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the og razer blade stealth's middling battery life eight gigs of RAM with no

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option to upgrade and dual core processor made it neither a serious

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productivity device for road warriors nor a legitimately capable gaming

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machine like its thicker and less stealthy 14-inch cousin

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even with an outboard graphics card

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but that's all different now literally all of it the blade stealth

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late 2017 stomps all over its predecessors so let's take

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a look at it

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world of tanks is the free-to-play online game that throws players into

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epic tank battles across different battlefields and we've got a special

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deal for you guys below and more info coming later in the video externally the

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13.3 inch blade stealth pretty much hasn't changed in the last couple of

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years and that's a good thing because you

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might disagree but i think the industrial design is damn near perfect

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the top is classic razor with an illuminated logo and armored accent

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bumps the bottom is lifted a little higher at the back on rubber feet for a

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slight angle to the keyboard and to give the single intake fan access to fresh

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air and the side profile is pretty much as thin as it could be while still

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allowing razer to cram in what is fairly generous io for a thin and light these

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days two full-size usb 3 ports HDMI 2.0

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an audio jack and a type c Thunderbolt 3 port that also charges the device

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and the whole thing has a sturdiness to it that's been very refreshing compared

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to the gram that i've been using since early this year

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it is heavier yes and the battery life

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is much worse unless you're willing to cart around an extra battery bank with

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you but in power saving mode it still

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comfortably lasts me over 5 hours of actual use and i also expect it to hold

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up to the rigors of my grueling travel schedule a little bit better than the

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gram has flipping it open then there's

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still not much to dislike it's 2017 the bezels could be a little

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bit thinner and the power button is still really mushy for a company whose

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first product was a mouse but the 3200

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by 1800 100 srgb display while not

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shockingly bright is a solid performer and includes a touch screen something

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that i rarely notice myself using but that drives me crazy when i'm on

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something that doesn't have one and the keyboard speakers and trackpad are

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somewhere between very good and excellent for a device of this class

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with the keyboard in particular standing out to me because it blows me away

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that the same company that put such an excellent low profile keyboard on a thin

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and light put such an abomination on their desktop replacement 17-inch model

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let's talk gaming the stealth is not really for

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gaming but thanks to some under the hood upgrades there are a lot of ways to game

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on it emulators older aaa titles and

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modern esports titles like rocket league and dota 2 will run directly off the

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onboard Intel graphics at usable frame rates as long as you lower the

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resolution the onboard killer wireless consistently

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saw transfer speeds of 40 megabytes per second or more on a high-end ac access

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point so if you have a gaming pc elsewhere in the house steam in-home

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streaming works at very high quality settings fantastically or you could even

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use it remotely with software like parsec on a fast low latency internet

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connection and with the addition of an external GPU the blade stealth

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transforms from ultra book to ultra

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high-end gaming system i was floored

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when i saw the CPU turbo boosting to those clock speeds in games

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i mean yes we're still giving up some FPS compared to a desktop running that

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same titan xp graphics card with a high

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end quad core or six core desktop chip

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and thunderbolts protocol overhead and narrower PCIe 4x connection aren't

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helping matters but these are still really impressive

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results and sorry razer

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both the performance bottlenecking and the price gap actually close

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significantly if you're willing to explore third party egpu enclosures that

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forego some of the core v2's creature comforts like easy upgradability and

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built-in Ethernet and thanks to the 16

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gigs of soldered RAM i found it useful for more than just gaming even with just

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the onboard graphics for editing and rendering simple videos Intel's 8th

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generation u-series processors put their previous generation efforts to shame i

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would still equip a skilled video editor with something that can run higher than

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about 2.2 gigahertz with all the cores slammed but throwing together this video

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in premiere in the back seat of my car on the way to visit my grandparents was

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very doable on the blade stealth

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it's still a blade so it was sitting between 10 to 15 CPU usage thanks chrome

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while i was typing up this review and you know it was a little warm to the

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touch but it stays really quiet even

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under full load now we need to talk about money

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gone is the starting at 9.99 pricing

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that made the original blade stealth so attractive

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but while it is pricier than that it's

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still in line with or better than devices of similar spec and build

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quality like dell's xps 13 so that's not

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something that i'm going to give razer too much flack about

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i will save my flack for the battery

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it is the worst thing about this device

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but as i've said before it's still very usable so i think of the blade stealth

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as kind of like a sporty two-seater the fuel economy sucks compared to something

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more practical like the gram but it's

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got other things going for it and i really really like it and i will be

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switching to the blade stealth full time

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