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hey how's it going Dave 2d here I've always been a fan of razors stealth laptop it's their thin and light not gaming laptop it's kind of like their ultrabook line and it's a device that every year they kind of tweak it a little bit and they've always had a product that looked good performed pretty well and I was also reasonably priced this is the 2019 model and this is the first year that I feel like razer made a mistake with this product because the price point is wrong now let me explain the hardware is good the device is built really well it has this design aesthetic that's similar to the 15-inch razor blade from this year it's got this boxier cleaner aesthetic to it I like the shape of it the logo the triple headed snake does not light up this year they call it a two-tone finish but it's basically a matte finish on the surface of the laptop with a polished snake logo and I think it's a more mature looking device I feel like some people really hated that green light up logo and this just looks a lot cleaner so the ports on this device are a little bit different this year there's to use BA and to use PC so instead of the HDMI port they've replaced it with a second use PC if you do need an HDMI you can get an adaptor or whatever there's also a single headphone jack on the left okay opening up this device we have view of the wonderful new screen so this is a device that's rocking some very thin bezels they're 4.9 millimeters the top bezel isn't as thin as the sides but it has the windows hello camera up top which isn't great in terms of image quality but it gets the job done it comes in either a 1080p or a 4k option the one I have is a 4k panel but I got to be honest I've always found that on 13-inch devices 4k panels were a little bit unnecessary because the difference in resolution is not that easy to spot I like a regular laptop viewing distance but the 4k panel does look quite nice it's color accurate it's bright it's a good panel ok the speakers there's two on each side they sound good they sound better than the previous generation like these speakers if I had to rank them I'd give these like a six and a half maybe a seven no six-and-a-half these are probably seven and a half maybe an eight they're not as good as like MacBook Pro speakers or MacBook Air speakers but they're definitely better than the previous generation the keyboard also feels quite similar to last year's model as well I don't like the new layout though so the old layout felt more traditional to me particularly the right shift key now this is that I've mentioned in previous videos as well I think it's something that affects a very few people I'm one of those people but I use the right shift quite regularly and it's just in a weird spot on the new stealth if you use the right shift a lot then you're gonna take some time to get used to it keyboard on the hole though is a nice keyboard trackpad this doesn't feel that different from last year's model either it's still winners precision still a glass surface it's bigger but the experience is pretty similar to last year's model it's a good trackpad now the lighting on the keyboard is a little bit different this year they're running a single color RGB so you can't do individually customized keys but depending on what you want and if your keyboard that may or may not make you sad the keys on the top actually have lighting on them so the previous generation you couldn't see the function controls on each of the function keys but those light up as well now which is nice now the advantage of having a single color across the whole layout is power consumption and the battery life on this device is good I got a little bit over 6 hours with the screen at 250 nits and this is with the 4k panel it's not a huge battery it's been bumped up to 53 watt hours but it's more energy efficient system so you get slightly better battery life this year then last year the AC adapter is still small 65 watts so if you want to charge it on a plane you're good to go the RAM is soldered on the drive is replaceable and it's running a pair of fans this year which actually get louder than expect for an ultrabook the temperatures are good but the fans do run loud ok I want to spend some time talking about performance on this laptop so you can equip this thing with an MX 150 from Nvidia this is a GPU that comes in two variants they have a weaker 10 watt version that is on some laptops and they have a stronger more powerful 25 watt version which they have in this particular laptop same with some other laptops out there the 25 watt version is not that much better than the 10 watt version it's better it's noticeable but it's not like a huge difference the thing is razor is kind of like marketing this thing as if it were a gaming laptop I don't think they ever call it a gaming laptop per se its gaming capable it can run games but it's not a great GPU and it's significantly weaker than even a laptop gtx 1050 no matter how you spin it this is not a gaming laptop and same with video editing the MX 150 is better than nothing rate it's got some CUDA cores in it but editing and rendering are still very underwhelming on this machine even with that 25 watt MX 150 games just don't run very smoothly at 1080p you got to drop it down to like 720p to be able to play at 60 frames per second for a lot of games which honestly isn't that big of a deal but the problem is this thing costs sixteen hundred dollars to get a configuration with the MX 150 and quite frankly that's the device that's most interesting right to have that kind of GPU power in something this small that's why people are eyeballing this thing but here's here's my take on it okay if you are actually someone who is considering spending sixteen hundred dollars on a device that has a GP unit like this that's not super powerful chances are you are a gaming enthusiast you may not be super hardcore but you're gonna be someone that enjoys playing games you want to have a decent gaming experience so if you're gonna spend sixteen hundred dollars on this why not take that money and spend it on a device that is significantly better at playing games like there are devices out there like the GS 65 from MSI or the aro 15 or even Razer zone entry level of razor blade those are devices I'm pointing over there because they're over here I'll pull em in these are devices that bring a significantly better gaming experience than the thing that they're squashing there's just so much better it makes no sense that this thing costs sixteen hundred dollars now I get it there are some people that just don't want a 15 inch device because these are bigger they're thicker they're heavier I get it some people want something smaller so get something else that's small with an MX 150 there are a lot of devices some of them start like 900 bucks going up to 1200 dollars that have MX 150 s in them now some of them will be running 10 watt chips and some of you need 25 watt chips but they're just so much cheaper than the new Razer Blade stealth and I know some people gonna watch this video and they'll be like who cares Dave why you talk about value like this doesn't matter it's a razer product take my money but the thing is I have supported razors pricing on their razor blade stealth ever since they launched this product like it's always been a little bit more expensive than other competitors in the market but I always felt like it was worth that extra value like you're getting the razor experience they're well-made products they look good but this year I feel like they just they push that envelope of what they think they can charge a little too far so if you're someone that's on the market for something that looks just like this like you want that 13 inch device and you have a huge budget I mean this is one of very few devices that fits that ticket but for most people I just I don't think it's a good fit you should either get something that's equivalently priced that's way better at gaming or something that's a lot cheaper and provides very similar performance okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs if you'd love to see you guys next time