This is such a weird laptop box. It's so thin.
Some might even say it's razor thin.
This is such an awkward intro. I'm so sorry, okay. Did you see that it has a giant THX logo
on the side of the box? Holy cow, it does. It has a giant THX logo.
Put the sound. Boom.
This is such a strange box for a laptop, but I'm so excited to unbox the Razer Blade 16, baby.
This one is not quite the top config,
but oh my goodness, does it have a lot of power under the hood? And it comes with a very, very expensive price tag to match.
This might be the most expensive laptop I've ever held in my life.
I'm gonna game on it. This is a fun box. Okay, Razer, get rid of this.
This is kind of cringe and creepy. Welcome to the cult of Razer.
Let's take a look here. We'll get this laptop out of the way.
In here, there you go. Our power brick, which, how many wattage is it?
280 watts. What's the connector on the other end though?
It is, oh, I, you know, for half a second,
I was like, how did they get 280 watts over USB-C?
Well, they didn't, cause it's not USB-C. Like for half a second there, I was fooled.
It's clearly some Razer proprietary cable,
but it's expected if you wanna draw that much wattage.
And then obviously the C13, which is the other end of it,
but I don't care about this stuff.
I care about this.
It's really heavy, but then when you look at the size of it,
you're like, how did they pack that much weight in this thing?
Holy cow. When I read the specs of this laptop the first time,
I was like, oh, gaming laptop, it's gonna be huge. You're gonna be bulky.
I'm kind of impressed. Man, the green logo still is definitely off-putting
for a lot of people, but you know what, that, hey. We'll do that for now.
Okay. Embrace the cult. No, I'm not gonna embrace the cult.
What else is in here? We got some Razer propaganda,
and under the rest of the box, that's it.
I kinda teased you by saying when I first read the specs, how about we go over them?
In here is the Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, the 386H version.
You could also get a Ryzen AI 9, 365 version,
depending on if you wanna be an AMD boy or an Intel boy.
For us, we got the Intel version as well as a 5090.
But if you want to get to the 5090 that is in here,
you have to go with the Intel SKU. The AMD SKU only limits you to a 5060.
Oh, only a 5060. I need my mobile 59.
That is monstrous. You can get it with up to 64 gigs of RAM as well.
In our config, we only got 32 gigs, because let's face it, ain't nobody wanna pay more
than that because of the RAM prices, and we have two terabyte of storage.
For the rest of the exterior of the laptop, I know I kinda Googled at how thin it was.
On the right side of our laptop, we have our Thunderbolt 5 port, full-size SD card reader,
a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port, and an HDMI 2.1 port,
as well as your Kensington lock. And the thing with Thunderbolt 5 is you can get 80 gigabit per second.
That's really great if you were gonna connect an external GPU, for example.
I don't expect you would, because again, this one has the 5090. And on our left side, we have another Thunderbolt port.
This one's just Thunderbolt 4. We have another two USB 3.2 ports,
and oh, that's the power cable there, that proprietary one that I thought was USB-C,
and then a combo headphone audio jack there. And on the back, nothing.
On the front, nothing. But you know what is all over this device?
Holy crap, I've had it in my hand for like four seconds.
Oh my gosh, that's brutal. My hands are not even that sweaty today,
and I know I've said I'm a sweaty boy before, and past, you know, short circuits.
It should not be that bad. That's pretty brutal.
You know what? With how thin this laptop is, I wonder if it'll pass the Apple MacBook test.
For those who don't know what it is, one hand open.
Ooh, that's pretty good. Usually, what can happen on these laptops,
as you can see as you're pulling up the hinge, the bottom will lift up.
The only thing I struggled with was actually getting my finger like in there.
It's pretty slick. That's pretty nice, I won't lie.
As for our keyboard, holy crap, that's a big track pad.
A big laptop. It's just kind of hitting me the scale of this laptop,
and I think it was when I noticed the size of the track pad. Ooh, look at that RGB, baby.
Backlit keyboard, that is a very bright backlight as well.
Holy cow, this screen looks great.
Wow, I, obviously not the greatest with anti-glare,
as you can see, but again, I know I'm in a studio with giant lights at it,
but it is very, very nice with this background.
I really like this display already. I mean, I haven't seen any content yet.
I'll hold my thoughts, I'll hold my thoughts, okay?
It is 2560 by 1600, 240 Hertz,
which my monitor at home is like 120. I don't know how laptops keep getting like faster
and faster Hertz, so my monitor at home just truckin' along at 120, maybe.
I don't know if you'll even get the full use of the 240 Hertz.
I know I mentioned that the GPU in this is a 5090, but one thing that a lot of people don't know
about laptops is there's actually different, you know, 5090s and different 5080s.
It depends on what the board is drawing in terms of power.
For example, in our tests that are coming up, we compared it to an Omen laptop.
That 5090 can reach 175 watts,
whereas this Razer Blade 16 reaches 165.
Now you might be thinking, well, can't I just unlock it to 175
or can't I change them or whatever? Not really with how NVIDIA does their mobile GPUs.
So while it is a 5090, it's not the best mobile 5090.
And I guess we'll see how that actually plays into some of our results later.
But I wanna do some tests of typing, I wanna get into some audio tests,
and I also wanna get into this message from our sponsor. Like I said earlier, this thing's heavy.
I wanna do a quick bend test. If I break this before we actually get into gaming,
but- That's why they call them short circuits. That's why they call them short circuits.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You know what? For being how thin it is, I think it is understandable that it bends that much.
It still makes me uncomfortable. The actual chassis itself though, like the rest of it,
oh, I can hear it creaking, but it is, try to get lined up here
and I'll try to twist it. It's pretty good.
It's pretty, I'm giving it pretty good beans there
and it's got some good rigidity. I wonder how that translates into typing though.
Oh, I love this keyboard.
Whoa.
This might be one of the best laptop keyboards I've typed on. It is a membrane, I'm reading my notes here on it, sorry.
1.5 millimeters of travel, membrane keyboard.
Got a little bit of deck flex you can definitely see, but I'm also like all eight fingers given are pretty good.
If I'm just typing, you can't really see any.
I don't know why, maybe it's because of the meme of Razer and how like hardcore's hate Razer.
You kind of go into these videos kind of skeptical. I think this might be my favorite keyboard
I've ever typed on a laptop. I'm very impressed Razer.
I do want to play with the track pad a bit more.
Track pad, not the smoothest to glide over. The click is very satisfying.
I can tell when I'm clicking though, it's definitely a bottom left and bottom right click on this.
Are my gestures going to work? Yeah, it seems like my gestures are going to work. So if I want to go multi desktop or anything,
I like how big of a track pad it is. As long as palm rejection does a pretty good job,
which I'm seeing some movement in my cursor
when I just am kind of like moving my hand along the keyboard here.
I've seen better palm rejection. I will say, you notice that when I'm typing?
Look at the screen. It's subtle, but it is.
It's wobbling. That could be just because of the table.
I'm not going to give full blame to Razer on that. I do want to listen to some audio
and I do want to watch some video on this thing, though the screen looks really nice.
The laptop has six speakers total, four upfiring and two downfiring.
And hey, that T8 checks.
This better sound fricking amazing. I've got a little board underneath here
so it's not directly firing into our desk pad from LTTstore.com.
All right, you know me. I like to do a hundred percent volume first.
Here we go.
It's not as loud as I thought it was going to be.
It's not as loud as I expected it to be at a hundred percent,
but what I will say is it sounds really good.
The only thing I noticed a little bit weird was the snare just before the drop,
but that was probably a personal preference for me
that the Lenovo, for example, had way worse on the snare.
The MacBook had way worse on the bass, right? This has a very nice balance across the entire mix.
I'm going to turn it down to 50% though. And we'll see kind of what that sounds like.
Did that turn down? That sounds almost the exact same volume.
I'm at 50% now. 100%.
I almost feel like my volume is on a curve. I don't think my volume is linear on this.
It's almost like a curve like that. Yeah, sorry, curve the other way.
Yes, not this way. Because the 50% did not sound half as loud as the 100%.
So keep that in mind, I guess. It still sounds very good.
The speakers sound awesome on a laptop,
especially again, man, for this frickin' thin, dude.
Holy cow. The fangirls, one and two here,
I kind of just picked it up with one hand and one of my hands happened to land on the fangirl
and all of the weight went through this mesh and I could actually rub the fan.
Now it's not going, but I don't know if the fan's not spinning because I broke it or if it's just not hot enough.
I will see you when we game. We'll see you when we game. We're opening it up later.
That is not good. Yeah, that I didn't like.
I don't think I've ever encountered that on a laptop before. Alrighty, I've got my cyberpunk here.
It's time to play. 16, I had a stroke.
So we're on 1600 resolution here. We're on ultra settings and we got no ray tracing,
no upscaling or anything like that. And I've got 100 FPS average
as I'm just driving through the back desert here. With my 1% lows being almost 100, it dipped to 90 there,
but that's rock solid. That means I'm not gonna notice any weird hitching, right?
Sometimes having a high average FPS isn't the best if your 1% lows dip to 30, 60
or whatever it may be. That's when you notice like the, oh my gosh, a stutter.
Having it very tight between your average and your 1% lows is, that's nice.
What's not nice? Do you hear those fans? Can you hear them on the mic?
Holy crap.
Woo, that's the THX. That's where they get it from, okay.
This is hot to the touch.
Like I could not comfortably hold my finger
on this spot right here for more than five seconds.
Like I would feel very uncomfortable. Actually this whole top bar, I would not feel comfortable.
I mean, that makes sense. That's where the exhaust is. That's where everything's coming out, but like I'm kind of surprised that past certification.
It's pretty hot. For those who don't know when manufacturers are making devices,
there are certain things that they have to pass in terms of, you know, what is it, EMF radiation
or like whatever, and then there's also temperature. So the surface of these devices
cannot actually exceed a certain temperature because if you were to hold it or put it on your lap,
being a laptop, it could actually burn you. And I'd be very shocked if somehow this past certification,
it's like uncomfortable to touch. Too hot, razor, genuinely.
And now that the fans are spinning,
I'm gonna see if I can recreate this again. If I pick it up with one hand, you ready?
Yeah, do you hear that?
I can touch the fan on both sides.
Not great. For how rigid everything else felt,
I'm surprised that that's an oversight because I often pick up my laptop with one hand.
I mean, I'm hoping I'm not the only one. All right, let me power this thing down.
Let's open it up and let's talk about some of the performance results.
Non-captor screws, that's fine, whatever. At least the screws are relatively easy to access.
As for the performance of this laptop, we compared it to a very similarly specced HP Omen laptop
with the difference being that that 5090 on the HP Omen
draws 175 watts. And as you can see, it basically results
in the HP Omen being just slightly better. The only difference was in 1200P,
the Razer laptop outperformed in Cyberpunk.
That makes sense because at that lower resolution, you're probably more CPU bottlenecked
than you would be GPU bottlenecked. But even though it's drawing less wattage,
it's well within what we would expect the performance of a mobile 5090 to be.
I will say the biggest difference between the HP Omen and the Razer was that there was a bigger difference
between your average and your 1% lows. Kind of like I pointed out
when I was actually gaming in Cyberpunk there.
But all my screws are out, I think.
Yeah, the fan base broke. Wait, is this just a slide off?
Wow, that was really easy. I will give Razer credit.
There's no clips holding it in. That was actually just a simple pop off
after I got all my screws out. Very nice Razer, I like to see it.
Cause that'll make upgrading things like your storage easier
or your Wi-Fi card easier or adding a secondary drive.
You could fit up to eight terabytes total in this if you put two, four terabyte drives in.
Other than that, it's kind of empty. The whole vapor chamber is under here.
Even this is still warm after it's been off for a couple of minutes now.
And our battery here, where's our size?
90 watt hour battery. That is a chonger.
Wait, normal. Sorry, I see typical capacity and normal energy.
What's the difference? Yeah, so it's funny cause when I did the battery report
as well as the power CFG battery report, it also reports 85 watt hour or so.
But Razer's website says 90.
Look, it might have gotten less performance in our games,
but holy cow, even though there was only a two watt hour
difference between this and that HP Omen, this battery lasted more than six hours longer.
It got almost 10 and a half hours compared to four and a half on the HP Omen.
Man, Panther Lake is awesome, isn't it? As for getting fully charged,
our Razer Blade took just over a hundred minutes to get fully charged.
HP Omen took about 120. And Razer claims on the website
that you can go from zero to 80% in about 45 minutes.
We were not able to test that claim, but hey, quick charge times always appreciated
and long battery life also always appreciated.
I kind of glossed over it though, but you could swap out your Wi-Fi card. Probably won't need to.
It's Wi-Fi seven and Bluetooth six. I think this is one of the first laptops I've opened
that had Bluetooth six. Most of them are on 5.4 or 5.2.
And other than that, that's the Razer Blade laptop.
But how much does it cost? Ooh.
This is where it's probably gonna be
a turn off the video for a lot of you. It's 4,500 US dollars.
Man, this is where I get conflicted, right? Because obviously that is an insane amount of money
and I should be angry. Ah, it's a lot of money.
You're getting a lot of laptop for that money. You're getting a 5090.
You're getting incredible battery life because you got the Panther Lake. I mean, a lot of that price could come
from just crazy DRAM prices right now. SSDs are expensive.
RAM is really expensive, which you'll notice now that I'm in it, RAM is not upgradable.
And that's because in order to hit the insane speed
of 9,600 megatransfer per second, it needs to be soldered.
And this is where I get torn again. We're now getting incredible RAM speeds.
Like 9,600 megatransfer per second is unbelievable.
But we're compromising upgradeability or repairability in order to hit those speeds.
This isn't the first time we've seen it, right? I don't know. I'd be curious to know what you guys would prefer.
Do you guys like the crazy high speeds and performance of it? Or do you think it's worth the lower speed
in order to be able to swap it out? I guess for you, it's gonna depend
on what you want out of the Razer Blade 16. I think the top spec is $5,000 right now,
and the entry point is around the $2,000 mark.
$2,000 is still a lot of money for a laptop, by the way. You can get a MacBook at that price.
And depending on what you're doing it for, that could probably be better for you.
But I'd be curious to know what you guys think. And honestly, what do you guys think
about how thin this is? It's nice that we're getting Windows laptops this then.
If you guys are interested in super thin laptop designs like this, go check out Adam's video on the ZenBook 16.
It's kind of similar in terms of its thinness, and well, I didn't watch the video yet,
so I can't actually tell you how the video went, so. A16. What the fuck did I say?
16.