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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee and this is my review of the razor blades stealth so this laptop turned a lot of heads at CES because it's the dream right you take the flexibility of an ultrabook and then you combine it with the power of a desktop graphics card and then you profit right here's my review okay inside the shipping box you get the razor box inside that you get more boxes inside those you get the AC adapter in one the razor blade and another and some pamphlets the top surface is a black anodized aluminum it's a different material from the razor blade 14 this is a much smoother material that doesn't like exfoliate your skin but it shows smudges more readily it still has a light-up Razer logo up front the bottom surface is the same material you have some rubber strips to raise it up for air flow and then some intake vents you can access the internals by removing some screws on the inside you can see that the 8 gigs of ram is soldered on which is a bummer because 8 gigs is kind of sufficient now but 16 is so much more comfortable right and if you're really careful you can detach and lift up the ribbon cable here and then you can upgrade the storage drive underneath it's an m2 PCIe drive and you might want to upgrade that you'll see why in a bit the screen is very rigid there's very little flex it's actually one of the stiffest screens I've used the hinge is also really solid and well tuned it feels durable and you can easily open this thing with one hand the keyboard chassis area has the slightest amount of flex but this is just the result of how thin the devices overall this is top of the line build quality ok going around the sides we have a USB C Thunderbolt 3 port which you can use to charge the laptop and then connect to the Razer core I use B 3 and phone jack and on the right side we have HDMI out and the second USB 3 port there's an LED light up at the front to show power status and there's no SD card slot in terms of its relative size we have the MacBook Air on the bottom here it's getting a little old but I'd consider to be in the same class of laptop the razor blade stealth in the middle and an XPS 13 on the top so this unit here has a skylake dual core i7 running at 2.5 gigahertz a quad HD touchscreen integrated Intel graphics eight gigs of ram 128 gigs of storage and it goes for $1000 u.s. now this is the base model they offer a 4k screen and bigger drive options but no RAM or CPU upgrades currently it's the same anodized metal finish on the inside and the fingerprints are still an issue here the keyboard has Razer chroma which is some next-level stuff you can basically create any kind of color combination you can go like full psychedelic you can do cool color effects you can color up sections of keys individual keys anything flies and it's a lot of fun the keyboard also has anti-ghosting so you can hit a bunch of keys at once and they'll all register the typing experience is OK the layout is pretty good but I wish the up-arrow was higher than the left and right keys and the keyboard doesn't feel cramped or anything but the keys have a shorter travel than I'm used to so it took a little while to get comfortable with it the glass trackpad is not bad it has an excellent texture and it's not too smooth the button mechanism is also pretty good but I experienced a cursor skip once in a while it's relatively rare occurrence but it's there the screen on this model is a 12.5 X o screen running at 2560 by 1440 the bezels are very thick for 2016 device but the viewing angles and the contrast are excellent it's a glossy screen but it is bright enough to compensate for most reflections and it's usable in brightly lit rooms the color accuracy on the quad HD screen is actually very good even for color accurate work now for an extra $200 there is a 4k screen option that's a 100% Adobe RGB but it does drain batteries a little bit quicker the webcam up top is 2 megapixel and it's pretty sharp for a webcam the drive in here is the PM 951 Samsung and if you've seen my other videos with pm9 five ones in it the smaller the drive is the slower they are and this 128 gig is the smallest size I've used and consequently the slowest drive I've used from this series so my recommendation is to swap this out for a faster drive these right speeds are really bad in terms of gaming lightweight games like csgo and dota 2 those will play it around 55 frames per second at lowest graphics settings at 1080p if you want better frame rates you have to drop the resolution a more demanding game like the new Rainbow six is still playable but frame rates are lower at around 45 frames per second you can sometimes hit 60 frames per second if you lower the resolution enough but depending on the game it's pretty tough and hardcore 3d games like Witcher 3 or Assassin's Creed unity run horribly on the integrated card now the companion to this is the razor core it's an external box that can put your video card of choice into and then you connect your laptop to it it's coming out soon and there's no doubt that you'll get massively improved gaming performance by connecting the razor core I and curious about that Thunderbolt 3 connection because it only pushes out around 5 gigabytes per second so that's like 40 megabits per second and a desktop PC iu3 pushes out around 16 gigabytes per second that's a huge difference in bandwidth I'll have to take a look another thing is that this is a 2 core CPU so that can bottleneck some high-end graphics cards for some CPU intensive games but the last thing to keep in mind is that this is a Thunderbolt 3 connection so theoretically any laptop with a Thunderbolt 3 port can take the Razer core and should theoretically be able to use it I'm sure you'll need some like Driver updates and potential like a BIOS update from the manufacturer but don't feel pressured into thinking that you need the Razer Blade stealth to make this whole thing happen but when I get it in I will be doing a full review of it so you should probably subscribe ok it uses a 45 watt AC adapter and it charges over USB see it takes a little less than two hours to juice the battery up from 0 and under normal use I got around 6 and a half hours of battery life with screen at 80% brightness and playing games I got around 1 and a half hours battery life on the 4k screen would obviously be shorter the speaker's are facing straight up which I always like but they sound pretty mediocre they don't get very loud the bass is definitely lacking tinnie the one good thing though is that even at max volume the sound doesn't get very distorted one of the most common complaints of the razor blade 14 from last year it ran hot because packing a 970m in a super thin chassis like that is just risky business this time around because of that low voltage CPU and the lack of a dedicated graphics chip it stays cool it'll break a hundred degrees in a couple hot spots but overall the device has comfortable thermals it's silent at idle and even under full load the fans stay very quiet ok the Razer Blade stealth it's a metal unibody chassis very well built really portable 12.5 inch quad HD touchscreen it's a great screen and unless you really need 4k I'd stick with this one the speakers are in a great spot but they don't sound amazing the key word is super cool with the lighting but keystrokes are a little shallow the trackpad is not bad on the inside the skylight i7 is well cooled and a decent performer but it might bottleneck some games when it's connected to the Razer core the 8 gigs of RAM is barely sufficient and it's soldered on but the m2 storage is fortunately upgradable and lastly power and all of this is a battery that lasts around 6 and a half hours of regular use ok here's the thing I don't really consider the razor blade itself as a true gaming laptop it's made by Razer and it's got a couple cool gaming features like the light-up keyboard and the anti ghosting on the keyboard but it's got very similar specs to say something like the XPS 13 and I would never consider that thing a gaming laptop but what this thing is is a really good ultrabook it's black it's thin it's really light it's made by Razer and it's really well priced especially for a razer product but ultimately you have to have this thing tethered to play games and to me that makes it no different from any other laptop with a Thunderbolt 3 port so keep that in mind that's the end of this review I hope you guys liked it thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time