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if there was ever a laptop that i was a fan of it would have been the original

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razer blade and not the original razer blade with that

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weird display touchpad thing or whatever

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it was the one that got rebranded as the razer blade or i'm gonna call it the

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blade 14 because the blade 14 did something that nothing

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else did at the time it combined that sleek macbook pro appearance with legit

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real world gaming performance and sure

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it did come at a cost thermals weren't as good as if you'd gone with a much

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larger laptop and obviously performance did leave a little bit on the table oh

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and they were really expensive but the truth remains that nothing else

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did the same thing nowadays there are a lot of competitors for the blade and

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some of those deficiencies

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in the older blades have come back to bite them so there have been reliability

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issues that we've actually reported on and

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well i think that's probably kind of that's kind of the biggest

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problem but can AMD

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save razer's 14-inch laptop that is what

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they're trying to convince me of today let's take a look at this thing inside

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the new razer blade 14 is an AMD ryzen

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5900 hx processor so that's an 8 core 16

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thread CPU that'll boost up to 4.6 gigahertz should make it pretty darn

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ideal for gaming and you'll also find an rtx 3060 3070 or 3080 GPU with a total

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rated graphics power of 100 watts that is across the board so it seems to me

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that the sweet spot for this laptop is probably going to be the 30-70 but razer

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sent over the 3080 model for me to check out first let's take a look at i o so

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we've got our power plug usb-a usb-c

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this is not going to be Thunderbolt because this is of course an AMD-based

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machine we've got our headphone microphone combo

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jack another usb type a another type c

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HDMI 2.1 you can do up to i think it's

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5k with display stream compression at 120 hertz or 4k at 240 hertz off of one

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of those kensington lock and that's actually very respectable

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io for a laptop of this class now

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obviously they made some compromises and we're gonna find some of those when we

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open it up one of the compromises supposedly isn't cooling so they've got

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two of these i think it's 88 blade fans

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i don't know when how many blades you have in your fans became like a big

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penis measuring contest between all the laptop manufacturers

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but uh razer seems to be right up there

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with the uh with the leaders in the pack as far as that goes

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there you go oh wow look at that that is really easy to get off not that you're gonna be

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upgrading anything because yes my friends that is in fact what i was talking about

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razer doesn't offer pretty much any configurability on these machines and

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this is why there just isn't any you're limited to single-sided

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ssds so that means practically speaking

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you can only go up to about two terabytes with modern m.2 ssds the RAM

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is soldered to the motherboard under this enormous vapor chamber this cooling

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system though this is pretty cool so this is an

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enormous vapor chamber that covers the CPU and

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GPU and leads to these two thermal

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exchangers here and then these are these crazy 88 blade fans who decided that you

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should have slightly more blades on the inside and slightly more on the outside

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i call this move yolo grab

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okay well the yolo grab didn't work uh so 61.6 watt hour battery razer claims

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12 hours of battery life with an rtx 3080 um well that's with the

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screen at 35 brightness and the uh keyboard backlight turned off

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oh my god this vapor chamber bent

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um one moment please

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razor they put the frag in fragile

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now that that is some hardware

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pornographic material right there

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do you deny it david no not even a bit

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okay so we got 16 gigs of ddr4 memory this is from micron

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uh there's our 5900 hx CPU here's our

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power delivery for that my

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god look at the vrms for the CPU and GPU this is

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like every square centimeter of the inside of this

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machine is jam packed solid thank you to today's

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video sponsored wait wait dbrand is the global leader in device

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customization offering things like device skins cases screen protectors

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dark plates masks and much more dbrand

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is a serious company focused on quality and customer service and today they have

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launched a new product they launched the apple airpods pro grip case uh it's two

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millimeters thick super grippy and offers drop protection with military

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grade impact resistance it comes with a lanyard and

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it's available right now oh ow ow

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did dbrand put you up to this oh my god they're all actually full of airpods

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pros they're everywhere what do you got

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ow how many do you have

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oh interestingly even though razer ships

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with this power adapter you actually can charge the laptop they claim in about

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two hours using a usbc power delivery

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capable charger so i'm assuming it was down to

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a cost decision to go with this out of the box rather than one of those mind

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you this is already like a what is it starts at eighteen hundred

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dollar machine yeah it's not exactly cheap and then

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this particular one is 2 800

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i still do like the razer keyboard it's

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kind of like seeing an old friend after a long time

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what the okay

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microsoft's got to figure that out i have no idea what i just input there

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no idea at all you know whatever you might think about

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it personally i love razer's keyboard i mean you can't

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argue with the results 118 words per minute at 95 accuracy on a on a laptop

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there's a couple things i'm not a huge fan of there's the split up and down

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arrow keys but then unlike some of their previous efforts

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this one really is so thin and they've done a great job of increasing the size

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of the touchpad that i can it's it's a lot easier for me to forgive and

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the 30 70 and 30 80 models come with a 1440p

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165 hertz display we tried these out a little while ago on some prototype ASUS

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laptops on ShortCircuit you guys can check out that video if you want but in

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a nutshell they're freaking awesome these displays

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cool i don't need no calibration i got the greatest mouse pad ever from

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ltdstore.com oh cool so you can have like a shift key

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that will allow you to assign secondary functionality to your whole keyboard oh

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i should mention the display on the higher end models they boast up to

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uh 100 coverage of dci p3 and then on

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the 3060 model up to 100 coverage of i believe it's RGB is

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that correct yeah boy those fans are going now though

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hey yeah CPU is at 4.2 whatever gigahertz

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running at a casual 100 FPS nightmare

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quality 1440p or ultra nightmare excuse me this is one

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of those devices where this the noise of the fans really does

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affect the enjoyment of the speakers so you guys know what i'm comparing this to

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for anyway daily driver consideration at least

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is the uh flow 14 from ASUS

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so this is like a convertible with a 1650 in it if i recall correctly

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i think the 3070 model is probably your sweet spot though ah touchpad it's good

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size that's something that's kind of killing me about the flow 14.

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um touch pad's really small by comparison look at this

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yeah that's a pinner touch pad and it doesn't feel very good either whereas

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this one feels good all right

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i think that's pretty much everything i can say about it from a first impression

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standpoint considering like how not even that much

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bigger and heavier it is compared to an ultra portable device with a 1650

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like good lord it's noisy though you know it's still a

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blade subscribe to ShortCircuit for more impressions videos like this one

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well we don't usually do them quite like this but this is just a very interesting product

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sometimes though