The Nintendo Switch is great, but it would be even better if it could work like any other computer tablet. Chinese technology maker Lenovo has tried to show what that dream would look like with its new prototype: LaVie Mini.
disclosure Before this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), LaVie Mini is imagining what the company’s new LaVie Pro laptop would look like if it were “pocket-sized”. It also looks exactly like a Nintendo Switch, complete with a set of controller accessories that mount on both sides.
Here are some of the specifications of this concept device (read: actually not real yet):
- 11th generation Intel® Core i7 mobile processor
- Intel Iris Xe graphics
- 256 GB SSD storage
- 16 GB LPDDR4 memory
- 8-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200) touch display
- 1.28 lbs (about waiting for a big banana)
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The LaVie Mini should even come with a dock that can stream the display to a TV. The design is also quite elegant. As someone obsessed with minimalist devices, I like the idea of a very small computer that can play too Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Of course, here is the friction: it can be extremely prohibitive and impractical to design a device capable of working well.
Again, the hackers who shut down their switches had put Linux on them and did all sorts of things with the portable device. Maybe Nintendo’s inevitable Switch Pro will give you a little more freedom on this front, right out of the box. Hopefully at least it supports Netflix.