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a data XP gv2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms check the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing an overview of the Razer Blade 14 from well Razer so first of all it comes packed in soft foam so it's already my favorite notebook kept not just kidding ok it does compact and soft foam but it doesn't get too many points for that because it's an extremely expensive notebook for our 256 gig configuration you're looking at about 2 G's putting it right up there in the Apple s Alon in terms of pricing but the real question is does it deserve to be there in terms of the unboxing experience we're going to do a very very short version of it this is what the box looks like foam typical green beautiful Razer packaging as we've come to expect from them and other than that there's not a whole lot in here so there's a little bundle of what you typically come to expect so you get a couple of Razer stickers as well as a microfiber cloth honestly it's not going to do you a whole lot of good the black finish is absolutely beautiful but you can never get it quite perfect as far as I can tell I even tried using some alcohol in order to get it off but honestly it really isn't that bad either at least it's black unlike these silver finishes that the fingerprints really do show up on you also get a letter from the CEO and chief gamer of Razer as well as a QuickStart guide not going to worry too much about any of that other than that all you'll find in the box is they're very sleek very sexy power brick this is 150 watt power brick but as you can see from my traditional phone size comparison here's an HTC one is it extremely small for 150 watt brick razor claims they spent several times as much as most manufacturers will on a power brick in order to have it fit in this form factor this was extremely important to them because they were going for portability as well as gaming performance with this particular machine so speaking of portability it is only 0.6 6 inches thick so we're going to go ahead and give you a look at it physically here's that phone comparison for you again it weighs only 4.1 pounds it is 14 inch and it is not and Ultrabook because it has well not because but it has much more performance than an ultrabook in spite of the fact that the form factor looks an awful lot like an ultrabook this has a full-fledged GTX 765 M razor has done nothing in terms of down clocking that graphics card it also has a core i7 quad-core processor so that my friends is what makes this not an ultrabook it is a 4702 HQ which means it runs at 2.2 gigahertz base 3.2 gigahertz boost so you can see we're running Crysis 1 right now so the answer is can it run Crysis yes I'm running it very high 1600 by 900 at the native resolution the keyboard is quite well spaced out considering that this is a 14 inch notebook the speakers are quite loud although as with most notebooks sound it's not the most you know rich gorgeous sound you've ever heard but it is certainly functional for gaming even in an environment where there's a fair amount of ambient noise such as at a LAN party so back to the keyboard here there are 20 different incremental steps for the keyboard backlight all the way from completely off to an extremely vibrant green that reminds me of the Black Widow ultimate 2013 the keyboard is also fully compatible it synapse 2.0 meaning you can remap every key to whatever you want and program advanced macros I wish there was a number pad but given that they would have had to sacrifice the spacing of it and it is actually quite a satisfying tactile keyboard you can hear there's a bit of a click the one key that I would for the two keys I would really complain about are the spacebar has a bit of a tinny sort of plasticky feel to it and then I don't really like Aero pad configurations like this but I don't really find myself using the arrow keys much these days the touchpad I've seen other people complain about but I personally didn't find it that obnoxious people were saying they prefer a clicky touchpad I don't I prefer dedicated buttons at the bottom and that is exactly what you find with the Razer Blade 14 however there was a little bit of glitchyness in fine movements sometimes when selecting icons and then clicking by touching the touchpad it's shown up a couple times for me but not a ton hopefully this is something that they can fix in sort of a silent revision after the review units go out this is a review unit not a finished one for physicality it's very bare-bones so along the right hand side of the notebook we find USB 3 HDMI and a security lock on the back of the notebook whoa there's nothing where are all the air vents I'll show you that later don't worry guys on the left side of the notebook we find power in it fits very snugly this is a huge oversight on one of my notebooks an MSI gaming notebook I got a few years back I think they've addressed it now but the power plug just slips out a lot of the time so I do like to see a snug power plug would prefer magnetic two USB 3.0 ports on this side as well as a headphone microphone combo jack then on the front we find a whole lot more of nothing the hinge is very easy to open so I mean I guess this is kind of unfair to it but even holding it up in the air I can get that separated you don't have to wedge two fingers in there in order to get it open and how does the ventilation work how the devil did they fit a gtx 765 m and hold o i'm just going to turn the sound off a gtx 765 m in a quad core into this form factor 2 ventilation fans down here so we're running crisis right now actually I'm going to unpause the game so you guys can get some idea of how loud these fans are they are louder than a silent notebook but here check this out so I'm putting this right next to my boom mic so you guys can see what I'm doing here they are quieter than my aspire s7 which is more of an ultrabook but it doesn't have a GPU and doesn't have actually I don't even think it has about a six-hour battery life so battery wise you can get anywhere from around 5 to 6 hours out of it in a light to medium usage case scenario however when you're gaming obviously that's going to be significantly reduced so these two fans on the bottom here vent air aha up here so it's actually completely stealth up at the top of the keyboard there are two major exhaust ports here and here now the advantage of this design is that you don't have to look at any exhaust vents the disadvantage is it means the top of the notebook does get very toasty in a gaming scenario and because it's using an aluminum unibody chassis that heat does tend to spread out a fair bit so what we're going to be doing at near the end of the video is I'm going to take my temperature probe right here and I'm going to be running this game and I'm going to stick the probe to various parts of the notebook to give you guys an idea of how exactly it runs even if it means the heat gets spread out that's a good thing for one reason because it's part of what allows that massive power inside this notebook to be possible in this form factor and aluminium compared to plastic there's just no comparison there's no flex to it it feels good it reminds me a lot of something like the black MacBook Pro back in the day before Apple kibosh that which I think was one of the most beautiful notebooks ever it's stylish and elegant so on the top you've just got a couple of subtle accents as well as an illuminated Razer logo I'm going to go ahead and turn it back on so you can see the illumination there on the side the only thing that reveals that this is a gaming notebook is the tiny green accents and things like the USB ports and then the green backlit keyboard other than that it's something that you could easily sit in a boardroom meeting with and you wouldn't have to feel like a total weirdo part of the way that it achieves that long battery life making it suitable for business use is the fact that it employs Nvidia Optimus technology so that means that the dedicated graphics card pretty much turns off when you're not using it and Intel's new has well fourth generation Core processors are so efficient when they're only being used a little bit that well all of a sudden this is possible I remember saying when the original blade launched this is interesting but what I'm really excited for is next gen next gen is finally here now with that said this notebook is not perfect it lacks an SD card reader it lacks a dedicated hard wired Ethernet port however the wireless end solution does use bigfoot killer optimizations in order to prioritize your gaming traffic so that's at least better than nothing but the one that really bothers me is the screen so I'm going to get you guys to come in and have a look at the screen so check this out so that's your straight on viewing angle if you guys have been watching my channel for any amount of time you'll know that I am a huge advocate for non TN panels and this panel is about as TN as it gets the colors are not as vibrant or deep as you'll get with an IPS pls or even a VA panel of some sort the viewing angles are quite well they're some of the worst I've seen on a notebook that costs more than you know between 500 and $1,000 in a very long time and I found that very disappointing I for one I'm not disappointed about the resolution 1600 by 900 is very acceptable considering that a 765 M is not you know a desktop GTX 780 so you're better off to have slightly lower resolution natively and be able to run at native res rather than running at a non-native res in your games and the pixel density at 14 inches for a 1600 by 900 screen is actually not that bad like I don't I don't mind that at all although I've seen complaints about that from other reviewers this particular configuration has 8 gigs of ram a 256 gig SSD a 70 watt hour battery Bluetooth 4.0 Windows 8 as well as a built-in HD webcam and some of the things about this notebook that I also find exceptional are check this out partly due to the fact that it's an SSD partly due to the fact that it's extremely fast and partly due to the fact that it has no bloatware here's our wake from sleep time also at boots from cold in about 12 seconds so this is I'm a Windows 8 it's one of the few things that really truly is great about it speakers are I think I already covered that loud enough for gaming but you know nothing really super special and I think that pretty much covers it so let's go ahead and show you guys some Crysis gameplay as well as give you some temperature readings from various points on the notebook to start our thermal tests we went with what we found was the hottest spot where air was being exhausted from the blade 14 so that was right at this point right here and it's about 50 degrees when we measure the temperature of the notebook in that particular spot now with that said you don't touch it here although it does feel very warm to the touch but well look at that mean touching it reduce the temperature that's awesome but we are going to take some temperatures at other places where it might be more important next we taped our thermal probe to the Q key which is right next to the W key so that's typically where your gamer is going to want to rest their thing and we found that to be around 29 to 30 degrees in a gaming load the other place where a gamer is typically going to rest on the notebook as the palm rest so we've taken another dab of thermal goop and taped down our sensor here where we're getting anywhere from around thirty to thirty two and a half degrees it does tend to fluctuate a little bit so the temperature at least is quite consistent from the WASD all the way to the palm rest however that is quite warm and it will cause some sweaty hand syndrome now years ago the system manufacturers wanted to move away from calling these things laptops and switch to calling them notebooks because they didn't intend for you to actually operate them in your lap because that interfered with cooling so when we are taking a temperature from the middle of the bottom of the notebook you can see that gets quite toasty guys this is a notebook not a laptop at 45 degrees 46 degrees now the heat being transferred into your lap is quite toasty so while you're going to get some sweaty hand syndrome going on up at the top left here on the keyboard Razer has effectively kept the heat mostly away from the top of the notebook however on the bottom it gets quite warm so I'm going to show you once again where that thermal probe was affixed the closer we get to this edge where the heat is actually being exhausted the well the more dramatic the temperature increase is so right near your knees is where it would run the hottest with all of that said the edge 14 is an absolute marvel of engineering and it is a miracle that a company that's known best for gaming mice and gaming keyboards in only a couple of product iterations managed to come out with this with that said it's a couple grand personally I'll be waiting for the next gen when it's this maybe runs a little bit cooler or maybe doesn't maybe has a little bit more performance comes with an IPS screen and then we're really talking about taking some of my money because that's probably going to happen I understand why they used a TN panel they do tend to have faster response times which for some gamers is more important but I personally find the richer colours more engaging experience versus the faster response times of a TN and with that said IPS panels also do cost more don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips guys leave a comment under the video tell me what you think of the razor blade 14 and as always wait don't forget to subscribe yeah I like the video to do all of those things because it actually is very helpful so this is kind of a spontaneous teardown of the blade 14 b-roll made a comment that we were just talking about the cost of this notebook versus other options available on the market and I said well you know isn't is a MacBook a completely stupid thing to buy and kind of went yes and I said well ok but it doesn't have nearly the same kind of horsepower as something like this and he said well yeah but it's also better built and I kind of went well no I don't really think so because the level of integration that's going on here is outstanding plus there are some things that you can do here that you can't necessarily do with with every MacBook so for example there's an M SATA SSD so the SSD is actually upgraded now or upgradable now while you can't necessarily upgrade everything you can see all the ddr3 memory is soldered right to the mainboard you can change you know your wireless chipset it looks like the battery should be possibly removable here we can also see just how flat everything is packed within the inside of this notebook so there's our two cooling fans right here and here each of them gets two heat pipes and a very small aluminum thinner a so this right here looks like it must be the GPU because I can see the dedicated memory around the outside of it and then this one right here is the CPU so I think that's pretty much all I wanted to show you guys inside the notebook and I guess this is the old Seinfeld double goodbye but farewell again my friends that goes nothing