The Nintendo Switch is great, but it would still be better if it could work like any other tablet. Chinese technology maker Lenovo tried to show what that dream would 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 made “out of pocket”. It also looks exactly like a Nintendo Switch, with a set of accessories for the controller that are mounted on either side.
Here are some of the specifications of this device concept (read: not yet real):
- 11th generation Intel® Core i7 mobile processor
- Intel Iris Xe Graphics
- 256GB SSD storage
- 16 GB LPDDR4 memory
- 8-inch WUXGA touch screen (1920 x 1200)
- 1.28 lbs (approximately waiting for a large banana)
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The LaVie Mini is even supposed to include a dock that can stream the screen to a TV. The design is also quite sleek. As someone obsessed with minimalist devices, I love the idea of a super small computer that can also play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Of course, here’s the friction: it can be extremely prohibitive and impractical to design a device capable of doing it right.
Again, hackers who have broken their switches puts Linux on them and I’ve done all sorts of things by hand. Perhaps Nintendo’s inevitable Switch Pro will offer a little more freedom on this front, already out of the box. Hopefully it will at least support Netflix.