Lenovo’s new Lavie Mini hopes to be everything from a laptop to a handheld gaming console - Yanko Design

It seems that the guys at Lenovo and NEC take some ideas to bridge the gap betwixt desktop gaming and mobile gaming. Sure, companies like Razer, Alienware, and Nvidia accept tried in the past to brand Windows-based PC gaming more mobile and handheld, merely what Lenovo and NEC'southward LaVie Mini aims at doing seems much more interesting… considering the LaVie Mini isn't a portable Windows gaming device… it'south a hybrid between a laptop, a tablet, and a Nintendo Switch.

Equipped with an viii″ touchscreen display, the Lavie is slightly larger than the iPad Mini. The convertible laptop comes with an Intel Iris Xe graphics card and 11th Gen Intel Core i7 mobile processor built into information technology (you could say that the LaVie presents Intel with its Hail Mary moment after a series of commercial failures), forth with 256Gb of SSD storage and 16Gb of RAM. This pretty much makes it a good portable laptop to have on you for quick work sessions and presentations (and a smashing culling to Chromebooks), merely fold the laptop's keyboard all the way dorsum and the LaVie Mini is a completely new brute. Weighing a mere 579 grams (i.2 lbs), the LaVie Mini becomes a versatile handheld tablet running Windows… and its dedicated gaming controller accessory turns it into a panel that'due south as handy every bit the iPad running Apple Arcade, and as tactile and functional as the Nintendo Switch with all its controls, buttons, and triggers. Ports on the LaVie Mini mean your video could fifty-fifty be outputted to a television, with resolutions every bit high equally 4K 60fps while streaming videos (that spec may not represent gaming, nevertheless).

With its small size, foldable grade, controller ecosystem, and versatile Windows platform, the LaVie Mini hopes to exist a all-time-of-all-worlds sort of device. The fact that it runs a desktop-prepare Os and comes with its ain keyboard positions brilliantly confronting the iPad Pro; not to mention the fact that it'll easily be able to run Microsoft'due south Xbox Game Laissez passer also as Google's Stadia, giving it a superior edge as a handheld gaming panel. Pricing and availability details for the LaVie Mini are yet under wraps, but nosotros're hoping Lenovo addresses this at CES, which is just mere days abroad.

Designers: Lenovo & NEC