Just saw the Razor prototype laptops got stolen. 2 in fact..

Hulluck

Which one of you nerds did it.

Adding  a link  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38565913


Someone in charge of them messed up but still. Won't these things phone home if ever connected online? Or be fairly easy to trace if they go online?

H0urg1ass

Hulluck said:

Won't these things phone home if ever connected online? Or be fairly easy to trace with help from Microsoft if they have unique Windows keys?

Anyone smart enough to swipe them without the employees noticing would be smart enough to wipe or ditch the hard drive before plugging it into the internet.

Hulluck said:

I honestly don't know how large scale companies handle Windows licensing.

People who steal laptops from trade shows probably aren't using licensed copies of Windows anyhow.  They download Windows from a torrent site and use an unlocker software that fools windows into thinking it's a legit copy.

At the end of the day they swiped two prototypes of something that Razer probably never intended to send into production.  Razer goes to trade shows with the car show mentality.  They unveil these exciting new concepts and everyone says "I want one!" and then they never actually make any, just like prototype cars at car shows that the manufacturers will never put into production in a bazillion years.

redcore

trace them? nope. nothing like that. they were prototypes. they would never imagine that both laptops would be gone. kinda funny and embarrassing. they couldnt keep an eye on 2 BIG laptops...  /facepalm

Hulluck

H0urg1ass said:

Hulluck said:

Won't these things phone home if ever connected online? Or be fairly easy to trace with help from Microsoft if they have unique Windows keys?

Anyone smart enough to swipe them without the employees noticing would be smart enough to wipe or ditch the hard drive before plugging it into the internet.

Hulluck said:

I honestly don't know how large scale companies handle Windows licensing.

People who steal laptops from trade shows probably aren't using licensed copies of Windows anyhow.  They download Windows from a torrent site and use an unlocker software that fools windows into thinking it's a legit copy.

At the end of the day they swiped two prototypes of something that Razer probably never intended to send into production.  Razer goes to trade shows with the car show mentality.  They unveil these exciting new concepts and everyone says "I want one!" and then they never actually make any, just like prototype cars at car shows that the manufacturers will never put into production in a bazillion years.

Yeah thought about that. The reason I edited a little before your post. Seems like getting out of the place was a tough on it's own. I do still find it hard to believe that there isn't something in these things to track them. There is videos of a average guy hiding one of those cell phone tracking programs inside Android on his phone. No matter what it can't be deleted. Even with a factory reset ect.  Intentionally had setup to get it stolen and spied on the guy who did it. Pretty cool video to watch. I'd think that a couple of prototypes would have something similar?  Then again who expects them to be stolen in front of so many camera's, I guess.

filmoret

Good luck getting drivers.

cheyane

They must have distracted the geek who was guarding them with some pretty tits and an accomplice made off with the laptop. 3 monitors it must have been bulky.

Cleffy

Chances are whoever took them sold them in someplace like china so a manufacturer can reverse engineer them. Or they could just be misplaced which tends to happen from time to time.

filmoret

Cleffy said:

Chances are whoever took them sold them in someplace like china so a manufacturer can reverse engineer them. Or they could just be misplaced which tends to happen from time to time.

well looking at the laptop you really don't need to reverse engineer that.  Its very simple design any manufacturer could easily reproduce by looking at it.  

Ridelynn

http://wccftech.com/razer-valerie-laptops-found/

Hulluck

Ridelynn said:

http://wccftech.com/razer-valerie-laptops-found/

That is crazy.. WTF? Someone is eventually going to jail.  I sure wouldn't want that sentence to happen in a country where they execute people over drugs and such.  

Thank You for the update. I have not been keeping up with it.

Kyleran

I liked the idea when I saw them, but I just knew I wasn't going to be able to afford them.

22K is a bit out of my range.

Volgore

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/5n8gvm/only_a_laptop_but_i_finally_ascended/

Sent from my Razer Valerie Laptop

Volgore

Dammit, how do i remove that signature??




Sent from my Razer Valerie Laptop

ste2000

I guess the thieves weren't fooled by the prop.......

filmoret

This is beginning to look more like a hoax or pr stunt.

Ridelynn

filmoret said:

This is beginning to look more like a hoax or pr stunt.

That is entirely possible, but given that the event puts the company in a pretty poor light, it was either very ill conceived PR stunt (and the person who dreamed it up should not only be fired, but run out on a rail), or not a hoax and just some lax security and an embarassing situation that Razer decided for some stupid reason to make public.

Asm0deus

Pretty funny stuff all in all ..lol