Truly amazing how wrong you are about telling folks to switch from MediaTek for WiFi 7 to something else, presumably Intel. Wrong on so many levels but let's start with the easy one everyone knows. Intel locked their WiFi 7 module to their chipset. You cannot get it working in Windows on AMD with the full 7 spec. There are some hacked debug drivers that bluescreen that will get you connectivity at 6 (not even 6E speeds) but you have to be a contributor to the project. Next the comment about MediaTek's quality. Well flatout ignorant and calls into question the general knowledge of anything at LMG. MediaTek's consumer WiFi 7 modules are objectively the best on the market. They're the same chip and controller literally 100% of all consumer and pro APs/routers on the market. They also allow AP mode on your device and full WiFi direct support. Intel locks you to a single stream, blocks AP mode and limits WiFi direct to "authorized devices" as a sort of WiFi DRM. The second best module is made by Qualcomm. Intel's is easily the worst available. Next there is Intel's likely illegal control over the North American market serving client based/consumer WiFi nics. Go ahead and look. No one is selling the Qualcomm or MediaTek alternatives. The best you can find are resellers changing 300% on Amazon/eBay. Why? Well there are numerous articles about this probably illegal practice but I'm not about to do your job anymore than I have. Seriously. Do better. This is embarrassing. Shame on you. That's like your rants over the past few years about TB or USB 4 on AMD not realizing AMD is prohibited from including that controller directly in their chipset too. That's why companies like Asmedia had to in-house solutions which most manufacturers include on their boards today.
Why does the company with all the peripherals not give you a gaming keyboard. You have to plug in a razer keyboard into their own brands laptop to get 1000hz polling rate. I understand its because its portable and 125hz but do we have to have no toggle for that because the mouses have 3.
F… dbrand. They send me faulty iPhone 16 pro screen protectors and wouldn’t even replaced them. Had to throw it in a trash. Never buy anything from them ever again.
My legion has that Dolby thing and idk. With this off it sounds trash but on other hand if i listen to music and launch a game the sound doesn’t even out and i barely hear the game. Have that since 2015.
For anyone wanting to try moonlight, it's honestly not hard to setup, you download sunshine on your PC, moonlight on your phone, start it on your PC and you're technically good to go, you can use wired/wireless controller on your phone and it'll automatically transmit the input, now virtual displays to match your phones native resolution and have it as an entirely separate monitor is where things get a lil complicated, but still relatively easy to figure out with tons of tutorials if you get stuck
The good thing is that if the software is based on moonlight and sunshine, Razer will have to publish the source code of both of them because of the GPL licenses.
You guys have been killing it with presenting this stuff. The marketing teams on the floor would kill for the energy you put into the camera. Great job.
Watched the episode with Linus on Colin and Samir, and the part where he says the energy you normally would have, you have 10x it while presenting, really shows, it really comes through to me as the viewer that they're really passionate about this stuff and it is entertaining to watch.
A little bit too much though, they just said that 250$ chairs are usually crappy like wtf are we saying here? I got a 90$ ikea desk chair and it was pretty high up the stack, I'm sure their best chair is around 200$ why tf are we normalising gaming chair pricing
@@Chkoupinator No offense but you might be saying that $90 chair is higher up in quality bc u haven't sat on say $200-400 chairs. I have a $250 chair I got at Staples several years ago and its holding up great. I've sat on many chairs too btw, u really get what u pay for w/ chairs. Just remember there's a Razer tax so that 299 chair quality is prob closer to 199.
I think far too many people have been burnt by razer products and laptops already. Let me know when one of their products can last a reasonable period of time and Ill consider one.
mine lasts 6 years so far. Had to replace battery/charger. Lott manufacturing defects in the beggingng was mostly fixed. That was very annoying they keep sending it back without it fully fixed when thro 6 rounds of up and back repair. annoying. I recommend sending the labtop with a physical note of issues helps. Still, mostly good now.
@@joshpeck9266do you use the keyboard on it or an external? I want a blade but can’t find reviews about keys failing after long term usage. Not sure if thats a good or bad thing lmao
not sure if that counts, but my wired Basilisk V3 mouse is so good i bought another one for my workplace (seen in video at 6:06 ) the first one I got is almost 3 years old with no issues at all. Presumably the optical switches helps a lot, I had to buy a new mouse every year or so because of the double clicks. feel great in (my) hand, free spin scroll wheel, three side buttons..only akward thing is profile switching button on the bottom
@@PuddingTaToRnAtOr i use the keyboard thats one thing never had an issue. I really like the keyboard on my early 2019 version. the 2020 I know was really thin but the 2019 was a nice balance of thin not to thin. i like it. I don't like those clicky large external ones cant type well lol. but I love how the 2025 version looks, almost as light as mine now fixed most of the issues with the 2024 especially the weight. only thing not thrilled with soldered ram but other than that looks really good. they made the trackpad a good size again two 2024 looked bad. just expect to need to repair it a bunch first year but its nice after in my experience. love how the new oled looks. only hope the speakers are improved more and price is ok! on 2025
But did they solve the issue with the thermals? Because my old Razer Blade 15 2021 model had issues where the battery would get swollen due to the battery heating beyond it's manufacturer temp guidlines. I end up having to replace the battery once every year.
@@thenamelessone123 How are these two devices in the same boat ? You need windows / game ? Get a windows device. No ? Get a mac, they're not even in the same district with what they can do.
My razer blade just died after a solid 4.5 years of use. They don't really last long in my experience and razer's customer service is a nightmare to deal with, Ill probably never buy a blade again
@@melancholyentertainment nah it was holding on by a thread. I had the bottom panel off because of overheating, I had to screw on the vaper chamber back on because it had gotten loose and remove the defective battery (only worked for 4 months had to keep it continually powered). The laptop probably had a good 3 year run and then I forced as much life out of it as possible(this is the second blade I’ve owned) The chips and storage were great, but that's only because razer doesn't make them.
They’ve probably made the touchpad smaller as they were having a nightmare where their touchpads were registering unintended clicks as people were typing on the keyboard and brushing the touchpad, they had to release firmware updates to try and reduce it happening. I’ve got one of their utter trash mini led local dimming screens and their local dimming algorithm is abysmal for desktop use (atrocious screen uniformity, weird inverse darkening around windows, and slow backlight update causing smearing), we complained on their forum, they eventually after months released a firmware update for 2024 models where you could turn off local dimming completely as they couldn’t properly fix it, but for my 2023 unit their response was essentially “we’re not fixing it, you’re stuck with your sub par screen on your £4000 laptop, we have your money and we don’t care”. Utterly appalling behaviour.
I dont know if you got the bad version (I heard there were two panel makers)... But I absolutely love my 2023 razer mini-LED screen. Basically OLED like in dark scenes of movies or with the black bars, and yet gets super bright and accurate. The only negative I notice is the occasional half second ghosting when it goes from a very bright logo to complete darkness like at the start of a movie when the movie name comes on then off screen. But compared to my previous alienware OLED laptop, this gets brighter, is way more natural and accurate, and has a much higher refresh rate 120hz4k, 240hz1080p. I just run it in 4k120 all the time because it looks so good and my games don't need to be more than 120hz with gsync.
Mine bluescreens every 5 minutes. I’m thinking of getting a different brand next time. That and Razer went woke with their marketing. Kind of dissatisfied with Razer. Thought they would make a competitor to the Steam Deck. Instead, they’re complacent like Apple and now only care about selling cat ear headphones.
Lenovo has been extremely reliable, except their keyboards, certain keys just stop working after awhile (We have 3 lenovos in the house, all 3 had keyboard failures) but after 10 yrs still working great no blue screens, just need external keyboard
Nah, ever since their stupid service people broke my laptop during repair and they didn't take responsibility for it, I'll never touch Razer again until the day I die. DO NOT USE RAZER! EVER!
Is it really that bad? I’ve never had a razer laptop and was thinking about getting one. But I see so many people talking about how they’ve gotten burned by it, or just stops working
@@HojlundUnited Can confirm, not really worth the money. You would be better off buying another brand and either saving up the left over or buy some extras I had went through 2 that over heated and one where the screen was D.O.A
@@HojlundUnited Yes, they are that bad. Razer famously has severe battery bloat issues with all their laptops (which was my problem) and somehow while fixing the battery, their service department fried my RAM. Of course their RAM is not removable, so the entire laptop is dead now. They are NOT a company you should give your money to!
Not only solder is faster, you get lower power draw which is a bigger deal for thin and light class like this when you are likely to use it for light tasks without a power brick handy
7:26 - So... is there a battery or is it cabled? To be clear, is it ABLE to have a battery option (for 'light usage') AND a cabled option (to switch between, as chairs are expensive if only one or the other). Also this sounds just like what I wanna replace my broke gaming chair with! 😅 Update: 7:57 - I see... so then it SHOULD have both options... at whatever the base price of $1000 is for the model that doesn't have those features...? (Its fine but... How's the warranty, is it long and robust?)
1:29 - what does he mean "because this is AMD and not intel"? What does it have to do with USB-C? Or was it a comment that it's not thunderbolt *because* it's amd and not intel?
@@Valentine570 Thanks, I thought thunderbolt had been made open source by intel, but after reading more about it, that seems to be an oversimplification of what actually happened.
As Valentine570 said, Alex was referring to AMD laptops generally not having the Thunderbolt certification. However, the HP Omnibook Ultra with the Ryzen AI 9 365/375 has Thunderbolt 4, so it's possible for AMD laptops to have Thunderbolt.
razr almost had me with the laptop until it was revealed you can't upgrade the RAM. God dang it..... also moonlight is pretty fun, I've got a copy of it running on my PS vita, it's not hard to setup on either end and it works really well.
Teething issues. They don't have the history or size of Apple. Apple historically has has bad thermals with mediocre GPUs on board. Razer is trying to pack bleeding edge in a tiny size. Not comparable.
@@kharkaroto9486 Teething??? I wouldn't call my battery catching on fire while in use, teething. They've been making laptops for more than a decade and it's still the same damn story with junk quality control, battery bloat galore, and spotty customer service. They can tweak the keyboard all they want; I'm not gonna buy another one so long as I keep hearing the same problems with batteries and power supplies.
you can get the same functionality with moonlight too, you need to install a virtual display adapter and then use sunshine to tell it when connecting to switch to that one. It has the benefit that you can use HDR even though you dont have an HDR Monitor hooked up to your host pc. Im using this with my steam deck or macbook in native resolution. Also Sunshine makes Moonlight way easier to connect
AMD can have USB 4, but Thunderbolt is Intel Only. In reality you can have a thunderbolt license and put it in a AMD machine, but it is really rare (i don't know any). High end Intel machines will usually have Thunderbolt by default.
Man I was trying to configure sunshine/moonlight for local streaming to match my phone resolution, it is indeed pain in the ass. Best part of the video for me - Alex mentioning the Razor PC remote play - works beautifully!
Why is the wifi modular but not the RAM. This is not uncommon... Is there a reason why many laptops have modular wifi? How many times users replace the wifi in a laptop?
@@Supcharged Yes and No, The new Dell pro max devices, some of them have LPCAMM2. the problem is that it's a fairly new standard, the supply isn't there and laptop manufacturers take years to design products, the few that have LPCAMM2 worked closely with OEM to make it happen. Hopefully we start seeing them in the next generation of laptops (2 years from now).
@@kninezbanksWe should see more business laptops with this new tech going forward. Business laptops with high sales volume might convince third party vendors to start making lpcamm modules. Once the market for lpcamm starts growing, normal laptops can start shipping with them too.
My Alienware 17 from 2013 still has the best keyboard. Even with replaceable CPU, replaceable GPU, replaceable RAM, mSATA SSD, 2 HDD slots + optical drive slot. Almost everything is upgradeable. It is just super heavy. (Like 8 pounds) I wonder why nobody make laptop like that again. Same design with traditional touchpad with buttons but thinner and lighter. All my newer laptops just kinda force me to use an external keyboard
@@tecnotech. Those big companies are pushing all those ESG stuff to "protect the Environment" with less packaging but they are soldering everything including the SSD and RAM to the motherboard to make sure you buy a new one if you want an upgrade. The notebook in the OP can upgrade the graphic card to GTX 970M or even GTX 1070M (with modded BIOS) from GTX 765M The monitor can also upgraded to the 1080P 120Hz 3D one if the motherboard model supports it. There isn't much R&D to do if they can just reuse that design and make it better.
Worth to mention. That thing has an HDMI in. I used to play PS3 with the AW17 monitor on the go. I know usb capture card is a thing but that's 1 less extra stuff to bring. Also they have HDCP and delay issues. PC companies just don't make that kind of jack of all trades big notebooks anymore
You just said the laptop weighed 8 pounds right?! That's why nobody does it again. Such a device will be excessively large and heavy that you might as well just buy a desktop. Laptops are meant to be portable and such a device is anything but.
@fidelisitor8953 to be fair. It was still way more portable than carrying a normal PC tower and a standard monitor. I needed it because I need to work in multiple locations. I just needed to carry the notebook, a mouse and the power adapter to change my workspace. With today's technology. They can make the same thing with way less weight for sure.
What's so bad about Mediatek wifi cards? I have one in my laptop and never had an issue since I bought my laptop last year. Very fast and reliable and has Bluetooth 5.2. Mediatek wifi cards are good
What an amazing on the fly review from Alex. The AMD and 5090 combination crammed in a tiny form factor is amazing and it would be great to examine the thermal solution in more detail. Also, mad props for giving a shout-out to open source software like moonlight.
no remote play is ever going to work like that partially due to the way most game engines handle input, whenever you would click in your web browser, your sibling would loose control of the game and they onscreen prompts would switch to KB+M maybe if you setup multiple virtual machines on your pc you could get something like that to work
Tape/tie a stick to one of the legs, attach cord to stick, then whenever you move, the stick keeps the cable away from the wheels. Most people don't move their chairs very much, either. I swap the wheels on mine for nubs that don't roll.
I once owned a blade 15. It was great... except Razer synapse. which despite doing nothing except controlling the lights on the keyboard, was horrible. So many issues were caused by synapse. I once had the fans completely stop working in my laptop which obviously made it unbelievably slow, once I uninstalled synapse, the fans immediately turned back on. I never reinstalled it after that and never had many issues after that.
@@tabkg5802 Yes, that's literally what I'm implying while highlighting that it shares the exact same name when it isn't the same card, thank you for repeating my comment.
@@EnyoTaiz so you wrote a widely known fact and acted like it's an exclusive issue for this? What do you want exactly? A full on desktop 5090 in a laptop?
The 4090 was also a desktop 4080. Nothing surprising here. Nvidia is basically scamming people with their naming scheme ever since they dropped the M suffix for laptop variants with the excuse that Pascal laptop gpus were the same as their desktop counterparts, but kept the M branding away even though they returned to the practice of using different names for laptops and desktops the immediate generation after.
I would be really interested to know more informations about video output. I have a blade 2020 Intel that is still #1 for having video output from 1 HDMI + 2 from Thunderbolt + 1 from USB C, all coming out from Nvidia GPU, avoiding the passthrough on Intel...
The remote play feature seems great! I have a noticeable latency with steam link and I didn’t care enough to set up moonlight. The auto switching to the client resolution is also fantastic. Is it capable of streaming an hdr signal though?
this cooled chair would be a perfect fit here in Brazil in the current summer, honestly is hard to not sweat between the tights and the chair in such high temperature. but of course, it being razer, it will cost 10k USD here
I figured that the RTX 5090 on this laptop wouldn’t reach 175 TDP like the other larger gaming laptops out there. The chassis is far too slim for any amount of heat to build up. In comparison to the 2025 SCAR 18 which has a vapor cooling chamber and three fans, it’s certainly more conservative with the gaming performance. It will get fairly warm, with possibly quite a bit of thermal throttling
did they ever fix the thermals? the older models were atrocious and would constantly thermal throttle, to make matters worse they use the chassis as a heat sink which would cause the battery to swell within a year which would also mess up the track pad once it started swelling
I like my 2021 razer blade, but soldered RAM can suck it. I'd rather have something a little larger and more upgradable. I also discovered a manufacturing error with mine after I was out of warranty - really messed up application of a thermal pad that started causing issues. Razer told me to suck it, also. So I guess make sure you tear it down while in warranty.
I really don’t like the fact they got rid of sodimm it NEVER worth making it Thinner and and a slight speed increase. Bc I know for a fact all there ram isn’t running at 8kmhz. It’s anti consumer AF all to charge a dumb amount for slightly more gb
Razor remote play using moonlight backbone is very underrated news seeing as Nvidia discontinued their Gamesteam half a year ago. I remember being on vacation and getting 120 fps playing WoW via my tablet while Parsec was struggling.
The very last thing I will ever buy again is a razor chair. My last one came broke and had to replace it, and then it barely lasted 6 months before it started falling apart
As a laptop user, if a little thickness will grant better thermals and it means I can touch the keyboard without burning my fingers, I would pick that.
Definitely would have liked to see more brands pointed out with AMD’s new mobile X3D cpu inside. Here to hoping there’s a decent selection as the last time that chip was out, could only find it in a gen before 17” chassis from Asus
@JoshuaT902 I agree. I'd take slightly slower RAM and an thicker chassis for that upgradable RAM. Heck, why the hell isn't LPCAMM2 used!? THAT WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
That i have seen, yeas, i think Asus have a RTX 5080 with an AMD CPU, but the norm is even if the model has Intel and AMD options and the Intel option will go up to 5090, the AMD will go up to 5070ti. Funnily, i've seen a youtuber explaining the Nvvidia Board 1 (5090, 5080, 5070ti) and Board 2 (5070, 5060) for justify some models only going up to 5070, and than showing a model that can go up to 5070ti in the AMD model without noticing that the explanation makes no sense.
@pedro4205 yeah i think i remember the asus 5080 too but no 5090s either intel has paid some fat stacks to be in all top end laptop mobos or companies care about having thunderbolt 5 too much
@@vexuria I think both makes sense. And so does it make sense that Razer, the first company to put out a notebook with thuderbolt 5, to don't care, it is mostly a gimmick, unless you have really specific uses.
Every time I hear the grammatically incorrect "but" in LMG videos @(3:10) it makes me think "They did it again! X(" The word "but" is used to introduce a contrast or exception in a sentence. It is appropriate to use "but" when you want to show that what comes after it is different from, or in opposition to, what came before it. I've been enjoying the CES coverage though. Neat stuff!
@@sandorbence2067 According to AMDs website it does support DDR5-5600 alongside LPDDR5X-8000, so it should be able to have SODIMM support, it would just make the iGPU perform like crap.
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Truly amazing how wrong you are about telling folks to switch from MediaTek for WiFi 7 to something else, presumably Intel. Wrong on so many levels but let's start with the easy one everyone knows. Intel locked their WiFi 7 module to their chipset. You cannot get it working in Windows on AMD with the full 7 spec. There are some hacked debug drivers that bluescreen that will get you connectivity at 6 (not even 6E speeds) but you have to be a contributor to the project.
Next the comment about MediaTek's quality. Well flatout ignorant and calls into question the general knowledge of anything at LMG. MediaTek's consumer WiFi 7 modules are objectively the best on the market. They're the same chip and controller literally 100% of all consumer and pro APs/routers on the market. They also allow AP mode on your device and full WiFi direct support. Intel locks you to a single stream, blocks AP mode and limits WiFi direct to "authorized devices" as a sort of WiFi DRM. The second best module is made by Qualcomm. Intel's is easily the worst available.
Next there is Intel's likely illegal control over the North American market serving client based/consumer WiFi nics. Go ahead and look. No one is selling the Qualcomm or MediaTek alternatives. The best you can find are resellers changing 300% on Amazon/eBay. Why? Well there are numerous articles about this probably illegal practice but I'm not about to do your job anymore than I have.
Seriously. Do better. This is embarrassing. Shame on you. That's like your rants over the past few years about TB or USB 4 on AMD not realizing AMD is prohibited from including that controller directly in their chipset too. That's why companies like Asmedia had to in-house solutions which most manufacturers include on their boards today.
Why does the company with all the peripherals not give you a gaming keyboard. You have to plug in a razer keyboard into their own brands laptop to get 1000hz polling rate. I understand its because its portable and 125hz but do we have to have no toggle for that because the mouses have 3.
F… dbrand. They send me faulty iPhone 16 pro screen protectors and wouldn’t even replaced them. Had to throw it in a trash. Never buy anything from them ever again.
Alex: "hat's off guys"
Alex's hat: (still on)
its a cap
about right XD
@@ujwalbaiju9700 no cap
dude true, Alex should have taken off the hat when he said that.
I can't tell whether this is cap or no cap. 💀
Only thing wrong with them now are that they are stupid expensive
*Allegedly* razer have said that they're making the price competitive. Prolly due to zephyrus g16 acting as actual competition
and their overuse of RGB
@@tabkg5802g16 is such a banger, its my number 1 pick. Even if you have 8k usd to drop on a laptop
@@envynoir razer has the best rgb...
@@tabkg5802 That's razer price even before the G16 or G14 or G15 ever released.
THX Surround Sound?
Yeah
I recommend turning that off 🗿
THX Surround Sound off when gaming and on when watching movies.
Lol I noticed that 😂😂
That is so based as someone that has had a thx razer laptop
it's so bad lol aside from watching movies
My legion has that Dolby thing and idk. With this off it sounds trash but on other hand if i listen to music and launch a game the sound doesn’t even out and i barely hear the game. Have that since 2015.
For anyone wanting to try moonlight, it's honestly not hard to setup, you download sunshine on your PC, moonlight on your phone, start it on your PC and you're technically good to go, you can use wired/wireless controller on your phone and it'll automatically transmit the input, now virtual displays to match your phones native resolution and have it as an entirely separate monitor is where things get a lil complicated, but still relatively easy to figure out with tons of tutorials if you get stuck
yeah i dont get the moonlight shade being thrown. maybe they were talking about sunshine (the server part) which can be annoying.
@@Coldsteak 100% on the sunshine part. That's not a download and go like parsec
Apollo/Artemis is even better (creates virtual display automatically)
The good thing is that if the software is based on moonlight and sunshine, Razer will have to publish the source code of both of them because of the GPL licenses.
sunshine and moonlight work amazing together, i'm run a 240hz 1440 ultrawide at 200mbps hevc through it with hardly any latency
I love that he confirms the surround sound and then goes "yeah, turn that off" hahahaha
after picking up the nommo v2s, the surround/thx isn't as good as it could be compared to the headsets.. i prefer it off.
You guys have been killing it with presenting this stuff. The marketing teams on the floor would kill for the energy you put into the camera. Great job.
True, well put. Their passion really shines!
Watched the episode with Linus on Colin and Samir, and the part where he says the energy you normally would have, you have 10x it while presenting, really shows, it really comes through to me as the viewer that they're really passionate about this stuff and it is entertaining to watch.
A little bit too much though, they just said that 250$ chairs are usually crappy like wtf are we saying here? I got a 90$ ikea desk chair and it was pretty high up the stack, I'm sure their best chair is around 200$ why tf are we normalising gaming chair pricing
@@omernawazz29watching Linus switch his persona with such ease blew my mind. He is truly a natural.
@@Chkoupinator No offense but you might be saying that $90 chair is higher up in quality bc u haven't sat on say $200-400 chairs. I have a $250 chair I got at Staples several years ago and its holding up great. I've sat on many chairs too btw, u really get what u pay for w/ chairs. Just remember there's a Razer tax so that 299 chair quality is prob closer to 199.
I think far too many people have been burnt by razer products and laptops already. Let me know when one of their products can last a reasonable period of time and Ill consider one.
mine lasts 6 years so far. Had to replace battery/charger. Lott manufacturing defects in the beggingng was mostly fixed. That was very annoying they keep sending it back without it fully fixed when thro 6 rounds of up and back repair. annoying. I recommend sending the labtop with a physical note of issues helps. Still, mostly good now.
@@joshpeck9266do you use the keyboard on it or an external? I want a blade but can’t find reviews about keys failing after long term usage. Not sure if thats a good or bad thing lmao
not sure if that counts, but my wired Basilisk V3 mouse is so good i bought another one for my workplace (seen in video at 6:06 )
the first one I got is almost 3 years old with no issues at all. Presumably the optical switches helps a lot, I had to buy a new mouse every year or so because of the double clicks.
feel great in (my) hand, free spin scroll wheel, three side buttons..only akward thing is profile switching button on the bottom
@@PuddingTaToRnAtOr i use the keyboard thats one thing never had an issue. I really like the keyboard on my early 2019 version. the 2020 I know was really thin but the 2019 was a nice balance of thin not to thin. i like it. I don't like those clicky large external ones cant type well lol. but I love how the 2025 version looks, almost as light as mine now fixed most of the issues with the 2024 especially the weight. only thing not thrilled with soldered ram but other than that looks really good. they made the trackpad a good size again two 2024 looked bad. just expect to need to repair it a bunch first year but its nice after in my experience. love how the new oled looks. only hope the speakers are improved more and price is ok! on 2025
@@RandomTheories i had to get 3 razer headphones before they worked but they kept working, although they are two big idk why I got. but anyway
"Conveniently the speaker module has fallen out..."
Yes, yes, sure💀
But did they solve the issue with the thermals? Because my old Razer Blade 15 2021 model had issues where the battery would get swollen due to the battery heating beyond it's manufacturer temp guidlines. I end up having to replace the battery once every year.
This - I loved Razor but the battery swelling is making me think of a Macbook Pro next
yeah, they solved it by switching to AMD.
Same here, this shite channel have not exposed Razer for their fire hazard batteries.
@@thenamelessone123 How are these two devices in the same boat ? You need windows / game ? Get a windows device. No ? Get a mac, they're not even in the same district with what they can do.
My razer blade just died after a solid 4.5 years of use. They don't really last long in my experience and razer's customer service is a nightmare to deal with, Ill probably never buy a blade again
Honestly I would think 4.5 years is a win if the issue is something simple
Exactly, razer products never last long
And 4.5 years is a lot longer than I’ve seen from a lot of people. That’s the real fix they need.
>Gaming Laptop
>”Solid 4.5 years of use”
>”Don’t really last long”
😐
@@melancholyentertainment nah it was holding on by a thread. I had the bottom panel off because of overheating, I had to screw on the vaper chamber back on because it had gotten loose and remove the defective battery (only worked for 4 months had to keep it continually powered). The laptop probably had a good 3 year run and then I forced as much life out of it as possible(this is the second blade I’ve owned) The chips and storage were great, but that's only because razer doesn't make them.
They're not getting another look from me until they update their bloatware they call 'drivers'. 'software', etc.
They actually updated their synapse software. Probably a good time to check if the changes are enough for you
We're currently living in bizarro world where razer's laptops have the best I/O(they decided to include more than just two usb-c)
2:37 when ur palm rejection is so bad you have to shrink trackpad
Razer - the stuff which ends up in warranty after a few months of use
They’ve probably made the touchpad smaller as they were having a nightmare where their touchpads were registering unintended clicks as people were typing on the keyboard and brushing the touchpad, they had to release firmware updates to try and reduce it happening. I’ve got one of their utter trash mini led local dimming screens and their local dimming algorithm is abysmal for desktop use (atrocious screen uniformity, weird inverse darkening around windows, and slow backlight update causing smearing), we complained on their forum, they eventually after months released a firmware update for 2024 models where you could turn off local dimming completely as they couldn’t properly fix it, but for my 2023 unit their response was essentially “we’re not fixing it, you’re stuck with your sub par screen on your £4000 laptop, we have your money and we don’t care”. Utterly appalling behaviour.
I dont know if you got the bad version (I heard there were two panel makers)... But I absolutely love my 2023 razer mini-LED screen. Basically OLED like in dark scenes of movies or with the black bars, and yet gets super bright and accurate. The only negative I notice is the occasional half second ghosting when it goes from a very bright logo to complete darkness like at the start of a movie when the movie name comes on then off screen. But compared to my previous alienware OLED laptop, this gets brighter, is way more natural and accurate, and has a much higher refresh rate 120hz4k, 240hz1080p. I just run it in 4k120 all the time because it looks so good and my games don't need to be more than 120hz with gsync.
I will never buy a razer
Are they reliable. I got burned with 2 bad razer laptops.
Your a gluten for punishment. 3rfd time is a charm
@@Usernotknown21 I have no fears... But razer batteries, they scare me.
I think you've answered your own question at this point.
Mine bluescreens every 5 minutes. I’m thinking of getting a different brand next time. That and Razer went woke with their marketing. Kind of dissatisfied with Razer. Thought they would make a competitor to the Steam Deck. Instead, they’re complacent like Apple and now only care about selling cat ear headphones.
Lenovo has been extremely reliable, except their keyboards, certain keys just stop working after awhile (We have 3 lenovos in the house, all 3 had keyboard failures) but after 10 yrs still working great no blue screens, just need external keyboard
Nah, ever since their stupid service people broke my laptop during repair and they didn't take responsibility for it, I'll never touch Razer again until the day I die. DO NOT USE RAZER! EVER!
Is it really that bad? I’ve never had a razer laptop and was thinking about getting one. But I see so many people talking about how they’ve gotten burned by it, or just stops working
@@HojlundUnitedA guy at a computer store talked me out of buying one last month. He told me his Razer did not last long.
@@HojlundUnited Can confirm, not really worth the money. You would be better off buying another brand and either saving up the left over or buy some extras I had went through 2 that over heated and one where the screen was D.O.A
@@HojlundUnited Yes, they are that bad. Razer famously has severe battery bloat issues with all their laptops (which was my problem) and somehow while fixing the battery, their service department fried my RAM. Of course their RAM is not removable, so the entire laptop is dead now. They are NOT a company you should give your money to!
@@priorpriority i think their mices are the best so an exception on those since a mice is bought once in a decade.
155w TGP in a chassis reserved for a 115-120w at best is crazy. Hope we can get a better thermal & a nice CPU+GPU combined performance.
surely the blade is fixed and wont die within 48 months like all the other ones.
I always assumed their biggest issue was their swelling batteries more than anything else.
I still have mine from 2013 and it works like new.
The chair is actually genius. It’s a lot less energy to cool a person than to cool a house or office.
Soldered ram is a big miss for a laptop like this. Also, Razer doesn't like it when you try to repair their stuff.
Soldered DDR5 is faster than SO-DIMM.
@@PrecludeLPI'd willingly give up speed if it meant I can upgrade/replace the sticks in the future.
@@PrecludeLP you wouldnt even notice the difference, i'd rather have slower speed and upgradability, instead of some ewaste soldered on crap
@PrecludeLP I know. I'd still rather have so-dimms
Not only solder is faster, you get lower power draw which is a bigger deal for thin and light class like this when you are likely to use it for light tasks without a power brick handy
7:26 - So... is there a battery or is it cabled? To be clear, is it ABLE to have a battery option (for 'light usage') AND a cabled option (to switch between, as chairs are expensive if only one or the other).
Also this sounds just like what I wanna replace my broke gaming chair with! 😅
Update: 7:57 - I see... so then it SHOULD have both options... at whatever the base price of $1000 is for the model that doesn't have those features...? (Its fine but... How's the warranty, is it long and robust?)
Im begging you not to buy a razer gaming chair. please.
But the amd chips support usb 4 so thunderbolt support is included so does it have it alex?
I remember when Razer was commended for realistic prices.
May have improved the keyboard but not the price
how do you know? Price wasnt released yet.
6:00 I don't need Razer software but I always have steam installed which has been doing the same thing for years
Blade 18 2025 is not ready ?
1:29 - what does he mean "because this is AMD and not intel"? What does it have to do with USB-C? Or was it a comment that it's not thunderbolt *because* it's amd and not intel?
Thunderbolt is a proprietary standard from intel and apple so amd does not have it.
@@Valentine570 Thanks, I thought thunderbolt had been made open source by intel, but after reading more about it, that seems to be an oversimplification of what actually happened.
As Valentine570 said, Alex was referring to AMD laptops generally not having the Thunderbolt certification. However, the HP Omnibook Ultra with the Ryzen AI 9 365/375 has Thunderbolt 4, so it's possible for AMD laptops to have Thunderbolt.
fun fact, the moonlight software is also available on the psvita, and works surprisingly well
razr almost had me with the laptop until it was revealed you can't upgrade the RAM.
God dang it.....
also moonlight is pretty fun, I've got a copy of it running on my PS vita, it's not hard to setup on either end and it works really well.
Will they now work for more than a month past their warranty expiry? Do us Canadians still get shafted with repairs?
Is the Blade sharp now..?
Did they fix their mobos crapping out every 6-10 months? Because that happened to me on two laptops in a row. Impossibly bad customer service
Does anyone actually take Razer seriously anymore? Used to be "the next apple" for windows, but horrible reliability/quality became the norm.
They went woke. Pretty sure they’re full of DEI hires. Not what they used to be.
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Teething issues. They don't have the history or size of Apple. Apple historically has has bad thermals with mediocre GPUs on board. Razer is trying to pack bleeding edge in a tiny size. Not comparable.
@@kharkaroto9486 Teething??? I wouldn't call my battery catching on fire while in use, teething. They've been making laptops for more than a decade and it's still the same damn story with junk quality control, battery bloat galore, and spotty customer service.
They can tweak the keyboard all they want; I'm not gonna buy another one so long as I keep hearing the same problems with batteries and power supplies.
you can get the same functionality with moonlight too, you need to install a virtual display adapter and then use sunshine to tell it when connecting to switch to that one. It has the benefit that you can use HDR even though you dont have an HDR Monitor hooked up to your host pc. Im using this with my steam deck or macbook in native resolution.
Also Sunshine makes Moonlight way easier to connect
How can you know if they fixed it? How can you tell that they will last more than 2 years?
Can someone tell what usb-c has to do with intel or amd?
AMD can have USB 4, but Thunderbolt is Intel Only. In reality you can have a thunderbolt license and put it in a AMD machine, but it is really rare (i don't know any). High end Intel machines will usually have Thunderbolt by default.
That "thermal hood" is so much better than the taper that ruined every laptop for the last 10 years.
The oled screen has pwm flicker though
Have they fixed the battery bloating after 1 year
Is the screen actually 1600p? Looks like 1440p with the thicker bottom.
Considering how legion messed up this year, maybe the blade is the way to go
Man I was trying to configure sunshine/moonlight for local streaming to match my phone resolution, it is indeed pain in the ass. Best part of the video for me - Alex mentioning the Razor PC remote play - works beautifully!
Why is the wifi modular but not the RAM. This is not uncommon... Is there a reason why many laptops have modular wifi? How many times users replace the wifi in a laptop?
No more blue screens? I keep getting them on every version
No replaceable ram is really disappointing. Lpcamm2 exists.
it exists in exactly zero oem machine
@@Supcharged its in exactly one machine. Thinkpad p1 gen7 has it I believe.
@@Supcharged Yes and No, The new Dell pro max devices, some of them have LPCAMM2. the problem is that it's a fairly new standard, the supply isn't there and laptop manufacturers take years to design products, the few that have LPCAMM2 worked closely with OEM to make it happen. Hopefully we start seeing them in the next generation of laptops (2 years from now).
@@kninezbanksWe should see more business laptops with this new tech going forward. Business laptops with high sales volume might convince third party vendors to start making lpcamm modules. Once the market for lpcamm starts growing, normal laptops can start shipping with them too.
My Alienware 17 from 2013 still has the best keyboard. Even with replaceable CPU, replaceable GPU, replaceable RAM, mSATA SSD, 2 HDD slots + optical drive slot. Almost everything is upgradeable.
It is just super heavy. (Like 8 pounds)
I wonder why nobody make laptop like that again. Same design with traditional touchpad with buttons but thinner and lighter.
All my newer laptops just kinda force me to use an external keyboard
Not much room for profit probably (most people probably won't buy it considering how much r&d that goes for it)
@@tecnotech. Those big companies are pushing all those ESG stuff to "protect the Environment" with less packaging but they are soldering everything including the SSD and RAM to the motherboard to make sure you buy a new one if you want an upgrade.
The notebook in the OP can upgrade the graphic card to GTX 970M or even GTX 1070M (with modded BIOS) from GTX 765M
The monitor can also upgraded to the 1080P 120Hz 3D one if the motherboard model supports it.
There isn't much R&D to do if they can just reuse that design and make it better.
Worth to mention. That thing has an HDMI in. I used to play PS3 with the AW17 monitor on the go.
I know usb capture card is a thing but that's 1 less extra stuff to bring. Also they have HDCP and delay issues.
PC companies just don't make that kind of jack of all trades big notebooks anymore
You just said the laptop weighed 8 pounds right?! That's why nobody does it again. Such a device will be excessively large and heavy that you might as well just buy a desktop. Laptops are meant to be portable and such a device is anything but.
@fidelisitor8953 to be fair. It was still way more portable than carrying a normal PC tower and a standard monitor.
I needed it because I need to work in multiple locations. I just needed to carry the notebook, a mouse and the power adapter to change my workspace.
With today's technology. They can make the same thing with way less weight for sure.
7:56 i need this chair
What's so bad about Mediatek wifi cards? I have one in my laptop and never had an issue since I bought my laptop last year. Very fast and reliable and has Bluetooth 5.2. Mediatek wifi cards are good
5:13 "Hey do you still have the crappy sound gimmick profile?"
Razer: "Yup still do"
What an amazing on the fly review from Alex.
The AMD and 5090 combination crammed in a tiny form factor is amazing and it would be great to examine the thermal solution in more detail.
Also, mad props for giving a shout-out to open source software like moonlight.
Was it the lighting or did they actually switch to a wedge shaped sides?
It will still break under 2 years or just a month after warranty
if it has a special power brick can you even charge it with a smaller typ-c powerbank with 100wh?
Do they have good QC now?
Is razors remote play something that disables the home computer? Can my sibling play on the handheld and I can still use my pc?
no remote play is ever going to work like that partially due to the way most game engines handle input, whenever you would click in your web browser, your sibling would loose control of the game and they onscreen prompts would switch to KB+M
maybe if you setup multiple virtual machines on your pc you could get something like that to work
1:30 So no Thunderbolt 5? Will there be an Intel version of the Blade 16?
AMD can have thunderbolt support, so saying "because its AMD" is not true. Even Linus had AMD with thunderbolt
4:17 you know what else is MASSIVE? 🤤
Lowwwwwwwwww
Tappperrrrrr
Faaaaddddeeeeeee
Does Arielle have Razer Chroma? Seems like the chair runs on cables... not sure how the cable will last after getting rolled on.
Tape/tie a stick to one of the legs, attach cord to stick, then whenever you move, the stick keeps the cable away from the wheels. Most people don't move their chairs very much, either. I swap the wheels on mine for nubs that don't roll.
My Razer blade advanced 2022 suddenly blacked screened, how do I fix it?
I still have my original 2013 Blade. Works flawlessly.
Are Razer laptops good? I have bad experiences with their headset and mouse products
I once owned a blade 15. It was great... except Razer synapse. which despite doing nothing except controlling the lights on the keyboard, was horrible. So many issues were caused by synapse. I once had the fans completely stop working in my laptop which obviously made it unbelievably slow, once I uninstalled synapse, the fans immediately turned back on. I never reinstalled it after that and never had many issues after that.
Aren't these laptops the ones that constantly battery balloon?
is it coming in mercury white?
I'm sure it will be a "5090". When standalone cards have heatsinks 3-5xx the size of the entire laptop it must be massively cut down.
Lol laptop 5090 =/= desktop one. Those are different cards
@@tabkg5802 Yes, that's literally what I'm implying while highlighting that it shares the exact same name when it isn't the same card, thank you for repeating my comment.
@@EnyoTaiz so you wrote a widely known fact and acted like it's an exclusive issue for this? What do you want exactly? A full on desktop 5090 in a laptop?
The 4090 was also a desktop 4080. Nothing surprising here. Nvidia is basically scamming people with their naming scheme ever since they dropped the M suffix for laptop variants with the excuse that Pascal laptop gpus were the same as their desktop counterparts, but kept the M branding away even though they returned to the practice of using different names for laptops and desktops the immediate generation after.
They did the same for 40 series.
It's nothing new lol
Finally fixed? Dosent LTT have good experiences with them vreaking?
I would be really interested to know more informations about video output. I have a blade 2020 Intel that is still #1 for having video output from 1 HDMI + 2 from Thunderbolt + 1 from USB C, all coming out from Nvidia GPU, avoiding the passthrough on Intel...
The remote play feature seems great! I have a noticeable latency with steam link and I didn’t care enough to set up moonlight. The auto switching to the client resolution is also fantastic. Is it capable of streaming an hdr signal though?
can someone help me with biggest differences between this one and 2025 MSI Stealth 18 hx / MSI Stealth A18? thanks!
Wouldnt it overheat like crazy for being that thin?
this cooled chair would be a perfect fit here in Brazil in the current summer, honestly is hard to not sweat between the tights and the chair in such high temperature. but of course, it being razer, it will cost 10k USD here
So Razer didn’t give the Blade 18 the good stuff AGAIN?
I figured that the RTX 5090 on this laptop wouldn’t reach 175 TDP like the other larger gaming laptops out there. The chassis is far too slim for any amount of heat to build up. In comparison to the 2025 SCAR 18 which has a vapor cooling chamber and three fans, it’s certainly more conservative with the gaming performance. It will get fairly warm, with possibly quite a bit of thermal throttling
did they ever fix the thermals? the older models were atrocious and would constantly thermal throttle, to make matters worse they use the chassis as a heat sink which would cause the battery to swell within a year which would also mess up the track pad once it started swelling
I like my 2021 razer blade, but soldered RAM can suck it. I'd rather have something a little larger and more upgradable. I also discovered a manufacturing error with mine after I was out of warranty - really messed up application of a thermal pad that started causing issues. Razer told me to suck it, also. So I guess make sure you tear it down while in warranty.
Will they release 18 inches version this year?
I'm wondering the same thing
I really don’t like the fact they got rid of sodimm it NEVER worth making it Thinner and and a slight speed increase. Bc I know for a fact all there ram isn’t running at 8kmhz. It’s anti consumer AF all to charge a dumb amount for slightly more gb
8:00 - NGL, for a lot of people now forced to go back to the office, this chair just might be the saving grace to keep office at peace....
Is this haptic touchpad?
Razor remote play using moonlight backbone is very underrated news seeing as Nvidia discontinued their Gamesteam half a year ago.
I remember being on vacation and getting 120 fps playing WoW via my tablet while Parsec was struggling.
The very last thing I will ever buy again is a razor chair. My last one came broke and had to replace it, and then it barely lasted 6 months before it started falling apart
As a laptop user, if a little thickness will grant better thermals and it means I can touch the keyboard without burning my fingers, I would pick that.
Better than MSI Titan 18HX keyboard you mentioned on CES few days ago?😉
Only the edges looked thinner lol
you are blind? It is twice as thin
The entire device looks significantly thinner
The IO is great but I don't like the OLED screen 😭 My OLED TV and OLED monitor are already showing burn-in and I don't want that to happen again
Definitely would have liked to see more brands pointed out with AMD’s new mobile X3D cpu inside. Here to hoping there’s a decent selection as the last time that chip was out, could only find it in a gen before 17” chassis from Asus
It's always a negative having the ram soldered especially for the reason to be thinner.
@JoshuaT902 I agree. I'd take slightly slower RAM and an thicker chassis for that upgradable RAM. Heck, why the hell isn't LPCAMM2 used!? THAT WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
It's not a negative because you get better performance.
@ts8960 It is a negative because it can't be upgraded later. And the performance increase for a laptop with a dGPU is not very much.
5090 with an AMD cpu??? can someone confirm if this is the first time that happened this CES?
That i have seen, yeas, i think Asus have a RTX 5080 with an AMD CPU, but the norm is even if the model has Intel and AMD options and the Intel option will go up to 5090, the AMD will go up to 5070ti. Funnily, i've seen a youtuber explaining the Nvvidia Board 1 (5090, 5080, 5070ti) and Board 2 (5070, 5060) for justify some models only going up to 5070, and than showing a model that can go up to 5070ti in the AMD model without noticing that the explanation makes no sense.
@pedro4205 yeah i think i remember the asus 5080 too but no 5090s
either intel has paid some fat stacks to be in all top end laptop mobos or companies care about having thunderbolt 5 too much
@@vexuria I think both makes sense. And so does it make sense that Razer, the first company to put out a notebook with thuderbolt 5, to don't care, it is mostly a gimmick, unless you have really specific uses.
Does a gaming laptop need a copilot key
Did they fix their quality control and stop them from running lava hot?
Why did they make the trackpad so large in the first place it registers unwanted touches so often that I just disable it entirely
Where's the Blade 14?
what's up with the blade 14 ?
6:30 So... Parsec?
Didn’t know there’s Parsec for iOS.
bro its the same thickness. only the edges are thinner.
That key didn't activate when he pressed the corner.
Every time I hear the grammatically incorrect "but" in LMG videos @(3:10) it makes me think "They did it again! X(" The word "but" is used to introduce a contrast or exception in a sentence. It is appropriate to use "but" when you want to show that what comes after it is different from, or in opposition to, what came before it.
I've been enjoying the CES coverage though. Neat stuff!
L.
4:30 THERE ARE 2 SSD SLOTS
SODIMM ISN'T THAT MUCH THICKER
The speed argument, sure
SODIMM also uses more power which may be important because this is a thin and light class laptop that also use an AMD chip known for efficiency
@@mcslender2965 there's no way SODIMM uses that much more power to change the battery life in any meaningful way.
As far as I know there is no sodimm support for the hx370.
@@sandorbence2067 According to AMDs website it does support DDR5-5600 alongside LPDDR5X-8000, so it should be able to have SODIMM support, it would just make the iGPU perform like crap.