Razer Blade

Howdy folks and welcome back to diddling technology with Jake, today we will be reviewing the next big thing in gaming laptops the Razer Blade. No its not for shaving, its the new ultra thin, ultra light laptop from Razer. Now Razer is known to be the “Leet” company for manufacturing gaming computers and accessories, and while they come with a steep price tag they are generally good machines and they make the best gaming mice and headsets that are great. I had a Razer headset and i mouse but i broke them both being the rager i am but they were quality devices while they worked.

The Razer Blade is a gaming Laptop that will run you away where form about $1700 to $2300 which is a lot of dough to put down on a laptop. Now gaming laptops are known to be expensive and not work the best and i would have to agree with that statement generally. Now it has good hardware inside of it that make it so expensive, here is a list of the insides, Intel Core i7-4702HQ Quad Core Processor with Hyper Threading 2.2GHz / 3.2GHz (Base/Turbo), a Mobile Intel PCHM 8 series chipset, 8GB of DDR3L RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765m graphics card with 2GB of GDDR5 dedicated RAM. This is a lot of power inside this tiny machine and it will run games at max settings for a while to come but with all that power inside a little machine will cause major overheating and NVIDIA graphic cards can run extremely hot. You are going to have to have some sort of external cooling system or you will overheat. This kind of defeats the purpose of having a mobile device when you have to been close to a external cooling device. I overclock my home made PC and am aware that monitoring temp can be really boring.

So in my opinion this is not the best buy someone could get, i believe that getting a gaming laptop is silly because you are paying a lot for the fact that you can walk around with it. I would not pay this much for a device that could have this big of a problem. If you are thinking of getting a Razer Blade or a gaming laptop in general i would advise against against it and look into making your own computer or buying a pre-made one.