the og razer blade stealth's middling battery life eight gigs of RAM with no
option to upgrade and dual core processor made it neither a serious
productivity device for road warriors nor a legitimately capable gaming
machine like its thicker and less stealthy 14-inch cousin
even with an outboard graphics card
but that's all different now literally all of it the blade stealth
late 2017 stomps all over its predecessors so let's take
a look at it
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13.3 inch blade stealth pretty much hasn't changed in the last couple of
years and that's a good thing because you
might disagree but i think the industrial design is damn near perfect
the top is classic razor with an illuminated logo and armored accent
bumps the bottom is lifted a little higher at the back on rubber feet for a
slight angle to the keyboard and to give the single intake fan access to fresh
air and the side profile is pretty much as thin as it could be while still
allowing razer to cram in what is fairly generous io for a thin and light these
days two full-size usb 3 ports HDMI 2.0
an audio jack and a type c Thunderbolt 3 port that also charges the device
and the whole thing has a sturdiness to it that's been very refreshing compared
to the gram that i've been using since early this year
it is heavier yes and the battery life
is much worse unless you're willing to cart around an extra battery bank with
you but in power saving mode it still
comfortably lasts me over 5 hours of actual use and i also expect it to hold
up to the rigors of my grueling travel schedule a little bit better than the
gram has flipping it open then there's
still not much to dislike it's 2017 the bezels could be a little
bit thinner and the power button is still really mushy for a company whose
first product was a mouse but the 3200
by 1800 100 srgb display while not
shockingly bright is a solid performer and includes a touch screen something
that i rarely notice myself using but that drives me crazy when i'm on
something that doesn't have one and the keyboard speakers and trackpad are
somewhere between very good and excellent for a device of this class
with the keyboard in particular standing out to me because it blows me away
that the same company that put such an excellent low profile keyboard on a thin
and light put such an abomination on their desktop replacement 17-inch model
let's talk gaming the stealth is not really for
gaming but thanks to some under the hood upgrades there are a lot of ways to game
on it emulators older aaa titles and
modern esports titles like rocket league and dota 2 will run directly off the
onboard Intel graphics at usable frame rates as long as you lower the
resolution the onboard killer wireless consistently
saw transfer speeds of 40 megabytes per second or more on a high-end ac access
point so if you have a gaming pc elsewhere in the house steam in-home
streaming works at very high quality settings fantastically or you could even
use it remotely with software like parsec on a fast low latency internet
connection and with the addition of an external GPU the blade stealth
transforms from ultra book to ultra
high-end gaming system i was floored
when i saw the CPU turbo boosting to those clock speeds in games
i mean yes we're still giving up some FPS compared to a desktop running that
same titan xp graphics card with a high
end quad core or six core desktop chip
and thunderbolts protocol overhead and narrower PCIe 4x connection aren't
helping matters but these are still really impressive
results and sorry razer
both the performance bottlenecking and the price gap actually close
significantly if you're willing to explore third party egpu enclosures that
forego some of the core v2's creature comforts like easy upgradability and
built-in Ethernet and thanks to the 16
gigs of soldered RAM i found it useful for more than just gaming even with just
the onboard graphics for editing and rendering simple videos Intel's 8th
generation u-series processors put their previous generation efforts to shame i
would still equip a skilled video editor with something that can run higher than
about 2.2 gigahertz with all the cores slammed but throwing together this video
in premiere in the back seat of my car on the way to visit my grandparents was
very doable on the blade stealth
it's still a blade so it was sitting between 10 to 15 CPU usage thanks chrome
while i was typing up this review and you know it was a little warm to the
touch but it stays really quiet even
under full load now we need to talk about money
gone is the starting at 9.99 pricing
that made the original blade stealth so attractive
but while it is pricier than that it's
still in line with or better than devices of similar spec and build
quality like dell's xps 13 so that's not
something that i'm going to give razer too much flack about
i will save my flack for the battery
it is the worst thing about this device
but as i've said before it's still very usable so i think of the blade stealth
as kind of like a sporty two-seater the fuel economy sucks compared to something
more practical like the gram but it's
got other things going for it and i really really like it and i will be
switching to the blade stealth full time
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