Razer Blade gaming laptop will start pre-orders soon

Gaming device manufacturer Razer has confirmed it will be offering pre-orders on its $2,799.99 Blade uber-notebook within days, with the laptop that has a touchscreen for easier in-game control expected to ship in time for Christmas.

There also been a quiet feature change, CEO Min-Liang Tan informed Kotaku, with a 256GB SSD taking the place of the originally specified 320GB HDD.

Otherwise specifications remain the same, which means a 17-inch display, 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-2640M processor, and 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 RAM. Graphics are courtesy of NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M with NVIDIA Optimus, paired with their own 2GB of GDDR5 video memory.