Razer did not even wait for their Blade
Pro to be available to customers to take aim at Apple's use of the pro moniker on
a product that didn't even have an SD card reader but in a sense Apple's
correct in their assertion that Pro can
have a lot of different meanings an audio production professional has an
entirely different set of needs from a professional gamer so who is the
razerblade Pro 4 and at 3700 to
$4500 will anyone buy one these are both
very good questions that I will try to
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out at the link in the video description the Blade Pro outwardly has
a lot in common with the ancestor I unboxed 4 and 1/2 years ago it's a 17-in
class device with an all aluminum udab body construction it's got subtle
Contour on the lid and a blackon black color scheme for style and it's got an
0.88 in thickness that makes it much
sleeker looking and feeling than a typical desktop
replacement once we get past the surface however it becomes abundantly clear what
Razer has been working on for almost half a decade instead of some nambi
pambi mid-tier graphics card and a dual core CPU Razer has stuffed all of this
into the 2016 Blade Pro with the
standouts being the raid zero PCIe nbme
SSD storage configuration from the top to the bottom of the lineup and the
top-of-the-line desktop grade GTX 1088
gig graphic solution from NVIDIA and
there's a solid mix of I/O to boot with the highlights for pro users being the
integrated SD reader HDMI 2.0 output
with 7.1 codec support gigabit Ethernet
and a Thunderbolt 3 Port that allows the Blade Pro to be connected to a wide
variety of external storage devices or other high-end peripherals though
curiously Razer is not officially supporting their own core external GPU
enclosure presumably because there wouldn't be much to upgrade to I mean to
say this thing flies would be a gross understatement games productivity
content creation it chews through it all
there are a lot of laptops out there with 4K displays at this point but
almost all of them including the also
pretty Sleek though still thicker EVGA
sc7 have suffered from the same fa fatal
flaw they don't have the horses to
properly drive that kind of resolution
but these thermal results and gaming benchmarks should show that the Blade
Pro is ready to deliver a comfortable experience in even the most demanding
triaa games with razer's inclusion of NVIDIA g-sync adaptive refresh
technology going a long way towards smoothing out the appearance of
on-screen animations even down to around 40 frames per second but back back to
one of my earlier questions cramming a GTX 1080 into any household object turns
it into a suitable device for professional Gamers but what has Razer
done to draw in other professionals
we'll start with the display touchscreen nice to have solid IPS like viewing
angles nice to have too a greater than
1,000 to1 contrast ratio with 99% Adobe
RGB coverage now you're getting my attention
this means more creative possibilities in programs like Adobe Creative Cloud
with support for this wider color space
but based on these values not out of the
box a Delta e of greater than two is
considered not accurate so a calibration tool would be necessary before doing
even basic color grading work let's move on now to the human interface aspect of
the Blade Pro the switchblade interfaces
touchscreen monitor touchpad and mini display programmable buttons from the
original Blade Pro are gone Razer says
this was to make room for more internal components but I think it's because
they've had this time to reflect on the usefulness of programmable gaming Keys
above a touchpad but one thing that does remain
is the Curious positioning of the trackpad along with the integrated
scroll or volume wheel and media keys
what the hell was Razer thinking with this I think they were thinking eh most
people will get used to it and actually for most purposes I kind of did The Dead
Zone at the bottom shouldn't be there it's uncomfortable to use two-handed so
I run out of pad when clicking and dragging stuff over long distances and
respect to Apple for their haptic touchpads the long travel down distance
makes the pointer move sometimes when I'm trying to click but it is far far
from unusable and number two they were
thinking they wanted to cram a maximum legal limit 99w hour battery into the
wrist rest giving the Blade Pro very
solid battery life for a desktop replacement class product about 75% of
the Dell XPS Pro in my usual test and
about equal to its smaller brother the blade in a gaming test so the touchpad
ends up being kind of a neutral contr point for me but what about the keyboard
well this might cost me early access to the next big razor blade launch but it
has to be said loud and clear so they
learn sure it's reprogrammable in
synapse it's got RGB or whatever but
this thing is abominable you don't have
to move a lot to seriously impede a
strong touch typist ability to get anything done on a keyboard and while
I've been asking Razer for full-sized arrow keys for some time now this is not
a price I'm willing to pay for them
making matters worse Razer 65 G
mechanical key switches are among the worst I've encountered in a long time I
already don't prefer the heavily front-loaded tactile bump and mushy
follow through but it's the inconsistency in feel from key to key
that really make it impossible to maintain accuracy at speed you can even
hear it listen to how different these
keys right next to each other
sound there's no hiding behind optimized
for gaming as a defense this time this
is a bad keyboard on that note thanks to
some extra porting the compressed speakers actually sound pretty good good
but on the subject of Acoustics the Blade Pro carries on the tradition of
the blade song as I like to call it being tolerable at idle but very loud
under heavy loads when a lot of air flow is needed leading then to the answer to
my second question would anyone buy one
this is a product that has some noticeable warts I personally vow to
never buy a razor product with this keyboard design but it's one that also
has some utterly unique selling points
like its small power brick especially for a laptop of this power it's Adobe
RGB screen and it's jawdropping
performance in what is a larger and
heavier compared to the blade but legitimately portable and even sexy form
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