The Nintendo Switch is great, but it would be even better if it could work like any other computer tablet too. Chinese tech manufacturer Lenovo tried to show what that dream would 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 made “pocket-sized”. It also looks exactly like a Nintendo Switch, complete with a set of controller accessories that can be mounted on either side.
Here are some specs of this concept device (read: not really yet):
- 11th Generation Intel® Core i7 Mobile Processor
- Intel Iris Xe graphics card
- 256 GB SSD of storage
- 16 GB LPDDR4 memory
- 8-inch WUXGA touchscreen (1920 x 1200)
- 1.28 lbs (about the wait of a large banana)
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The LaVie Mini should even come with a dock that can send the screen to a TV. The design is pretty slick too. As someone 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. Therein, of course, lies the difficulty: It can be extremely expensive and impractical to design a device capable of doing both well.
But again, hackers who jailbroken their Switches put Linux on it and done everything with the handheld. Perhaps Nintendo’s inevitable Switch Pro offers a little more freedom on this front right out of the box. Hopefully it will at least support Netflix.