Sigh, this is why we can’t have nice things. That impractical but awesome Razer laptop with three 4K-res screens unveiled at the CES tech show in Las Vegas? Yeah, it’s been stolen.
The two laptop prototypes — dubbed Project Valerie — were on display at the Razer booth and attracted a lot of attention over their pure ambition, with loads of processing power under their hoods. Too much attention, it seems, considering that they were reported stolen, approximately in the afternoon of Jan 8.
Razer CEO and Singaporean entrepreneur Min-Liang Tan expressed his disappointment over the alleged theft, as it didn’t rule out “industrial espionage”.
“At Razer, we play hard and we play fair. Our teams worked months on end to conceptualize and develop these units and we pride ourselves in pushing the envelope to deliver the latest and greatest,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
“It is cheating, and cheating doesn’t sit well with us. Anyone who would do this clearly isn’t very smart.”
He’s even offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the suspect — a reward that will stand for a year, he assures.
The thing is, the laptops aren’t even consumer-ready yet. PC Mag noted that the whole system gets extremely hot to touch after running Battlefield 1 for a while. Not to mention the laptop isn’t even that portable either.
As pointed out by Facebook user William Wong, it’s gotta take a “new level of stupid” for someone to cart off with Razer’s laptops.
