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short while back i switched to the new blade stealth after my old one died and

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in this video i outlined my reasons for switching which ultimately came down to

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they were bad and i should have waited for alex to come back from vacation

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because he knows what's best for me since then i've actually been daily

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driving the xps 13 two and one though which i love other than its lack of i o

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but what we have right here could change all

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that this might look like a normal razor blade

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stealth but it is much more than that and the

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thought of being able to game on the road without needing an external

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graphics card sounds pretty darn tempting

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LTT fans are going to get 10 off ifix's holiday sale with offer code minus10 so

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down below

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for the most part the razer blade stealth remains unchanged but

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that's a good thing size shape and the

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weight are all the same in spite of the

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big upgrade the anemic mx-150 which we

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consider to be basically a pointless power sync due to its lack of

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performance last time around has been replaced with an NVIDIA

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gtx 1650 max q

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now obviously this is still not going to be

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a gaming beast like the blade 15 but given the portability of the stealth

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this is a huge deal i mean many have tried to combine the best of

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portability and performance and some

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like the original blade 14 the alienware m15 they get close

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but this is something different this is a three pound machine that is just over

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15 millimeters thick and yes

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that is a real aaa game running on it

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but how well do they run well first up we've got rainbow six siege and we're

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able to maintain nearly 100 frames per second on ultra detail with the minimums

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barely dropping below 60 FPS this excellent showing continues in doom

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2016 and shadow of the tomb raider where

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you might need to drop the details a bit to get a solid 60 FPS but it is

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certainly attainable so i think it's fair to say that when it

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comes to esports titles or slightly older games you'll be having a

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shockingly good experience now on to the big guns though

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can this mini monster chew through rockstar's famously poorly optimized red

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dead redemption 2 now in fairness to it we did test this the week of launch so i

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hope the game runs better by the time this video comes out but yeah screw it

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we're doing it raw and hey that's actually not bad

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it's not great we're running mostly on low with

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occasional drops below 30 FPS but another way to look at this is hey

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you're playing basically the most demanding game on the market anywhere at

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console frame rates now all this testing was done at 1080p

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the resolution of the display behind me which brings us to one of the largest

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shortcomings of the stealth gtx when it comes to gaming the highest refresh rate

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available on this machine is just 60

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hertz now it's not a bad panel it's

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factory calibrated and looks pretty darn good to the eye but given that there are

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thousand dollar gaming laptops out there with high refresh rate displays i would

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like for it to at least be an option here because this thing would easily

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pump rocket league at over 100 FPS

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alternately instead of a high refresh rate option i would at least enjoy

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having a 1080p touchscreen option there is a 4k touchscreen but like come on

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guys it's 13 inch i do not need 4k at

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that size and it's a little rich for me at 200 additional dollars although with

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that said the change from plastic to glass on the bezels does class up the

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joint a little so all right then since the display is clearly aimed more at

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creatives or mobile professionals than really your hardcore gamers how is the

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blade stealth as a mobile workstation the four core core i7 1065 g7 is pretty

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snappy for light tasks ramping up to a respectable 3.9 gigahertz at times

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but when we hit it with an all-core load it settled in at just 1.9 gigahertz

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the good news here i guess is that temperatures are kept in check while all

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this is happening but the 15 watt power limit seems to really prevent this chip

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from stretching its legs so in the real world what this means is that while

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you're on the go the blade stealth will be powerful enough to photo or video

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edit without much trouble so if you're doing that casually it's a great choice

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but if you're doing it professionally you'd want to step up to a blade 15 or a

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dell xps so that you can use six cores or more running at peak performance to

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chew through your renders on that subject we're actually reviewing dell's

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version of the xps 13 with a six core CPU so make sure you're subscribed so

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you don't miss that one thing to note is that as your video editing or gaming the

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palm rest area can get pretty toasty now for some canadians i could see that

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being a feature but i'm well equipped

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with warm comfy clothing thanks to ltgstore.com

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so it was kind of a drag for me so then we can safely say that the blade

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stealth gtx is a powerful enough

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for a little machine laptop but how does it fare as a super portable thin light

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well one area where razer never disappoints is in the quality and

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rigidity of their laptop chassis this all aluminum frame feels super solid

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with none of the surfaces yielding in the normal problem areas the design

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overall is understated like besides the RGB on the keyboard the thing is

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basically just a matte black rectangle and we consider that to be a good thing

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one of the things i actually miss most too about the stealth is the i o with

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dual type a ports and two type c ports

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both with charging and one with full Thunderbolt 3 functionality along with a

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headphone jack the only dongle you really need is a type c to HDMI

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unfortunately what i don't miss is the keyboard the things i liked are still

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here the switches have a nice snappy feel and there are almost no

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stabilization issues but the small annoyances add up to making this one of

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the most frustrating laptops that i have ever used

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first up the backspace backslash and enter are all too small and the edges of

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the device are a little bit on the sharp side which can be uncomfortable if you have larger hands

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but i could have forgiven all of those things the reason i stopped using this

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laptop is the shortened right shift key

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like i just don't get it is the lead keyboard

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designer at razer a hen pecker because

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there's no other scenario that i can imagine where they would allow something

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this stupid to occur what makes it particularly egregious is

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that if you miss the tiny shift key and instead accidentally bump both the shift

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key and the up arrow while you're reaching for it you will successfully

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highlight your entire current row of text and then assuming you don't notice

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because you're typing immediately right over it this happened so often while i

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was taking notes in meetings that with a couple weeks into using this thing my

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entire staff would start yelling at me every time it happened for me to ditch

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it for a different laptop now i'm sure there's some reason that

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they couldn't move the arrow keys down and then elongate the shift like on the

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regular blade but this is how it is

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and the cold hard truth is i'm not a fan as for the trackpad i still think it's

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great but the funny thing is on the last unit i was using it actually broke in

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this really weird inconsistent way that led me to question whether it was

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actually broken or if i just sucked at using it turns out yes it was broken and

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it was one of the worst track pad experiences that i've had in quite a

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while now this one's fine and given that

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none of the other blade stealths that i've ever used have had this issue i

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can't say definitively that it's a common problem

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but the thing is that given our past experiences as a whole with razer's

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laptop build quality i don't feel like i can just

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not include mentioning it what i also need to mention is the

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battery with 53 watt hours of juice the

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total raw capacity of the stealth gtx is pretty similar to other ultrabooks like

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the xps 13 or surface laptop but the addition of a GPU and a

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particularly beefy one does drop your battery life significantly down to

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between five to six hours in our testing now that's actually pretty reasonable

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but it's still a pretty big drop from the eight to 10 that we got with the

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integrated GPU and it does take the stealth gtx out of the all day battery

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category so then once again would i recommend the

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razer blade stealth gtx well with the 1650 version starting at eighteen

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hundred dollars you need to be sure that both the portability and performance are

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absolutely necessary for you because there are certainly cheaper options if

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you're willing to sacrifice one of them but if you have the cash hate

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compromises and you're just plain suck at typing then i think it's a great

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option just like watching another LTT video how about the one i did on the xps

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13 2 in room we're gonna have that link down below micro center has 25 locations across the

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us and they are featuring the main gear vibe one pc exclusively available at

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micro center it's got a core i9 9900k an rtx 2080 ti and much more and if you buy

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it in store there's a 500 discount on

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the pc if you're not near a micro center no

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problem you can also buy the system off amazon check it out at the link in the

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video description so thanks for watching guys if you're

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looking for another video to watch we already suggested one so i guess we're done here subscribe