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hey how's it going Dave Judy here and this is the 13 inch razor blade stealth and this is kind of exciting for a lot of people that know about this product because when it launched it was a great product but those bezels were extra thick and I guess razor listened so now we have this it has the same external dimensions and finish it's got great build quality one of the better built ultra books the black finish is really nice but I highly recommend putting a skin on the stealth I'm using the black dragon from dbrand and I know the skin looks nice and all but the big thing for me is protection to scratch on a black laptop looks extra ugly I nicked my old one and it sucks a link these scans below now there is another color called gunmetal grey it's a very muted look it's all grey there's no light-up logo and even though RGB keyboard is gone it's only white backlighting I will take a look at the gray one in a couple weeks but if you want RGB lights you got to go with this one the black version the ports also haven't changed there's one HDMI to use ba ports and a found about three ports that's also used for charging the internal of looked pretty much the same the RAM is soldered on again but this time it has 16 gigs of RAM which is very roomy and something that a lot of enthusiasts for asking for it the SSD is replaceable you just got to remove the ribbon cable again but sadly it's still using the PM 9 v 1 drives which have relatively slow write speeds at the lower capacities it's not a terrible Drive it's just that there are so many better drives out there that they could have used kind of disappointing the battery size remains the same at 50 3.6 watt hours but I'm getting less battery life running the same loop as usual it's clocking in that a little over seven hours still very good but it's about 40 minutes less than the older model and I think it's just because the screen is bigger there's just a larger surface area to light up now speaking of screens there's two screen sizes available the older 12.5 inch panels and the new 13.3 inch panel I have a strong preference for this one it's got a great color gamut and the accuracy is also pretty good after calibration I do wish it was brighter it's perfectly fine indoors but especially with that glossy screen it's not ideal for bright environments but that bezel it's shrunken down and it just looks so much better I mean a lot of you guys have complained about the older thick bezels and they did something about it which is awesome another thing we've changed subtract that it seems to be the same size and it's got the same glass texture the button mechanism feels slightly different to me than the older one that one had a more pronounced click but the tracking on this new one is so much better windows precision drivers finally I never loved the trackpad on the original stealth this new one is great performance is as expected it's a KB Lake i7 and with 16 gigs of ram it will crush any kind of media consumption work or school stuff that you throw at it video editing on kennedy p footage will be pretty decent if you have an external drive 4k footage is going to be gnarly but it's an ultrabook now one of the things i need to make clear is that the razor blade self is not a gaming laptop I mean it's made by Razer but it's not designed to play games on its own it's running an HD 620 the integrated graphics strip from Intel and I mean you can play some light games and still get reasonable frame rates if you turn everything down and play at the lowest resolution but the Razer Blade stealth was one of the first laptops to support external GPUs / Thunderbolt 3 and even in mid 2017 this is still one of the best setups for the job I connected to the Razer core running a GTX 1080 and it's a super easy hookup it's basically plug and play now gaming performance is really good but like all Thunderbolt 3 GPUs performance is going to be around 10 maybe 15% less than direct connection on a desktop and remember you want to use an external monitor for the best performance now if you're interested in learning more about this particular setup I'll put a link in the video description thermal performance remains the same nothing is too hot nothing's too loud razer did a pretty good job on this thing so obviously there's a lot of stuff I like about the stealth but for the sake of being thorough and for the people that just want to hate on something there are a couple things like a pic at first is the keyboard I think it could be better it hasn't changed since launch or at least not in any way noticeable to me it's decent and I like the RGB lighting but I wish it had a bit more travel on each stroke and the functional markings still don't light up so if you want to adjust volume or screen brightness in the dark you got to memorize which keys to press the speakers could also be better I mean they're positioned well I mean good stereo separation and they look cool but I just wish they had better audio quality the 12-inch MacBook and some of the HP Spectre laptops have better speakers but that's about it Razer took a really good laptop fixed everything that people had to complain about it and we of this there is however something that kind of casts a bit of shade on all this awesome stuff the razor blade stealth has actually been one of the best values ultra books on the market which was weird because it's razor and they normally have more premium pricing but this one cost $1400 at the base model I mean it's significantly upgraded compared to the old one but it's like 50% more expensive so with the new stealth I think they did a great job on it it's pricey but I think it's going to be a very popular device it has the same great build quality as before the 13.3 inch screen has very good color accuracy and the bezels are finally smaller but it could be brighter the RGB keyboard is space to comfortably but the keys do have a shallow stroke the trackpad is glass again and tracking software is much improved this year inside the KB Lake CPU and the HT 620 are quietly cooled and deliver strong performance for an ultrabook the 16 gigs of ram is soldered on the included SSD isn't super fast but it is replaceable and the 53.6 watt-hour battery will last around 7 hours so should you get this thing honestly if you just bought the old Razer Blade stealth I feel bad for you son because this was so much better it is a lot more expensive there's that but if you're looking for an ultrabook and you can afford this thing this one's really good ok