Razer Blade 2015 QHD+ Review

Razer Blade 2015 QHD+ Review-Razer Blade 2015 remains one of the thinnest, light gaming system you can get. Clad in a black aluminum and a 14-inch notebook, weighing £ 4.5 (2kg) and measures 0.7 inches thick (17.9mm). You will find high performance mobile Intel processors are supported by 16GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M with 3GB of memory itself and your choice of 128GB, 256GB or 512GB solid state drive.

Razer Blade 2015

Razer Blade double the RAM at $ 2,399 was charged to last year's model. In the UK, sold through reseller for around £ 2200, and in Australia for AU $ 3700. 128GB SSD fell to shave $ 200 from the price (£ 2,000; AU $ 3,500), while the 512GB SSD jump to bring your total up to $ 2,700, £ 2,430 or AU $ 3900. While the components themselves may not seem worth the price premium, when you consider the whole package, Blade reasonably priced. And it includes one of the best displays I've seen on a laptop Windows 8.1.

Design and Features

In a sea of ​​laptops aluminum silver, matte black Blade chassis adorned with a green glowing logo triple snake company must stand out. Green boomslang continues on the inside for a backlit keyboard and even into the tabs on the three USB 3.0 ports. The keyboard is easily one of the best you'll find on this thin system, responsive to a good trip. Even the choice of font is pretty cool. While you may not use it a lot for gaming, Synaptics touchpad is very good also. You can fine-tune its performance to your liking, including changing the oil option checks all the way, which prevents jumpiness cursor while typing.

Flanking the keyboard some great-sounding stereo speakers that will play loud without distortion. You may want to wear headphones to block cooling fan when the system really cranking, but instead they provide a full sound for movies, music and games. Razer switch to 3,200x1,800-pixel resolution touchscreen for 2014 Blade. This is accurate color, bright screen was not only very good for the game, but great for entertainment and video and photo work too. IPS panels provide wide viewing angles without any significant drop off in color or contrast. However, although the screen gets pretty bright, glare from the glossy screens that are difficult to overcome. Working on this screen in the office or outdoors lit will have you struggling reflection.

If you do not see the value of having a shiny UHD + touchscreen for your needs, Razer does not offer a very good alternative in the form of non-touch IPS HD full screen with a matte finish at a lower cost. Rounding things 802.11ac wireless and Bluetooth 4.0, a full-size HDMI output with support for 7.1-channel audio and a headphone / mic jack. There is also a 2-megapixel webcam with dual array mic to help suppress background noise. There is no Ethernet jack, so you may want to invest in a 3.0 dongle Ethernet to USB for one of its three ports.

Performance and Battery Life

There are no configuration options go beyond choosing the storage capacity, and even that was limited to only three choices M.2 single SATA slot. Hardware here do not give a smooth gameplay even at full resolution. For example, Metro: Last Light. With the resolution set to 3,200x1,800 pixels, set to high quality, texture filtering at 16x AF, and SSAA Advanced PhysX enabled, tesselation on height and motion blur on normal, Blade hit only 14.3 frames per second. Dropping only to 1080p resolution setting, though, make your playable 34fps. And just because it is from Razer does not mean you have to use the blade only for games.

I regularly perform photo and video editing, and Blade worked very well for the tasks. Between the screen and the speakers, it is a solid multimedia PC. When Blade under heavy load, the laptop will be very hot. It was not unusual for a gaming system, but Blade design concentrates heat back down. While this makes it uncomfortable to use on your lap, it makes the heat from the keyboard and palm rest. Downside is, to tame the heat, fans of the system to work overtime and they are not quiet. Again, it is not uncommon for a high-performance laptop, but it must be noted. The battery on our video playback test knocked out at 4 hours and 36 minutes. It was only about 10 minutes longer than we got with 2,014 Blade, but for the category, it's not bad at all.

Specification

• Screen size and resolution: 14-inch touchscreen and 3,200x1,800
• PC CPU: 2.6GHz Intel Core i7 4720HQ
• PC Memory: 16GB of 1,600MHz DDR3 SDRAM 3GB
• Graphics (dedicated): Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M
• Storage: 256GB SSD
• Wireless network: 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0
• Operating System: Windows 8.1 (64-bit)