifier head, cabinet section and microphone, just like a traditional guitar or bass stage rig.
It also features a recording studio, and multi-track-DAW editing-and-sequencing tools. AmpliTube is also expandable with collections of gear from the world’s top manufacturers like Ampeg® and Fender®, and from artists like Jimi Hendrix™ and Slash. Now musicians can capture their ideas and performances on the go on their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, with a comprehensive suite of creative tools, all from the leader in mobile music-creation apps and accessories.
Plug in and Play with Lightning-Compatible Accessories
AmpliTube is the perfect companion app for IK Lightning-compatible accessories such as the new iRig PRO universal audio/MIDI interface, and the iRig HD audio interface. For the complete lineup of mobile accessories, please visit the IK Multimedia web site,www.ikmultimedia.com/ios.
Pricing and Availability
The latest AmpliTube update for iOS is free for existing AmpliTube iOS users. AmpliTube is available on the App StoreSM(www.AppStore.com) for iPhone and iPad for only $19.99/€17.99. A free version is also available. AmpliTube effects and functions can be expanded via in-app purchase with gear from Ampeg®, Fender®, Soldano®, Slash and Jimi Hendrix™, and a complete multi-track recording studio with drummer and DAW-editing features.
For more information about AmpliTube for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, please visit www.amplitube.com. For more information about IK’s range of interfaces and accessories for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac/PC, please visit www.ikmultimedia.com/interfaces.
Is there hope for math-challenged scientists? Temple Grandin, E.O. WIlson speak out.
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VIDEO: Susan Olsen Opens Up About Son’s Struggle with Asperger’s Syndrome, I can relate a great deal.
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