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the og razorblade Stealth's middling battery life eight gigs of ram with no option to upgrade and dual-core processor made it neither a serious productivity device for road warriors nor a legitimately capable gaming machine like its thicker and less stealthy 14-inch cousin even with an outboard graphics card but that's all different now literally all of it the blade stealth late 2017 stops all over its predecessors so let's take a look at it World of Tanks is the free-to-play online game that throws players into epic tank battles across different battlefields and we've got a special deal for you guys below and more info coming later in the video externally the 13.3 inch blade stealth pretty much hasn't changed in the last couple of years and that's a good thing because you might disagree but I think the industrial design is damn near perfect the top is classic razor with an illuminated logo and armored accent bumps the bottom is lifted a little higher at the back on rubber feet for a slight angle to the keyboard and to give the single intake fan access to fresh air and the side profile is pretty much as thin as it could be while still allowing razor to cram in what is fairly generous IO for a thin and light these days two full-size USB 3 ports HDMI 2.0 and audio jack and a Type C Thunderbolt 3 port that also charges the device and the whole thing has a sturdiness to it that's been very refreshing compared to the Graham that I've been using since early this year it is heavier yes and the battery life is much worse unless you're willing to cart around an extra battery bank with you but in power saving mode it still comfortably lasts me over five hours of actual use and I also expect it to hold up to the rigors of my grueling travel schedule a little bit better than the Graham has flipping it open then there's still not much to dislike it's 2017 the bezels could be a little bit thinner and the power button is still really mushy for our company whose first product was a mouse but the 3200 by 1800 100% srgb display while not shockingly bright is a solid performer and includes a touchscreen something that I rarely notice myself using but that drives me crazy when I'm on something that doesn't have one and the keyboard speakers and trackpad are somewhere between very good and excellent for a device of this class with the keyboard in particular standing out to me because it blows me away that the same company that put such an excellent low profile keyboard on a thin and light put such an abomination on their desktop replacement 17-inch model let's talk gaming the stealth is not really for gaming but thanks to some under the hood upgrades there are a lot of ways to game on it emulators older triple-a titles and modern eSports titles like rocket League and Gotha 2 will run directly off the onboard Intel graphics at usable frame rates as long as you lower the resolution the onboard killer Wireless consistently saw transfer speeds of 40 megabytes per second or more on a high-end AC access point so if you have a gaming PC elsewhere in the house steam in-home streaming works at very high quality settings fantastically or you could even use it remotely with software like parsec on a fast low latency internet connection and with the addition of an external GPU the blade stealth transforms from Ultrabook to ultra high-end gaming system I was floored when I saw the CPU turbo boosting to those clock speeds in games I mean yes we're still giving up some fps compared to a desktop running that same Titan X P graphics card with a high-end quad core or 6 core desktop chip and Thunderbolt protocol overhead and narrower PCIe 4x connection aren't helping matters but these are still really impressive results and sorry raising both the performance bottlenecking and the price gap actually close significantly if you're willing to explore third-party eg pew enclosures that forego some of the core v2s creature comforts like easy upgrade ability and built-in Ethernet and thanks to these 16 gigs of soldered ram I found it useful for more than just gaming even with just the onboard graphics for our editing and rendering simple videos intel's eighth generation u series processors put their previous generation efforts to shay I would still equip a skilled video editor with something that can run higher than about 2.2 gigahertz with all the course land but throwing together this video in Premiere in the backseat of my car on the way to visit my grandparents was very doable on the blade stealth it's still a blade so it was sitting between 10 to 15% CPU usage thanks Chrome while I was typing up this review and it was a little warm to the touch but it stays really quiet even under full load now we need to talk about money gone is the starting at $9.99 pricing that made the original blade stealth so attractive but while it is pricier than that it's still in line with or better than devices of similar spec and build quality like Dells XPS 13 so that's not something that I'm gonna give razor too much flak about I will save my flak for the battery it is the worst thing about this device but as I said before it's still very usable so I think of the blade stealth as kind of like a sporty two-seater the fuel economy sucks compared to something more practical like the ground but it's got other things going for it and I really really like it and I will be switching to the blade stealth full-time wargaming is sponsoring this video to tell you guys to go check out World of Tanks it's the free-to-play online game that if you've been living under a rock for the last few years you might not have heard of but it's all about breathtaking tank battles across epic battlefields it said in the mid 20th century and World of Tanks gives you access to an impressive roster of over 450 authentic tanks from steel brawlers to light and fast Scouts and there are RPG elements to the game where you can research upgrades and modifications to enhance your 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