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 X
logo on the side of the box.
>> Holy cow. It does have a has a giant THX
logo. Put the sound.
This is such a strange box for a laptop,
but I'm still 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 a very, very expensive
price tag to match. This might be the
most expensive laptop I've ever held in
my life. I'm going to 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 USBC? Well, they didn't cuz
it's not USBC. Like, for half a second
there, I was fooled. It's clearly some
Razer proprietary cable, but it's
expected if you want to draw that much
wattage. So, 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 going to be huge. Going to
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 going to embrace the cult.
What else is in here? We got some Razer
propaganda. And under the rest of the
box, that's it. I kind of 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 can also get a Ryzen AI
9365 version, depending on if you want
to 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 the 5090 that is
in here, you have to go with the Intel
skew. The AMD skew only limits you to a
5060. Oh, only a 5060. I need my mobile
5090.
That is monstrous. You can get it with
up to 64 gigs of RAM as well. In our
config, we only got 32 gigs cuz let's
face it, ain't nobody want to pay more
than that because of RAM prices. And we
have two terabyte of storage. For the
rest of the exterior of the laptop, I
know I kind of googled it 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 Gbit per
second. That's really great if you were
going to 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 USBC. 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 I I
know I've said I'm a sweaty boy before
in 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.
That's pretty good. Usually what can
happen on these laptops is 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 It's pretty slick. That's
pretty nice. I won't lie. As for our
keyboard, holy crap, that's a big
trackpad. What 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 trackpad. Oo,
look at that RGB, baby. Back lit
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. Maybe I'll hold my
thoughts. I'll hold my thoughts. Okay,
it is 2560 by600,
240 hertz, which my monitor at home is
like 120. I I don't know how laptops
keep getting like faster and faster
herz. My monitor at home just trucking
along at 120, baby. I don't know if
you'll even get the full use of the 240
Hz. 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 want to do some
tests of typing. I want to get into some
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Like I said earlier, this thing's heavy.
I want to do a quick bend test. if I
break this before we actually get into
gaming. But
>> that's that's why they call them short
circuits.
>> That's shortest ShortCircuit. Oh,
you know what? For being how thin it is,
I think it is understandable that it
bends that much. It still makes me
uncomfortable. Uh the actual chassis
itself though, like the rest of it. Oh,
I can hear it creaking. But it is Try to
get it 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. Oh,
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. I
got a little bit of deck flex. You can
definitely see, but I'm also like all
eight fingers
giving her pretty good. If I'm just
typing,
you can't really see any. I I don't know
why. Maybe it's cuz the meme of Razer
and how like hardcores 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 trackpad a bit
more.
Trackpad 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 trackpad 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 got it's 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. This screen
looks really nice. The laptop has six
speakers total, four upfiring and two
downfiring. And hey, that THX,
this better sound freaking amazing. I've
got a little board underneath here so
it's not directly firing into our
deskpad from ltstore.com. All right. You
know me, I like to do 100% 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 100%. But what I will say is it
sounds really good. Um, 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. Um, 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 it's curve like that.
>> Yeah. Sorry. Curve the other way. Yes.
Not 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. These speakers sound
awesome on a laptop,
especially again, man, for something
this freaking thin, dude. Holy cow. The
fan grills one and two here. I kind of
just picked it up with one hand and one
of my hands happened to land on the fan
grill and all of the weight went through
this mesh and I could actually rub the
fan. Uh, 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.
>> We'll see you when we game.
>> We'll see you when we game or open it up
later. That is not good. Uh, yeah, that
I didn't like. I don't think I've ever
encountered that on a laptop before. All
righty. 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 rate
tracing, no upscaling or anything like
that. And I've got a 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 going to 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.
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 5 seconds. Like I 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 passed
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
em 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 passed
certification it's like uncomfortable to
touch too hot razor genuinely And now
that the fans are spinning,
I'm going to see if I can recreate this
again if I pick it up with one hand.
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 cuz I often pick up my laptop
with one hand. I hope 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-captive 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 spec 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 bottleneck 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 it
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 cuz
that'll make upgrading things like your
storage easier or your Wi-Fi card easier
or adding a secondary drive. You can fit
up to 8 terabytes total in this if you
put two 4 TB drives in.
Other than that, it's kind of kind of
empty. The whole vapor chamber is under
here. Even this is still warm after it's
been off for a couple minutes now. And
our battery here, where's our size?
90Wh hour battery. That is a chonker.
Wait, normal. Sorry, I see typical
capacity and normal energy. What's the
difference?
>> Yeah. So, it's funny cuz when I did the
battery report as well, the the power
CFG battery report, it also reports 85
uh watt hours. So,
>> but Razer's website says 90. M look, it
might have gotten less performance in
our games, but holy cow, even though
there was only a 2Wh hour difference
between this and that HP Omen, this
battery lasted more than 6 hours longer.
It got almost 10 and 1/2 hours compared
to 4 and 1/2 on the HP Omen.
Man, Panther Lake is awesome, isn't it?
As for getting fully charged, our Razer
Blade took just over a 100 minutes to
get fully charged. HP Omen took about
120. And Razer claims on their website
that you can go from 0 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 7 and Bluetooth 6. I
think this is one of the first laptops
I've opened that had Bluetooth 6. 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?
This is where uh this is where it's
probably going to be a turnoff the video
for a lot of you. It's $4500.
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. You know, SSDs are
expensive. RAM is really expensive,
which you'll notice now that I'm in it,
RAM is not upgradeable. And that's
because in order to hit the insane speed
of 9600 megat transfers per second,
needs to be soldered.
And this is where I get torn again.
We're now getting incredible RAM speeds.
Like 9600 mega transfers per second is
unbelievable. But we're compromising
upgradability 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 going to
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 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
thin. 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,
>> hey 16.
>> WHAT THE DID I SAY?
>> 16.