Razer the world's number one gaming laptop company eight years ago just
released their brand new blade 18 that they're so confident in they didn't even
send us one uh thank you dbrand for sending us this let's see how this is I
actually have pretty high hopes I took a look at some of their stuff at CES and
it was pretty good but how is it when we're in our office
so the charger for this guy is a 330
watt gallium nitride power adapter and
this thing is dense normally 330 watts is more like the package it came in than
the actual charger
why did I forget that that's what was in there
oh my God it's beautiful so this is Warzone Damascus which looks pretty
ridiculous on a Razer Blade 18. oh my
God holy one second this thing must be
the better part of seven pounds
6.9 pounds nice with the charger you're
going to be carrying around 9.1 pounds in your backpack
there is a reason they call this a desktop replacement not a laptop
okay what else do we have in here go green with Razer cool aha there we go
that's what I wanted to see there's already stickers on it but you know the rules Jake they include stickers they go
on so first thing that you notice about
this when you pick it up is wow that is heavy followed by wow that is a lot
thicker than I thought you look at it in the photos and you kind of think of it
as just like you know a normal laptop size because like proportionally
this is like a normal laptop except that IRL it's actually like 30 larger in
every single way like when you see the difference in thickness
yep it's nearly twice as thick but with great girth comes great i o so here we
have headphone microphone combo Jack Thunderbolt 4 two USB type A's and two
and a half gig Lan around the other side full size SD card reader love to see
that excellent when you just want to slap an SD card reader in there and
Lightroom away another Thunderbolt 4 another USB type A and HDMI 2.1
2.1 hell yeah I do want to note that
this HDMI and this Thunderbolt both
connect directly to the GPU so you can
be outputting from the GPU to your monitor or whatever and you don't have
to worry about the integrated Graphics getting in the way okay one finger not quite
this is massive yeah zoom out Andy thanks I don't know how to give you guys
a good idea of just how big this laptop is like I can continue showing you a
thin and light beside it but like in person this is comical
bring over your MacBook 16. like this right here is a 13 and a half inch
laptop it's not particularly large yeah MacBook 16 very large laptop in
many situations this thing is huge well
we have the MacBook here let's just have a little bit of a feel you know
remind ourselves just how well built these things are and oh oh
the razor is probably stiffer except for
in the one spot where it counts on the keyboard it flexes a little bit here
only spot that matters for chassis rigidity whereas the MacBook you can get
a little bit of Flex if you really push on it but in the keyboard it is pretty
nice and firm razer's done a really good job with their build quality for a long
time reliability not so much build quality very high and this right here is
just a fine example of how to make a really stiff laptop and it's also a fine
example of how to make a matte black coating that really shows fingerprints
and seams that is gross while we're here we're going to give you the specs of the
computer because they left them on so we have a GeForce RTX 49 apparently this is
the only one in Canada don't know how dbrand got it but that doesn't matter
also a 13th gen I9 3950 HX 24 cores up
to 5.5 gigahertz real fast boy and with
any luck The Vapor chamber in here will allow us to use all of that we also
apparently have a Quad HD 240 hertz display As Told to us right here goodbye
sticker at least these stickers come off easy there's nothing worse than when it's like oh this laptop it has all of
these features and forever going to be right here all right
I think we're about good to turn it on but before that I'm going to turn you on
with this sticker on the back of the laptop thanks to dbrand for sponsoring
this video their Skins are made from high quality 3M vinyl the patented
adhesive is guaranteed to leave no residue on your device if you want to
change the skin this Warzone Damascus skin is available as a skin on select
devices or even a Rubik's Cube It's also online it says taikan but frankly it
looks way better on a laptop than it does on a tie can go to shortlines.com
to buy your overpriced stickers today and for whatever reason there's a bunch
of billboards around of Linus thanks dbrand
dbrand rap Andy's van
we just opened this up and it is nearly
full battery life but at the same time we want it to last till the end of the
shoot so we're gonna plug it in not actually this thing has about four
hours of battery life which is pretty terrible but also long enough to
complete this video now this is a pretty cool feature that they have here so you
can plug in this charger anyway but if you plug it in this way it Blocks Your
ports on this side so you can plug it in one way now one thing that you might
have noticed is that despite being dwarfed by this chassis the keyboard
does not feature a numpad or particularly annoyingly full-sized arrow
keys so a lot of people might want to you know have actual arrow keys for
playing games I have used this style of key before to get very high level at
Tetris Battle so it doesn't necessarily hold you back but at the same time
having full size keys would be a lot better for the trackpad it is absolutely
massive even though on this chassis it doesn't look particularly big it's what
50 larger than the 17 from last year
it is a very large trackpad it is so
large that it might be a problem but as
far as I can tell the Palm rejection is pretty good so far let's see if we can
okay this this is pretty good I'm moving
my hands around just as much as I can on this with the palms and the mouse is
just not going anywhere but then the second that I bring out like a finger or
a thumb or something moves right around so their Palm rejection seems like it is
very very good not quite as good though is the keyboard
now this keyboard is a step up for Razer I was able to use it side by side with
the current gen like blade 14s at CES this is a lot better but it still is
pretty super honest I don't even really know why it's bad a
lot of like empirical ways I think it's mostly fine it's just like the feel of
the keys is off I think what I don't like is that there's like a lot of mushy
not really travel before the actual actuation so if you look on the HP right
here when I click a key
it's not moving at all then I get over the force of actuation and it goes
straight to the bottom whereas on the razor blade if you look there's probably
what like a millimeter 1.2 millimeters of travel on this
but you're able to get about half a millimeter or so of travel before
it actually actuates and that makes it really hard to kinda
really tell like oh snap we got it instead it's more like I'd say this is a
b maybe a B plus if I'm being charitable just get better switches anyway what is
good about the keyboard though is the RGB Razer is famous for having very well
done RGB and there is no exception here and if we look they have 15
different brightness levels on the keyboard which goes from really quite
bright down to nothing I do have to give it to
them this screen is impressive it is just pure chunk wise like if you're
looking for a desktop replacement this is kind of immersive in the way that
desktop is like I could see myself having multiple Windows open at the same
time for doing work it is 2560 by 1600 P
so that's 16 by 10 you get that little bit extra on the bottom love to see it
if you want 4K you need to step down to the Razer Blade 16 so that has a mini
LED 4K display but if you are a gamer
this is what you want 240 hertz 1440p
oil 1600 people whatever it's gonna be great let's have a little look at the
rest of the specs here so for the RAM we have 32 gigabytes of 5600 Mega transfer
per second ddr5 but what's most interesting is this says it's used slots
two of four so it might be very simple
to upgrade this to 64 gigabytes that would be nice we also have a one
terabyte SSD second one terabyte SSD so this is
probably a very very expensive config Wi-Fi 6E and of course the RTX 4090 and
that 4090 goes up to 175 watt which is
as fast as NVIDIA will let you do it you can cool it better you can give it more
power but NVIDIA won't let you do more than 175 Watts given how much space they
are taking up these speakers better be fantastic so we have woofer and Tweeter
up top and then two more woofers on the bottom and how does it sound
so this is THX spatial audio certified
and it is surrounding me quite well you
can kind of think of it like Dolby Atmos but owned by Razer and worse
okay that is pretty good it is quite loud
there isn't quite as much bass as I would like and there also is a bit of
distortion at the higher volumes I am curious though let's turn off THX
spatial audio
it sounds about the same but without the sort of cool making it sound larger than
a laptop effect can I have your MacBook again
all right razor blade MacBook
macbook's way better it gets way deeper it's just as loud it has better treble
okay so it is better than a thin and light HP but I think the HP also has
better Clarity I don't want to crap on it too hard because these are very good
speakers for a laptop it's like I'd give
it an A but it isn't getting into that a plus territory and this is an A plus
price and form factor I've already said
this a lot but we're gonna help someone out here
just go to most settings pointer options enhance pointer Precision pretty please
turn that off that disables most acceleration and then you're able to
just be a lot more accurate when you're playing games
I hope that helps someone well fair play razor
130 FPS 140 we're sitting right around
there in the number one benchmark valheim
foreign thing where if you run it on enough
laptops and desktops it becomes a valid
Benchmark it is starting to get a little bit loud but the quality of the fan
noise is quite good so what you don't want to hear is like that classic Razer
Blade 14 like this is much more like a whoosh all
right I'll play a different game it wasn't running quite as fast as I wanted
to Doom so we're here in Razer synth apps medium CPU no we want boost all
right give me all those fans it does seem like the turning on the
boost mode did help us a fair bit
we are looking at what 200
230 FPS right now which is a lot better
than it was before which is more like
160. I'm guessing that is largely just
because well this is probably very CPU Limited at this kind of FPS is and it
was only running at like 2.5 or so before
now it is much faster yeah we're now like four gigahertz that is a big
difference it is also louder I guess what you could say is it's gone from
open back headphone friendly to Unique clothes backs so kind of depending on
where your head is you might get more or less of that wine like Andy if I turn it
like here does it get better
but if you turn it the other way if I put it down yeah
and now the high pitch is there yeah yeah so it seems like it's sort of
the high-pitched sound is coming out but not towards the user which is good at
least although I kind of hear it now what I do have to say though is this
display is exceptional for gaming like we're getting 240 FPS in the game right
now and I can be so incredibly accurate
with where I am looking at this is the kind of display like the size and the
refresh rate that makes you totally okay with like using this instead of a
desktop that said I do want you to remember that this is not a desktop and
it's not an actual 4090 it's the die from a 4080. all right let's have a look
at this webcam here so this is a 5 megapixel camera which means we could
have 1440p recording and it looks fine
the hardest thing about doing a webcam is just the software that's involved and
this is doing a pretty fair job actually it's exposing for my face I did click on
it so if it yeah this is a very very rudimentary
um focusing you just kind of click on your face where you want it and it does
that but at the same time it is exposing for my face and it's
working pretty well in this very challenging scene so good job Razer it's
not trash as well as the webcam in the center we also get Windows hello facial
recognition awesome way to enter your laptop love to see it thank you Razer
you know a Skin's ridiculous when the guy that personally requested a scorpion
thinks it is extra
there we go after removing a legion of
T5 screws we are in and uh we have our
first very large disappointment which is the not very large battery this right
here is 91.7 Watt hours which is pretty
darn good but the limit of how big you can get is 99.9 Watt hours and
given the weight and size of this laptop that's what should be in here instead
though this is a three fan arrangement to appear like you normally would have
and another one down by the battery which makes me wonder uh just how hot
does this thing get while it's charging that said though there are a bunch of
other really good reasons why you might want a fan right here specifically like
it just creates airflow in the chassis over like your ssds your RAM and
everything else that isn't going to be taken care of by your big old Vapor chamber speaking of which there's a big
old Vapor chamber look at the size of this guy now they aren't getting the
maximum amount of finish so if we look back here there's fins there and fins
there but that said the cooling on this is very good so you're not really going
to be making it faster just quieter now in here instead of using liquid metal
like a lot of laptop Brands they are instead using graphite which does not
have the same kind of performance that liquid metal does but at the same time
it has exceptional longevity you can just stick graphite in something and
leave it for I don't know 10 15 years and it'll be fine and you don't have to
worry about it leaking out like liquid metal can do which ruins everything in
task manager it said it's using two of four RAM slots but there's only two RAM
slots so they got that wrong that said though it is very nice to have super
easy access to your RAM it's right here and it's not like 32 gigabytes of 5600
Mega transfers per second RAM is bad it doesn't fit in an LTT backpack
oh it does barely like barely barely but
it does go in so it earns us a couple of points there as a desktop replacement
this screen and this amount of power is
very impressive now don't love the keyboard but everything else is very
very well done as specked this laptop is
five thousand dollars and it starts at three grand at five
thousand dollars I have a lot of trouble
recommending this because I I don't know
I don't really get desktop Replacements I understand that for some people having
the mobility is great but if you have the space you can buy an entire desktop
and well not not this laptop but you can
buy a thin and light and have a very good time
that said though if you have heaps of cash
and no spot to put a desktop
the blade 18 is pretty darn cool so hit
like get subscribed and maybe in the future we'll try and uh have some
slightly cheaper laptops something you might actually want to buy have a good
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