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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is my review of the 2015 edition of the razor blade now if you don't know a razor they make gaming peripherals so things like headphones headsets keyboards mice basically anything do with PC gaming they are all over it and they also make a line of notebooks called the blades and the razor blade is one of them now razors products are usually quite well made but they also come in at a price premium and the blade is no exception so this notebook comes in with a quad HD touchscreen at gtx 970m 16 gigs of ram 128 gig drive and a 2.6 gigahertz i7 and all of this coming at $2,200 which is pretty darn steep for a notebook so I've had this thing for a week and a half I've played a lot of games on it probably more than I should've in the past week but I just had to do it here's my review Packaging is definitely one of Razer strengths they just make their boxes and package and look super cool it's a black box with fake carbon fiber on it and the green accents make it look like it's something out of Tron and when you pop that lid that notebook looks extra cool in there the exterior of the Razer Blade feels like black anodized aluminum in terms of the design though I'm not saying that they ripped off Apple but they ripped off Apple this thing looks very similar to a MacBook the bottom of the notebook is also the black aluminum feels good now the rubber feet that run along the length of the notebook are made of this surprisingly soft rubber I also tried to peel off the rubber just to see how good the adhesive was didn't come off but I didn't try too hard because it's a review unit and I really didn't want to damage it the fan intake is really obvious on the underside now I'm not sure if this makes the fans more audible but it did make me wander like all black colored electronics fingerprints and dust show up really easily on this thing but I don't know something else that was really weird the texture on the aluminum is just rough enough that anytime I touched it with my hands I would basically leave bits of skin cells all over it it's kind of gross and weird right I know my hands are really dry right now because it's the winter but every time I touch this thing I was literally leaving trails of skin on it it does wipe off really easily with damp cloth but there's definitely something about the texture that makes it a little more abrasive than you might imagine on the left side of the notebooks there's a combo headphone microphone jack 2 USB 3.0 and a hole for the AC adapter on the other side there's another USB 3 an HDMI and a lock slot so if you notice there's no slot for an SD card now it is a gamer notebook and I guess gamers don't use SD cards but it'd be nice to have one in terms of its height it's very similar to the MacBook Pro Retina 15 even the thickness of the screen and the chassis are very similar between the two so you can see the overall size of this thing on the top of the poly we have the MacBook Air in the middle of the 2015 razor blade and on the bottom is a MacBook Pro Retina 15 there's no light indicator to tell you when the AC adapter has been plugged in you have to look on screen for that the AC adapter is 150 watts it's actually bigger than I thought it would be it's not big by any means but it's just not super small and there is a little light on the front to tell you when it's receiving power from the wall all in all it's pretty plain there's an LED on the front of the notebook that's normally off it pulses green when it's asleep it lights up red when it's low on battery and when you close the lid it lights up white the chiclet keyboard feels really good I personally love the keyboard on Mac books I think they're the gold standard for notebook keyboards but this one actually feels better it's not a mechanical keyboard but it feels more tactile and clicky than a regular chiclet keyboard my only real complaint is the positioning of the directional keys so if you notice the up and down arrow are kind of squished together I'm used to an up arrow that's positioned higher than my left and right keys but after using it for a few days I got used to it I did quite a bit of typing and a lot of gaming on this thing and I have to say this is one of the best if not the best notebook keyboard I've ever used it feels really good it also has bright green backlighting which is kind of cool and you can control that with 15 levels of brightness I don't know why you would need 15 levels of brightness on this thing but that's what they give you now Razer markets this keyboard as having this anti-ghosting feature so if you don't know what that is that's basically the ability to press down on a lot of keys at once so if you're faced rolling your keyboard in a game you want to make sure your computer picks up every one of your keystrokes so I tested the Razer Blade and it really does have anti-ghosting I was able to press a ton of keys down without any problems just out of curiosity I try this on my macbook and I could only get like six or seven keys down at once now this has never actually been a problem for me but then I realized maybe this is why I'm so bad at games okay enough about keyboards the trackpad feels really good on this thing it's got a very similar texture to the Apple trackpad but it does have the addition of two physical buttons which I thought would be really cool but I don't like it that much now I'm not sure if it's the quality of the buttons or if I'm just not used to it but they actually felt really cheap to me here's a little clip of what it sounds like it just feels and sounds really plasticky to me I don't know now the quad HD screen on this computer is really nice it's 14 inches so it's kind of in the middle of the road but it looks crisp then the colors look quite accurate it's hard to capture the quality of the screen on camera but it does look really nice now not a big fan of touchscreen on notebooks and desktops but it feels just as good as any other touchscreen notebook I've used so I'm not sure if you guys noticed in the earlier footage but this notebook has a gloss screen that is very reflective and I thought it was weird at first because I use a Mac Book Pro regularly and that thing has a gloss screen as well but I'm not bothered by the reflections on that so I couldn't really figure it out at first and I thought might be screen brightness or something but it turns out that the Apple screen has some kind of coating or a tint of some sort that reduces the reflection significantly it's not a huge problem but it's something to keep in mind if you have a lot of windows where you would normally use this thing so obviously I should devote a section of this review to gaming here's the thing there's gonna be a lot of sites and reviews out there that are going to throw numbers and benchmarks and framerate and all that crap but I'm not going to spend the video doing that because if you like numbers and charts are better for a website than a YouTube video what I can tell you is this if you want to play games at the native resolution of 3200 by 1800 you're going to have a bad time and around 40 frames per second unless you want to play on really low settings but that's not a lot of fun but at 1920 1080 games run really well in this thing and that's what I played most of my games on and quite frankly you can't tell that much of a difference when you're playing on this screen this size so I'm playing at 1920 by 1080 every single game I played was running really really well we're talking 90 frames per second or higher on pretty high settings and to me that's friggin awesome this thing is obviously designed for games and it plays them really well the one thing I did notice though is that some games you have to do a bit of tweaking in the video settings to get it to display properly now I'm not sure if that's because the drivers are immature or if there's something going on with Windows 8.1 but in general this thing's a total dream to play games with there might be other notebooks that can play games better but the razorblade looks really good doing it I just want to briefly talk about battery life I got about five and a half hours with light usage so that's screen at half brightness just mild web browsing nothing crazy five and half hours and watching movies straight off the Drive I got about four and a half hours a little bit less than that when I was playing heroes of the storm at max brightness and max settings a little bit over an hour and a half I think your mileage might vary depending on the game you're playing but I imagine playing a game on battery will get you one to two hours with the game time there's a speaker in each side of the keyboard they sound pretty loud and the bass actually sounds pretty good for a notebook speaker here's what they sound like turned out yeah shoo-shoo I know that I gotta go we leave Nashville you see the fans are basically silent when the computers idle it's around 20 decibels and you can't hear anything when the computer is doing some moderate activity like watching youtube videos or a movie the fan kicks in a little bit and it's around 30 decibels but when this thing is going full-tilt in a game sometimes that fan hits 50 decibels that's really loud but this computer gets really hot so it's probably a good thing okay so to demonstrate this heat abroad of Fleur 1 which is a thermal camera from my friend so there's three notebooks here on the left of the razor blade in the middle is a dell inspiron 7000 the 15-inch with a 4k screen the review for that's coming out soon and on the right is the MacBook Pro Retina 15 now all three of these are running a benchmark program in the background I apologize for the grainy footage but you can see how hot the razor blade gets the two cool spots on the left and right of the notebook correspond to the fans now all three of these notebooks have their fans going at full blast but you can see that that razor blade is pretty darn hot okay so my overall thoughts on the 2015 razor blade let's do a recap it's got a touchscreen display that's 3200 by 1800 on the inside it's got one of the best notebook keyboards I've ever used and a really good trackpad with two physical buttons the buttons feel kind of cheap to me but they're there if you want them the two speakers on the side are loud and the bass is surprisingly present on these guys underneath the hood the razor blades rock on a gtx 970m with three gigs of video it's one of the fastest mobile cards in the market right now and it makes good use of that quad HD screen the core i7 runs at 2.6 gigahertz it's fast but when you combine it with that video card this machine gets really hot but I think that's the price you have to pay for mobile performance Razer gives us things 16 gigs of RAM which is plenty for basically any kind of game you play on this powering this all is a 70 watt battery that gives us and kind of modest battery life and for 2200 bucks razer gives you all of this and 128 gigs of solid-state storage but in 2015 a 128 gig drive isn't that spacious you're probably going to want to bump it up to 256 or more and a 256 configuration is already coming in at 2400 so it's very expensive so who is this notebook for if you are a gamer like a hardcore gamer and you love games and you need portability and most importantly you can afford it this is for you because quite frankly there's nothing else out there quite like this an ultra portable super-powerful gaming notebook anyone else I suggest you look elsewhere because there's probably a notebook out there that's a better fit for you but if you're going to get this I hope you're doing some serious gaming while traveling a lot because that's what it's for as for me well I'm going to miss it when I have to send it back to Razer but I've definitely had my fill of getting owned at 90 frames per second in dota so that's it for this review 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