Razer FINALLY fixed their laptop problem!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,382 words · ~6 min read
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our ces 2019 coverage is brought to you by dbrand their grip case is Linus
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accident proof and their prism screen protectors protect your screen like
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really really well before that though check out this so razer is updating the
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blade advanced as you might expect it is
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now going to be available with an rtx 2060 that is a non-max q that is a
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full-fledged rtx 2060 or an rtx 2070 or
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2080 even both of those ones with max q
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design as NVIDIA says also known as with the clock speeds
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throttled a little bit but that's not even the most important
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thing they changed about this get get get in here get in here check this out
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okay so first of all that right there yes my friends we've got Windows hello
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with the ir camera so finally alex can stop complaining
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about razer laptops not having that feature and come check this out oh
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what and you're probably like well what was
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the big deal there i don't really get it hold on a second where's my where's mine
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here okay okay now we look at it side by side the
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secondary functions of the keys are illuminated i have been complaining
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about this for three years this is a
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huge bummer for me actually being that backlighting on the secondary functions
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of the f keys and the number row is no
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longer backlit which sucks because these are the things that i'm most likely to
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have trouble remembering in the dark three years they traded
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having all the functions illuminated for chroma and i was like really guys really
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we're killing functionality over RGB well now we can have both and the best
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thing is they didn't have to change the key switches so these are still the same
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ones that both alex and i liked from the original blade advanced there's a couple
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of other tweaks it can now accept up to 64 gigs of RAM though razer doesn't
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currently have any plans to offer a configurator on their site so you could
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actually have it shipped with that so they're all 16 gig configurations out of
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the box they have tuned the speakers a little bit and i think that's pretty
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much the majority of it still 144 hertz display but
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on the display front there's some other interesting news they've got a prototype
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here with a 240 hertz display silky smooth it's only
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1080p but if i was an esports player a 240hz display with an rtx 2060 would be
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a pretty nice place to be in terms of a cost to performance and experience ratio
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and this one right here is the one that really
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grabbed our attention when we walked in the room this has a prototype OLED
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display and they haven't really
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well they don't have anything to really tell us about when we could expect to
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see something like this or even if the OLED manufacturers are going to figure
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out the burn-in issues that have plagued them up until this point but
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wow does it ever look good it looks exactly like you'd expect as good as
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OLED but on a laptop razer also has a monitor it's up to 144
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hertz it's got razer chroma RGB in the
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base freesync and ah yes right this is going to be
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their claim to fame on this guy the forged aluminum stand that still manages
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to have height adjust so that's pretty nice and built-in cable management so
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these are usb so you can plug in your peripherals and then it's got a single
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type c that it uses as an uplink and then also HDMI and uh
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uh this one's tethered to a power brick down here
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6.99 for that guy so that's all pretty good stuff but the coolest thing we saw
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was actually on the peripheral side for a change i don't even think we've made a
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video about razer's peripherals in their suite in at least a couple of years but
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this is something that once again i thought i
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was going to think that it was stupid
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but then it was far less stupid than i thought i
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would think it would be so this is razer's vibrating headphones
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which we reviewed recently and said well it's actually not that stupid
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now now we see maybe not the end game but certainly the
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next step in the game because everything that i am touching right now
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that is to do with my gaming experience has haptic feedback so this wrist rest
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has a haptic motor over here on the left exactly where you'd rest your hand on
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wasd and it's strong enough that you can actually kind of feel it throughout the
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keyboard but subtle enough that it's not just like well you know old haptics
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where you're holding the controller and it's like
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like it's not like that the mouse has a haptic motor in the palm and then the
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chair actually has haptic feedback in
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this uh this rear cushion here and the way that this works is just like the
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headphones where depending on the direction that sound is coming from so
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it uses surround sound data it gives you a haptic response so as you're stepping
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around you can actually feel it in the keyboard as you
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use your jetpack you can actually
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feel the rumble behind you and if you fire a rocket for example and
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turn around you feel it in the back and if you fire a rocket and it's in the
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front you feel it more in your keyboard and in your mouse
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even though overwatch doesn't have any specific tuning
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for these peripherals it works shockingly well now razer's vision for
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the future is that they would actually be able to get this technology
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integrated into games and i'm sure they'd love to see a wide variety of
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different peripherals and wearables to enhance the gaming experience
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and i don't think they really envision it as something that's for competitive
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players but if you're just looking for immersion
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it is shocking how not dumb the whole thing feels even in these very
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early stages so i think that wraps it up for the razer booth
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as always this year our ces 2019 coverage is brought to you by dbrand the
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dbrand grip case is all about helping
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you keep a grip on your phone it's got this super grippy material it's got
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their trademark extra clicky buttons all over the case and as before
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it is basically Linus proof it's dbrand
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so you can customize it with any look you'd like and the whole thing is
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precision fit for your device they're prism screen protectors on the other
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hand these are oh these are something else just like the grip it protects your
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phone but the way it does it just blew my mind the demo you're watching right
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now none of that is staged that's real that's a prism screen protector on the
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front of the phone and it feels glassy but then you go and you hit it with
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stuff or you hit your phone against stuff and somehow you can just peel the
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whole thing away and it's like it never happened obviously don't be an idiot
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you know if you you know put it under a hydraulic press
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your phone's to get destroyed but between the grip and the prism man do
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they have a phone protective solution on their hands and you can check it out at
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the link below so thanks for watching guys don't miss
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any of our ces 2019 coverage by making sure you're subscribed to the channel on
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the front of the shirt right there and we will see you in the next suite
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