The slim and sleek design of the Razer Blade is unchanged, looking very much like a MacBook Pro dressed in black. The aluminum chassis measures 0.7 by 13.6 by 9.3 inches (HWD) and the laptop weighs just 4.47 pounds, making it light enough to carry in a laptop bag. The aluminum is anodized a matte black, which is accented with bright-green touches¡ªthe USB ports, a glowing Razer logo on the lid, and the backlight of the keyboard all have the same verdant glow.The display is just as impressive as the one on sony vgp ac10v10 ac adaptor last year's Razer Blade (2014), with QHD+ (3,200-by-1,800) resolution, with an Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) panel that offers stunning color quality and excellent viewing angles. That resolution is actually higher than those seen on systems like the MSI GS60, and it's one of the most impressive aspects of the previous iteration. The screen also boasts 10-point touch capability, which is still relatively rare on gaming systems. Whether or not that higher resolution is the best choice for battery Samsung NP350V5C an ultraportable is still up for debate. If you want avoid the issues of better-than-HD altogether, Razer also sells a version of the Blade equipped with a 1,920-by-1,080, non-touch display ($1,999.99).(predictably) quite good, as Razer's bread and butter has long been gaming peripherals. It's optimized for gaming, with full anti-ghosting, meaning you can press any number of keys without the input locking up or slowing down. The keys have a solid feel to them, and the key travel is deeper than you'll get with most chiclet-style keyboards, which I greatly prefer. It's also programmable, letting you remap keys or assign macro commands in Razer's Synapse control dashboard.The mouse is similarly optimized, with its size Samsung AD-4014B adapter and touch calibration set to require less lifting of fingers for smooth tracking across the display, and separate right and left buttons with firm feedback. On either side of the keyboard are built-in speakers, providing stereo sound with enough volume to fill a room, and even a bit more bass than we expected. Razer also bolsters the sound with its own audio software, Razer Surround, which offers 7.1 surround sound for both speaker systems and gaming headsets.Heat is a significant problem, and it's little wonder with high-performance components packed into such a narrow space. Though Razer does tout its thermal management, I still felt the heat, with temperatures hitting 128 degrees during Samsung B2014NC charger testing (as measured with a Fluke IR thermometer). Fan noise doesn't seem to be as big a problem this time around, but it's still quite noticeable.
Keyboard and trackpad
The Razer Blade's 80-button keyboard serves as a reminder of what Razer used to be. Before it started making lighted key interfaces, gaming laptops and overpowered tablets, the company was known for building PC gaming peripherals, and that history shows. The chiclet keyboard is a joy to type on, with firm keys that depress with a light click and just the right amount of downward travel. It also boasts niche features like anti-ghosting, and has fully programmable, macro-ready keys. That said, it's not quite perfect--lenovo yoga 3 power adapter still lacks a hotkey to disable the Windows button (though this can be accomplished through Razer's Synapse software).Although the touchpad hasn't undergone any physical changes since last year, it seems to perform a little better. It's still a large, smooth surface with a pair of quiet, if slightly mushy buttons, but it handles Windows 8 gestures better than the 2013 model did. That trackpad, if you'll recall, had an occasional tendency to zoom while scrolling--an issue I never encountered with Razer's latest system. It's a good mouser, but I'm still not completely sold on its left and right clickers. They do the job, but their quiet depressions just feel out of sync with the satisfying clicks of the keyboard.
Display
Looking to quell complaints about the previous Blade's 1600 x 900 display, Razer put its money where its mouth is and outfitted the latest version with a 3200 x 1800 retina-like touch-screen panel. I was impressed by the screen's vivid color and crisp detail ... until I placed it next to my MacBook Pro 15 with Retina.Despite the lower, 2880 x 1800 resolution, my 15-inch t200ta charger with Retina beat the Blade on both fronts. When I looked at an image of an American bald eagle on both panels, the Blade delivered more-realistic hues, complete with white head-feathers flecked with subtle hints of gold and brown. However, my eye kept coming back to the MacBook with its borderline-oversaturated golds and browns. The tongue hanging out of the bird's disturbing maw was a fleshy pink.The MacBook was the clear winner on details, delivering crisp definition between the individual feathers. The most impressive detail came in the tiny flecks we noticed in the bird's iris. These same details were present on the Blade, but some of the finer points bose soundlink 3 charger of the image were not as clear.When I watched the 4K Interstellar trailer with a colleague, we noted that the MacBook had better contrast, which translates into deeper blacks. The Blade delivered warmer color overall, producing brighter explosions billowing with plumes of white, orange and yellow.Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition looks stunning on the Blade's 3200 x 1800 panel. My hero's red coat billowed out gracefully while I scaled a humongous titan. As I reached for handholds during my ascent, I couldn't help but admire the intricate stone etchings adorning the creature's stone-gray body. Crushing a weak point on the titan's frame rewarded me with a luminous blast of turquoise that willed me onto victory.The Blade delivered strong performance when it was tested for color gs70 battery capability, hitting 101.5 percent on the sRGB color gamut scale, surpassing the 77.4 percent thin-and-light average. The Ghost wasn't far behind, at 98 percent, while the MacBook Pro notched 94.9 percent.During the Delta-E test, which measures color accuracy, the Blade hit 1.5, which isn't a perfect 0, but pretty impressive considering the 7.7 average. Once again, the Ghost placed second with 2.9, but the MacBook Pro eked out the win with a score of 1.4.The Blade produced an average of 261 nits during the brightness test, topping the 219-nit average. However, the MacBook Pro hit 277 nits, and the GS60 Ghost was the brightest in the land, at 299 nits.I'm not a fan of gaming notebooks with touch-screen displays, but the Blade's 10-point capacitive screen was swift and responsive.
Performance
Last year, Razer reined in the Blade's performance by anchoring it to a mediocre, low-resolution display. It was a practical move that created an intentional bottleneck--if games can't run at higher resolutions, they aren't likely to outpace the machine's GPU. The 2014 Blade has no such limitations; its 3,200 x 1,800 panel leapfrogs the display capabilities of most gaming portables, leaving the user to choose just how far they want to push their in-game settings. It's a welcome change, but it's not necessarily a user-friendly one. Razer Blade owners now have to consider their in-game settings more carefully than ever.In an ideal situation, most PC gamers would want to dell latitude e5440 power cord run their favorite titles at the maximum configurable visual settings at their monitor's native resolution--a challenging proposition on all but the most powerful gaming rigs. The new Blade has plenty of power, of course--a 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-4702HQ CPU, 8GB of DDR3L RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M graphics--but its enormous display resolution stretches even those internals to their limit. Tuned to ultra or very high-quality settings, most games stuttered at 3,200 x 1,800. Battlefield 4, The Witcher 2, Thief and Crysis 3 all struggled to break 15-20 fps in our tests, reaching playable frame rates only after I downgraded the settings samsung gt n8020 power supply (BF4 managed 36 fps on high, for instance, and a strong 50 fps on medium). Although some games took to the ultra-high resolution naturally (BioShock Infinite, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Dark Souls II averaged 32, 30 and 40 fps on maximum settings, respectively), reducing the resolution produces more consistently impressive results.At 1,920 x 1,080, the Blade can handle almost anything. Battlefield 4 bounced between 54 fps and 45 fps on maximum settings, depending on the map, with Thief and The Witcher 2 seeing similar gains to 40 fps and 50 fps, respectively. Crysis 3 stubbornly refused to break 30 fps at its highest visual settings, replacement battery for acer aspire s3 but managed to hit 40 fps when I stepped down to the second-best configuration. Games that tolerated the laptop's native display size fared even better, boasting frame rates in excess of 60, sometimes 70, frames per second. Still, many titles wouldn't run at full screen in 1080p unless I scaled down the Blade's desktop resolution. It's a minor inconvenience, but it can be irritating if you prefer the panel's native resolution for general use.
Battery Life
The Razer Blade lasted 5 hours and 19 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery test, continuously surfing the Web over Wi-Fi at 100 nits (19 percent brightness for this laptop), short of the 7:24 thin-and-light average. asus model u47a battery The Ghost tapped out at 5:34.Running on the older Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi at 40 percent brightness), the MacBook Pro lasted 8:57.
Conclusion
With a new processor and graphics card, the Razer Blade (2015) delivers better graphics performance and longer battery life than its predecessor, fixing two of the bigger problems I had with the 2014 Blade. Heat is still a big concern, but that's a problem endemic to the category. As it stands, the Razer Blade 2015 not only outshines the 2014 model, it also offers a better overall value than Samsung batteries the previous Editors' Choice, the Razer Blade (2013). If you still aren't sold on the new Razer Blade, the MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K is a great alternative (and our top pick for midpriced gaming laptops), but the Razer Blade (2015) is our Editors' Choice for ultraportable gaming.