The Nintendo Switch is great, but it would be even better if it could work like any other computer tablet. The Chinese technology manufacturer Lenovo tried to show what that dream would actually look like with its new prototype: the LaVie Mini.
Revealed ahead of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the LaVie Mini imagines 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 control accessories that mount on either side.
Here are some specifications of this concept device (read: not really 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 panel display
- 1.28 lbs (about the size of a banana)
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The LaVie Mini is even supposed to have an dock that can send the screen to a TV. The design is also quite smooth. As someone who is obsessed with minimalist devices, I like the idea of a super-small computer that can play too The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Of course, the rubbish lies in it: it can be extremely expensive and impractical to design a device that can do both good.
Hackers who broke their switches in jail also did the same put Linux on it and with the handbag all sorts of things done. Maybe Nintendo’s inevitable Switch Pro offers a little more freedom up front, right out of the box. Hopefully it supports at least Netflix.