1 00:00:00,539 --> 00:00:07,680 Razer the world's number one gaming laptop company eight years ago just 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:11,760 released their brand new blade 18 that they're so confident in they didn't even 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:15,599 send us one uh thank you dbrand for sending us this let's see how this is I 4 00:00:13,799 --> 00:00:19,859 actually have pretty high hopes I took a look at some of their stuff at CES and 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:22,400 it was pretty good but how is it when we're in our office 6 00:00:23,060 --> 00:00:29,640 so the charger for this guy is a 330 7 00:00:26,580 --> 00:00:32,279 watt gallium nitride power adapter and 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:36,920 this thing is dense normally 330 watts is more like the package it came in than 9 00:00:33,899 --> 00:00:36,920 the actual charger 10 00:00:37,940 --> 00:00:45,059 why did I forget that that's what was in there 11 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:50,520 oh my God it's beautiful so this is Warzone Damascus which looks pretty 12 00:00:47,399 --> 00:00:54,420 ridiculous on a Razer Blade 18. oh my 13 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:57,860 God holy one second this thing must be 14 00:00:54,420 --> 00:00:57,860 the better part of seven pounds 15 00:00:58,699 --> 00:01:06,080 6.9 pounds nice with the charger you're 16 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:11,520 going to be carrying around 9.1 pounds in your backpack 17 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:17,100 there is a reason they call this a desktop replacement not a laptop 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,939 okay what else do we have in here go green with Razer cool aha there we go 19 00:01:19,619 --> 00:01:26,640 that's what I wanted to see there's already stickers on it but you know the rules Jake they include stickers they go 20 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:30,720 on so first thing that you notice about 21 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:35,880 this when you pick it up is wow that is heavy followed by wow that is a lot 22 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:39,540 thicker than I thought you look at it in the photos and you kind of think of it 23 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:45,000 as just like you know a normal laptop size because like proportionally 24 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:49,979 this is like a normal laptop except that IRL it's actually like 30 larger in 25 00:01:47,820 --> 00:01:55,020 every single way like when you see the difference in thickness 26 00:01:52,079 --> 00:01:59,040 yep it's nearly twice as thick but with great girth comes great i o so here we 27 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:04,740 have headphone microphone combo Jack Thunderbolt 4 two USB type A's and two 28 00:02:02,340 --> 00:02:09,660 and a half gig Lan around the other side full size SD card reader love to see 29 00:02:07,740 --> 00:02:13,980 that excellent when you just want to slap an SD card reader in there and 30 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:21,300 Lightroom away another Thunderbolt 4 another USB type A and HDMI 2.1 31 00:02:18,260 --> 00:02:25,140 2.1 hell yeah I do want to note that 32 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:28,319 this HDMI and this Thunderbolt both 33 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:30,900 connect directly to the GPU so you can 34 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:33,780 be outputting from the GPU to your monitor or whatever and you don't have 35 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:40,620 to worry about the integrated Graphics getting in the way okay one finger not quite 36 00:02:38,220 --> 00:02:44,879 this is massive yeah zoom out Andy thanks I don't know how to give you guys 37 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:48,300 a good idea of just how big this laptop is like I can continue showing you a 38 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:53,099 thin and light beside it but like in person this is comical 39 00:02:51,239 --> 00:02:57,120 bring over your MacBook 16. like this right here is a 13 and a half inch 40 00:02:54,599 --> 00:03:04,620 laptop it's not particularly large yeah MacBook 16 very large laptop in 41 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:06,720 many situations this thing is huge well 42 00:03:04,620 --> 00:03:11,040 we have the MacBook here let's just have a little bit of a feel you know 43 00:03:09,060 --> 00:03:18,360 remind ourselves just how well built these things are and oh oh 44 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:19,920 the razor is probably stiffer except for 45 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:23,340 in the one spot where it counts on the keyboard it flexes a little bit here 46 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:27,659 only spot that matters for chassis rigidity whereas the MacBook you can get 47 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:33,720 a little bit of Flex if you really push on it but in the keyboard it is pretty 48 00:03:31,260 --> 00:03:37,319 nice and firm razer's done a really good job with their build quality for a long 49 00:03:35,459 --> 00:03:41,640 time reliability not so much build quality very high and this right here is 50 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,879 just a fine example of how to make a really stiff laptop and it's also a fine 51 00:03:43,260 --> 00:03:49,200 example of how to make a matte black coating that really shows fingerprints 52 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:53,340 and seams that is gross while we're here we're going to give you the specs of the 53 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:58,019 computer because they left them on so we have a GeForce RTX 49 apparently this is 54 00:03:55,980 --> 00:04:04,739 the only one in Canada don't know how dbrand got it but that doesn't matter 55 00:03:59,580 --> 00:04:08,700 also a 13th gen I9 3950 HX 24 cores up 56 00:04:04,739 --> 00:04:10,739 to 5.5 gigahertz real fast boy and with 57 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:15,540 any luck The Vapor chamber in here will allow us to use all of that we also 58 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:19,380 apparently have a Quad HD 240 hertz display As Told to us right here goodbye 59 00:04:17,820 --> 00:04:25,020 sticker at least these stickers come off easy there's nothing worse than when it's like oh this laptop it has all of 60 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:28,979 these features and forever going to be right here all right 61 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:33,780 I think we're about good to turn it on but before that I'm going to turn you on 62 00:04:31,380 --> 00:04:36,960 with this sticker on the back of the laptop thanks to dbrand for sponsoring 63 00:04:35,580 --> 00:04:41,100 this video their Skins are made from high quality 3M vinyl the patented 64 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,460 adhesive is guaranteed to leave no residue on your device if you want to 65 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:49,139 change the skin this Warzone Damascus skin is available as a skin on select 66 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:52,860 devices or even a Rubik's Cube It's also online it says taikan but frankly it 67 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:56,460 looks way better on a laptop than it does on a tie can go to shortlines.com 68 00:04:54,840 --> 00:05:00,300 to buy your overpriced stickers today and for whatever reason there's a bunch 69 00:04:58,020 --> 00:05:04,699 of billboards around of Linus thanks dbrand 70 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:07,860 dbrand rap Andy's van 71 00:05:04,699 --> 00:05:10,259 we just opened this up and it is nearly 72 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:13,919 full battery life but at the same time we want it to last till the end of the 73 00:05:11,940 --> 00:05:17,280 shoot so we're gonna plug it in not actually this thing has about four 74 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,240 hours of battery life which is pretty terrible but also long enough to 75 00:05:19,380 --> 00:05:25,259 complete this video now this is a pretty cool feature that they have here so you 76 00:05:22,979 --> 00:05:28,560 can plug in this charger anyway but if you plug it in this way it Blocks Your 77 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,919 ports on this side so you can plug it in one way now one thing that you might 78 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:37,199 have noticed is that despite being dwarfed by this chassis the keyboard 79 00:05:34,380 --> 00:05:42,900 does not feature a numpad or particularly annoyingly full-sized arrow 80 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:47,580 keys so a lot of people might want to you know have actual arrow keys for 81 00:05:45,660 --> 00:05:52,320 playing games I have used this style of key before to get very high level at 82 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:56,520 Tetris Battle so it doesn't necessarily hold you back but at the same time 83 00:05:54,479 --> 00:06:02,100 having full size keys would be a lot better for the trackpad it is absolutely 84 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:07,320 massive even though on this chassis it doesn't look particularly big it's what 85 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:11,160 50 larger than the 17 from last year 86 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:14,160 it is a very large trackpad it is so 87 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:16,259 large that it might be a problem but as 88 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:21,240 far as I can tell the Palm rejection is pretty good so far let's see if we can 89 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:24,000 okay this this is pretty good I'm moving 90 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:28,199 my hands around just as much as I can on this with the palms and the mouse is 91 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:32,400 just not going anywhere but then the second that I bring out like a finger or 92 00:06:30,539 --> 00:06:36,840 a thumb or something moves right around so their Palm rejection seems like it is 93 00:06:34,380 --> 00:06:42,240 very very good not quite as good though is the keyboard 94 00:06:39,539 --> 00:06:46,620 now this keyboard is a step up for Razer I was able to use it side by side with 95 00:06:44,039 --> 00:06:51,600 the current gen like blade 14s at CES this is a lot better but it still is 96 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:57,240 pretty super honest I don't even really know why it's bad a 97 00:06:54,600 --> 00:07:02,460 lot of like empirical ways I think it's mostly fine it's just like the feel of 98 00:06:59,699 --> 00:07:08,340 the keys is off I think what I don't like is that there's like a lot of mushy 99 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:12,539 not really travel before the actual actuation so if you look on the HP right 100 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:18,780 here when I click a key 101 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:22,080 it's not moving at all then I get over the force of actuation and it goes 102 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:26,639 straight to the bottom whereas on the razor blade if you look there's probably 103 00:07:23,699 --> 00:07:31,080 what like a millimeter 1.2 millimeters of travel on this 104 00:07:28,139 --> 00:07:36,060 but you're able to get about half a millimeter or so of travel before 105 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:40,979 it actually actuates and that makes it really hard to kinda 106 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:46,440 really tell like oh snap we got it instead it's more like I'd say this is a 107 00:07:43,740 --> 00:07:50,520 b maybe a B plus if I'm being charitable just get better switches anyway what is 108 00:07:49,020 --> 00:07:55,860 good about the keyboard though is the RGB Razer is famous for having very well 109 00:07:53,639 --> 00:08:02,340 done RGB and there is no exception here and if we look they have 15 110 00:07:59,819 --> 00:08:05,819 different brightness levels on the keyboard which goes from really quite 111 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:11,160 bright down to nothing I do have to give it to 112 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:15,960 them this screen is impressive it is just pure chunk wise like if you're 113 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:19,500 looking for a desktop replacement this is kind of immersive in the way that 114 00:08:18,060 --> 00:08:25,979 desktop is like I could see myself having multiple Windows open at the same 115 00:08:22,139 --> 00:08:28,319 time for doing work it is 2560 by 1600 P 116 00:08:25,979 --> 00:08:32,760 so that's 16 by 10 you get that little bit extra on the bottom love to see it 117 00:08:30,660 --> 00:08:38,240 if you want 4K you need to step down to the Razer Blade 16 so that has a mini 118 00:08:34,740 --> 00:08:42,240 LED 4K display but if you are a gamer 119 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:44,039 this is what you want 240 hertz 1440p 120 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:48,300 oil 1600 people whatever it's gonna be great let's have a little look at the 121 00:08:46,020 --> 00:08:54,420 rest of the specs here so for the RAM we have 32 gigabytes of 5600 Mega transfer 122 00:08:51,540 --> 00:09:00,060 per second ddr5 but what's most interesting is this says it's used slots 123 00:08:56,940 --> 00:09:02,040 two of four so it might be very simple 124 00:09:00,060 --> 00:09:05,880 to upgrade this to 64 gigabytes that would be nice we also have a one 125 00:09:03,959 --> 00:09:10,920 terabyte SSD second one terabyte SSD so this is 126 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:18,540 probably a very very expensive config Wi-Fi 6E and of course the RTX 4090 and 127 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,519 that 4090 goes up to 175 watt which is 128 00:09:18,540 --> 00:09:24,060 as fast as NVIDIA will let you do it you can cool it better you can give it more 129 00:09:22,260 --> 00:09:29,220 power but NVIDIA won't let you do more than 175 Watts given how much space they 130 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:34,980 are taking up these speakers better be fantastic so we have woofer and Tweeter 131 00:09:32,459 --> 00:09:41,480 up top and then two more woofers on the bottom and how does it sound 132 00:09:38,279 --> 00:09:44,880 so this is THX spatial audio certified 133 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,500 and it is surrounding me quite well you 134 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:50,300 can kind of think of it like Dolby Atmos but owned by Razer and worse 135 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:59,519 okay that is pretty good it is quite loud 136 00:09:57,420 --> 00:10:03,959 there isn't quite as much bass as I would like and there also is a bit of 137 00:10:01,620 --> 00:10:07,980 distortion at the higher volumes I am curious though let's turn off THX 138 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:14,839 spatial audio 139 00:10:14,839 --> 00:10:21,420 it sounds about the same but without the sort of cool making it sound larger than 140 00:10:19,860 --> 00:10:28,720 a laptop effect can I have your MacBook again 141 00:10:24,019 --> 00:10:36,320 all right razor blade MacBook 142 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:43,519 macbook's way better it gets way deeper it's just as loud it has better treble 143 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:57,420 okay so it is better than a thin and light HP but I think the HP also has 144 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:02,220 better Clarity I don't want to crap on it too hard because these are very good 145 00:10:59,220 --> 00:11:04,380 speakers for a laptop it's like I'd give 146 00:11:02,220 --> 00:11:09,660 it an A but it isn't getting into that a plus territory and this is an A plus 147 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:11,700 price and form factor I've already said 148 00:11:09,660 --> 00:11:15,300 this a lot but we're gonna help someone out here 149 00:11:12,839 --> 00:11:20,040 just go to most settings pointer options enhance pointer Precision pretty please 150 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:24,180 turn that off that disables most acceleration and then you're able to 151 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:27,480 just be a lot more accurate when you're playing games 152 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:32,820 I hope that helps someone well fair play razor 153 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:34,680 130 FPS 140 we're sitting right around 154 00:11:32,820 --> 00:11:37,860 there in the number one benchmark valheim 155 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:42,839 foreign thing where if you run it on enough 156 00:11:39,660 --> 00:11:44,940 laptops and desktops it becomes a valid 157 00:11:42,839 --> 00:11:50,760 Benchmark it is starting to get a little bit loud but the quality of the fan 158 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:55,380 noise is quite good so what you don't want to hear is like that classic Razer 159 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:58,740 Blade 14 like this is much more like a whoosh all 160 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,700 right I'll play a different game it wasn't running quite as fast as I wanted 161 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:09,000 to Doom so we're here in Razer synth apps medium CPU no we want boost all 162 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:15,000 right give me all those fans it does seem like the turning on the 163 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:19,500 boost mode did help us a fair bit 164 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:22,800 we are looking at what 200 165 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:25,940 230 FPS right now which is a lot better 166 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:29,459 than it was before which is more like 167 00:12:25,940 --> 00:12:32,040 160. I'm guessing that is largely just 168 00:12:29,459 --> 00:12:35,959 because well this is probably very CPU Limited at this kind of FPS is and it 169 00:12:34,140 --> 00:12:41,700 was only running at like 2.5 or so before 170 00:12:39,060 --> 00:12:46,500 now it is much faster yeah we're now like four gigahertz that is a big 171 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:50,760 difference it is also louder I guess what you could say is it's gone from 172 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:54,959 open back headphone friendly to Unique clothes backs so kind of depending on 173 00:12:52,500 --> 00:13:01,740 where your head is you might get more or less of that wine like Andy if I turn it 174 00:12:58,380 --> 00:13:04,440 like here does it get better 175 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:09,240 but if you turn it the other way if I put it down yeah 176 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:14,040 and now the high pitch is there yeah yeah so it seems like it's sort of 177 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:17,760 the high-pitched sound is coming out but not towards the user which is good at 178 00:13:16,079 --> 00:13:22,800 least although I kind of hear it now what I do have to say though is this 179 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:29,100 display is exceptional for gaming like we're getting 240 FPS in the game right 180 00:13:25,079 --> 00:13:31,860 now and I can be so incredibly accurate 181 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:36,839 with where I am looking at this is the kind of display like the size and the 182 00:13:34,079 --> 00:13:41,880 refresh rate that makes you totally okay with like using this instead of a 183 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:46,200 desktop that said I do want you to remember that this is not a desktop and 184 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:51,600 it's not an actual 4090 it's the die from a 4080. all right let's have a look 185 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:57,360 at this webcam here so this is a 5 megapixel camera which means we could 186 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:59,360 have 1440p recording and it looks fine 187 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:04,500 the hardest thing about doing a webcam is just the software that's involved and 188 00:14:02,339 --> 00:14:09,000 this is doing a pretty fair job actually it's exposing for my face I did click on 189 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:15,480 it so if it yeah this is a very very rudimentary 190 00:14:13,139 --> 00:14:19,019 um focusing you just kind of click on your face where you want it and it does 191 00:14:17,399 --> 00:14:22,500 that but at the same time it is exposing for my face and it's 192 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:27,959 working pretty well in this very challenging scene so good job Razer it's 193 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:31,980 not trash as well as the webcam in the center we also get Windows hello facial 194 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:36,060 recognition awesome way to enter your laptop love to see it thank you Razer 195 00:14:33,839 --> 00:14:42,560 you know a Skin's ridiculous when the guy that personally requested a scorpion 196 00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:42,560 thinks it is extra 197 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:52,260 there we go after removing a legion of 198 00:14:49,260 --> 00:14:55,199 T5 screws we are in and uh we have our 199 00:14:52,260 --> 00:15:01,800 first very large disappointment which is the not very large battery this right 200 00:14:57,660 --> 00:15:04,320 here is 91.7 Watt hours which is pretty 201 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:10,680 darn good but the limit of how big you can get is 99.9 Watt hours and 202 00:15:08,339 --> 00:15:14,519 given the weight and size of this laptop that's what should be in here instead 203 00:15:12,839 --> 00:15:18,120 though this is a three fan arrangement to appear like you normally would have 204 00:15:16,019 --> 00:15:21,899 and another one down by the battery which makes me wonder uh just how hot 205 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:25,560 does this thing get while it's charging that said though there are a bunch of 206 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:29,220 other really good reasons why you might want a fan right here specifically like 207 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:33,959 it just creates airflow in the chassis over like your ssds your RAM and 208 00:15:32,639 --> 00:15:39,480 everything else that isn't going to be taken care of by your big old Vapor chamber speaking of which there's a big 209 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:44,100 old Vapor chamber look at the size of this guy now they aren't getting the 210 00:15:41,459 --> 00:15:49,920 maximum amount of finish so if we look back here there's fins there and fins 211 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:54,839 there but that said the cooling on this is very good so you're not really going 212 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:58,800 to be making it faster just quieter now in here instead of using liquid metal 213 00:15:56,579 --> 00:16:03,240 like a lot of laptop Brands they are instead using graphite which does not 214 00:16:01,199 --> 00:16:07,680 have the same kind of performance that liquid metal does but at the same time 215 00:16:05,339 --> 00:16:11,519 it has exceptional longevity you can just stick graphite in something and 216 00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:15,000 leave it for I don't know 10 15 years and it'll be fine and you don't have to 217 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:20,220 worry about it leaking out like liquid metal can do which ruins everything in 218 00:16:17,699 --> 00:16:25,260 task manager it said it's using two of four RAM slots but there's only two RAM 219 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:29,459 slots so they got that wrong that said though it is very nice to have super 220 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:34,620 easy access to your RAM it's right here and it's not like 32 gigabytes of 5600 221 00:16:31,860 --> 00:16:43,380 Mega transfers per second RAM is bad it doesn't fit in an LTT backpack 222 00:16:37,620 --> 00:16:45,660 oh it does barely like barely barely but 223 00:16:43,380 --> 00:16:50,940 it does go in so it earns us a couple of points there as a desktop replacement 224 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:53,579 this screen and this amount of power is 225 00:16:50,940 --> 00:17:00,779 very impressive now don't love the keyboard but everything else is very 226 00:16:56,940 --> 00:17:03,600 very well done as specked this laptop is 227 00:17:00,779 --> 00:17:11,339 five thousand dollars and it starts at three grand at five 228 00:17:07,620 --> 00:17:14,339 thousand dollars I have a lot of trouble 229 00:17:11,339 --> 00:17:16,020 recommending this because I I don't know 230 00:17:14,339 --> 00:17:20,880 I don't really get desktop Replacements I understand that for some people having 231 00:17:18,179 --> 00:17:26,400 the mobility is great but if you have the space you can buy an entire desktop 232 00:17:23,299 --> 00:17:28,679 and well not not this laptop but you can 233 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:32,940 buy a thin and light and have a very good time 234 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:36,780 that said though if you have heaps of cash 235 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:40,799 and no spot to put a desktop 236 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:42,780 the blade 18 is pretty darn cool so hit 237 00:17:40,799 --> 00:17:46,620 like get subscribed and maybe in the future we'll try and uh have some 238 00:17:44,580 --> 00:17:50,419 slightly cheaper laptops something you might actually want to buy have a good 239 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,419 day