Review: Razer Blade

By Joe Osborne

Introduction, design and features

Over the past few years, gaming laptops have focused on looks around the screen just as much as they have on looks within the screen. Naturally, Razer helped spur this trend with the Blade, its line of incredibly attractive gaming notebooks with price tags to match.

The peripheral maker’s latest iteration, however, stands put the laptop under a new – or, at least broader – light. While not much has changed visually about the new Blade, lots of change has gone on inside, like a Skylake processor, more video memory (VRAM) and Thunderbolt 3.

All the while, Razer managed to slash prices by the hundreds. With a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD), the Blade goes for $1,999 or AU$2,999 (about £1,499), while double the storage will cost you $2,199 or AU$3,299 (about £1,649). Nothing else changes – not even that gorgeous screen.

Many, perhaps even us, have compared the Blade to Apple’s MacBook Pro line in the past. With this iteration, though, that comparison is more apt than ever.

So, the Blade’s appeal to you relies just as much on its design as it’s ever have, perhaps even more so.

Design

At first glance, the Blade’s design has gone unchanged in the past year. …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac