Razer Blade 2018- thin gaming laptop

Razer Blade is back with a bang. The company has refined the laptop’s design significantly. Gone are the bulky bezels around the last Blade’s 14-inch screen. Now there’s a 15.6-inch display with incredibly thin borders. it feels as sturdy as ever thanks to it unibody aluminum frame.

The new screen is also a significant step forward from the last model, which just felt a bit dated with its chunky bezels. It’s bright and colorful with 100 percent Adobe RGB support.  Razer stuffed in a six-core 8th generation Core i7-8750H CPU, and your choice of NVIDIA GTX 1060 or 1070 Max-Q GPUs. That 15.6-inch screen is available with either a 1080p 60Hz or 144Hz panel, or a 4K multi-touch offering.

Razer is also color calibrating its displays as they leave the factory. the new Blade is also a bit heavier than before, weighing in at 4.56 pounds for the 1080p version and 4.73 pounds for the 4K.

Razer developed a new vapor chamber cooler design to help manage heat across the CPU and GPU, as well as some other hardware that’s prone to warming up. It also features low-noise fans with dual exhausts. 

The Blade is available today starting at $1,899 from Razer’s website and select retailers. That model just includes a 60Hz 1080p screen and GTX 1060 GPU,  a bit more for that 144Hz display and faster graphics.  The old, two-button touchpad has been replaced with a new, larger version that features integrated buttons and support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers.

Addition to the updated Blade: user-replaceable parts. The Blade comes with 16GB of RAM by default, and between 256GB and 512GB of M.2 SSD storage, but users will be able to swap those out with up to 32GB of RAM and 2TB of internal storage.

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