WEBVTT 00:00:07.279 --> 00:00:16.119 you guys asked for it and I delivered eventually this is the razor blade I am 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:22.039 doing an unboxing of this was an E3 demo unit so yes it's already open but I 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:26.679 think you'll mostly get the point so what do we have inside we have peel off 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:30.199 oh okay interesting place the film over and apply the film to the okay I'll 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:34.200 explain what this is after so that's probably supposed to be actually inside 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:40.640 the package somewhere so the razor blade is a gaming notebook from a legitimately 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:46.760 gaming company Razer um there's a lot of gaming notebooks from and I speak from 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:49.000 firsthand experience from companies that 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:56.039 don't actually understand what Gamers want and what Gamers need and not every 00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:59.600 uh not every notebook solution that is high performance or that is high quality 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:05.080 is necessarily great for gaming for example Lenovo think pads great 00:01:02.559 --> 00:01:08.880 notebooks not great for gaming more designed for corporate use rugged 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:13.119 portability that kind of things so it's all about what you actually need and 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:19.080 Razer believes that this notebook is entirely focused on what the gamer needs 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:21.200 Razer as always just like brilliant 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:25.640 packaging that's that's how they roll they've got like kind of a carbon fiber 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:30.840 esque sort of look to the top of the box here and that's all the time you get to 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:34.880 look at it because we have to keep things rolling here and have a look at 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:41.759 the notebook itself so this is a 17-in gaming notebook it has a quad core 2.8 00:01:39.479 --> 00:01:46.479 GHz mobile processor that turbos up to 3.5 GHz did I say quad core I'm sorry I 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:50.119 meant dual core uh thank you for the correction slick uh so it has a dual 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:56.680 core processor however if you checked out my recent episode on NC Tech tips on 00:01:53.479 --> 00:01:59.079 the ncixcom channel you'll see that 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:03.119 actually Beyond two cores hyperthreaded in modern games 00:02:00.399 --> 00:02:08.520 there isn't really much benefit assuming the same clock speeds however for mobile 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:13.959 CPUs uh making the same clock speed assumption isn't really fair because 00:02:11.239 --> 00:02:19.280 most mobile quad cores are not clocked at the same kind of speed as most mobile 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:21.280 dual cores so there you go something to 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:30.280 be aware of you guys it has 8 gigs of dddr uh DDR3 memory it has a GT 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:34.120 550m graphics card and at 88 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:37.680 in it is phenomenally thin so it uses an 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:42.720 aluminum construction which feels just 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:45.159 absolutely beautiful um wow that's quite 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:51.200 nice actually and the weight is is actually pretty manageable too so the 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:53.599 unit is about 7 lb which for a 17in 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:57.159 notebook is already pretty good plus the fact that it uses a metal construction 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:01.720 which doesn't really help with the weight Factor but does help them keep it 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:05.040 uh sign ific Slimmer so let's start with the overall phys oh right right right 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:11.799 okay let's finish with specs so spec wise right so it's got a 17.3 in LED 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:15.000 backlit screen it has a 256 gig boot SSD 00:03:11.799 --> 00:03:17.159 it has let's just open this up here uh 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:22.200 it has a full um anti- ghosting keyboard so what 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:27.680 that means is that you're not going to have any issues or problems if you 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:31.840 accidentally press um you know some keyboards you if you press sort of uh 00:03:29.480 --> 00:03:35.519 comb of keys it can ghost and it can actually interject additional characters 00:03:33.799 --> 00:03:39.080 or not register key presses correctly all that kind of stuff so it has a 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:44.760 gaming grade keyboard has a power button up here which has a green Halo it also 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:46.959 has a fully backlit keyboard and um it's 00:03:44.760 --> 00:03:51.360 got an integrated sound bar so instead of doing stereo speakers they've gone 00:03:48.519 --> 00:03:55.920 with a sound bar and this this is the uh kudrass of this particular product this 00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:03.360 is the switchblade interface so instead of a traditional touchpad it is booted 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:06.799 up now it is a glass surface here glass 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:09.040 plastic feels like glass um so whatever 00:04:06.799 --> 00:04:16.720 it's it's a it's a surface here that has two buttons and then 10 fully 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:21.359 customizable display buttons so these okay if you guys remember that um I 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:26.800 forget what it was called it was like that art lebedev keyboard that it was 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:28.240 the full keyboard with individual OLED 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:34.120 screens and all the keys and it was fully programmable for whatever you want wanted to do whatever language you 00:04:30.919 --> 00:04:36.520 wanted this is basically that except 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:42.039 actually made commercially viable so you use their synapse 2.0 software which 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:43.880 allows you to customize what shows up on 00:04:42.039 --> 00:04:46.520 these little screens it allows you to customize the functionality of the 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:51.039 buttons you can have profiles for various games and the synapse 2.0 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.360 software actually allows you to save uh a variety of different gaming settings 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:58.960 in the cloud so you can take them with you wherever you go so let's finish up 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:05.400 with the exterior of the unit before we get too much further into uh into more 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:06.320 details of the switch blade which is 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:13.160 looks like a whoops now I'm breaking everything 00:05:09.479 --> 00:05:15.240 okay so let's do the uh the traditional 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:19.280 iPhone thickness comparison there you go guys that gives you some idea so the 00:05:17.039 --> 00:05:22.880 laptop is actually less than 7 lb the 7 lb travel weight is assuming you're 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:28.639 carrying around the adapter as well which is extremely small and slim so you 00:05:25.479 --> 00:05:30.600 can see it's even here we go iPhone size 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:35.000 comparison whether you guys like it or not now you know how big the adapter is 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:41.440 so there H and this is actually kind of cool it comes with a nice rubber strap 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:43.080 for uh strapping the cable so instead of 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:46.919 one of those velcro ones that will wear out eventually because velcro inherently 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:51.280 will you uh you get that instead okay so ventilation is here on 00:05:49.479 --> 00:05:58.120 the side you can see the uh the heat sink fins power in is here uh gigabit 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:01.680 Ethernet HDMI out super speed USB 3 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:03.800 colorcoded green uh two USB 2.0 ports 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.120 and a headphone outport on this side on the front of the unit you find not a 00:06:05.960 --> 00:06:11.479 whole lot in terms of I/O and on the other side of the unit you find just a 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:14.800 Kensington lock which as you can see based on that this is a demo unit has 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:18.720 been used you can also see another cooling vent here as well as a heat pipe 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:23.800 in there so obviously like pretty much every laptop that exists right now it is 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:26.840 using a heat pipe for cooling uh is that more oh yeah more ventilation here so 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:32.319 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 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:36.240 soft surface uh because those are your intakes right there make sure they don't 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:41.080 get covered when you are especially when you are uh gaming so the Razer logo on 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:45.360 the back which I think is great and Slick apparently doesn't like the razor 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.919 logo as much as I do but whatever uh he's not the one who gets to stand in 00:06:46.599 --> 00:06:52.520 front of the camera and give his opinion anyway so the razor logo which I love 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:57.120 looks absolutely fantastic on the all aluminum top here and it does have a 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:01.000 backlight so it glows and looks all baller I mean come on it's better than 00:06:58.919 --> 00:07:06.479 Apple or with their logos on the back of a laptop see now he's nodding in 00:07:02.440 --> 00:07:09.280 agreement it's awesome um the keyboard 00:07:06.479 --> 00:07:13.280 itself has almost no flex which is of course one of the advantages of using uh 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:17.840 an aluminum construction for the notebook The Notebook itself has this is 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:22.080 actually pretty good considering how thin this is so this is a very thin 00:07:20.080 --> 00:07:25.879 screen as you guys can see now that I'm holding my iPhone up against it and it 00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:31.440 only has just a touch of flex to it that's really good um and then the the 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:36.240 bottom just just absolutely no flex at all completely rigid so this thing is 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:40.800 going to that it really helps it adds to the durability of a notebook when the 00:07:38.440 --> 00:07:43.919 parts aren't constantly being stressed and it happens whether you're aware of 00:07:42.479 --> 00:07:48.560 it or not when you're putting it in a bag or or moving it around it will 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:53.879 happen I mean I mean have you guys ever used a notebook like this and walked 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:56.919 around like this if you have done that you're putting you're putting stress on 00:07:55.159 --> 00:08:00.720 the internal components because you're only supporting a small part of it and 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:03.879 you're straining the BCBS it's not good for it I mean it's not going to kill it 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.440 immediately but it's just one of those things where having a more solidly built 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:13.720 notebook is definitely a good thing um oh yeah I want to show you guys how nice 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:16.720 the backl is on that keyboard it's 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:18.400 awesome so beautifully backlit keyboard 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:23.360 you can't really see much halo around the outsides of the keys at all but the 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:27.720 uh the letterings themselves are very very well lit up so those look like they 00:08:25.520 --> 00:08:32.200 must be I mean they must be edged Keys cuz I can't imagine any other way you'd 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:36.719 get an awesome backlight like that um right so let's talk switchblade 2.0 so 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:40.880 the switchblade 2.0 UI and so you can see guys this is a trackpad it's also 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:47.519 like a glass touch thing now not Everyone likes glass wait okay no let's 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:49.519 talk switchblade 2. or um synapse 2.0 uh 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:53.920 before we go any further so synapse 2.0 is compatible with this as well as 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:57.240 future razor products and some Legacy products like the Naga it actually 00:08:55.519 --> 00:09:01.880 allows you to save a variety of different things like macros uh any kind 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:06.240 of programming any kind of sensitivity settings um even things like lighting 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:10.360 effects you can actually save in the cloud and then you just go to a land 00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:14.959 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 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:20.839 cool the switchblade is fully compatible with it and it can serve as one of two 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:24.959 different things so it can either be a fourpoint multi-touch trackpad or it can 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:30.920 be an 800x480 resolution display which is 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:35.120 actually a phenomen resolution to have in such a small space these are also LED 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:41.040 backlit displays I think I covered that already and ah if you don't like the 00:09:37.920 --> 00:09:43.839 glass feel of the touchpad it actually 00:09:41.040 --> 00:09:48.680 includes a couple of different feeling covers that you can put on it um that'll 00:09:46.680 --> 00:09:53.000 a protect the screen and B give you a bit of a different um a bit of a 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:57.360 different feedback experience depending on what you prefer so that's uh that's 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:02.279 really good uh What else do we have here 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:07.440 guys oh yeah we haven't really covered the keyboard much let's have a look at 00:10:05.880 --> 00:10:11.760 the layout of the keyboard because that can really make or break a laptop for me 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:16.600 as if the keyboard has kind of a fail layout so can I reach the backspace yes 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:21.720 can I reach shift and shift yes I can cap slot can be off this is a good 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:25.399 keyboard layout yay or at least in my opinion you know not everyone agrees 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:29.120 with me about everything but uh if they don't then they can get their own 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:33.160 YouTube channel so um so the keyboard lay uses long shifts a reasonably long 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:37.000 enter and a reasonably long backspace when I see shorten shift Keys shorten 00:10:34.880 --> 00:10:40.639 Backspaces as someone with small hands that's a real problem for me when the 00:10:38.560 --> 00:10:44.079 backspace ends you know right about here and you have a really short one because 00:10:41.959 --> 00:10:49.360 I just plain can't reach it whereas this one I can so in terms of hot Keys you've 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:53.920 got your volume controls you've got your external display your media controls 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:56.639 your brightness as well as your other more different brightness so your 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:02.320 keyboard backlight brightness as well as your screen brightness so let's see what it can do there's your razor logo for 00:10:59.880 --> 00:11:06.959 activating your hot keys so I don't know what brightness that is but something's 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:06.959 probably going on 00:11:07.959 --> 00:11:16.079 and oh please log into synaps to access full switchblade functionality so uh 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:21.279 give me a sec guys so our wireless network isn't working which means I have 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:24.360 to sit here to log in but either way we 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:26.880 have now logged into the synapse 2.0 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:31.440 software and this is really cool so you can customize whatever these displays 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:39.079 have on them so let's go to Twitter for example a cool and then once you do that 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:41.000 apparently you have like navigation back 00:11:39.079 --> 00:11:45.880 forward and refresh so they dynamically change in terms of what uh what they're 00:11:43.760 --> 00:11:49.279 displaying since we don't have a Twitter account set up check that out that's 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:54.320 actually like a pretty balling out display so to go back to home you just 00:11:51.880 --> 00:11:58.399 click the razor logo right here and so let's try going to something that we 00:11:55.560 --> 00:12:08.720 actually can go to like say for example um what's this oh cool number pad okay 00:12:04.920 --> 00:12:10.880 back oh cool touchscreen number 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:16.279 pad I'm actually kind of I'm kind of liking this oh macro recording okay uh 00:12:13.800 --> 00:12:20.199 what's that gaming mode okay so oh this is neat so everything that's up here I 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:25.480 was going to show you guys the app on the screen um so everything that's here 00:12:23.040 --> 00:12:30.639 is also apparently here so you got your lighting effects um so switchblade 00:12:28.199 --> 00:12:34.760 module brightness normal bright screen brightness all that kind of good stuff 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:40.680 uh you've got your that might be keyboard brightness I don't know whatever something there's touch there's 00:12:37.880 --> 00:12:44.880 um hot keys for that anyway so put them to sleep one this saving power saving 00:12:42.920 --> 00:12:48.399 mode okay gaming mode allows you to do disable a bunch of different key combos 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:52.240 this is cool I actually haven't most gaming modes are like disable Windows 00:12:50.079 --> 00:12:57.480 key but disabling alt Tab and disabling alt f4 are sort of equally important so 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:01.600 um yeah okay so anyway everything that's up there seems to also be down here so 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:07.399 let's go ahead and press this apparently that's going to haha go to razer.com can 00:13:03.959 --> 00:13:07.399 we Zoom or anything like 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:13.959 that oh yeah I don't know how to 00:13:11.800 --> 00:13:17.480 actually enter like a uh oh search there we 00:13:14.839 --> 00:13:20.480 go keyboard active 00:13:23.880 --> 00:13:30.079 sweet I mean this is the kind of thing that if you're someone like me okay here 00:13:28.839 --> 00:13:36.199 here I'm going to show you guys something when I'm using my computer at 00:13:32.760 --> 00:13:38.560 home a lot of the time my smartphone is 00:13:36.199 --> 00:13:42.120 like propped up like this on my desk because I'll have like a YouTube video 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:46.959 playing or something while I'm actually trying to use my 00:13:43.800 --> 00:13:48.440 computer this is that now I can have 00:13:46.959 --> 00:13:53.600 like triple screens so I can be like navigating the 00:13:51.079 --> 00:13:57.040 NC weekly special or like reading the Forum without 00:13:58.040 --> 00:14:06.120 actually okay it's not super fast but it is what it 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:06.120 is forums come 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:12.600 on yeah there we go nope no I clicked 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:17.440 the wrong thing ah there we go so it lagged a little bit there oh I 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:19.040 missed I hit the new arrivals forums 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:22.399 come on okay so it's not quite an iPhone 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:27.040 Touch Screen but for basic functionality like 00:14:25.199 --> 00:14:29.839 watching YouTube videos or whatever else this kind of thing would be absolutely 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:35.880 perfect so let's go back let's see what else we got here so uh you can have a 00:14:32.920 --> 00:14:41.440 clock using Razor's like fancy thing and okay so this is just um 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:45.079 so you see that razor logo there that is because the whole thing is a display you 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:49.440 can turn that off and it can just be blank and a 4o multi touchpad you don't 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:53.240 have to have anything on the display um so in games you can actually have 00:14:51.040 --> 00:14:57.519 additional information displayed here as well which is really really really cool 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:02.079 um so I'm going to oh right I was sorry I was looking for a touchpad there I'm 00:14:59.560 --> 00:15:05.800 just sort of hardwired for that now uh screen resolution so let's see if it 00:15:04.079 --> 00:15:09.680 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 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:15.440 this but they're doing it and it's really cool and there you go what's that 00:15:12.959 --> 00:15:21.160 is that the YouTubes there this is exactly like the only thing that I would 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:22.880 really use this for uh when I'm not like 00:15:21.160 --> 00:15:27.440 other than games I guess I guess Twitter's not bad either to be perfectly 00:15:24.920 --> 00:15:32.800 honest so you can watch later account most recent search so we could search 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:38.199 for um 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:41.639 oops minus Tech 00:15:38.199 --> 00:15:43.319 chips and we could watch my p8 z77 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:49.480 premium motherboard unboxing so 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:55.880 cool okay so that is the razor blade to 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:58.600 my uning the8 z77 V premium Now of 00:15:55.880 --> 00:16:02.360 not uh razor blade unboxing don't forget to sub subscribe to L Tech tips for more 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:06.639 unboxings reviews and other computer videos there goes my phone