you guys asked for it and I delivered eventually this is the razor blade I am
doing an unboxing of this was an E3 demo unit so yes it's already open but I
think you'll mostly get the point so what do we have inside we have peel off
oh okay interesting place the film over and apply the film to the okay I'll
explain what this is after so that's probably supposed to be actually inside
the package somewhere so the razor blade is a gaming notebook from a legitimately
gaming company Razer um there's a lot of gaming notebooks from and I speak from
firsthand experience from companies that
don't actually understand what Gamers want and what Gamers need and not every
uh not every notebook solution that is high performance or that is high quality
is necessarily great for gaming for example Lenovo think pads great
notebooks not great for gaming more designed for corporate use rugged
portability that kind of things so it's all about what you actually need and
Razer believes that this notebook is entirely focused on what the gamer needs
Razer as always just like brilliant
packaging that's that's how they roll they've got like kind of a carbon fiber
esque sort of look to the top of the box here and that's all the time you get to
look at it because we have to keep things rolling here and have a look at
the notebook itself so this is a 17-in gaming notebook it has a quad core 2.8
GHz mobile processor that turbos up to 3.5 GHz did I say quad core I'm sorry I
meant dual core uh thank you for the correction slick uh so it has a dual
core processor however if you checked out my recent episode on NC Tech tips on
the ncixcom channel you'll see that
actually Beyond two cores hyperthreaded in modern games
there isn't really much benefit assuming the same clock speeds however for mobile
CPUs uh making the same clock speed assumption isn't really fair because
most mobile quad cores are not clocked at the same kind of speed as most mobile
dual cores so there you go something to
be aware of you guys it has 8 gigs of dddr uh DDR3 memory it has a GT
550m graphics card and at 88
in it is phenomenally thin so it uses an
aluminum construction which feels just
absolutely beautiful um wow that's quite
nice actually and the weight is is actually pretty manageable too so the
unit is about 7 lb which for a 17in
notebook is already pretty good plus the fact that it uses a metal construction
which doesn't really help with the weight Factor but does help them keep it
uh sign ific Slimmer so let's start with the overall phys oh right right right
okay let's finish with specs so spec wise right so it's got a 17.3 in LED
backlit screen it has a 256 gig boot SSD
it has let's just open this up here uh
it has a full um anti- ghosting keyboard so what
that means is that you're not going to have any issues or problems if you
accidentally press um you know some keyboards you if you press sort of uh
comb of keys it can ghost and it can actually interject additional characters
or not register key presses correctly all that kind of stuff so it has a
gaming grade keyboard has a power button up here which has a green Halo it also
has a fully backlit keyboard and um it's
got an integrated sound bar so instead of doing stereo speakers they've gone
with a sound bar and this this is the uh kudrass of this particular product this
is the switchblade interface so instead of a traditional touchpad it is booted
up now it is a glass surface here glass
plastic feels like glass um so whatever
it's it's a it's a surface here that has two buttons and then 10 fully
customizable display buttons so these okay if you guys remember that um I
forget what it was called it was like that art lebedev keyboard that it was
the full keyboard with individual OLED
screens and all the keys and it was fully programmable for whatever you want wanted to do whatever language you
wanted this is basically that except
actually made commercially viable so you use their synapse 2.0 software which
allows you to customize what shows up on
these little screens it allows you to customize the functionality of the
buttons you can have profiles for various games and the synapse 2.0
software actually allows you to save uh a variety of different gaming settings
in the cloud so you can take them with you wherever you go so let's finish up
with the exterior of the unit before we get too much further into uh into more
details of the switch blade which is
looks like a whoops now I'm breaking everything
okay so let's do the uh the traditional
iPhone thickness comparison there you go guys that gives you some idea so the
laptop is actually less than 7 lb the 7 lb travel weight is assuming you're
carrying around the adapter as well which is extremely small and slim so you
can see it's even here we go iPhone size
comparison whether you guys like it or not now you know how big the adapter is
so there H and this is actually kind of cool it comes with a nice rubber strap
for uh strapping the cable so instead of
one of those velcro ones that will wear out eventually because velcro inherently
will you uh you get that instead okay so ventilation is here on
the side you can see the uh the heat sink fins power in is here uh gigabit
Ethernet HDMI out super speed USB 3
colorcoded green uh two USB 2.0 ports
and a headphone outport on this side on the front of the unit you find not a
whole lot in terms of I/O and on the other side of the unit you find just a
Kensington lock which as you can see based on that this is a demo unit has
been used you can also see another cooling vent here as well as a heat pipe
in there so obviously like pretty much every laptop that exists right now it is
using a heat pipe for cooling uh is that more oh yeah more ventilation here so
this must be the intake and that's probably the exhaust so you're going to want to make sure you don't use it on a
soft surface uh because those are your intakes right there make sure they don't
get covered when you are especially when you are uh gaming so the Razer logo on
the back which I think is great and Slick apparently doesn't like the razor
logo as much as I do but whatever uh he's not the one who gets to stand in
front of the camera and give his opinion anyway so the razor logo which I love
looks absolutely fantastic on the all aluminum top here and it does have a
backlight so it glows and looks all baller I mean come on it's better than
Apple or with their logos on the back of a laptop see now he's nodding in
agreement it's awesome um the keyboard
itself has almost no flex which is of course one of the advantages of using uh
an aluminum construction for the notebook The Notebook itself has this is
actually pretty good considering how thin this is so this is a very thin
screen as you guys can see now that I'm holding my iPhone up against it and it
only has just a touch of flex to it that's really good um and then the the
bottom just just absolutely no flex at all completely rigid so this thing is
going to that it really helps it adds to the durability of a notebook when the
parts aren't constantly being stressed and it happens whether you're aware of
it or not when you're putting it in a bag or or moving it around it will
happen I mean I mean have you guys ever used a notebook like this and walked
around like this if you have done that you're putting you're putting stress on
the internal components because you're only supporting a small part of it and
you're straining the BCBS it's not good for it I mean it's not going to kill it
immediately but it's just one of those things where having a more solidly built
notebook is definitely a good thing um oh yeah I want to show you guys how nice
the backl is on that keyboard it's
awesome so beautifully backlit keyboard
you can't really see much halo around the outsides of the keys at all but the
uh the letterings themselves are very very well lit up so those look like they
must be I mean they must be edged Keys cuz I can't imagine any other way you'd
get an awesome backlight like that um right so let's talk switchblade 2.0 so
the switchblade 2.0 UI and so you can see guys this is a trackpad it's also
like a glass touch thing now not Everyone likes glass wait okay no let's
talk switchblade 2. or um synapse 2.0 uh
before we go any further so synapse 2.0 is compatible with this as well as
future razor products and some Legacy products like the Naga it actually
allows you to save a variety of different things like macros uh any kind
of programming any kind of sensitivity settings um even things like lighting
effects you can actually save in the cloud and then you just go to a land
Center or go to wherever you want and you can make sure that everything's set up exactly the way you want it so that's
cool the switchblade is fully compatible with it and it can serve as one of two
different things so it can either be a fourpoint multi-touch trackpad or it can
be an 800x480 resolution display which is
actually a phenomen resolution to have in such a small space these are also LED
backlit displays I think I covered that already and ah if you don't like the
glass feel of the touchpad it actually
includes a couple of different feeling covers that you can put on it um that'll
a protect the screen and B give you a bit of a different um a bit of a
different feedback experience depending on what you prefer so that's uh that's
really good uh What else do we have here
guys oh yeah we haven't really covered the keyboard much let's have a look at
the layout of the keyboard because that can really make or break a laptop for me
as if the keyboard has kind of a fail layout so can I reach the backspace yes
can I reach shift and shift yes I can cap slot can be off this is a good
keyboard layout yay or at least in my opinion you know not everyone agrees
with me about everything but uh if they don't then they can get their own
YouTube channel so um so the keyboard lay uses long shifts a reasonably long
enter and a reasonably long backspace when I see shorten shift Keys shorten
Backspaces as someone with small hands that's a real problem for me when the
backspace ends you know right about here and you have a really short one because
I just plain can't reach it whereas this one I can so in terms of hot Keys you've
got your volume controls you've got your external display your media controls
your brightness as well as your other more different brightness so your
keyboard backlight brightness as well as your screen brightness so let's see what it can do there's your razor logo for
activating your hot keys so I don't know what brightness that is but something's
probably going on
and oh please log into synaps to access full switchblade functionality so uh
give me a sec guys so our wireless network isn't working which means I have
to sit here to log in but either way we
have now logged into the synapse 2.0
software and this is really cool so you can customize whatever these displays
have on them so let's go to Twitter for example a cool and then once you do that
apparently you have like navigation back
forward and refresh so they dynamically change in terms of what uh what they're
displaying since we don't have a Twitter account set up check that out that's
actually like a pretty balling out display so to go back to home you just
click the razor logo right here and so let's try going to something that we
actually can go to like say for example um what's this oh cool number pad okay
back oh cool touchscreen number
pad I'm actually kind of I'm kind of liking this oh macro recording okay uh
what's that gaming mode okay so oh this is neat so everything that's up here I
was going to show you guys the app on the screen um so everything that's here
is also apparently here so you got your lighting effects um so switchblade
module brightness normal bright screen brightness all that kind of good stuff
uh you've got your that might be keyboard brightness I don't know whatever something there's touch there's
um hot keys for that anyway so put them to sleep one this saving power saving
mode okay gaming mode allows you to do disable a bunch of different key combos
this is cool I actually haven't most gaming modes are like disable Windows
key but disabling alt Tab and disabling alt f4 are sort of equally important so
um yeah okay so anyway everything that's up there seems to also be down here so
let's go ahead and press this apparently that's going to haha go to razer.com can
we Zoom or anything like
that oh yeah I don't know how to
actually enter like a uh oh search there we
go keyboard active
sweet I mean this is the kind of thing that if you're someone like me okay here
here I'm going to show you guys something when I'm using my computer at
home a lot of the time my smartphone is
like propped up like this on my desk because I'll have like a YouTube video
playing or something while I'm actually trying to use my
computer this is that now I can have
like triple screens so I can be like navigating the
NC weekly special or like reading the Forum without
actually okay it's not super fast but it is what it
is forums come
on yeah there we go nope no I clicked
the wrong thing ah there we go so it lagged a little bit there oh I
missed I hit the new arrivals forums
come on okay so it's not quite an iPhone
Touch Screen but for basic functionality like
watching YouTube videos or whatever else this kind of thing would be absolutely
perfect so let's go back let's see what else we got here so uh you can have a
clock using Razor's like fancy thing and okay so this is just um
so you see that razor logo there that is because the whole thing is a display you
can turn that off and it can just be blank and a 4o multi touchpad you don't
have to have anything on the display um so in games you can actually have
additional information displayed here as well which is really really really cool
um so I'm going to oh right I was sorry I was looking for a touchpad there I'm
just sort of hardwired for that now uh screen resolution so let's see if it
detects it as like a completely separate screen yeah I don't know how they're doing I don't know how they're doing
this but they're doing it and it's really cool and there you go what's that
is that the YouTubes there this is exactly like the only thing that I would
really use this for uh when I'm not like
other than games I guess I guess Twitter's not bad either to be perfectly
honest so you can watch later account most recent search so we could search
for um
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