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what's going on everyone James - sent here since you forgot I'm even wearing my shirt this will be available soon don't worry every guys have been asking me about my shirts they're coming I swear today we're going to talk about razors new flagship laptop the razor blade Pro 2017 edition I've had my hands on this now for a couple of months about two months actually I use this at Computex that rendered all of that footage and even some videos since then so I just felt like editing at home or on the go so anyway huge thank you to Razer for sending this over but yeah let's go and just get right to it sick and tired of all the RGB craze well don't worry because the EVGA z2 70 classified K is full of all the things that matter like Intel obtained memory ready you to nvme SSD support 11 phase PWM for stable overclocking and a sleek monochromatic design that is perfect for any bill learn more by visiting EVGA calm now I could spend all day talking about specs and a laptop and it's obviously a very subjective conversation - on what you need what you don't need what's overkill but let's at least run down what's in here it's got an i7 78 20 HK processor sets a quad core with hyper threading so eight active threads 2.9 gigahertz as the base block it will automatically turbo boost Intel turbo boost up to 3.9 depending on the workload and temperatures and if you turn on the performance optimized in synapse app then it will go all the way up to 4.3 again if temperatures will allow but once you put in performance optimized it does also increase the fan curve that way it can keep things as cool as possible now for memory we've got 32 gigabytes in this model of ddr4 2667 so that's going to be nice and fast and keep up with your workloads and in storage there's three different versions of this there's a 512 a 1 terabyte and a 2 terabyte all sporting PCI Express m2 SSDs so this particular model right here is the 1 terabyte so that's to 512 drives in a raid 0 all three variants of this the 512 the one terabyte and the two terabyte are supporting raid 0 configuration so the 512 is to 256 and ra0 the one terabyte to 512 and then the 2 terabyte obviously is to one terabyte again all in raid 0 so read/write on this is extremely fast but once again because they are MDOT - keeping it cool is paramount so yeah the fan profiles and stuffs definitely have their work cut out for them given the amount of hardware that is shoved into this machine and then of course for the GPU it's got a full-size desktop GT X 1080 chip in there obviously it's on it's not a full size card in there but it's a full-blown GPU on here for factor why is it zero point eight eight inches thick it's got lots of i/o two USB 3.0 s on the Left it's got and again a THX certified headphone jack so it's going to have a very good noise floor it's got very good powered billowed push professional headphones which is sometimes a problem especially with laptops so you can run your high ohm headphones and have no problems with it whatsoever on here a full-size are rj45 network jack on the right side we got a full-sized HDMI port another USB 3.0 a Thunderbolt 3 as well as a full size SD card reader so that's nice especially for content creators like me if I want to put it straight from the camera to the computer I can do that let's talk about the keyboard it definitely takes a little bit of getting used to it's going to be a love it or hate it relationship it's sporting a low profile mechanical keyboard now they're saying that this is the world's first I can't validate that but they are saying its world's first with a their Chiclets keycap which is common on their laptops but it's got a very cliquey can hear that it's got a very very clicky feel to it it feels a lot like a blue but obviously with a much shorter throw which in the beginning made it very hard for me to get used typing on this I could not type an email on this the way I would normally type I literally was having to like to finger type it because I just couldn't get used to the field but after using it for several weeks and now a couple of months I can actually bring up writing on this with no problem it just took a little bit of adjusting and getting used to but something else you might also notice is this does not have a trackpad down below the spacebar which is the more conventional place to put it it's on the side where you typically find a number pad so what Razer has done is they've kind of gotten rid of the number pad which is some people want it a lot of people don't but on a 17.3 inch laptop like this allowed them to have a massive touchpad over here that works with the trackpad so it's touch sensitive and it does gesture so for instance if you were to just to finger touch that's like doing a right-click and of course of course if you click on the bottom left and bottom right corners the same as let's pick right-click on a mouse so I feel it's really sensitive I'm accidentally touching and clicking on things when I'm just trying to move the cursor which is kind of a pain in the butt something else too is it's got an actual scroll wheel for volume which is nice to see rather than having a function key up and function key down you've got all your function keys that you expect on the F row and that's enough about that you guys you guys kind of get the basics when it comes to the keyboard now let's going to talk about the screen here this is a 17.3 inch u HD that's 4k a THX certified panel they're saying this is the world's first THX certified panel and a laptop I can't validate that but that's what they're saying so it's check for things like color accuracy resolution accuracy smoothness of playback it's guaranteed to give you a very good viewing experience now the problem with it though as you can see is its glossy so that's going to be a love it or hate it some people like glossy screens I'm personally okay at that it tends to make the colors pop a little bit more make them a little bit more vibrant but if you're in a bright environment like this as you can see it's very very reflective so it's definitely one of those things that you have to ask yourself if that's going to be okay but something else too is it is a touch screen so I don't know if I don't know why it won't use this considering it doesn't flip back into a into a tablet but it is actually a touch screen and I think the last thing I would really want to be doing though especially on this glossy screen is be touching it so it's a neat feature that's there but I will never use it now that I've touched it I gotta clean it now speaking of dirt and mess this chassis although beautiful and it's matte black anodized finish is a nightmare to keep clean if you think about touching it finger and skin oils appear on it if you even consider moving it it's just going to look like a big smudged smear a mess and if that bothers you like me then you definitely want to make sure you have a rag nearby at all times now in terms of performance I'm going to start with content creation because I think that that's where this laptop would definitely shine now we use this laptop to render all of our footage from copy text this year so that's how long I've had this and it you know working in the timeline especially in Adobe Premiere it takes advantage of all of that CPU horsepower to advantage of all of that RAM and having the full size 1080 in there makes the GPU accelerated Mercure playback engine very very smooth when scrubbing through the timeline it's not stuttering whatsoever and we can run it at a hundred percent resolution and have no issues whatsoever now in terms of exporting though it feels an awful lot like rendering on a 77 a desktop system 1080p footage which is what we rendered at Computex rendered in about real-time so if it was a ten minute video took about ten minutes to render same thing with you know longer video take about the same amount of time to render of course that's going to depend on a lot of things on your timelines there a lot of color correction is there any sort of resizing is there a lot of overlays transparencies transitions things like that can all slow down render time but in the basic type of workflow that we do on our videos at least my videos here this has no problems whatsoever allowing me to stay fully functional while on the go now this brings me to the last part of our review which is obviously gaming and I think a majority of you probably care about that most now as I've already said the GTX 1080 and it performs very similar in games like rise of the Tomb Raider you're getting 52 FPS average in 4 kms with all of the effects on high including the hair effect stuff so if you turn that off actually plumps up a little bit more but if you go down to something like 1080p and turn off the G sync which is built into this panel then you can actually get well over a hundred and forty fps in a game like rise of the Tomb Raider then those Metro last light which brings it down to about the mid 40s at 4k but it's a very demanding benchmark it always has been that's why I keep it in my rotation but once you go into 1080p mode then it definitely jumps up a whole lot higher and a very respectable framerate but what about acoustics well unfortunately because razor is gone with more an aesthetic approach versus a functionality approach they went with very small minimalist expand and vent design I feel like if they just put a few more events in there we would have had a lot better thermals because the 1080 in here will reach all the way up to about 83 C under load now that's not too hot for this core I mean that's what the founders edition card is set to run at but in order to keep the 83 C it sounds like a 747 in fact let's go ahead and give you a demo of that now if you take a look at the fan design and yeah I remember what I said about fingerprints earlier yeah if you look at the fan design you can see it's just these two tiny little fans down here on the bottom I feel like razor could have done a better job at thinking about acoustics and thermals at the same time and still maintain a minimalistic factor or form factor I mean it's on the bottom you don't even see it in fact even just sitting at the desktop the GPU will idle somewhere between 50 and 53 C depending on your ambient temperature now it's going to be completely silent while doing that it just gives you an idea of how warm things can get and just putting your hand near the laptop you can feel heat coming through the keyboard so anyway guys that's been my review of the 2017 revision of the razor blade pro laptop their new flagship and it's performed all of the functions I needed to do with no problems whatsoever we were doing gaming while at Computex we even showed some Instagram photos we were having a little mini LAN party at the airport we were waiting to head over to Taiwan and it's very powerful and there's it should be for the price I mean it come it starts at four thousand US dollars that's that is not a cheap laptop by any stretch of the imagination now whether or not that's worth it guys only you can answer that I can't answer for you whether or not it's worth it value is subjective and it's only going to pertain to the person considering spending the money only the person looking to spend the money can determine whether or not it's worth it so that's that it's time to go again a huge thank you to Razer for sending me this laptop to take a look at if you guys think I should look at any other laptops on the market make sure to let me know down in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter at JS to sense it's without a doubt the easiest way to get ahold of me thanks for watching guys and as always I will see you in the next one