WEBVTT 00:00:00.539 --> 00:00:07.680 Razer the world's number one gaming laptop company eight years ago just 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:11.760 released their brand new blade 18 that they're so confident in they didn't even 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 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 00:00:17.520 --> 00:00:22.400 it was pretty good but how is it when we're in our office 00:00:23.060 --> 00:00:29.640 so the charger for this guy is a 330 00:00:26.580 --> 00:00:32.279 watt gallium nitride power adapter and 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:36.920 this thing is dense normally 330 watts is more like the package it came in than 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:36.920 the actual charger 00:00:37.940 --> 00:00:45.059 why did I forget that that's what was in there 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:50.520 oh my God it's beautiful so this is Warzone Damascus which looks pretty 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:54.420 ridiculous on a Razer Blade 18. oh my 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:57.860 God holy one second this thing must be 00:00:54.420 --> 00:00:57.860 the better part of seven pounds 00:00:58.699 --> 00:01:06.080 6.9 pounds nice with the charger you're 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:11.520 going to be carrying around 9.1 pounds in your backpack 00:01:09.900 --> 00:01:17.100 there is a reason they call this a desktop replacement not a laptop 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 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 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:30.720 on so first thing that you notice about 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 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 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:45.000 as just like you know a normal laptop size because like proportionally 00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:49.979 this is like a normal laptop except that IRL it's actually like 30 larger in 00:01:47.820 --> 00:01:55.020 every single way like when you see the difference in thickness 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 00:01:57.240 --> 00:02:04.740 have headphone microphone combo Jack Thunderbolt 4 two USB type A's and two 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 00:02:07.740 --> 00:02:13.980 that excellent when you just want to slap an SD card reader in there and 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:21.300 Lightroom away another Thunderbolt 4 another USB type A and HDMI 2.1 00:02:18.260 --> 00:02:25.140 2.1 hell yeah I do want to note that 00:02:21.300 --> 00:02:28.319 this HDMI and this Thunderbolt both 00:02:25.140 --> 00:02:30.900 connect directly to the GPU so you can 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:33.780 be outputting from the GPU to your monitor or whatever and you don't have 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:40.620 to worry about the integrated Graphics getting in the way okay one finger not quite 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 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 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:53.099 thin and light beside it but like in person this is comical 00:02:51.239 --> 00:02:57.120 bring over your MacBook 16. like this right here is a 13 and a half inch 00:02:54.599 --> 00:03:04.620 laptop it's not particularly large yeah MacBook 16 very large laptop in 00:03:01.500 --> 00:03:06.720 many situations this thing is huge well 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 00:03:09.060 --> 00:03:18.360 remind ourselves just how well built these things are and oh oh 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:19.920 the razor is probably stiffer except for 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:23.340 in the one spot where it counts on the keyboard it flexes a little bit here 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:27.659 only spot that matters for chassis rigidity whereas the MacBook you can get 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 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 00:03:35.459 --> 00:03:41.640 time reliability not so much build quality very high and this right here is 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 00:03:43.260 --> 00:03:49.200 example of how to make a matte black coating that really shows fingerprints 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 00:03:50.940 --> 00:03:58.019 computer because they left them on so we have a GeForce RTX 49 apparently this is 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 00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:08.700 also a 13th gen I9 3950 HX 24 cores up 00:04:04.739 --> 00:04:10.739 to 5.5 gigahertz real fast boy and with 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 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:19.380 apparently have a Quad HD 240 hertz display As Told to us right here goodbye 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 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:28.979 these features and forever going to be right here all right 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 00:04:31.380 --> 00:04:36.960 with this sticker on the back of the laptop thanks to dbrand for sponsoring 00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:41.100 this video their Skins are made from high quality 3M vinyl the patented 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.460 adhesive is guaranteed to leave no residue on your device if you want to 00:04:42.780 --> 00:04:49.139 change the skin this Warzone Damascus skin is available as a skin on select 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 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 00:04:54.840 --> 00:05:00.300 to buy your overpriced stickers today and for whatever reason there's a bunch 00:04:58.020 --> 00:05:04.699 of billboards around of Linus thanks dbrand 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.860 dbrand rap Andy's van 00:05:04.699 --> 00:05:10.259 we just opened this up and it is nearly 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 00:05:11.940 --> 00:05:17.280 shoot so we're gonna plug it in not actually this thing has about four 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.240 hours of battery life which is pretty terrible but also long enough to 00:05:19.380 --> 00:05:25.259 complete this video now this is a pretty cool feature that they have here so you 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 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 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:37.199 have noticed is that despite being dwarfed by this chassis the keyboard 00:05:34.380 --> 00:05:42.900 does not feature a numpad or particularly annoyingly full-sized arrow 00:05:40.440 --> 00:05:47.580 keys so a lot of people might want to you know have actual arrow keys for 00:05:45.660 --> 00:05:52.320 playing games I have used this style of key before to get very high level at 00:05:49.620 --> 00:05:56.520 Tetris Battle so it doesn't necessarily hold you back but at the same time 00:05:54.479 --> 00:06:02.100 having full size keys would be a lot better for the trackpad it is absolutely 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:07.320 massive even though on this chassis it doesn't look particularly big it's what 00:06:04.320 --> 00:06:11.160 50 larger than the 17 from last year 00:06:07.320 --> 00:06:14.160 it is a very large trackpad it is so 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:16.259 large that it might be a problem but as 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 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:24.000 okay this this is pretty good I'm moving 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 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:32.400 just not going anywhere but then the second that I bring out like a finger or 00:06:30.539 --> 00:06:36.840 a thumb or something moves right around so their Palm rejection seems like it is 00:06:34.380 --> 00:06:42.240 very very good not quite as good though is the keyboard 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 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 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:57.240 pretty super honest I don't even really know why it's bad a 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 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 00:07:06.300 --> 00:07:12.539 not really travel before the actual actuation so if you look on the HP right 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:18.780 here when I click a key 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 00:07:20.280 --> 00:07:26.639 straight to the bottom whereas on the razor blade if you look there's probably 00:07:23.699 --> 00:07:31.080 what like a millimeter 1.2 millimeters of travel on this 00:07:28.139 --> 00:07:36.060 but you're able to get about half a millimeter or so of travel before 00:07:33.780 --> 00:07:40.979 it actually actuates and that makes it really hard to kinda 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 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 00:07:49.020 --> 00:07:55.860 good about the keyboard though is the RGB Razer is famous for having very well 00:07:53.639 --> 00:08:02.340 done RGB and there is no exception here and if we look they have 15 00:07:59.819 --> 00:08:05.819 different brightness levels on the keyboard which goes from really quite 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:11.160 bright down to nothing I do have to give it to 00:08:08.460 --> 00:08:15.960 them this screen is impressive it is just pure chunk wise like if you're 00:08:13.620 --> 00:08:19.500 looking for a desktop replacement this is kind of immersive in the way that 00:08:18.060 --> 00:08:25.979 desktop is like I could see myself having multiple Windows open at the same 00:08:22.139 --> 00:08:28.319 time for doing work it is 2560 by 1600 P 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 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 00:08:34.740 --> 00:08:42.240 LED 4K display but if you are a gamer 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:44.039 this is what you want 240 hertz 1440p 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 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 00:08:51.540 --> 00:09:00.060 per second ddr5 but what's most interesting is this says it's used slots 00:08:56.940 --> 00:09:02.040 two of four so it might be very simple 00:09:00.060 --> 00:09:05.880 to upgrade this to 64 gigabytes that would be nice we also have a one 00:09:03.959 --> 00:09:10.920 terabyte SSD second one terabyte SSD so this is 00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:18.540 probably a very very expensive config Wi-Fi 6E and of course the RTX 4090 and 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:20.519 that 4090 goes up to 175 watt which is 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 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 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:34.980 are taking up these speakers better be fantastic so we have woofer and Tweeter 00:09:32.459 --> 00:09:41.480 up top and then two more woofers on the bottom and how does it sound 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:44.880 so this is THX spatial audio certified 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.500 and it is surrounding me quite well you 00:09:44.880 --> 00:09:50.300 can kind of think of it like Dolby Atmos but owned by Razer and worse 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:59.519 okay that is pretty good it is quite loud 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 00:10:01.620 --> 00:10:07.980 distortion at the higher volumes I am curious though let's turn off THX 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:14.839 spatial audio 00:10:14.839 --> 00:10:21.420 it sounds about the same but without the sort of cool making it sound larger than 00:10:19.860 --> 00:10:28.720 a laptop effect can I have your MacBook again 00:10:24.019 --> 00:10:36.320 all right razor blade MacBook 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 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 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 00:10:59.220 --> 00:11:04.380 speakers for a laptop it's like I'd give 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 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:11.700 price and form factor I've already said 00:11:09.660 --> 00:11:15.300 this a lot but we're gonna help someone out here 00:11:12.839 --> 00:11:20.040 just go to most settings pointer options enhance pointer Precision pretty please 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:24.180 turn that off that disables most acceleration and then you're able to 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:27.480 just be a lot more accurate when you're playing games 00:11:25.620 --> 00:11:32.820 I hope that helps someone well fair play razor 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:34.680 130 FPS 140 we're sitting right around 00:11:32.820 --> 00:11:37.860 there in the number one benchmark valheim 00:11:36.300 --> 00:11:42.839 foreign thing where if you run it on enough 00:11:39.660 --> 00:11:44.940 laptops and desktops it becomes a valid 00:11:42.839 --> 00:11:50.760 Benchmark it is starting to get a little bit loud but the quality of the fan 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 00:11:53.100 --> 00:11:58.740 Blade 14 like this is much more like a whoosh all 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 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 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:15.000 right give me all those fans it does seem like the turning on the 00:12:10.860 --> 00:12:19.500 boost mode did help us a fair bit 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:22.800 we are looking at what 200 00:12:19.500 --> 00:12:25.940 230 FPS right now which is a lot better 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:29.459 than it was before which is more like 00:12:25.940 --> 00:12:32.040 160. I'm guessing that is largely just 00:12:29.459 --> 00:12:35.959 because well this is probably very CPU Limited at this kind of FPS is and it 00:12:34.140 --> 00:12:41.700 was only running at like 2.5 or so before 00:12:39.060 --> 00:12:46.500 now it is much faster yeah we're now like four gigahertz that is a big 00:12:44.760 --> 00:12:50.760 difference it is also louder I guess what you could say is it's gone from 00:12:48.300 --> 00:12:54.959 open back headphone friendly to Unique clothes backs so kind of depending on 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 00:12:58.380 --> 00:13:04.440 like here does it get better 00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:09.240 but if you turn it the other way if I put it down yeah 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 00:13:11.880 --> 00:13:17.760 the high-pitched sound is coming out but not towards the user which is good at 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 00:13:20.100 --> 00:13:29.100 display is exceptional for gaming like we're getting 240 FPS in the game right 00:13:25.079 --> 00:13:31.860 now and I can be so incredibly accurate 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 00:13:34.079 --> 00:13:41.880 refresh rate that makes you totally okay with like using this instead of a 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:46.200 desktop that said I do want you to remember that this is not a desktop and 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 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:57.360 at this webcam here so this is a 5 megapixel camera which means we could 00:13:53.760 --> 00:13:59.360 have 1440p recording and it looks fine 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:04.500 the hardest thing about doing a webcam is just the software that's involved and 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 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:15.480 it so if it yeah this is a very very rudimentary 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 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:22.500 that but at the same time it is exposing for my face and it's 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:27.959 working pretty well in this very challenging scene so good job Razer it's 00:14:26.040 --> 00:14:31.980 not trash as well as the webcam in the center we also get Windows hello facial 00:14:29.760 --> 00:14:36.060 recognition awesome way to enter your laptop love to see it thank you Razer 00:14:33.839 --> 00:14:42.560 you know a Skin's ridiculous when the guy that personally requested a scorpion 00:14:39.420 --> 00:14:42.560 thinks it is extra 00:14:46.040 --> 00:14:52.260 there we go after removing a legion of 00:14:49.260 --> 00:14:55.199 T5 screws we are in and uh we have our 00:14:52.260 --> 00:15:01.800 first very large disappointment which is the not very large battery this right 00:14:57.660 --> 00:15:04.320 here is 91.7 Watt hours which is pretty 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 00:15:08.339 --> 00:15:14.519 given the weight and size of this laptop that's what should be in here instead 00:15:12.839 --> 00:15:18.120 though this is a three fan arrangement to appear like you normally would have 00:15:16.019 --> 00:15:21.899 and another one down by the battery which makes me wonder uh just how hot 00:15:20.160 --> 00:15:25.560 does this thing get while it's charging that said though there are a bunch of 00:15:23.880 --> 00:15:29.220 other really good reasons why you might want a fan right here specifically like 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:33.959 it just creates airflow in the chassis over like your ssds your RAM and 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 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:44.100 old Vapor chamber look at the size of this guy now they aren't getting the 00:15:41.459 --> 00:15:49.920 maximum amount of finish so if we look back here there's fins there and fins 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 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:58.800 to be making it faster just quieter now in here instead of using liquid metal 00:15:56.579 --> 00:16:03.240 like a lot of laptop Brands they are instead using graphite which does not 00:16:01.199 --> 00:16:07.680 have the same kind of performance that liquid metal does but at the same time 00:16:05.339 --> 00:16:11.519 it has exceptional longevity you can just stick graphite in something and 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 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:20.220 worry about it leaking out like liquid metal can do which ruins everything in 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 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:29.459 slots so they got that wrong that said though it is very nice to have super 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 00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:43.380 Mega transfers per second RAM is bad it doesn't fit in an LTT backpack 00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:45.660 oh it does barely like barely barely but 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 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:53.579 this screen and this amount of power is 00:16:50.940 --> 00:17:00.779 very impressive now don't love the keyboard but everything else is very 00:16:56.940 --> 00:17:03.600 very well done as specked this laptop is 00:17:00.779 --> 00:17:11.339 five thousand dollars and it starts at three grand at five 00:17:07.620 --> 00:17:14.339 thousand dollars I have a lot of trouble 00:17:11.339 --> 00:17:16.020 recommending this because I I don't know 00:17:14.339 --> 00:17:20.880 I don't really get desktop Replacements I understand that for some people having 00:17:18.179 --> 00:17:26.400 the mobility is great but if you have the space you can buy an entire desktop 00:17:23.299 --> 00:17:28.679 and well not not this laptop but you can 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:32.940 buy a thin and light and have a very good time 00:17:30.120 --> 00:17:36.780 that said though if you have heaps of cash 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:40.799 and no spot to put a desktop 00:17:36.780 --> 00:17:42.780 the blade 18 is pretty darn cool so hit 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:46.620 like get subscribed and maybe in the future we'll try and uh have some 00:17:44.580 --> 00:17:50.419 slightly cheaper laptops something you might actually want to buy have a good 00:17:48.360 --> 00:17:50.419 day