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it's pretty much the complete package but on the other hand it's also the first gaming laptop in three years to be available with an oled display so i guess we're also going to have to take a deep dive into that because there are things that we love about it but also some things that left us kind of scratching our heads what's going in and out of your pc when you're connected to the internet well with glasswire you can find out and see if there are any suspicious or badly behaving apps use offer code linus to get 25 off at the link in the video description let's not beat around the bush here looking at this samsung manufactured display is a treat 600 nit peak brightness 100 dci p3 coverage hdr 400 certification and calibration from the factory just looking at the desktop background i was like oh it's so good the colors i mean even just opening the settings menu which is in dark mode by default nice touch razor is super satisfying like 600 nits with perfect blacks means an incredible contrast ratio that just makes all the text and icons jump out at you overall this right here is the most satisfying display that we have ever seen on a laptop for watching netflix the thing is buying a 3 300 machine to just watch netflix is maybe not the best idea ever so let's investigate some other use cases fortunately the blade 2019 has the specs to back up that price rocking an intel core i7 9750 h6 core processor 16 gigs of upgradable sodium ram in dual channel and an nvidia rtx 2080 max q which will allow you to really crank up the details in your games at 4k while you're at it by the way you might as well even turn on rtx since the one thing that you won't be getting out of this display is more frames per second unfortunately due to its 4k resolution this oled panel won't do anything over 60 hertz and it doesn't even have g-sync which means that for gamers i simply can't recommend the oled display model of the blade 2019 especially when there's an option to equip this computer with a 240hz 1080p ips panel which will not only give you a considerable competitive advantage but it'll just make everything feel way smoother while even saving you a buck it is 300 cheaper now this might be a bit of a tangent but i haven't griped about it recently and i feel like i've got to get it out of my system i feel like there's this disconnect between display marketing and panel manufacturers and what would actually be best for consumers thing is 4k sounds like a great idea on paper but this is a 15 inch display not a 65 inch one and you would actually need to get within 11 inches of this thing like uncomfortably close to actually make out the individual pixels that's four and a half inches closer than even the macbook's retina display so for my part i would much rather see a company like samsung invest in a 1440p oled panel with like a 120 hertz refresh rate which by the way still offers plenty of pixel density at this size that way i could easily recommend this laptop to movie watchers and any gamer that isn't an esports professional which isn't to say though that the trade-off won't be worth it for some people the blade 2019 is still awesome to look at for games and great for productivity too so maybe then it'll be great as an everyday carry laptop with some extra punch for creative applications like video editing along with some sightseeing aaa gaming at first glance it definitely seems so as always the build quality of the blade is fantastic with the aluminum chassis super thin bezels and matte black appearance giving it a premium look that works both at lan parties and at business meetings that is depending on how you configure your rgb there's also plenty of i o including a couple usb type a's a single thunderbolt 3 full-size hdmi and mini display port the freaking massive track pad maintains its place as the best track pad on any windows laptop i really can't say enough good things about it but as for the keyboard i can't quite say the same it's not bad but alienware and asus have really raised the bar for gaming laptop keyboards in the last year knocking the blades keyboard down from say an a minus to more like a b plus with the spectacularly stupid short right shift key eliminating the plus i'm gonna call it a b now one leg up the blade 19 has on other gaming laptops is windows hello facial recognition a really nice touch for anyone that plans to use the blade on the go which by the way is very possible given its six hour battery life in our testing although your results may vary significantly here depending on what exactly is on the screen yes we're back to the screen because the thing is because each pixel on an oled panel emits its own light the power draw of the display is highly dependent on what's on the screen so fire up a picture of batman swimming in a pool of ink at night and it might consume only a watt or two that is far less than the lcd version of the blade 2019 but a bright image or heaven forbid a web page that's not in dark mode you're looking at more like 15 watts of power consumption so if you're planning on staying away from power outlets you need to make sure that you enable dark mode everywhere you go so then that's a pretty easy solution leaving us then with a powerful computer with respectable battery life and a beautiful screen so you guys are probably thinking and i sure was well this is a digital creator's dream and by the way it did chew through big timelines and large renders with aplomb except for a couple of problems so first is the audio the speakers are okay but we did find them lacking in the low end which wouldn't matter even except that the headphone dac was mediocre when compared to those found in asus laptops second up is that although the oled screen looks beautiful to the eye i simply cannot recommend trusting it for color critical work so going back to how on oled each pixel emits its own light well the thing is there isn't enough power available to drive all of the pixels at once at their highest brightness which is where average pixel levels or apl comes in so in order to achieve high levels of brightness in some spots on the display saturation and therefore color accuracy has to be sacrificed to make sure that the display as a whole doesn't consume more than its overall power budget the most obvious situation where this can be seen is that the color accuracy of the panel goes up by 35 just by going from the brightest setting to one notch down now this might seem like a crazy design decision but for watching videos or playing video games this is a trade-off that i agree is well worth it because our eyes are much more sensitive to changes in brightness than they are to changes in color it just also means that as i said unfortunately this panel can't be trusted by digital artists because if they were to go and change their brightness their accuracy could all of a sudden be way off and we haven't even mentioned the elephant in the room burn in with oled since each individual pixel is emitting its own light they can actually degrade at different rates depending on what kind of light they're used to emitting throughout their lifetime so if there's an area of your screen that's always bright like say the start menu icon in windows or the hot outline of your favorite game after a while it could become etched into the panel basically ruining the picture quality now razer seems pretty confident about this one and samsung clearly took their time on it but three thousand dollars is a lot to ask for the privilege of beta testing something so then now for the really difficult bit would i recommend the blade 2019 well with the 240hz display absolutely once again razer has nailed having a laptop that kicks ass in games while also functioning surprisingly well for non-gaming related tasks as for the oled screen version well it's not ideal for gaming artists can't trust it and it's damn expensive so aside from flexing that you paid 3 300 for the best darn netflix machine that money can buy i just can't find a good reason to recommend it but i do like it i mean the color the contrast like i really want it but yeah i shouldn't you shouldn't buy it but like other people should buy it like they've got to fund the development somehow right it just so beautiful maybe with like a high refresh rate 1440 really that is the dream isn't it today's video is brought to you by drop.com featuring the massdrop object 2 headphone amplifier aka the o2 amp this amp was designed and created with feedback from over 500 mass drop members on what they wanted and serves as the ideal baseline reference amplifier for powering anything from ear monitors to hd 800s you can adjust the input output and power arrangements in two different gains medium and standard and it delivers big clear and accurate sound new users who sign up to the website get 10 off this amp so check it out over on drop.com so thanks for watching guys like dislike um check out 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