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I've had a review unit of the razor blade late 2016 since launch in fact I bought a dozen of the first ones off the production line back in October so I could box them up and give them out at my staff Christmas party so why then did it take me so long to do this review because I was waiting for a very special blade a one-of-a-kind signed LTT edition blade that will soon be in the hands of a very lucky winner who graciously agreed to let me show case his beautiful prize in my review before sending it along so here we go tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet to Tritonal bear for free check out the link in the video description the unboxing experience really hasn't changed a lot since the original razor blade 14 you get a laptop razors characteristically compact 165 watt power adapter and some papers to accidentally throw away before you remember about the earth and in fact not much has changed outwardly about the machine either aside from the textured LPT design by IDI which you won't find on the one that you buy at the store anyway it still rocks a normal non-magnetized power cord to make hint-hint razor to go with its three USB 3 ports audio jack thunderbolt 3 port and hdmi port and like it basically looks like the same damn computer still with the black still with the rubber feet still with the dime thickness and still with the bright green razer logo on the back that causes gamers to rush the stands and professionals to refuse to go into meetings with their laptops because they're too embarrassed even most of the key specs are the same CPU same Ram same battery same though the maximum nvm ESS sighs got doubled to one terabyte and the gtx 970m from last gen has been bumped to a GTX 1060 which means the newest blade is a very capable little VR machine and that both the Thunderbolt and HDMI port can handle 4k 60 Hertz now not that a 10 60 will run most games at 4k 60 frames per second anyway which is where my favorite difference from the last gen comes in the blade is now available with a glass-top 3200 by 1800 touch screen or a matte 1920 by 1080 non-touchscreen that's cheaper saves a little battery avoids any issues with poor resolution scaling and windows and translates to up to double the framerate in games now obviously you can turn down the touch screen model to 1080p but then you're dealing with interpolation instead of a crisp native resolution image and for me personally the difference in sharpness has a much much smaller impact on my gaming experience than the massive difference in frame rates that make animations on the 1080p late 2016 2 to 3 times faster than other blades I mean sure a razor core upgrade would boost performance as well but that thing's like 500 bucks plus a video card so it got some upgrades but many of the complaints from previous blades do still exist they run hot interestingly the higher frame rates of the 1080p model puts more strain on the CPU while gaming they are loud when you're pushing them hard and the input lag on the mere 60 Hertz display with no G sync is far from the best I've seen on what is purportedly a gaming notebook with that said the webcam is still pretty good even if it hasn't improved much if at all the trackpad took a major leap forward in responsiveness and acceleration curve tuning in both 2016 models and the keyboard thankfully bears no resemblance whatsoever to the one in the higher-end blade Pro it's one of my favorite laptop keyboards ever in spite of the lack of illumination of the secondary functions a downgrade from the 2015 model that seems to have been born from a desire for RGB backlighting and one that bothers me pretty much every day so on the surface then not a lot has changed even going back a few generations but when you look closely er razor has been absolutely refining the experience with the improvement to surface temperatures of the device during use being one of the most noticeable day-to-day and while the blade has been good enough for a while for me to use as a work first game second kind of person it wasn't until this generation that it was good enough for me to spend real money on it dropping over 25,000 US dollars on these machines for my entire staff so in spite of the very small improvements do I think the blade late 2016 is the best blade yet you're damn right I do let's just hope that they don't trash the 2017 model by putting that awful keyboard from the blade pro on it or the next time my employees get new computers they might be from Appy okay so you run your own business let's say you've got you know invoices you got to send expenses you've got a track and hours you've got to somehow not only track but also manage how do you do all that stuff fresh books fresh books is the cloud accounting solution that lets you send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds set up online payments with a couple clicks getting paid up to four days faster 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