Rarely has a gaming laptop caused so much buzz as the Razer Blade. The marketing hype surrounding this newly launched lightweight thinly designed gaming notebook was so great, the first batch sold out within minutes. Of course, all this sales hype and promotion, is a great way to introduce any new product, but it is almost essential when this product is coming from a company which is not known for creating laptops of any kind.
Actually, the Razer company was founded in 1998 and is based in California. Razer, in the past, has been mainly known for its gaming accessories such as mouses and keyboards. The Blade is its first gaming laptop and marks the company's entry into this lucrative segment of the computer notebook market.
The Razer Blade's er blade 15 2018 h2 overall feature would have to be its thin "less than an inch" thick all aluminum chassis. For a high-performance gaming laptop that's a major feat in itself, but when your machine only weights 6.4 pounds - you are offering something different. For example, Alienware's M17x is around 10 pounds by comparison, a big difference.
Sleek looks and low poundage is one thing but how does the Blade's gaming specs measure up? Well, this gaming notebook comes with a fast Intel Core i7-2640M processor which is 2.8GHz (Base mode) and 3.5GHz (Turbo mode). It has 8 Gigs of DDR3 RAM and the Nvidia GeForce GT 555M graphics card, which is a mid-range GPU and not the best in this regards. The Alienware M14x has this same GT 555M card so nothing new here. The Blade also sports a true 1080p HD 17.3 inch display. All this is rounded out by a rather small 256GB SATA III SSD or solid state drive.
Perhaps, one of the most unique features of the Blade is its keyboard design and Switchblade User Interface Panel. It has switched out or changed the regular numeric keypad for a "10 Dynamic Tactile Adaptive Keys" to be used for hot-key commands in gaming. When a gamer is using an external mouse, this keypad turns into a LCD displaying game information or even be used as a web browser, to view YouTube... and so on.
