Razer has produced a really neat device that will let you upgrade a PC without worrying about what works and what doesn’t. But the buy-in is way too high to be reasonable.
On December 3, Razer announced its teeny-tiny Tomahawk gaming desktop would finally be available to consumers after first revealing it at CES 2020. It’s built on Intel’s NUC 9 Extreme Compute Element, which contains the processor, memory, and SSD storage in a single module. That means it’s kind of like the Easy Bake Oven of gaming PCs. All you need to worry about is inserting the graphics card and you are ready to fire it up. For anyone nervous about building a PC scratch (it’s not that bad!), or anyone who doesn’t have the time, it’s a fantastic little alternative. Building a PC isn’t the most physically accessible thing either, and frankly there should be more of these NUCs for that reason. But Razer’s Tomahawk is only accessible to those with deep enough pockets, and the spec-list is underwhelming. Razer has two Tomahawk models: one with an RTX 3080 and one without. The one without is $2,400 and comes with an air-cooled Intel Core i9-9980HK, a 512 GB PCIe NVMe primary storage, a 2 TB 5400 RPM HDD secondary storage,16 GB DDR4-2667 MHz DRAM, a 750W PSU, and an unpopulated PCIe slot so you can put in whatever GPU you want. The Tomahawk with an RTX 3080 Founders Edition is $3,200 and come with all the same components that I listed above. That makes the RTX 3080 Founders Edition on its own $800, which is $100 more than what it sells for on Nvidia’s website or at Best Buy.
