Razer Blade Pro – Faster! Flashier! Flawed?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,460 words · ~7 min read
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Razer did not even wait for their Blade
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Pro to be available to customers to take aim at Apple's use of the pro moniker on
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a product that didn't even have an SD card reader but in a sense Apple's
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correct in their assertion that Pro can
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have a lot of different meanings an audio production professional has an
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entirely different set of needs from a professional gamer so who is the
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razerblade Pro 4 and at 3700 to
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$4500 will anyone buy one these are both
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very good questions that I will try to
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answer ver Gear's ergonomic s and plus
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out at the link in the video description the Blade Pro outwardly has
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a lot in common with the ancestor I unboxed 4 and 1/2 years ago it's a 17-in
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class device with an all aluminum udab body construction it's got subtle
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Contour on the lid and a blackon black color scheme for style and it's got an
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0.88 in thickness that makes it much
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sleeker looking and feeling than a typical desktop
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replacement once we get past the surface however it becomes abundantly clear what
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Razer has been working on for almost half a decade instead of some nambi
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pambi mid-tier graphics card and a dual core CPU Razer has stuffed all of this
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into the 2016 Blade Pro with the
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standouts being the raid zero PCIe nbme
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SSD storage configuration from the top to the bottom of the lineup and the
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top-of-the-line desktop grade GTX 1088
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gig graphic solution from NVIDIA and
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there's a solid mix of I/O to boot with the highlights for pro users being the
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integrated SD reader HDMI 2.0 output
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with 7.1 codec support gigabit Ethernet
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and a Thunderbolt 3 Port that allows the Blade Pro to be connected to a wide
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variety of external storage devices or other high-end peripherals though
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curiously Razer is not officially supporting their own core external GPU
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enclosure presumably because there wouldn't be much to upgrade to I mean to
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say this thing flies would be a gross understatement games productivity
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content creation it chews through it all
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there are a lot of laptops out there with 4K displays at this point but
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almost all of them including the also
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pretty Sleek though still thicker EVGA
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sc7 have suffered from the same fa fatal
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flaw they don't have the horses to
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properly drive that kind of resolution
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but these thermal results and gaming benchmarks should show that the Blade
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Pro is ready to deliver a comfortable experience in even the most demanding
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triaa games with razer's inclusion of NVIDIA g-sync adaptive refresh
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technology going a long way towards smoothing out the appearance of
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on-screen animations even down to around 40 frames per second but back back to
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one of my earlier questions cramming a GTX 1080 into any household object turns
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it into a suitable device for professional Gamers but what has Razer
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done to draw in other professionals
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we'll start with the display touchscreen nice to have solid IPS like viewing
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angles nice to have too a greater than
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1,000 to1 contrast ratio with 99% Adobe
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RGB coverage now you're getting my attention
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this means more creative possibilities in programs like Adobe Creative Cloud
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with support for this wider color space
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but based on these values not out of the
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box a Delta e of greater than two is
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considered not accurate so a calibration tool would be necessary before doing
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even basic color grading work let's move on now to the human interface aspect of
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the Blade Pro the switchblade interfaces
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touchscreen monitor touchpad and mini display programmable buttons from the
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original Blade Pro are gone Razer says
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this was to make room for more internal components but I think it's because
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they've had this time to reflect on the usefulness of programmable gaming Keys
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above a touchpad but one thing that does remain
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is the Curious positioning of the trackpad along with the integrated
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scroll or volume wheel and media keys
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what the hell was Razer thinking with this I think they were thinking eh most
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people will get used to it and actually for most purposes I kind of did The Dead
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Zone at the bottom shouldn't be there it's uncomfortable to use two-handed so
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I run out of pad when clicking and dragging stuff over long distances and
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respect to Apple for their haptic touchpads the long travel down distance
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makes the pointer move sometimes when I'm trying to click but it is far far
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from unusable and number two they were
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thinking they wanted to cram a maximum legal limit 99w hour battery into the
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wrist rest giving the Blade Pro very
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solid battery life for a desktop replacement class product about 75% of
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the Dell XPS Pro in my usual test and
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about equal to its smaller brother the blade in a gaming test so the touchpad
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ends up being kind of a neutral contr point for me but what about the keyboard
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well this might cost me early access to the next big razor blade launch but it
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has to be said loud and clear so they
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learn sure it's reprogrammable in
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synapse it's got RGB or whatever but
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this thing is abominable you don't have
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to move a lot to seriously impede a
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strong touch typist ability to get anything done on a keyboard and while
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I've been asking Razer for full-sized arrow keys for some time now this is not
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a price I'm willing to pay for them
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making matters worse Razer 65 G
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mechanical key switches are among the worst I've encountered in a long time I
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already don't prefer the heavily front-loaded tactile bump and mushy
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follow through but it's the inconsistency in feel from key to key
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that really make it impossible to maintain accuracy at speed you can even
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hear it listen to how different these
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keys right next to each other
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sound there's no hiding behind optimized
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for gaming as a defense this time this
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is a bad keyboard on that note thanks to
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some extra porting the compressed speakers actually sound pretty good good
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but on the subject of Acoustics the Blade Pro carries on the tradition of
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the blade song as I like to call it being tolerable at idle but very loud
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under heavy loads when a lot of air flow is needed leading then to the answer to
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my second question would anyone buy one
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this is a product that has some noticeable warts I personally vow to
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never buy a razor product with this keyboard design but it's one that also
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has some utterly unique selling points
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like its small power brick especially for a laptop of this power it's Adobe
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RGB screen and it's jawdropping
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performance in what is a larger and
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heavier compared to the blade but legitimately portable and even sexy form
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factor so are there buyers out there
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