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the razor blade is like the MacBook Pro of the gaming world it's sophisticated ly subdued design paired with its high-end components make it a great mainstream gaming laptop the updated 2017 model has Intel's latest generation i7 processor improved graphics and better battery life it also weighs a little less than last year's model and it has a cheaper starting price the base model which comes with the full HD screen and 256 gigabytes of solid-state storage costs 1899 the VR ready laptop can also be upgraded to a greater storage capacity and a 4k screen my favorite thing about the blade is its elegantly restrained design in comparison to current gaming laptop aesthetics which are pretty bold with alien or angular accents and glowing lights the blade is simply sleek and slim it resembles the old black MacBooks but with the pop of color it has a beautiful chroma key board that lights up in a variety of colors like other chroma keyboards you can customize it to your heart's delight or just use a preset unfortunately it's a fingerprint magnet it's graphics card has 6 gigabytes of video RAM and it's the best price versus performance card in the current Nvidia lineup it's not the geforce 1070 or 1080 GPU that serious gamers will want but it gets the job done the blade kept up with doom at high frame rate settings with almost no dropped frames even in chaotic situations the blades aluminum chassis does get hot easily when gaming but it cools down pretty quickly after you're done playing it also has two fans on the bottom that can get pretty loud during gameplay one big advantage of Intel's latest processor is better battery life the razor blades battery lasted eight hours in 15 minutes in our CNET labs battery testing up from 5 hours and 41 minutes in the previous model obviously battery life when gaming is a lot shorter the gorgeous Razer Blade lacks the customization of a full sized gaming laptop or desktop and it costs more than other gaming laptops with similar specs so it's hard to recommend for either very serious or very budget-minded gamers but its portability and style our top priorities the razor blade is a great option