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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is the 2016 razor blade Pro now before I get into the review I want to address the guy that goes into the comments and talks about how they can build an equivalent PC for like seven dollars I get it custom PCs are awesome the other place I'm running at hackintosh back there I like builds myself but this is a laptop let's just focus on the engineering marvel that it takes to stuff this kind of technology into a package this small here's a review okay this is a razor product so the build quality is great aluminum all round but it actually feels like a step up from the razor blade stealth and the regular 14-inch blade maybe because it's thicker it feels sturdier it still has the same black anodized finish so you want to protect that you should get a sleeve or a bag if you carry this thing around the port selection is OK for a 17 inch device it has Ethernet and three USB 3s and HDMI 2.0 and it has an SD card reader there is a Thunderbolt 3 port but there's only the one I wish there were more because on a device like this you kind of wanted to last as long as possible and use PC is the future but yeah there's only the one this uses a 17 inch XO touch panel it has excellent color gamut and accuracy visually it's actually one of the best screens I've used on a laptop for content creation it's nice and big pretty bright and it supports g-sync at 60 frames per second so games look really nice on this thing the 2 megapixel webcam up top looks like this the keyboard is a mechanical keyboard and it's very tactile but I wouldn't say it's as enjoyable to use as a regular mechanical keyboard people tend to fall in love with those really easily this keyboard isn't like that it has good travel but the response on the keys aren't as snappy as you might expect I still like it a lot especially with the individually lit keys but I wouldn't call it like the universally best laptop keyboard most people will like it but there are some people that won't there is one issue I have with the layout when I'm trying to type a question mark I often press shift up instead of shift question mark because of the location of that up arrow aside from that though it's a great keyboard the trackpad is good uses Windows precision drivers so that's a win great texture and button mechanics having it located on the right is really weird at first you do get used to it pretty quickly though there are media keys and a programmable scroll wheel here I have it set to control the volume because I like being able to adjust game sound on the fly like if I'm the last person left on my team and it won't be one time I got a focus right I got to get my game on so I cranked up the volume real quick to listen for footsteps a little better and I usually still get owned but seriously it's a really cool feature and as usual you can customize all this stuff through software the lighting the key mapping how the scroll wheel functions all of it can be controlled through Razer synapse but I've said this before RGB lighting is cool and Razer actually does it the best but the novelty that wears off relatively quickly so don't purchase this thing just because it looks really cool you probably won't though because the price tag is $3,700 at the base model that's expensive it's expensive for a laptop it's even expensive for a laptop from Razer but with that price tag comes some really good components on the inside the ram is soldered on it's running 32 gigs now mine video edits aren't crazy complex or anything but I haven't been able to max it out on RAM usage there are two SSDs they're upgradable and it comes setup and raid zero out of the factory it's super fast faster than the 2016 MacBook Pro granted it is raid zero but even if you ran the two drives individually without raid they're still very fast it has a 99 watt hour battery over here which is the legal limit to bring it onto a plane and battery life is around three three and a half hours of regular use with screen at 215 it's it's decent for a 17-inch gaming laptop certainly not amazing but remember it is running a g-sync panel so there's no Nvidia Optimus for power savings the CPU is here and the GPU is here at the laptop gtx 1080 this graphics chip fitted into a system this thin is why the price tag is so high because it's incredibly difficult and expensive to do this properly this is why razer is the only company to have a gtx 1080 in a laptop this thin performance is obviously really good in terms of video editing the gtx 1080 is faster than any other laptop GPU have used but Adobe Premiere has limitations with GPU acceleration we're not getting massive performance gains over something like the GTX 1060 or even something like the 960 m at least not with gh4 footage now if you're working with red raw footage the difference is more noticeable using 5k raw footage from the scarlet w the GTX 1080 starts to show some bigger gains but where the GPU really gets to flex its muscles is in games something relatively light like overwatch will break a hundred frames per second on ultra graphics while playing in 4k it's nuts playing something heavier like doom on ultra graphics in 4k we're still looking at 65 frames per second fire up the G sync feature and you'll have some of the smoothest and highest resolution blood animations you'll ever see for really demanding triple-a titles playing at 4k is possible you just won't have the best frame rates Far Cry primal on Ultra at 4k isn't a very smooth experience I'd recommend switching to 1080p here and then really heavy stuff like witcher 3 you'll need to drop down to 1080p but when you do you'll get around 75 frames per second on Ultra this is with hair works on the hardware in here is very powerful and will easily handle VR it has three fans two of them to cool vapor chambers and then one of them to circulate air internally on idle this thing is surprisingly quiet it's nearly silent which is crazy considering that there's a gtx 1018 here when you do more CPU demanding stuff so something like Adobe Premiere fan noise is louder but still very tolerable but when you're playing games and the GPU is going full-tilt it does get pretty loud you're going to want headphones but one thing I noticed about this fan system when you quit a game normally like on a lot of other gaming laptops the fans will still spin for a minute or two after you've quit the game just kind of cool everything down not this laptop when you finish playing a game the fans ramp down almost immediately and I really like that the CPU and GPU temperatures are good even in stress tests externally the temperatures are also very comfortable it's actually way better than I thought it would be Razer did an outstanding job on thermal the speakers are noticeably better than the fortune inch razor blade they're definitely louder and the base is cleaner you're getting audio firing up and out of the sides but during games if you need to hear positional audio you still need headphones the fans will drown out the audio details the AC adapter is 250 watts and it's pretty slim that'll fit into your bag nicely so with the 2016 Razer Blade Pro you're getting one of the best built laptops on the market super powerful super thin the 17 inch touchscreen is fantastic for content creation and gaming the mechanical keyboard isn't as clicky as you might expect but it's still really good the trackpad has a position that takes a bit to adapt to but it's enjoyable to use especially with the scroll wheel the skylake i7 and the GT X 1080 are extremely powerful and are surprisingly well cooled considering how hot the components get and how thin this laptop is the 32 gigs of ram I've soldered on the two SSDs are upgradable but they're already super fast the 99 watt hour battery is big but you'll only get around three hours of battery life now is this thing like the best value in gaming laptops hell no but you are getting a very unique product in this market space no one else is building a laptop this powerful into a chassis this thing literally no one else is doing at Apple I mean they're all about thin right now they're not doing it alien wars not doing it gigabytes not doing it this is literally the only one that has a GTX 1080 in something this thin so if that's what you're looking for and you have the budget go for it you won't be disappointed but for everyone else did probably a better laptop that's a better fit for you that's in here this video hope you guys liked it thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it and nice see you guys next time