we're here at CES 2025 in the Razer Booth where honestly I was planning on
just passing it over although every single person has been telling me you
have to go to the Razer Booth they improved their keyboards everyone at
Razer has been saying go go go so we're going to test it out now first the older
razor blade as you can see it is fairly
thick and the keyboard is what you could call not very good although the new one
they have somehow both made it substantially thinner while also
increasing the key travel by 50% now
let's give this a little test here honestly it is great like hats off guys
this keyboard is one of the better ones just period it is a really great
keyboard I'm going along here the key consistency is fantastic if you look
when I press on the corner it doesn't get all floppy before they had a problem
where they just kind of move around and make it really hard to tell when exactly
you're hitting it but out that is completely solved loads of key travel
and this isn't even a final version of the product so in a pre-pro version damn
they have done a really really good job now the blade 16 has had a lot going for
it for a long time now that it doesn't have that laptop ruining keyboard we can
look at the rest of it and just generally be very happy with it here we
have very solid I/O we have our power in
two USB A's USBC because this is AMD not
Intel and headphone microphone combo Jack over on the other side HDMI 2.1
another type A type c and a full-size SD card slot I really like to see that I
know that our camera operator Andy also really likes it one thing that's
unchanged from the previous model is the display but that is not a bad thing so
here we have a 16-in 1600p 240 HZ OLED panel that just looks
freaking fantastic and with the new power that is inside of it the chances
that you can take full advantage of that display is increased even more and here
we get up to an RTX 59 which is damn
impressive in a laptop of this size and it will be able to get a tgp of 155
watts and also we have an AMD ryzen oh I
hate these names so much an AMD ryzen AI
HX 370 up to that jeez one change to the
new model that I honestly don't think I have ever heard of before is that they
made the trackpad smaller I guess on the
older version a lot of people were typing with their hands out like this
because of just how darn large the trackpad was and it wasn't particularly
comfy so now they have made it a little bit narrower to make where your hands
want to sit while you type on the keyboard just make a little bit more
sense now one thing that didn't quite make sense to me was how they managed to
make the laptop both thinner and increase the key travel by 50 % now part
of that has to do with what they're calling their thermal Hood basically
it's a little bit of a cheat to make it seem like it's thinner than it actually
is but at the same time it's not too bad
but we get to be the first ones to take
this razor blade apart we asked very nicely many times and if you ask enough
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we are able to get in in here we have
this absolutely massive Vapor chamber
they say that it has gone up from 52% coverage of the motherboard to 57% which
is a kind of weird stat but it works I guess we do have two SSD slots which is
very nice although sadly the sodm slots are gone on this version they said that
is because of the thinness and also it allowed them to go up to 8,000 megga
transfers per second and get a little bit more performance out of their RAM so
fair enough and also here we have a nice little Wi-Fi card it's mediate Tech
though so you might want to swap it out but you can in here we also have a nice
large 90w hour battery we don't have battery life quotes yet but of course
more efficient ryzen processor probably quite a a bit more battery life as well
we also get quite a bit more speakers they have six now conveniently the
speaker module has fallen out which allows us to confirm that it is a force
cancelling driver right here and you also get one Tweeter up top and I
imagine THX surround sound I'd recommend
turning that off we don't have exact pricing or availability but we do expect
it to drop in q1 of 2025 and they said
that the pricing is going to be very aggressive on the entry model and that
we will be happy about it so we'll find out soon if that is true
maybe you don't want a great big gaming laptop in your backpack though but you
have a great big gaming desktop at your house how do you take that with you well
Razer has a new solution which they call remote play this is in their Razer
cortex software and it isn't a beta although it's actually based off of
moonlight if you're familiar with it if you're not Moonlight is like a remote
streaming software that is open source and although it is very powerful it is
also a hug huge pain in the ass to use
fortunately though Razor's implementation of it is incredibly
simple so you just say that you're a host here you can go and say that you're
on a desktop over here in their app which works on Android iOS and Windows
the thing that's super cool about this is that in a lot of Remote Play
situations you are just copying what's on your desktop and putting on your
mobile device even though the resolutions of the two probably don't
match up what they do here though is that that it takes your game and
displays it at the native resolution of your mobile device which is just so much
better looking I don't see any artifacting here and the latency seems
super low which makes sense cuz Moonlight is fantastic but I didn't have
to spend the last hour setting it up so I'd call it a win maybe in your remote
play session though things are getting very sweaty you're playing some
12-year-olds in rocket league and they are trying super hard which is where the
project aerial chair comes in this right here is basically a Dyson air blade
integrated into a gaming chair and it's actually freaking sweet so they have
like a fan that's down here and then along the edges of this mesh it is just
going to be blowing on you and it feels
incredible but the best part is that maybe you don't want to cool down it's
the winter in Canada you need some warmth well you can just press a button
right here the thing's going to turn red and suddenly you have some heating I
could see this not only being great for gamers but also fantastic for just
general office use because sometimes maybe your neighbor is always running
way too hot you're running too cold you can just decide is your chair going to
blow hot air on you cold air and it's very very silent so you don't have to
worry about being that that has a really loud fan on their desk I like
it now we don't have pricing yet for project aiel but given that the chair
that attached to without the fan costs
over $1,000 it's safe to say it will not be
cheap that is where the iscar V2 comes
in they have new lumbar technology which
you don't really get to adjust but if I'm honest it does feel pretty darn good
given the fact that this is a $299 chair it has quite a good feel this
foam feels like that it's not going to be complete garbage in a couple of
months like a lot of $299 chairs are so
I'm overall pretty happy with it just like I'm very happy that you made it to
the end of this video huge thanks for watching hit like get subscribe and just
have a great old day see you at our next CS booth