we had a bit of a hard time figuring out exactly what to make this video about on
the one hand it's obviously about the razer blade 2019 which is a super sick
laptop it's powerful it's got rigid construction it's got great features
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
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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 DisplayPort 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
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