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have you ever thought that you wanted something so bad that if you could just

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get your hands on it your life would be so much better

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and then you get it and like it's cool until you realize that maybe you only

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wanted it because you didn't have it yet well gentle viewers

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i too have had that same experience i thought i wanted a gaming laptop with a

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4k and 120hz display so when razer sent

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us the first laptop ever equipped with

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that very thing and guys this is two of the coolest buzzwords ever in the same

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room i was understandably excited but as i used it

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i started to feel something something akin to buyer's remorse

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which is especially troubling considering that i didn't even pay for

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i've been saying for years that 4k doesn't make a ton of sense on laptops

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for a number of reasons one is that the largest 17-inch laptop displays are

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still too small for human eyes to properly appreciate the higher pixel

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count from a normal viewing distance two the increased pixel density means that

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it's actually more difficult for light to pass through which might explain the

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weak 310 knit peak brightness here and

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three rendering at a higher resolution puts

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more strain on the GPU decreasing both battery life and gaming performance at

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native resolution on top of all of that you then get to

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pay a hefty premium the 4k version of the blade pro is a whopping six hundred

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dollars more than the 1080p 144 hertz option

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120 hertz on the other hand though that is normally great to have

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it's just that the highest end gaming desktops have trouble reaching 120

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frames per second at 4k let alone a gaming notebook even if it's

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got a top spec core i7 9750h and rtx 2080 max-q

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so what you're probably going to end up dealing with is playing your games at

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1440p with gross dithering from running

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at a non-native resolution or going all the way down to 1080p

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wasting those perfectly good extra pixels that could have been used

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by kids who are still stuck with 768p

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monitors or something and in our testing of the razer blade pro 17 these issues

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arrived right on cue in our video playback test

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with the screen set to 60 hertz and using NVIDIA optimus which switches

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between the dedicated GPU and the Intel integrated graphics the battery lasted

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less than four hours with the screen set to 120 hertz and using the discrete

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graphics card the battery lasted less than two and to be clear guys that was

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just watching videos not editing them

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but the story here isn't as clear-cut as

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it may at first seem you see there is a scenario where you would want a 4k

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notebook display professional creative work

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and while apple has clearly been having a grand old time slapping pro on every

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one of its consumer products lately razer seems to have intentionally and

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justifiably applied the pro moniker to

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this machine its build quality and design is very

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similar to previous razer blade pros but that's okay the matte finish

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unfortunately doesn't stand up well to fingerprints but it's otherwise clean

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and refined but with a fun side courtesy of the RGB keyboard backlighting the

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trackpad is large and accurate among the best on the pc side of things and the

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keyboard is well it's okay i mean the switches are

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fine but razer has brought back the two speaker grilles next to the keyboard

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which appears to have not only prevented them from including a number pad which

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is kind of an expectation on a 17 inch design but it also means that razer is

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still using their infuriating arrow key design from their smaller machines which

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has me constantly hitting the up arrow instead of shift like it's enough to

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make you tear your shirt apart in frustration and

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then replace it with one from lttstore.com

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i also found that aside from not even living up to the expectations that i had

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based on their size like guys if you're gonna put huge speakers right on the

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front of a device they got to have some kick the grilles on the speakers are an

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excellent magnet for dust and debris this is just two weeks later guys so i'm

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afraid to see what they'd look like in two years but

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despite those annoyances there is no denying that the razer blade pro is an

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excellent choice for mobile productivity it has ample internal horsepower for

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photo and video editing the touch enabled display is factory calibrated

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with 100 srgb and 98 adobe RGB coverage

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it has excellent connectivity options including Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet HDMI

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and a full-size sd card reader and there's even a headphone jack so then

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you throw in Windows hello wi-fi 6 and you've got a bonafide workstation on

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your hands or like on your lap like it's more

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under the hands and while the battery did have a hard time keeping up i would

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rather have a weak battery than a weak cooling system in a machine like this

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and razer's thermal engineers came through for me while plugged in not only did our core

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i7 maintain an average of 3.1 gigahertz under a sustained load after the initial

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spike to 99 degrees while it was turboing like crazy our fans kicked in

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and pulled it back to around 80 degrees perhaps more impressively though is that

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while gaming our GPU hit a frosty maximum temperature of just 68 degrees

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very comfortable even for a desktop graphics card

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although it does obviously come at the expense of some fan noise

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so it looks like then rather than being an experiment in excess the razer blade

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pro is more like a swiss army knife you can game at 120 hertz albeit

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probably with the resolution turned down if you're playing aaa titles

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or you can get some real work done at 4k

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and it just depends on your needs which is really cool

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i mean it's it's more like a double-bladed lightsaber than a swiss

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army knife but you guys get the gist here

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and yeah it's 3 700 us dollars but

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compared to a macbook pro at least it's got the horses under the hood not to

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mention a large display option you know you throw NVIDIA studio drivers

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on here and even though it's not a quadro GPU it's capable of handling

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workloads that a short time ago were only possible

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on a large desktop workstation the unfortunate thing is that rather than

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making me celebrate razer's achievement this machine ended up highlighting

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something that i feel is missing out there in the market

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like it's honestly kind of insane to me that in the current year after how many

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years of pc gamers and hardware makers

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knowing in their hearts that 1440p is the sweet spot we still haven't settled

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on 1440p for gaming laptops

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why why i was being facetious there i know the

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answer it's because the universe doesn't care about people like you or me it

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cares about movies and movies skipped right from 1080p blu-rays to 4k ultra

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high definition there was no 1440p

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because artsy filmmakers don't play video games they don't even think marvel

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movies are cinema so because no one asked pc gamers what they wanted

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this is what we got we've got a situation where the vast

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majority of laptop makers don't want to make laptops that don't have buzzword-y

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specs for fear that the public won't buy it hey

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well that isn't 4k they'll supposedly say but i'm here to tell you

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razer and alienware and hp and Gigabyte

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and i don't cl i don't know cleveo

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that the gaming community will buy it they just need the education and you

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gotta have the stones to make the product

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