Hope you enjoyed this style of video! What else would you like to see in future Razer laptops? Also, if you missed it I revisited the iPhone 12 line up which you can find here - ruclips.net/video/vRPDHXIUVhM/видео.html
Hey do you know if razer blade pro 17 is coming in 11th gen i9 or not? Shall i wait for that or should i buy 15 inch. I really want to buy 17 so waiting for that
Can you do a review of the new OLED Razer Blade? I want to know if they're still using the same OLED panel from last year or switched to the one Gigabyte is using.
hello I was wondering if ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo SE 15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6 300Hz IPS Type FHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, 16GB DDR4, 1TB PCIe SSD, Per-Key RGB Keyboard, Windows 10 Home is a good gaming laptop in 2021 I dont play much games but I do play like call of duty,halo and much more i also want to connect it to my tv is this a good laptop for gaming
Had a pair of 19's Blade 15's (1080/4k), and you're so right on both the fingerprint magnet issue and the keyboard. But rather than the keytravel i feel the keys are too mushy, it should bottom up a bit more tactile, like macbook keyboards
If they tone down the logo and get better quality batteries, I would buy one without hesitation EDIT : Also bring the mercury color to the razer blades too
I loved this format. I would love to see this with other lines/manufactures as well. I haven’t owned a gaming laptop in years and am looking at getting one for a mix of medium gaming and productivity. This helps me get familiar with the pros and cons of each vendor/series.
Totally agree with everything that you said! Especially about the 16x10 aspect ratio. As an engineer, I would absolutely love the additional screen real estate. Also, I'd love to see the Mercury color back as an option for the gaming laptops and a caching fingerprint scanner for turning on / logging in too!
I'm sure Razer would love to offer a 32 GB option on the Blade 14, but if you look at a teardown video, there's no room on the motherboard for them to place additional memory chips.
I bought the razer blade 15 base (2021 version with RTX 3060 and core i7-10750h) because i had no other choices , i live in India and razer is not officially selling its laptops in India and i had a relative coming over from America in March when zephryus 2021 versions were not available so i had to buy the balde 15 since i needed a gaming laptop but i love it !! i have had no issues since and the laptop works great Although i am a little sad that razer released the blade 14 with ryzen 9 at the same starting price but reagardless the blade 15 is awesome
Honestly after daily driving the Blade 14 3080 for a few days I decided that I liked my Blade Stealth OLED more since it works better as a mobile gaming device during the frequent times when I don't have access to a wall power outlet. It also has a few other things going for it like a better looking screen, smaller and lighter size, and a black on black lid logo.
This style of video is awesome. And you covered all the things I wish it had. The only thing left out is that it needs more battery life (zephyrus g14 has 10 hours of light use, blade 14 only has around 5-6), because these things are made to be portable, so battery matters.
I have to admit that he's right about the logo. The main reason why I chose my alienware over razer blade is because of the logo. My dream chassis would be the razer blade with the alien logo. But I'll keep dreaming.
I also agree with your 16:10 aspect ratio recommendation. My daily driver in the MacBook Pro 16" and I love 16:10, I run Windows on it all the time and going back to 16:9 feels incredibly cramped, even on my 27" 16:9 monitor. My theory is that High Refresh Rate 16:10 screens are not being produced. This is a shame as I would love to see a 120 Hz, 144Hz 16:10 ratio screen.
@@ryanjefferson1428 I'm actually really curious about that. I did some very superficial research and haven't found much except for links to obscure/taken-down products or others with the same question.
As a owner of a lot of their products I would have to agree with most everything you said. While I do think Razer has more folks who have battery issues I still enjoy their products. I think they still have a way to go in their customer service / technical support department.
I'm one of those with that battery problem it was so swollen I couldn't press the touchpad. Now I'm using it without battery until I have the replacement still works perfectly but that's an issue
I have the 2018 Blade 15 with 1070 and Blade 13 with 1650Ti. I have been using the Blade 13 more, so much lighter, quieter, cooler than my 15 and with the smaller screen I can change various graphical settings without noticing any significant differences. Granted I mostly play indie games and fighting games but it did surprise me how much the generational differences were. Another reason for using the Blade 13 more is that my 15 is having weird issues where the battery depletes while on the charger. This didn't happen when playing the exact same game on the 13 (Hellpoint). This could be software related but I already did a clean install, which makes me wonder if it could possibly be hardware related, I suspect the SSD may be corrupt in some way. I almost went for the Blade 14, but figured why not wait if they up the next version to 32GB ram (although I'm fine with 16GB), possibility of a 16:10 screen, possibility of thunderbolt compatibility with AMD. I'd actually be happy with it as it is now, but why not wait and see if those will be the next improvements, I don't actually need the Blade 14 with how good the 13 is for me at this moment.
They need to implement indium pads + vapor chamber + quad fan design. That will solve noise problems and help with the performance. They should also make power button a fingerprint, its cheap and I miss that old protective glass for IPS so that dust doesn't fall in to gaps of the frame.
blade 14 is the closest to perfection according to me the body is good (except maybe the fingerprint addictive panel) 4k 120hz touch on the 14-inch laptop and more ram options
nooo on the 4k. It would drain battery faster, it would have huge diminishing returns on that size and it would affect gaming performance significantly. 1440p is the PERFECT panel and it's 165hz! Even better.
Aditya Rudrabhatla, I wish razer had a 17 inch 4k version with a 10900k with 3080 16gb version. I have the Dell g7 15.6 4k oled version but it has a decent i7 cpu only has a 2070 max q and the gpu is decent but not powerful enough. I watch 4k movies on my laptop with an external optical drive for 4k playback and for gaming at 4k rtx.
I think you should have also adressed that fact that Razers get quite toasty. I'd like to see them evaluating some further cooling options, like liquid metal pasting, larger fans etc. To bring down temps even more and also the noise. It's a premium product, so give us the best of the best.
Loved the video. Good to know what are the downsides when looking for laptops too. I agree with the logo for sure, I love the overall design but the logo is too much. Perhaps have it as LED lighting up that can be turned off from software. Also, offer some colour choices like the silver 13'. I feel like it's asking for a skins on it just to keep the design more quiet, helping with fingerprints too. RAM is essential, or at least give option to buy up to 32GB if soldered. Why is there no thunderbolt with intel cpu? The charger is understandably big, I would likely buy a seperate 100w USB-C charger for outdoors usage. Agree with 16:10 as well, surely will make it's way to the blade in future. Touchscreen would be a nice extra touch. Webcam isn't essential but I feel like they can do decent 1080p without much sacrifice at the price. People don't realise they need a webcam until they do. Overall they do an excellent job and I'm learned towards blade 14 instead of G14. A tough choice.
I heard there are some compatibility issues with customizing game related settings on the Blade 14 because of it having the Ryzen and NVIDIA combo. I was hoping you would cover that. Nevertheless, amazing video and great observations! Do one for MSI if possible (pretty wide & confusing lineup)
The only things I would like too see in future would be , slightly increase the thickness of each laptop. Not by a huge amount, 2-5mm would be sufficient just to increase a small bit of air volume, especially on the 14, so the Vapor chamber can have a bit more volume. The screen 16-10 screen would also be great for general productivity and Free-sink/ G-sink on all monitors from now on. Next on speakers, especially if you increased the thickness slightly, add a small subwoofer underneath. AMD chips would be great in almost all of your laptops, or at least an option. Also if you added a tiny bit more thickness to the 14 so we can go with a 32g ram, the next small, yet large thing would be allow us to disable Optimus. To recap. 1-5mm thicker Blade 14, which should increase cooling. The extra room could allow for a 32g ram and a small subwoofer underneath, Free-sink 16-10 QHD monitors/ Oled across the board. Lastly, moving the charger to the rear of the unit.
Recently they stealth released a slight refresh of the Razer Blade 15 Base with the option to get 11800H instead of the 10750H in the model you have. The relative performance difference is about 30-50% for the same wattage on the CPU. It also comes with support for faster memory (3200 Mhz instead of 2933 Mhz), as well as PCIE Gen-4 Support, and Thunderbolt 4 support. Would love to see an update video with this new model that is a "Razer Store Online Exclusive" (and its actually in stock.) Thanks!
As owner of Blade 13,14 and 15, I echo most of your comments. I skinned all of them to get rid of fingerprint and hideous logo issue. My main hope for improvement is the power brick size and weight. The is no point of being thin and light when the power brick can kill someone when hurled.
A comparison of the zenbook duo, zenbook pro duo, and zephyrus duo would be nice. You happen to always have great perspective , and I don’t think anyone has made this exact video yet 👌
Considering to buy a razer blade 14 with the 3070, instead of building a new desktop pc to retire my existing 5 year old laptop with a gtx 1060. CPU and GPU prices here in the Philippines is still high due to scalpers and low supply. Laptop prices are lower than an equivalent desktop one sadly.
I like the logo. It's not in your face but it stands the laptop out as a bit special. I like the direction gaming laptops are going tho with classier, stealthier looks. They've looked too much like toys in the past.
I mean, only the 14 and smaller don't have upgradable RAM. And the Blade 15 isn't that much heavier than the 14. The only compromise you'd really be making is having an Intel CPU, but even then, 11th gen is quite competitive in terms of performance even if it still isn't very efficient or cool.
Do it for Asus. Call them out on not including camera in some models. Call them out on things like removing the option to enable panel overdrive in armoury crate after new update on older models even though I could period to the update (gx701 btw not a laptop that can’t handle it or anything). Call them out on not having armoury crate aura sync be compatible with all keyboard layouts, my laptop has a Turkish key layout and if I want to set a custom lighting profile for rgb a few of the keys on the keyboard don’t show up in the software and so you can’t apply anything to them. I can explain this in further detail if you’d like.
1. Using dbrand on both top and bottom of my RB15 2. Battery already swapped twice in 2yrs due to swelling, 3. Both fans had to be replaced, 4. Allow to buy replacement parts easier! I had to buy it from China, cuz you don't supply it.
I have a razer blade 14, and i found the speakers on that machine better than my macbook pro. Granted the Macbook pro was the 2013 model, but it even compared to the modern macbook. I never check to see what a new one sound like
Agree with everything here Matt. The fingerprints on my 14 are so disgusting. I believe they had to solder the RAM just because there was no room for RAM slots with the big vapor chamber there. One other thing I wish the 14 had after using it a few weeks now is Advanced Optimus.
HI there, Thanks for the vid. Super helpful. I am looking for a light laptop (1.0 - 2.0kg) as I am constantly moving and carrying my laptop on my bag. At the same time I would like to game some games (NFS, Call of duty and GTA basically) when I travel. I am no tech expert and therefore have a mess on my head as there are so many things to consider when choosing a professional light laptop which lets you game on the side. Could you give me some advise and try to recommend me one? I like models which look like the MacBook Pro such as Dell XPS 15, Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 and, although not that similar to Mac, Lenovo X1. These give me the pros of design, lightweight and good for business (I mainly use Outlook, Excel, Word and PPT), but when I see the price (€1.5-2.0K) I consider buying Razer Blade 14 directly and having a good gaming laptop as well as business. Sorry for the long message, hope you can help me.
Yeah, I would have gotten that blade 14 if the ram was upgradable... Went for the 15. Hope that 11th gen Intel and 3060 set up will be ok.. I picked up 64gb of ram and a 2tb 980 pro and using it mostly for video editing. I hope the laptop will last me more than a couple years. Invested a lot into the setup. 🤞🏽
Not a Macbook fan/user but I am very tempted to migrate. The issues with PC laptops nowadays are either no AMD CPU or no 32GB RAM option if it does, or no 16:10 display, or no decent speakers or have crappy webcam. Not having a discrete GPU is fine, I'm just looking for a work laptop. 16GB RAM on PC won't cut it anymore. Macbook Air M1 with 16GB RAM can fulfill all these at a lower price. M1 is easy on RAM consumption, and if it does use the virtual memory, it is so fast that we don't notice it anymore. PC land simply has no answer in this area. The only downside is the lack of certain features in apps like MS Teams and Zoom.
They are very good, good number of ports, very beautiful and robust, beautiful screen, above average battery, and great sounds. However, they are indeed expensive, first of all. Second, the thermals. I know that a gaming laptop isn't the most quiet nor coldest in the world, but man, it screams.
As far as the logo goes I think they should do something like they did with the razer phones where the emblem is silver over black but if you want it to light up you can turn it on or off with RGB. That would be perfect for a classy look or popping RGB with the same device. Idk why they haven't done this yet. The razer phones are a few years old at this point so it's not something they can't do especially for a 1800-2800 dollar price range.
Matthew, I'm thinking of getting a Razer 17" but I've seen so many bad reviews about it, screen issues, BSOD, screen suddenly going black, etc. Have you used on a regular basis a razer laptop? had any issues? Thanks.
it would have been good if a holistic view is covered including post sale support. Razer is notoriously infamous for customer support - that must play a part in buying a £2k laptop.
Sadly like Matt said, battery bloat is just a thing in gaming laptops when you have a battery next to the temperatures these things function at. Go to any of the subreddits and type in bloat and you'll find pictures and pictures of bloating regardless of brand. I know the Surface Book had some serious issues with it.
Ive been using this Razer blade design for years and just to let you know if your hands dont excrete a lot of sweat , like u find it difficult to open a plastic bag you need to add some water before you can open a plastic bag. Then you wont leave fingerprints at all on this machine. I almost feel like it was designed for me.
Hey so on friday the 3rd i ordered the 3060 razer blade 14 and now its been stuck in customs (clearance delay) since monday. When will my damn laptop arrive, and how long did yours take
I'm pretty sure it's soldered on because of how thin they wanted the laptop to be. We all know Razer doesn't care if you swap out ram since you can do that on the Razer Blade 15 but they had to make a choice on upgradable ram in a thicker chassis or vice versa. I still think they made the right decision but my only complaint would be they should offer models with 16 and 32gb soldered on. All they would have to do is put 4gb modules on the motherboard instead of the 2gb they are using currently. All that being said, the Razer Blade 14 is the best feeling laptop I've ever used. Everything from Asus to Alienware to Surface, this is the most premium feeling product I've ever had in my hands in laptop form. I do agree on the logo. The logo should just be plain silver and the way it should light up is by RBG and if you have RBG off then it should just be a silvery or black logo. No point in making it green, let the green LED's handle that.
I'm a 33 year old man. I'll be buying gaming laptops for the rest of my life. But I don't want other people to know that my laptop is a "gaming laptop" if I whip it out at a meeting with clients. Sure, I can buy secondary laptop to look "professional" for when I need it, and sure I can buy a case cover or whatever, but why not just tone down the damn green snake logo so I can turn my "gaming laptop" into my "everything laptop". I think the logo is straight embarrassing for all parties honestly lol.
3:40 true, but it happens FAR more often on Razer blades and within first year of ownership. Speaking from experience. It definitely needs to be addressed and not glanced over.
I have the razer blade 15 2021 and the only issues I have really found are click issues with the track pad e.g. right clicking giving left click etc. Other issue yes yes the finger prints, the crappy web camera which when spending that much money I would have expected something so simple and cheap to have been upgraded. Other than that the logo I have absolutely no issue with. The over all build and ease of access inside for upgrading of the m.2 and ram is simple and straight forward. There is some dead space inside where there used to be room for anstandard SSD and this could have been utilised better on the 15 model but over all it's a solid solid build and a pleasure to use.
Based on reviews I thought fingerprints would be a problem… It was not. Sure, it is a fingerprint magnet in a way, but if you keep your hands clean… Not a problem.
I just received the 3070 early 2021 model (i7 108750H) coming from an early 2019 Razer Blade 15 (i7 8750H), and while I love the seemingly better trackpad and thinner profile, I gotta say the speakers are just awful - underwhelming to say the least. I don't know exactly what the problem is here - they're just so thin on the lower end and almost piercing on the higher end. I've done driver troubleshooting and a clean install of Windows (using Razer's installation media) and still, the sound is just orders of magnitude worse than my 2019 Blade 15. They don't sound broken or damaged - they just sound substantially worse. I wonder if you (or anyone else who can speak to past Blade models) have heard the same thing....
I have the older 15 running the 2070 and it is more than I can ask for in laptop. It is so powerful. Battery lasts longer than my Alienware. To me it is sorta perfect. Except for the damn fingerprints and mushy keyboard. I had to buy me K87 brown just to be able to type lol.
I really wish the FN and CTRL keys on the left side were switched in position. Or that in the BIOS you could switch these, since FN keys cannot be remapped in Windows. Lenovo lets you switch the FN and CTRL key in the BIOS. Considering how often I use CTRL for Copy Paste, to gaming, my pinky/ring finger just doesn't like reaching to the CTRL key, it's unnatural for my hands.
And hopefully with ryzen, as we saw in the blade 14, using ryzen allowed them to put the same power to the gpu as the blade 15 advanced even though it's a 14inch laptop which (hopefully) means we would get at least 140+ watts on the gpu in the blade 17 or maybe 120+ watts in the ryzen blade 15
My new razer blade 15 11th gen rtx3070 240hz Screen flickers when connected to 5Ghz wifi5(ac) while using 240hz display refresh rate but stops when connected to 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz Wi-Fi4(n)/Wi-Fi6(ax) with 60hz refresh rate.
Thank you for the review! Ordered it. Honestly i don't need the rtx 3070 and bought it for the cpu, the formfactor and the portability! I would have loved to see the cpu inside a razer book, which would have been perfect because i only need a beefy cpu for my work and don't play that much.
Hope you enjoyed this style of video! What else would you like to see in future Razer laptops? Also, if you missed it I revisited the iPhone 12 line up which you can find here - ruclips.net/video/vRPDHXIUVhM/видео.html
Hey do you know if razer blade pro 17 is coming in 11th gen i9 or not?
Shall i wait for that or should i buy 15 inch. I really want to buy 17 so waiting for that
Can you do a review of the new OLED Razer Blade? I want to know if they're still using the same OLED panel from last year or switched to the one Gigabyte is using.
hello I was wondering if ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo SE 15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6 300Hz IPS Type FHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, 16GB DDR4, 1TB PCIe SSD, Per-Key RGB Keyboard, Windows 10 Home is a good gaming laptop in 2021 I dont play much games but I do play like call of duty,halo and much more i also want to connect it to my tv is this a good laptop for gaming
Had a pair of 19's Blade 15's (1080/4k), and you're so right on both the fingerprint magnet issue and the keyboard. But rather than the keytravel i feel the keys are too mushy, it should bottom up a bit more tactile, like macbook keyboards
Hey matt curious question, will spraying the exterior with hydrophobic sprays not fix the fingerprint issue? Dumb question sorry im afraid to try
If they tone down the logo and get better quality batteries, I would buy one without hesitation
EDIT : Also bring the mercury color to the razer blades too
Battery issue is a problem, but their customer service is just awful, they should probably fix that first
also solve the fingerprint problem too
@@oz6894 none of the reviewers do long term quality tests, Razer is by far the worst. Battery issues and their customer support is atrocious.
@@oz6894 the battery issue is the bloating my current one is bloating I need to replace it soon :/ after a year of use.
For battery gs66 stealth is best choice
I loved this format. I would love to see this with other lines/manufactures as well. I haven’t owned a gaming laptop in years and am looking at getting one for a mix of medium gaming and productivity. This helps me get familiar with the pros and cons of each vendor/series.
Totally agree with everything that you said! Especially about the 16x10 aspect ratio. As an engineer, I would absolutely love the additional screen real estate.
Also, I'd love to see the Mercury color back as an option for the gaming laptops and a caching fingerprint scanner for turning on / logging in too!
I'm sure Razer would love to offer a 32 GB option on the Blade 14, but if you look at a teardown video, there's no room on the motherboard for them to place additional memory chips.
I bought the razer blade 15 base (2021 version with RTX 3060 and core i7-10750h) because i had no other choices , i live in India and razer is not officially selling its laptops in India and i had a relative coming over from America in March when zephryus 2021 versions were not available so i had to buy the balde 15 since i needed a gaming laptop but i love it !! i have had no issues since and the laptop works great
Although i am a little sad that razer released the blade 14 with ryzen 9 at the same starting price but reagardless the blade 15 is awesome
Honestly after daily driving the Blade 14 3080 for a few days I decided that I liked my Blade Stealth OLED more since it works better as a mobile gaming device during the frequent times when I don't have access to a wall power outlet. It also has a few other things going for it like a better looking screen, smaller and lighter size, and a black on black lid logo.
The Blade 14 is more of a portable desktop rather than a laptop
Blade 14 with Stealth logo and it’s an instant buy for me.
I'm just gonna cover it with a skin
@@logancap076 literally what I did lol dbrand black Damascus
Just get a dbrand skin and your good 2 go
@@WargodFilms yeah but i wont be able to feel the sexy anodised aluminum. and the stealthy logo is a nice low key touch.
@@whole.milk__ just put a skin on the logo.
Why the 16GB RAM is soldered is simple, they want you to buy their new 32GB product when they roll it out next year.
Still waiting on the 32gb products
16x10, thin bezels, fewer fingerprint stains, better key travel, upgradeable ram, and it's gucci
and remove the horrible logo
solve the battery issue also
This style of video is awesome. And you covered all the things I wish it had. The only thing left out is that it needs more battery life (zephyrus g14 has 10 hours of light use, blade 14 only has around 5-6), because these things are made to be portable, so battery matters.
I have to admit that he's right about the logo. The main reason why I chose my alienware over razer blade is because of the logo. My dream chassis would be the razer blade with the alien logo. But I'll keep dreaming.
I love the logo
I also agree with your 16:10 aspect ratio recommendation. My daily driver in the MacBook Pro 16" and I love 16:10, I run Windows on it all the time and going back to 16:9 feels incredibly cramped, even on my 27" 16:9 monitor. My theory is that High Refresh Rate 16:10 screens are not being produced. This is a shame as I would love to see a 120 Hz, 144Hz 16:10 ratio screen.
Razer should definitely solve the fingerprint problem😅
Mercury White...problem solved
Yeah and add the fingerprint sensor to the power button while they're at it
Hi wont oleophobic sprays work or it can damage the exterior??
@@ryanjefferson1428 I'm actually really curious about that. I did some very superficial research and haven't found much except for links to obscure/taken-down products or others with the same question.
I think they shouldn’t because this is the only way that i can see someone touched my laptop when i am not at home 😈
I would totally buy one if the 14" model came with a toned down logo and 16/10 display
I am a huge fan of the Blade Stealth's logo. It's subtle but at the same time gets people interested.
I would love to buy the razer blade 14 if it wasn't for its super expensive price tag. G14 is the way to go for me right now for sure.
G14 is a beautiful machine to use
My thoughts exactly
A few days ago the g14 was just 1349$ on bestbuy but now it went back to 1499$, people who picked it at the lower price were really lucky
its actually $1549 now lol
@@minhditto320 oh probably less stock so they increased the price I guess?
I ordered skins for my blade 14. This solves the fingerprint problem
As a owner of a lot of their products I would have to agree with most everything you said. While I do think Razer has more folks who have battery issues I still enjoy their products. I think they still have a way to go in their customer service / technical support department.
I'm one of those with that battery problem it was so swollen I couldn't press the touchpad. Now I'm using it without battery until I have the replacement still works perfectly but that's an issue
I have the 2018 Blade 15 with 1070 and Blade 13 with 1650Ti. I have been using the Blade 13 more, so much lighter, quieter, cooler than my 15 and with the smaller screen I can change various graphical settings without noticing any significant differences. Granted I mostly play indie games and fighting games but it did surprise me how much the generational differences were.
Another reason for using the Blade 13 more is that my 15 is having weird issues where the battery depletes while on the charger. This didn't happen when playing the exact same game on the 13 (Hellpoint). This could be software related but I already did a clean install, which makes me wonder if it could possibly be hardware related, I suspect the SSD may be corrupt in some way.
I almost went for the Blade 14, but figured why not wait if they up the next version to 32GB ram (although I'm fine with 16GB), possibility of a 16:10 screen, possibility of thunderbolt compatibility with AMD. I'd actually be happy with it as it is now, but why not wait and see if those will be the next improvements, I don't actually need the Blade 14 with how good the 13 is for me at this moment.
They need to implement indium pads + vapor chamber + quad fan design. That will solve noise problems and help with the performance.
They should also make power button a fingerprint, its cheap and I miss that old protective glass for IPS so that dust doesn't fall in to gaps of the frame.
blade 14 is the closest to perfection according to me
the body is good (except maybe the fingerprint addictive panel)
4k 120hz touch on the 14-inch laptop
and more ram options
I am genuinely confused as to why you would want a 4k panel on a 14 inch device. Touch? Sure. But 4k? 1440p is already more than enough...
Razer Blade 14 doesn't come in 4k. It's FHD 144hz, or QHD 165hz
nooo on the 4k. It would drain battery faster, it would have huge diminishing returns on that size and it would affect gaming performance significantly. 1440p is the PERFECT panel and it's 165hz! Even better.
Aditya Rudrabhatla, I wish razer had a 17 inch 4k version with a 10900k with 3080 16gb version. I have the Dell g7 15.6 4k oled version but it has a decent i7 cpu only has a 2070 max q and the gpu is decent but not powerful enough. I watch 4k movies on my laptop with an external optical drive for 4k playback and for gaming at 4k rtx.
Love your consistent videos . Expecting more interesting contents.
Love the video, could you do this style of video with MSI Stealth laptops perhaps? Keep doing what you're doing.
I think you should have also adressed that fact that Razers get quite toasty. I'd like to see them evaluating some further cooling options, like liquid metal pasting, larger fans etc. To bring down temps even more and also the noise. It's a premium product, so give us the best of the best.
Great content as always Sir
I officially love this guys presentation style
Loved the video. Good to know what are the downsides when looking for laptops too.
I agree with the logo for sure, I love the overall design but the logo is too much. Perhaps have it as LED lighting up that can be turned off from software. Also, offer some colour choices like the silver 13'. I feel like it's asking for a skins on it just to keep the design more quiet, helping with fingerprints too.
RAM is essential, or at least give option to buy up to 32GB if soldered.
Why is there no thunderbolt with intel cpu?
The charger is understandably big, I would likely buy a seperate 100w USB-C charger for outdoors usage.
Agree with 16:10 as well, surely will make it's way to the blade in future.
Touchscreen would be a nice extra touch.
Webcam isn't essential but I feel like they can do decent 1080p without much sacrifice at the price. People don't realise they need a webcam until they do.
Overall they do an excellent job and I'm learned towards blade 14 instead of G14. A tough choice.
I heard there are some compatibility issues with customizing game related settings on the Blade 14 because of it having the Ryzen and NVIDIA combo. I was hoping you would cover that. Nevertheless, amazing video and great observations! Do one for MSI if possible (pretty wide & confusing lineup)
The only things I would like too see in future would be , slightly increase the thickness of each laptop. Not by a huge amount, 2-5mm would be sufficient just to increase a small bit of air volume, especially on the 14, so the Vapor chamber can have a bit more volume. The screen 16-10 screen would also be great for general productivity and Free-sink/ G-sink on all monitors from now on.
Next on speakers, especially if you increased the thickness slightly, add a small subwoofer underneath.
AMD chips would be great in almost all of your laptops, or at least an option.
Also if you added a tiny bit more thickness to the 14 so we can go with a 32g ram, the next small, yet large thing would be allow us to disable Optimus.
To recap.
1-5mm thicker Blade 14, which should increase cooling. The extra room could allow for a 32g ram and a small subwoofer underneath, Free-sink 16-10 QHD monitors/ Oled across the board. Lastly, moving the charger to the rear of the unit.
Recently they stealth released a slight refresh of the Razer Blade 15 Base with the option to get 11800H instead of the 10750H in the model you have. The relative performance difference is about 30-50% for the same wattage on the CPU. It also comes with support for faster memory (3200 Mhz instead of 2933 Mhz), as well as PCIE Gen-4 Support, and Thunderbolt 4 support. Would love to see an update video with this new model that is a "Razer Store Online Exclusive" (and its actually in stock.) Thanks!
I am a huge fan of Razer and for me the perfect blade could has 16:10, 32GB, AMD, better webcam quality and Mercury color 😍.
I would go gaga for the mercury color. I do love the black but that mercury is so sexy to me.
great video as always. I'd like to see this style of video with the asus zephyrus models too.
Great Video!! Do Asus next please
"Grandma, End her life and her cat's...." 😂😂🤣😂😂😂
As owner of Blade 13,14 and 15, I echo most of your comments. I skinned all of them to get rid of fingerprint and hideous logo issue. My main hope for improvement is the power brick size and weight. The is no point of being thin and light when the power brick can kill someone when hurled.
A comparison of the zenbook duo, zenbook pro duo, and zephyrus duo would be nice. You happen to always have great perspective , and I don’t think anyone has made this exact video yet 👌
Ryzen 16inch 16:10 with 32gb of ram and a 6-8 hour battery life with the mercury finish and black keys. DREAM RAZER BUILD.
i like the blade logo glowing,
Wow i completely agree with you on all of these. Especially the logo and aspect ratio.
Considering to buy a razer blade 14 with the 3070, instead of building a new desktop pc to retire my existing 5 year old laptop with a gtx 1060.
CPU and GPU prices here in the Philippines is still high due to scalpers and low supply. Laptop prices are lower than an equivalent desktop one sadly.
I like the logo. It's not in your face but it stands the laptop out as a bit special. I like the direction gaming laptops are going tho with classier, stealthier looks. They've looked too much like toys in the past.
What it really caught my attentions are its sleek chassis as well as the combination of green + black I/O. I'm sick.
I really liked it but no upgradeability is a dealbreaker for me
I mean, only the 14 and smaller don't have upgradable RAM. And the Blade 15 isn't that much heavier than the 14. The only compromise you'd really be making is having an Intel CPU, but even then, 11th gen is quite competitive in terms of performance even if it still isn't very efficient or cool.
Do it for Asus. Call them out on not including camera in some models. Call them out on things like removing the option to enable panel overdrive in armoury crate after new update on older models even though I could period to the update (gx701 btw not a laptop that can’t handle it or anything). Call them out on not having armoury crate aura sync be compatible with all keyboard layouts, my laptop has a Turkish key layout and if I want to set a custom lighting profile for rgb a few of the keys on the keyboard don’t show up in the software and so you can’t apply anything to them. I can explain this in further detail if you’d like.
Great Video but would have been good if your talked more about why one would buy a different model over the other within the same brand.
I love my razer blade 15...........doing everything to keep it cool.......
I really like the glowing green logo on black
1. Using dbrand on both top and bottom of my RB15
2. Battery already swapped twice in 2yrs due to swelling,
3. Both fans had to be replaced,
4. Allow to buy replacement parts easier! I had to buy it from China, cuz you don't supply it.
Ouch sorry to hear! That sucks
Greaat video , and perfect feedback of what they need to improve
I have a razer blade 14, and i found the speakers on that machine better than my macbook pro.
Granted the Macbook pro was the 2013 model, but it even compared to the modern macbook. I never check to see what a new one sound like
Agree with everything here Matt. The fingerprints on my 14 are so disgusting. I believe they had to solder the RAM just because there was no room for RAM slots with the big vapor chamber there. One other thing I wish the 14 had after using it a few weeks now is Advanced Optimus.
When are you going to review the new line up of Razor Blade 15 Advanced and/or Razor Blade 17?? I'm not seeing anyone review them and don't know why?
"She'd probably think I'm tryna end her life and her cats"😂
HI there, Thanks for the vid. Super helpful. I am looking for a light laptop (1.0 - 2.0kg) as I am constantly moving and carrying my laptop on my bag. At the same time I would like to game some games (NFS, Call of duty and GTA basically) when I travel. I am no tech expert and therefore have a mess on my head as there are so many things to consider when choosing a professional light laptop which lets you game on the side. Could you give me some advise and try to recommend me one?
I like models which look like the MacBook Pro such as Dell XPS 15, Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 and, although not that similar to Mac, Lenovo X1. These give me the pros of design, lightweight and good for business (I mainly use Outlook, Excel, Word and PPT), but when I see the price (€1.5-2.0K) I consider buying Razer Blade 14 directly and having a good gaming laptop as well as business.
Sorry for the long message, hope you can help me.
The ram on the blade 14 was a deal breaker for me 💔
Razor needs to sell the 14" in mercury white too!
Yeah, I would have gotten that blade 14 if the ram was upgradable... Went for the 15. Hope that 11th gen Intel and 3060 set up will be ok.. I picked up 64gb of ram and a 2tb 980 pro and using it mostly for video editing. I hope the laptop will last me more than a couple years. Invested a lot into the setup. 🤞🏽
Yeah please Another Video of this Kind
Not a Macbook fan/user but I am very tempted to migrate.
The issues with PC laptops nowadays are either no AMD CPU or no 32GB RAM option if it does, or no 16:10 display, or no decent speakers or have crappy webcam. Not having a discrete GPU is fine, I'm just looking for a work laptop. 16GB RAM on PC won't cut it anymore.
Macbook Air M1 with 16GB RAM can fulfill all these at a lower price. M1 is easy on RAM consumption, and if it does use the virtual memory, it is so fast that we don't notice it anymore. PC land simply has no answer in this area. The only downside is the lack of certain features in apps like MS Teams and Zoom.
great video Matt!
question, do you have dell xps 9510 and 9710 coming?
Great video, they didn’t update the ram in the 2022 14 version. Would that put you off buying it jn Q4 2022? Thanks
At like 6:02 Matt was like... What was I going to say again?
They are very good, good number of ports, very beautiful and robust, beautiful screen, above average battery, and great sounds. However, they are indeed expensive, first of all. Second, the thermals. I know that a gaming laptop isn't the most quiet nor coldest in the world, but man, it screams.
wish they kept the mercury line up for the blade and stealth not just the studio versions
As far as the logo goes I think they should do something like they did with the razer phones where the emblem is silver over black but if you want it to light up you can turn it on or off with RGB. That would be perfect for a classy look or popping RGB with the same device. Idk why they haven't done this yet. The razer phones are a few years old at this point so it's not something they can't do especially for a 1800-2800 dollar price range.
Matthew, I'm thinking of getting a Razer 17" but I've seen so many bad reviews about it, screen issues, BSOD, screen suddenly going black, etc. Have you used on a regular basis a razer laptop? had any issues? Thanks.
Bro that logo is ICONIC. Never remove it Razer
She would probably think I'm trying to end her life and her cats' 😂😂😂 classic 🤭
Don’t ever say again that they should hide their beautiful green snake logo off their products..don’t ever say it again or i will find you…
this was needed
it would have been good if a holistic view is covered including post sale support. Razer is notoriously infamous for customer support - that must play a part in buying a £2k laptop.
I myself faced the battery bloating issue on my RB 15 2019 base after 1 year but razer was kind enough to replace it for free
Had same issue with my Stealth in 2018, and past the 1 year mark Razer told me tough luck (and bought it direct through them).
Sadly like Matt said, battery bloat is just a thing in gaming laptops when you have a battery next to the temperatures these things function at. Go to any of the subreddits and type in bloat and you'll find pictures and pictures of bloating regardless of brand. I know the Surface Book had some serious issues with it.
Ive been using this Razer blade design for years and just to let you know if your hands dont excrete a lot of sweat , like u find it difficult to open a plastic bag you need to add some water before you can open a plastic bag. Then you wont leave fingerprints at all on this machine. I almost feel like it was designed for me.
Hey so on friday the 3rd i ordered the 3060 razer blade 14 and now its been stuck in customs (clearance delay) since monday. When will my damn laptop arrive, and how long did yours take
I'm pretty sure it's soldered on because of how thin they wanted the laptop to be. We all know Razer doesn't care if you swap out ram since you can do that on the Razer Blade 15 but they had to make a choice on upgradable ram in a thicker chassis or vice versa. I still think they made the right decision but my only complaint would be they should offer models with 16 and 32gb soldered on. All they would have to do is put 4gb modules on the motherboard instead of the 2gb they are using currently.
All that being said, the Razer Blade 14 is the best feeling laptop I've ever used. Everything from Asus to Alienware to Surface, this is the most premium feeling product I've ever had in my hands in laptop form. I do agree on the logo. The logo should just be plain silver and the way it should light up is by RBG and if you have RBG off then it should just be a silvery or black logo. No point in making it green, let the green LED's handle that.
Yes please do a video like this about Asus it is confusing to understand wich is the best laptop for me with so many models
I'm a 33 year old man. I'll be buying gaming laptops for the rest of my life. But I don't want other people to know that my laptop is a "gaming laptop" if I whip it out at a meeting with clients. Sure, I can buy secondary laptop to look "professional" for when I need it, and sure I can buy a case cover or whatever, but why not just tone down the damn green snake logo so I can turn my "gaming laptop" into my "everything laptop". I think the logo is straight embarrassing for all parties honestly lol.
Say it how it is. I like this very much. Please continue this series.
The perfect blade is the one you throw in the trash! Hahaha! 😂
3:40 true, but it happens FAR more often on Razer blades and within first year of ownership. Speaking from experience. It definitely needs to be addressed and not glanced over.
I just ordered my Razer Blade 15 Base, hopefully it doesn’t heat up too fast
I have the razer blade 15 2021 and the only issues I have really found are click issues with the track pad e.g. right clicking giving left click etc. Other issue yes yes the finger prints, the crappy web camera which when spending that much money I would have expected something so simple and cheap to have been upgraded.
Other than that the logo I have absolutely no issue with. The over all build and ease of access inside for upgrading of the m.2 and ram is simple and straight forward. There is some dead space inside where there used to be room for anstandard SSD and this could have been utilised better on the 15 model but over all it's a solid solid build and a pleasure to use.
The fixed memory would be way less of a deal if they did not limit it to 16GB that is the most major problem with it.
Based on reviews I thought fingerprints would be a problem… It was not. Sure, it is a fingerprint magnet in a way, but if you keep your hands clean… Not a problem.
I always cover laptop logo with my fave sport team sticker
Thats cool and all but that lamp behind matt's back is called Evedal
I just received the 3070 early 2021 model (i7 108750H) coming from an early 2019 Razer Blade 15 (i7 8750H), and while I love the seemingly better trackpad and thinner profile, I gotta say the speakers are just awful - underwhelming to say the least.
I don't know exactly what the problem is here - they're just so thin on the lower end and almost piercing on the higher end. I've done driver troubleshooting and a clean install of Windows (using Razer's installation media) and still, the sound is just orders of magnitude worse than my 2019 Blade 15. They don't sound broken or damaged - they just sound substantially worse. I wonder if you (or anyone else who can speak to past Blade models) have heard the same thing....
Famous Battery Bloatage is the reason why a lot of people are concerned
i love that alot of this has happened
I like the black colours
I have the older 15 running the 2070 and it is more than I can ask for in laptop. It is so powerful. Battery lasts longer than my Alienware. To me it is sorta perfect. Except for the damn fingerprints and mushy keyboard. I had to buy me K87 brown just to be able to type lol.
I really wish the FN and CTRL keys on the left side were switched in position. Or that in the BIOS you could switch these, since FN keys cannot be remapped in Windows. Lenovo lets you switch the FN and CTRL key in the BIOS. Considering how often I use CTRL for Copy Paste, to gaming, my pinky/ring finger just doesn't like reaching to the CTRL key, it's unnatural for my hands.
"there is no such thing as the perfect razer laptop"
But also, THE PERFECT RAZER LAPTOP!
I wish they refresh the blade 17, or maybe something big is coming up?!?!
Hopefully blade 16 🤞
And hopefully with ryzen, as we saw in the blade 14, using ryzen allowed them to put the same power to the gpu as the blade 15 advanced even though it's a 14inch laptop which (hopefully) means we would get at least 140+ watts on the gpu in the blade 17 or maybe 120+ watts in the ryzen blade 15
I've heard that Razer had poor quality control though. And I know here in the U.K. their customer support is none existent and really poor.
If you think Razer is bad, you must never had the pleasure of working with a Dell or an HP. I will say, Asus was pretty solid when I had an issue.
My new razer blade 15 11th gen rtx3070 240hz Screen flickers when connected to 5Ghz wifi5(ac) while using 240hz display refresh rate but stops when connected to 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz Wi-Fi4(n)/Wi-Fi6(ax) with 60hz refresh rate.
They either need to release an AMD Blade 15 or release a Blade 14 Pro or similar iteration with 32gb ram.
Thank you for the review! Ordered it. Honestly i don't need the rtx 3070 and bought it for the cpu, the formfactor and the portability! I would have loved to see the cpu inside a razer book, which would have been perfect because i only need a beefy cpu for my work and don't play that much.
i really like the logo im not bothered by it but fingerprint though geez