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as a college student I've been dreaming of this perfect laptop something between an ultra portable laptop that slim and lightweight and something like a regular laptop that's powerful but not exactly slim for the past month I've been using razors latest Ultrabook the blade self and I have to say it's not the laptop of my dreams but it's pretty darn close i'm rob rosenberger wood TechnoBuffalo and this is a review of the 2017 a razor blade stealth so first things first this is the gunmetal version of the south and it's only available in the 13-inch model and with that gunmetal stealth you're gonna lose a couple of things you're not gonna get that backlit illuminated Razer logo on the exterior of the laptop and you're not gonna get the option for the all the colors of the rainbow RGB chroma backlit keyboard Razer is really going for more of a business kind of an understated for lack of a better word stealthier looking laptop for an audience that wants it and those two things you're gonna lose but I don't think it's that big of a deal so one of the first things that stood out to me about this laptop was just how it was built and how light it is and I know that we live in this digital age and it's kind of assumed that college students don't use textbooks anymore and as much as I wish that was true it's not exactly true I still have to carry a bunch of books for classes so the weight of my laptop really doesn't matter its then it's lightweight it comes into under three pounds and it's just built to feel very premium for the price segment this thing comes in I wouldn't really expect anything less so it's a slim and lightweight altra book but it's made by Razer so the specs aren't going to be too bad inside this thing is a dual core i7 processor 16 gigs of dual channel memory a 256 gig pci based SSD and Intel HD 620 integrated graphics and yes it's got integrated graphics but we'll go back to that in a minute one of the most important things on a laptop is the display and the display on this stuff is actually really good it's a 13 inch quad HD plus display with a resolution of 1300 884 K like you're getting a smaller version but it's a really good looking screen watching videos on this thing was a pleasure colors just seemed to pop off the display text was super sharp even just plain text on a webpage look really good very easy to read it's a really nice display it also has touchscreen capabilities built in which is really nice and it works well in Windows 10 though I'd say for the 98% of the time I didn't care brought the touchscreen it was just a really good discipline I like that razer didn't make any sacrifices to push that touchscreen technology into the display but as good as this thing is indoors outdoors is where it really starts to crumble if I'm outside like this on an overcast day I just can't see the screen very well the screen just doesn't get very bright and that's really my biggest knock on this thing is that I love this display inside but outside it just doesn't look good if it's even readable at all but for as bad as this display as outdoors I can almost forgive that entirely just for how good this keyboard is everywhere it's just a really good keyboard I've typed a lot over the past month on this everything from notes in class to slack messages to emails to papers and it's just a really comfortable keyboard to type on it doesn't have as much travel as a full-size mechanical keyboard but if you compare this to the chiclet style on the new Apple laptops like on the MacBook in the MacBook Pro I would totally any day of the week prefer this keyboard over that just because it has a little bit more travel and it feels more like a full-size keyboard below that keyboard is a full-size trackpad which I also really happen to like on on the 2017 version of the south it now supports Windows 10s precision drivers that means it supports gestures it's very fluid very nice to use and I just really had a good time using it and as a whole it's a really good sized trackpad especially considering that this is an ultrabook speakers built into the self are pretty good there laptop speakers so they don't carry a lot of bass or a lot of volume but they're decent if you're just gonna listen to music or watch a couple of videos I know that battery life is always a very hot button issue when it comes to laptops especially ultrabooks and I'm pretty happy to say that I got a really good battery life out of this stuff I was easily able to make it throughout a full day of classes with note-taking and web research and reading a bunch of PDF documents online also with a little video watching and maybe a little video editing sprinkled in there as well but then again do keep in mind that this is an ultrabook so any CPU intensive task is gonna eat away at that battery life though the stuff does have USB type-c so you can charge this thing with a battery bank on the go if you want speaking of USB type-c let's talk i/o the blade self has two USB 3.0 ports a headphone jack a full size HDMI port and a USB type-c federal port you can use for charging as well as any fast storage devices or something like a razor core as a student I spent a majority of my day researching things taking notes in class maybe watching a couple videos in between classes and maybe a little gaming here and there and happy to say that the blade handles all that really well as they'll jump between Chrome and Evernote and watching videos and email pretty much any multitasking this thing was able to handle I was also able to do a little bit of video editing in Premiere and I was able to edit 1080p video on the south just fine though I did have a little bit of issue with 4k as to be expected I could actually still edit a 4k timeline but I'd have to drop the playback quality way down I was able to do some light gaming with the south I could play rocket League at 60 frames per second on low to medium HD settings I could play battlegrounds or really didn't run very well this really isn't targeted to gamers though it's made by Razer mainly because of that integrated intel HD graphics system it's just not powerful enough to do a lot of heavy GPU intensive tasks however with all that being said because this thing does support thunderbolt over USB type-c plugging in a razor core with a decent GPU in there totally changes the story at our office we paired the stealth with a razor core with a 980ti inside and the results were completely different we were able to render 4k video and premiere 80% faster and playback the 4k video in the timeline at full resolution flawlessly we were able to go back and play battlegrounds at high settings and easily maintain 60 frames per second throughout as well as go back and play rocket league with ultra high settings and get some crazy high frame rates obviously I know what the razor core you're paying an additional price for that piece of hardware plus a GPU but I know plenty of people who have a beastly gaming rig in their dorm room or apartment and a puny little laptop or the opposite with a heavy desktop replacement laptop with no desktop inside their apartment or dorm room the razor core kind of gives you the best of both worlds you can have a super slim lightweight Kerbal laptop but take it back to your dorm room or apartment plug in one cable and turn it into a vici gaming room so let's get down to it this is a $1,400 books book and for that price you expect a couple of things you want a well-built laptop with good specs and a computer that will handle pretty much anything that you go to throw at it that's also going to be slim and lightweight and portable and I think that the razor blades self checks all those boxes the 2017 blade South is almost a laptop of my dreams I love how portable it is I love that I can take it around with me pretty much anywhere I liked how it performed and despite my issues with the screen and the integrated graphics system I really can't recommend this thing more especially if you're paying a premium price like this 1,400 bucks you want something that's going to last you for years of college and well I think this thing it'll definitely stay on the test of time so what do you guys think of the 2017 razor blade self I've had a blast using this thing over the past few weeks and I'd love to hear what you guys have to say in the comments down below thanks so much for watching this video guys it's been a pleasure once again i'm rob rosenberger buffalo and i'll see you guys in the next video you