Razer BLADE One Of The Best Laptop For Gaming .But ..!!
Razer’s Blade laptop is a fairly low-performance gaming machine wrapped in an impressively slim black aluminum chassis that looks and feels great. The well-designed, sturdy laptop weighs 6.6 pounds and measures just 0.88 inches thick, and the newest iteration — which we reviewed a couple of months ago — has made some significant improvements since the first model.The OS is post RT and pre-8.1. It’s all powered by Intel’s brand new i7 4700-HQ processor (Haswell).
The speed at which this machine gets things done is staggering. The trackpad, which is located on the right side of the keyboard in lieu of a number pad, functions well except for mild issues with two-finger scrolling. The Switchblade UI — a set of ten customizable LCD keys and an LCD screen beneath the touchpad — is a cool concept, but remains little more than a glorified set of macro buttons until more games support it. The cramped keyboard is shallow and occasionally unresponsive, which is bad news unless you plan to carry a full-size USB keyboard around as a substitute. The 17.3-inch matte LCD screen and revamped speakers provide a reasonably good experience, but nothing exceptional
LOOK and DESIGNE
It seems strange to applaud the absence of a feature, yet it's the loss of Razer's Switchblade interface that makes the 14-inch Blade an enticing choice. Yes, the configurable, display-laden touchpad is a unique and charming feature, but cutting it allowed Razer to build the smaller, less complex laptop we have here -- and there's grace in that simplicity. Without the flashy interface, the machine instantly becomes more accessible than its predecessors, offering the familiar trappings of mobile computing without the burden of mastering a new input device .
. The entire laptop is black with the emerald used only for the lettering on the chicklet style keys and the Razer logo emblazoned on the front cover. Aluminum is the pervading material used. It looks good but you’ll want to wipe it down regularly. It’s a magnet for visible fingerprints and smudging. There’s not a lot unused fluff in or out. When opened you see the webcam and mic at the top of the display. Above the keyboard we have a large power button with another green Razer logo. The keyboard is large with the sizeable chicklet keys. They offer great response and sound nice when pressed. You don’t get a traditional numpad. But one can be accessed as one of the included functions of the trackpad. It’s positioned to the right and creates a familiar and semi-traditional keyboard and mouse setup. This layout and design is more natural for gamers. There’s no fear of inadvertently hitting the trackpad which is typically found below a laptop’s keyboard.
CREATIVE KEYBOARD &TRACKPAD
The trackpad, which is located on the right side of the keyboard in lieu of a number pad, functions well except for mild issues with two-finger scrolling. The Switchblade UI — a set of ten customizable LCD keys and an LCD screen beneath the touchpad — is a cool concept, but remains little more than a glorified set of macro buttons until more games support it. The cramped keyboard is shallow and occasionally unresponsive, which is bad news unless you plan to carry a full-size USB keyboard around as a substitute.
We've made a lot of fuss over mousing surfaces in the past, harshly judging many Windows machines for having unresponsive trackpads with poor gesture recognition. Thankfully, this trend of subpar touchpads seems to be dying off, and the Blade is the latest (and possibly greatest) example of a PC mouse doing it right. This smooth, low-friction surface is easily one of the most responsive and tactilely satisfying trackpads we've seen on a Windows device. It's roomy, too: a large, matte black sensor provides ample room for multi-touch Windows 8 gestures, most of which it recognizes instantly and without error.
Some of the Switchblade supported apps available for download include GIMP to touch up images using the UI, Photoshop for a new tools window with a ton of functionality, Premiere Pro for editing movies, Maya autodesk app for animation tool sets on the UI, Unreal Developer Kit accessibility through the UI and a cool gamer-friendly feature called Mirror Mode. This lets you re-create a portion of your game’s screen and interface right on the Switchblade. Place your RPG character’s gear or item tool belt here for easy access from the Switchblade UI. As the dev kit for the UI makes its rounds to more developers we hope to many and more intelligent applications. I’m still waiting for a dedicated Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble integration and some cool video capture functionality.
GPU PERFORMANCE
In the performance side, the Razer Blade really lags behind thicker gaming laptop options. A 2.2GHz Core i7-3632QM processor, 8GB of RAM, and a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M with 2GB of memory may sound impressive, but these specs aren’t exactly the makings of a gaming powerhouse, and are disappointing in a laptop that costs $2,499. The slender machine can certainly still play games — you’ll be able to play Battlefield 3 at 1080p on low to medium settings and The Witcher 2, easily the most demanding game we tested, at 1600 x 900 with medium detail — but it will have a hard time keeping up with the newest titles on full settings. Gaming laptops aren’t future-proof — the processor and graphics cards can’t be upgraded, and in most cases you can’t add more RAM — and with that in mind, you probably don’t want to start out with a machine that’s already behind the curve. The Blade also runs fairly hot when gaming, and the fans can get a bit noisy when they’re running at full capacity.
If you want more juice then you could manually tweak settings accordingly, reducing resolution and so forth. With the hands-on approach, GeForce Experience analyzes your hardware and sets game settings accordingly. That said, you won’t get 60+ fps in Metro Last Light with settings maxed. This is the case for BF3, Max Payne 3 and BioShock Infinite. However, mid-range settings allow you to game smoothly and at 1080p on LED backlit display
Battery Life
In our Verge Battery Test, during which the machine cycles through a number of popular websites and high-res images with the screen at 65 percent brightness, the Blade lasted 3 hours and 27 minutes — not bad for a gaming machine, but weak compared to most laptops. The Razer Blade is the only laptop in this roundup that doesn’t dial down its graphics performance when unplugged, which is useful for switching between outlets or going very short periods without power. However, in our tests the Blade only managed about 20 minutes of Battlefield 3 before warning us the battery was running low, so even though you can play games without being plugged in, you won’t be doing it for long.
Storage: Tight Pockets
You absolutely need an external HDD. The Samsung 841 256gb SSD is lightening fast in the realm of 500+mb/s a second. It’s one of the best solid state drives on the market. Yet at this capacity, things feel highly constricting. The scenario reminds me of Aladdin “Absolute cosmic power in a itty-bitty living space.” But seriously, that’s a shallow pocket. You can get by for a while. But without a higher capacity secondary solution, get ready for a lot of drive content management and file shuffling.
SOFTWARE
There's nothing worse than booting up a brand-new computer only to find it riddled with intrusive and unnecessary bloatware -- thankfully, you won't find any on the 14-inch Razer Blade. It's one of our favorite things about Razer hardware. No trials, no unwanted software bundles and no garbage: just a clean, lightweight Windows 8 installation. Razer did install some of its own software of course, including its standard Synapse device-management package and a beta version of Razer Comms, an instant-messaging client. We could hardly ask for anything less.
CONCLUSION
The Razer Blade is a beautifully designed, durable laptop that’s surprisingly thin for a gaming machine. It’s much more portable than the vast majority of gaming laptops, but its poor battery life essentially negates the Blade’s advantage as the only laptop in this roundup that doesn’t throttle when unplugged. Also,
its performance flounders in comparison to other gaming machines: we’d expect a $2,500 gaming laptop to be able to play virtually all of the latest games on full settings, but instead, Razer sacrificed performance for size and slapped on a pretty huge price tag.But still Razer BLADE One Of The Best Laptop For Gaming
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