have you ever thought that you wanted something so bad that if you could just
get your hands on it your life would be so much better
and then you get it and like it's cool until you realize that maybe you only
wanted it because you didn't have it yet well gentle viewers
i too have had that same experience i thought i wanted a gaming laptop with a
4k and 120hz display so when razer sent
us the first laptop ever equipped with
that very thing and guys this is two of the coolest buzzwords ever in the same
room i was understandably excited but as i used it
i started to feel something something akin to buyer's remorse
which is especially troubling considering that i didn't even pay for
the thing allow me to explain
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i've been saying for years that 4k doesn't make a ton of sense on laptops
for a number of reasons one is that the largest 17-inch laptop displays are
still too small for human eyes to properly appreciate the higher pixel
count from a normal viewing distance two the increased pixel density means that
it's actually more difficult for light to pass through which might explain the
weak 310 knit peak brightness here and
three rendering at a higher resolution puts
more strain on the GPU decreasing both battery life and gaming performance at
native resolution on top of all of that you then get to
pay a hefty premium the 4k version of the blade pro is a whopping six hundred
dollars more than the 1080p 144 hertz option
120 hertz on the other hand though that is normally great to have
it's just that the highest end gaming desktops have trouble reaching 120
frames per second at 4k let alone a gaming notebook even if it's
got a top spec core i7 9750h and rtx 2080 max-q
so what you're probably going to end up dealing with is playing your games at
1440p with gross dithering from running
at a non-native resolution or going all the way down to 1080p
wasting those perfectly good extra pixels that could have been used
by kids who are still stuck with 768p
monitors or something and in our testing of the razer blade pro 17 these issues
arrived right on cue in our video playback test
with the screen set to 60 hertz and using NVIDIA optimus which switches
between the dedicated GPU and the Intel integrated graphics the battery lasted
less than four hours with the screen set to 120 hertz and using the discrete
graphics card the battery lasted less than two and to be clear guys that was
just watching videos not editing them
but the story here isn't as clear-cut as
it may at first seem you see there is a scenario where you would want a 4k
notebook display professional creative work
and while apple has clearly been having a grand old time slapping pro on every
one of its consumer products lately razer seems to have intentionally and
justifiably applied the pro moniker to
this machine its build quality and design is very
similar to previous razer blade pros but that's okay the matte finish
unfortunately doesn't stand up well to fingerprints but it's otherwise clean
and refined but with a fun side courtesy of the RGB keyboard backlighting the
trackpad is large and accurate among the best on the pc side of things and the
keyboard is well it's okay i mean the switches are
fine but razer has brought back the two speaker grilles next to the keyboard
which appears to have not only prevented them from including a number pad which
is kind of an expectation on a 17 inch design but it also means that razer is
still using their infuriating arrow key design from their smaller machines which
has me constantly hitting the up arrow instead of shift like it's enough to
make you tear your shirt apart in frustration and
then replace it with one from lttstore.com
i also found that aside from not even living up to the expectations that i had
based on their size like guys if you're gonna put huge speakers right on the
front of a device they got to have some kick the grilles on the speakers are an
excellent magnet for dust and debris this is just two weeks later guys so i'm
afraid to see what they'd look like in two years but
despite those annoyances there is no denying that the razer blade pro is an
excellent choice for mobile productivity it has ample internal horsepower for
photo and video editing the touch enabled display is factory calibrated
with 100 srgb and 98 adobe RGB coverage
it has excellent connectivity options including Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet HDMI
and a full-size sd card reader and there's even a headphone jack so then
you throw in Windows hello wi-fi 6 and you've got a bonafide workstation on
your hands or like on your lap like it's more
under the hands and while the battery did have a hard time keeping up i would
rather have a weak battery than a weak cooling system in a machine like this
and razer's thermal engineers came through for me while plugged in not only did our core
i7 maintain an average of 3.1 gigahertz under a sustained load after the initial
spike to 99 degrees while it was turboing like crazy our fans kicked in
and pulled it back to around 80 degrees perhaps more impressively though is that
while gaming our GPU hit a frosty maximum temperature of just 68 degrees
very comfortable even for a desktop graphics card
although it does obviously come at the expense of some fan noise
so it looks like then rather than being an experiment in excess the razer blade
pro is more like a swiss army knife you can game at 120 hertz albeit
probably with the resolution turned down if you're playing aaa titles
or you can get some real work done at 4k
and it just depends on your needs which is really cool
i mean it's it's more like a double-bladed lightsaber than a swiss
army knife but you guys get the gist here
and yeah it's 3 700 us dollars but
compared to a macbook pro at least it's got the horses under the hood not to
mention a large display option you know you throw NVIDIA studio drivers
on here and even though it's not a quadro GPU it's capable of handling
workloads that a short time ago were only possible
on a large desktop workstation the unfortunate thing is that rather than
making me celebrate razer's achievement this machine ended up highlighting
something that i feel is missing out there in the market
like it's honestly kind of insane to me that in the current year after how many
years of pc gamers and hardware makers
knowing in their hearts that 1440p is the sweet spot we still haven't settled
on 1440p for gaming laptops
why why i was being facetious there i know the
answer it's because the universe doesn't care about people like you or me it
cares about movies and movies skipped right from 1080p blu-rays to 4k ultra
high definition there was no 1440p
because artsy filmmakers don't play video games they don't even think marvel
movies are cinema so because no one asked pc gamers what they wanted
this is what we got we've got a situation where the vast
majority of laptop makers don't want to make laptops that don't have buzzword-y
specs for fear that the public won't buy it hey
well that isn't 4k they'll supposedly say but i'm here to tell you
razer and alienware and hp and Gigabyte
and i don't cl i don't know cleveo
that the gaming community will buy it they just need the education and you
gotta have the stones to make the product
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