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Razer did not even wait for their Blade

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Pro to be available to customers to take aim at Apple's use of the pro moniker on

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a product that didn't even have an SD card reader but in a sense Apple's

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correct in their assertion that Pro can

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have a lot of different meanings an audio production professional has an

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entirely different set of needs from a professional gamer so who is the

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razerblade Pro 4 and at 3700 to

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$4500 will anyone buy one these are both

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very good questions that I will try to

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answer ver Gear's ergonomic s and plus

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lines of Gaming Chairs make for a great addition to any gaming setup check them

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out at the link in the video description the Blade Pro outwardly has

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a lot in common with the ancestor I unboxed 4 and 1/2 years ago it's a 17-in

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class device with an all aluminum udab body construction it's got subtle

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Contour on the lid and a blackon black color scheme for style and it's got an

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0.88 in thickness that makes it much

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sleeker looking and feeling than a typical desktop

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replacement once we get past the surface however it becomes abundantly clear what

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Razer has been working on for almost half a decade instead of some nambi

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pambi mid-tier graphics card and a dual core CPU Razer has stuffed all of this

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into the 2016 Blade Pro with the

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standouts being the raid zero PCIe nbme

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SSD storage configuration from the top to the bottom of the lineup and the

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top-of-the-line desktop grade GTX 1088

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gig graphic solution from NVIDIA and

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there's a solid mix of I/O to boot with the highlights for pro users being the

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integrated SD reader HDMI 2.0 output

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with 7.1 codec support gigabit Ethernet

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and a Thunderbolt 3 Port that allows the Blade Pro to be connected to a wide

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variety of external storage devices or other high-end peripherals though

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curiously Razer is not officially supporting their own core external GPU

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enclosure presumably because there wouldn't be much to upgrade to I mean to

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say this thing flies would be a gross understatement games productivity

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content creation it chews through it all

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there are a lot of laptops out there with 4K displays at this point but

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almost all of them including the also

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pretty Sleek though still thicker EVGA

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sc7 have suffered from the same fa fatal

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flaw they don't have the horses to

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properly drive that kind of resolution

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but these thermal results and gaming benchmarks should show that the Blade

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Pro is ready to deliver a comfortable experience in even the most demanding

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triaa games with razer's inclusion of NVIDIA g-sync adaptive refresh

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technology going a long way towards smoothing out the appearance of

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on-screen animations even down to around 40 frames per second but back back to

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one of my earlier questions cramming a GTX 1080 into any household object turns

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it into a suitable device for professional Gamers but what has Razer

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done to draw in other professionals

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we'll start with the display touchscreen nice to have solid IPS like viewing

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angles nice to have too a greater than

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1,000 to1 contrast ratio with 99% Adobe

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RGB coverage now you're getting my attention

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this means more creative possibilities in programs like Adobe Creative Cloud

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with support for this wider color space

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but based on these values not out of the

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box a Delta e of greater than two is

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considered not accurate so a calibration tool would be necessary before doing

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even basic color grading work let's move on now to the human interface aspect of

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the Blade Pro the switchblade interfaces

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touchscreen monitor touchpad and mini display programmable buttons from the

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original Blade Pro are gone Razer says

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this was to make room for more internal components but I think it's because

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they've had this time to reflect on the usefulness of programmable gaming Keys

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above a touchpad but one thing that does remain

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is the Curious positioning of the trackpad along with the integrated

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scroll or volume wheel and media keys

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what the hell was Razer thinking with this I think they were thinking eh most

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people will get used to it and actually for most purposes I kind of did The Dead

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Zone at the bottom shouldn't be there it's uncomfortable to use two-handed so

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I run out of pad when clicking and dragging stuff over long distances and

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respect to Apple for their haptic touchpads the long travel down distance

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makes the pointer move sometimes when I'm trying to click but it is far far

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from unusable and number two they were

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thinking they wanted to cram a maximum legal limit 99w hour battery into the

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wrist rest giving the Blade Pro very

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solid battery life for a desktop replacement class product about 75% of

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the Dell XPS Pro in my usual test and

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about equal to its smaller brother the blade in a gaming test so the touchpad

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ends up being kind of a neutral contr point for me but what about the keyboard

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well this might cost me early access to the next big razor blade launch but it

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has to be said loud and clear so they

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learn sure it's reprogrammable in

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synapse it's got RGB or whatever but

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this thing is abominable you don't have

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to move a lot to seriously impede a

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strong touch typist ability to get anything done on a keyboard and while

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I've been asking Razer for full-sized arrow keys for some time now this is not

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a price I'm willing to pay for them

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making matters worse Razer 65 G

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mechanical key switches are among the worst I've encountered in a long time I

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already don't prefer the heavily front-loaded tactile bump and mushy

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follow through but it's the inconsistency in feel from key to key

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that really make it impossible to maintain accuracy at speed you can even

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hear it listen to how different these

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keys right next to each other

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sound there's no hiding behind optimized

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for gaming as a defense this time this

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is a bad keyboard on that note thanks to

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some extra porting the compressed speakers actually sound pretty good good

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but on the subject of Acoustics the Blade Pro carries on the tradition of

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the blade song as I like to call it being tolerable at idle but very loud

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under heavy loads when a lot of air flow is needed leading then to the answer to

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my second question would anyone buy one

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this is a product that has some noticeable warts I personally vow to

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never buy a razor product with this keyboard design but it's one that also

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has some utterly unique selling points

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like its small power brick especially for a laptop of this power it's Adobe

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RGB screen and it's jawdropping

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performance in what is a larger and

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heavier compared to the blade but legitimately portable and even sexy form

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factor so are there buyers out there

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