if there was ever a laptop that i was a fan of it would have been the original
razer blade and not the original razer blade with that
weird display touchpad thing or whatever
it was the one that got rebranded as the razer blade or i'm gonna call it the
blade 14 because the blade 14 did something that nothing
else did at the time it combined that sleek macbook pro appearance with legit
real world gaming performance and sure
it did come at a cost thermals weren't as good as if you'd gone with a much
larger laptop and obviously performance did leave a little bit on the table oh
and they were really expensive but the truth remains that nothing else
did the same thing nowadays there are a lot of competitors for the blade and
some of those deficiencies
in the older blades have come back to bite them so there have been reliability
issues that we've actually reported on and
well i think that's probably kind of that's kind of the biggest
problem but can AMD
save razer's 14-inch laptop that is what
they're trying to convince me of today let's take a look at this thing inside
the new razer blade 14 is an AMD ryzen
5900 hx processor so that's an 8 core 16
thread CPU that'll boost up to 4.6 gigahertz should make it pretty darn
ideal for gaming and you'll also find an rtx 3060 3070 or 3080 GPU with a total
rated graphics power of 100 watts that is across the board so it seems to me
that the sweet spot for this laptop is probably going to be the 30-70 but razer
sent over the 3080 model for me to check out first let's take a look at i o so
we've got our power plug usb-a usb-c
this is not going to be Thunderbolt because this is of course an AMD-based
machine we've got our headphone microphone combo
jack another usb type a another type c
HDMI 2.1 you can do up to i think it's
5k with display stream compression at 120 hertz or 4k at 240 hertz off of one
of those kensington lock and that's actually very respectable
io for a laptop of this class now
obviously they made some compromises and we're gonna find some of those when we
open it up one of the compromises supposedly isn't cooling so they've got
two of these i think it's 88 blade fans
i don't know when how many blades you have in your fans became like a big
penis measuring contest between all the laptop manufacturers
but uh razer seems to be right up there
with the uh with the leaders in the pack as far as that goes
there you go oh wow look at that that is really easy to get off not that you're gonna be
upgrading anything because yes my friends that is in fact what i was talking about
razer doesn't offer pretty much any configurability on these machines and
this is why there just isn't any you're limited to single-sided
ssds so that means practically speaking
you can only go up to about two terabytes with modern m.2 ssds the RAM
is soldered to the motherboard under this enormous vapor chamber this cooling
system though this is pretty cool so this is an
enormous vapor chamber that covers the CPU and
GPU and leads to these two thermal
exchangers here and then these are these crazy 88 blade fans who decided that you
should have slightly more blades on the inside and slightly more on the outside
i call this move yolo grab
okay well the yolo grab didn't work uh so 61.6 watt hour battery razer claims
12 hours of battery life with an rtx 3080 um well that's with the
screen at 35 brightness and the uh keyboard backlight turned off
oh my god this vapor chamber bent
um one moment please
razor they put the frag in fragile
now that that is some hardware
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do you deny it david no not even a bit
okay so we got 16 gigs of ddr4 memory this is from micron
uh there's our 5900 hx CPU here's our
power delivery for that my
god look at the vrms for the CPU and GPU this is
like every square centimeter of the inside of this
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oh interestingly even though razer ships
with this power adapter you actually can charge the laptop they claim in about
two hours using a usbc power delivery
capable charger so i'm assuming it was down to
a cost decision to go with this out of the box rather than one of those mind
you this is already like a what is it starts at eighteen hundred
dollar machine yeah it's not exactly cheap and then
this particular one is 2 800
i still do like the razer keyboard it's
kind of like seeing an old friend after a long time
what the okay
microsoft's got to figure that out i have no idea what i just input there
no idea at all you know whatever you might think about
it personally i love razer's keyboard i mean you can't
argue with the results 118 words per minute at 95 accuracy on a on a laptop
there's a couple things i'm not a huge fan of there's the split up and down
arrow keys but then unlike some of their previous efforts
this one really is so thin and they've done a great job of increasing the size
of the touchpad that i can it's it's a lot easier for me to forgive and
the 30 70 and 30 80 models come with a 1440p
165 hertz display we tried these out a little while ago on some prototype ASUS
laptops on ShortCircuit you guys can check out that video if you want but in
a nutshell they're freaking awesome these displays
cool i don't need no calibration i got the greatest mouse pad ever from
ltdstore.com oh cool so you can have like a shift key
that will allow you to assign secondary functionality to your whole keyboard oh
i should mention the display on the higher end models they boast up to
uh 100 coverage of dci p3 and then on
the 3060 model up to 100 coverage of i believe it's RGB is
that correct yeah boy those fans are going now though
hey yeah CPU is at 4.2 whatever gigahertz
running at a casual 100 FPS nightmare
quality 1440p or ultra nightmare excuse me this is one
of those devices where this the noise of the fans really does
affect the enjoyment of the speakers so you guys know what i'm comparing this to
for anyway daily driver consideration at least
is the uh flow 14 from ASUS
so this is like a convertible with a 1650 in it if i recall correctly
i think the 3070 model is probably your sweet spot though ah touchpad it's good
size that's something that's kind of killing me about the flow 14.
um touch pad's really small by comparison look at this
yeah that's a pinner touch pad and it doesn't feel very good either whereas
this one feels good all right
i think that's pretty much everything i can say about it from a first impression
standpoint considering like how not even that much
bigger and heavier it is compared to an ultra portable device with a 1650
like good lord it's noisy though you know it's still a
blade subscribe to ShortCircuit for more impressions videos like this one
well we don't usually do them quite like this but this is just a very interesting product
sometimes though