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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and I want to do an update video on the razor blade stealth so this is the original razor blade stealth came out around eight or nine months ago fantastic device it's actually one of my top picks for ultra books in 2016 and this is the new one it's updated with KB Lake from Intel it's got 16 gigs of RAM or you can get up to 16 gigs of RAM that's what this one's rocking and the third thing is it's got an improved battery the exterior hasn't changed at all it's really prone to fingerprints and it's also prone to Nicks I actually put a skin on this one it's been used by a lot of different people over the past eight or nine months but when you have a skin it just protects it if you care about the finish of these laptops I highly recommend getting a skin on it these are from D brand they have ones even cover the logo if you want to get rid of it now the build quality is still awesome if you watch my first video you can kind of see the details as to why I liked it so much but the short of it is this these laptops are built really well I would consider them equals to something like the XPS line from Dell or the Mac books from Apple these are just really really well built the display options are unchanged and so are all the external features so the speakers the keyboard the trackpad the ports if you want to learn more about those you can check the original review on the inside one of the things that they haven't changed is the drive so they're still using the Samsung PM 951 Drive it's an okay drive I don't love it mostly because at the lower capacities the read speeds are okay but the write speeds are really slow and I don't love that especially for a PCIe Drive I really wish that they had upgraded to something a little bit faster this time they haven't the 16 gigs of ram is nice but keep in mind that you have to configure this at the time of ordering you can't bring it home and upgrade it because the RAM is still soldered on the battery has been upgraded we'll talk about that more details later but the big thing is the KB Lake processor it's now running an i7 7500 you the KB League version is faster it's not supersonic or anything but everything just feels a little bit snappier it's not a huge difference but it is noticeable as for the differences in terms of RAM that is where I feel is the biggest difference 16 gigs of ram is really nice for me I use Chrome a lot and if you have a lot of open there is a difference between an 8 and a 16 gig model and also if you're doing video edits the 16 gigs of ram is much more spacious viable video editing environment and the third thing I hate to use this term is future proofing not that it really exists but you're going to get further into the future with 16 gigs of RAM than 8 gigs of ram the Razer Blade stealth was never great at playing games to begin with at least not until you tell it it with the Razer core but if you're gaming on the integrated graphics the new HD 620 is around 10% maybe 15% faster than the older HD 520 so lighter games like csgo and dota 2 you'll be able to play them you won't get amazing framerate so you're not gonna be like MLG or anything but it is a smoother experience with the HD 620 in general though it's going to be a noticeable improvement it's just not a huge improvement thermally they're pretty similar the KB Lake is cooler on idle and a little bit cooler even on load which is nice but they're not that different in terms of actual use and comfort I wouldn't really notice a difference between the two if I was just using them on my lap without a thermal cam the other thing is noise fan noise is about the same between them but because it has a more efficient chip fans kick in less frequently on the KB leaked version it's the new one right it better be that way if you connect the razor blade stealth to the razor core you can get a huge improvement in gaming performance depending on the card that you have inside there but I tried using the GTX 1080 fantastic card but there was no real difference between their KB leg version and the sky leg version both of them played games at extremely good frame rates but at that point most of the work is being done by the GPU the actual cable a chip set isn't improving gaming performance that much but one of the really cool things that KB Lake does have is Hardware encoding and decoding of some video codecs in particular v9 and h.265 complicated stuff but basically things like Netflix and YouTube when they push high quality video to you your computer has to decode that stuff to be able to display it and now that decoding is done on the chip so uses very little CPU power you're getting less fan noise and longer battery life now that leads me to my favorite part about the KB leg stealth the battery life so the old version on the skylight chip you're getting around five and a half six hours of battery life reasonable kind of short in the Ultrabook market but still acceptable considering what it is this version seven half to eight hours partially because of the cable a chip it's a little more energy-efficient but it's also a bigger battery so seven and a half eight hours is really nice because to me eight hours is like the threshold from when you don't have to bring your charger to work or a school because it'll last you the full day and I really like that so overall fantastic device to begin with it's even better with the upgrades hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice see you guys next time