The Nintendo Switch is great, but it would be even better if it could work like any other computer tablet. Chinese technology maker Lenovo tried to show what that dream would really look like with its new prototype: the LaVie Mini.
Revealed before 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 made “out of pocket”. It also looks exactly like a Nintendo switch, complete with a set of control accessories that are mounted on each side.
Here are some of the specifications of this concept device (read: it is not yet real):
- 11th generation Intel® Core i7 mobile processor
- Intel Iris Xe Graphics
- 256 GB storage SSD
- 16GB LPDDR4 memory
- 8-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200) touch panel display
- 1.28 lbs (about waiting for a big banana)
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The LaVie Mini must come with a dock that can send the screen to a TV. The design is also very elegant. As someone obsessed with minimalist devices, I love the idea of a super-tiny computer that can also reproduce The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Of course, therein lies the problem: it can be extremely expensive and prohibitive to design a device that can do both well.
Then again, the hackers who jailbroken their Switches put Linux on them and did all kinds of things with the handheld. Perhaps Nintendo’s inevitable Switch Pro will offer a little more freedom on this front, straight out of the box. Hopefully, at least it supports Netflix.