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The New Razer Blade

31 points by philipp-spiess 13y ago

ChikkaChiChi 13y ago
Razer needs to do the right thing and make Blades that are less gamer-friendly and more business-friendly. If you can tame the battery life with a more sane graphics card, you could give Apple a serious run for its money.
- w-ll 13y ago
  I would say Apple is more artist friendly than business friendly, and that's a perfect place for these high end Razor Blade machines to give them a run for.
  - achompas 13y ago
    I think GP was referring to how are Macs are engineer-friendly, since they run *nix and work well with Linux.
    - chimeracoder 13y ago
      They run (an old version of) the FreeBSD userland, but I would hesitate to say that the "work well with Linux". It's tolerable, but it's hardly a stellar experience. Things like suspend/hibernate, fan control, etc. are problematic, even though they're fine on most other pieces of hardware on the market. I always sigh a bit when I hear people recommending installing Linux on a Macbook, because they're not getting the full experience - they end up thinking that Linux is buggy and doesn't support these functionalities well, when the truth is that it does, as long as you use hardware that is actually supported. There are a number of reasons that Apple hardware will probably always be a sub-optimal platform for Linux. There was a HN comment a while back from one of the Linux kernel developers responsible for maintaining the MPB drivers who explained why this is the case, though I can't find it.
      - sitkack 13y ago
        I don't think he means by "works well with Linux" that macs actually run Linux even ok. Which is clearly not the case, a mac running linux is waaay shittier than say a Lenovo W540 running Linux. Running Linux on a Mac is not a good idea. Just getting it to boot is a 4hr plus long endeavor. Best to run Linux in a VM on your mac. Windows on Mac is a better idea than Linux. I think by "works well with Linux" in that it has a bash shell, has Homebrew, etc.
        achompas 13y ago
        No, I was under the (mistaken) impression that Linux on Mac is fine. It's not. Sorry about that.
        sitkack 13y ago
        No problem. I thought that as well until I had to boot linux on my mac for an SSD upgrade. Witness the help pages organized by specific MBP version: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro yes, it is that complex.
- acc01 13y ago
  These seem to fit your description pretty well: http://www.asus.com/zenbook/ http://www.asus.com/zenbook/ .
muppetman 13y ago
I feel quite old and stupid that I clicked on this expecting shave technology.
- whitewhim 13y ago
  I'm only 22 and I clicked hoping for better shaving cream tech. Even though I'm not a hairy person shaving is such a pain.
- chimeracoder 13y ago
  I assumed that's what it was too. If that's what you're looking for, though, Bevel[0] was just launched. (I used to get terrible razor burn - switching to a double edge razor has made a huge difference. Bevel didn't invent the concept, obviously, but they do make it very convenient.). [0] https://getbevel.com/ https://getbevel.com/
  - dmunoz 13y ago
    er, what exactly did they do to make it "very convenient"? Their shaver looks very similar to a Merkur Futur [0], which has existed for ages and isn't considered by many to be the best safety razor. The cost for the razor is fair at $60, but they want to extract $30 a month afterwards! Insane! Their lineup consists of a priming oil, badger hair brush, shaving cream and aftershave balm. None of this is out of the ordinary for well equipped wet shavers, and costs nowhere near $30 a month to supply. Oh well, if it's worth it to someone to subscribe and forget, what do I care. I would rather keep the money in my pocket. You only need to order wet shaving supplies perhaps once a year anyway, even less if you know what you like and stock up. Notice the bullshit copy on their website: they conveniently leave standard single blade double edge razors out of their comparison matrix so that only the Bevel Razor gets the 6/6 checkmarks. [0] http://www.shaving101.com/index.php/product-reviews/safety-razors/261-merkur-futur-adjustable-safety-razor.html http://www.shaving101.com/index.php/product-reviews/safety-r...
- pcvarmint 13y ago
  I thought it was going to be a scooter.
bhauer 13y ago
I really like the specs and looks of this. Trouble is, I really don't need another computer in my life. I've already got four desktops, and three tablets, one of which is a Surface Pro. But, that screen and those specs are very appealing. Plus, as someone who was just short of addicted—okay, addicted—to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I did not know there was a new Wolfenstein game coming up. Also excited to find out more about that.
codezero 13y ago
Looks beautiful. How long does it run on battery? The specs are nice, but if you can't really be mobile you may as well get a desktop.
- sugarstain 13y ago
  Even if you have to plug it in, a laptop is still far more portable than a desktop. If you're moving about and working in different areas, but still have access to power then a laptop could still be a better solution.
  - err4nt 13y ago
    An iMac is portable, a Macbook is mobile. I'm hoping this is mobile, but knowing the PC laptop world my guess is <2hours of battery under serious use. My question is will this need to be tethered to a power outlet to use? Is the battery just so your machine doesn't shut off while moving from room to room? Personally MacBooks have a good battery but I'm _still_ debating buying an external battery to keep that running longer. I wonder if you could modify the HyperShop batteries to work with PC laptops...
    - selectodude 13y ago
      They're claiming 6hrs of "productivity" and 2-3 hours of gaming, which is about what I get with a less powerful 13" retina MacBook Pro. Granted, this is also 1000 dollars more expensive.
    - batoure 13y ago
      from your post I would guess that you have not experienced the joy of intel haswell based laptops my laptop lasts 7 hours or more on a charge when in power-saver mode. There is nothing special about it besides the fact that it is current. You are going to have alot of fun the next time you get a new machine!
ineedtosleep 13y ago
This is actually a very very interesting laptop where my only question is: Will it run Linux without too much trouble? I have a Lenovo W530, but I have an inkling that the future of the Thinkpad is very grim for my work use cases. Laptops like the Razer Blade would be my next potential go-to if it can run Linux without much fuss.
- spiralpolitik 13y ago
  I'm also hoping this has good Linux support when it comes time to replace my X1 Carbon at the end of the year as based on the recently updated model I also don't hold out much hope for the future of the Thinkpad.
  - JohnBooty 13y ago
    What has you feeling down on Thinkpads?
    - spiralpolitik 13y ago
      The new trackpads. The one of the reasons I've liked Thinkpads is the two solid mechanical buttons, plus the 3rd button in the middle. The latest model replaced those with the integrated trackpad. The old X1 Carbon apart from the display is nearly the perfect Linux Laptop. All they had to do was upgrade the display to HiDPI and it would have been perfect.
      - JohnBooty 13y ago
        That's disappointing to hear! I've been on Macs for a while, and figured I'd go to Thinkpads if I ever switched away.
- sitkack 13y ago
  How so? http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/ http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/ I really like my MBP, solid fast machine. It only has 16GB and I would like a machine with at least 32 if not 64. I am a little jealous of a W530/W540 owner. You can have RAID SSD and 32GB of ram. Coupled with VMWare Workstation ... swoon!
pseudometa 13y ago
Does nearly every laptop these days look like a Mac Book Pro? Once in a while I see things like the Yoga, but from the radius of the rounded corners, indents for opening the lid, shape/size of the keyboard keys, placement of inputs... They might as well have spray painted the MBP black and called it a night. Maybe they did...
- nwh 13y ago
  It's nuts. Every laptop I see now is a plastic MacBook knockoff, and this is no exception.
  - _zen 13y ago
    What makes it a Macbook knock off? Chiclet keyboard? Sony's VAIO X505 did it first. What else? Smooth, rounded corners? (lol)
  - kaonashi 13y ago
    After you've thinned down and chipped away as much as you can from any laptop design, that's pretty much what you get.
- n1ghtmare_ 13y ago
  Then you have those people that go "NO NO NO It's totally different" ... except it's obvious. It's annoying, laptops use to be very different one from another.
deletes 13y ago
Page design made me dizzy. But seriously, I really wouldn't mind if laptops were a centimeter or two thicker and the battery held far more than 2 hours on heavy usage. My backpack designed for laptops could easily carry two or three, so that is not a problem, and when the laptop is in use, the extra thickness doesn't really matter. I just don't see why this craze for thinness.
- derefr 13y ago
  I would say it's so you can have a laptop on you in situations where you weren't specifically planning to bring it with you, just because it's light enough to forget you have it.
cfeduke 13y ago
Most of the specs look great, but like most made-for-Windows-8 laptops on the market there is a fixed limitation of 8GB of RAM. Its 2014. I want 32GB of RAM as an option, and 16 GB minimum. I am still looking for a great Linux development laptop but this is not it.
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  16GB minimum is still a little silly. My desktop has 16GB, kind of on accident, and my machine literally has no idea what to do with so much RAM. Most of the time it spends 8-10GB on disk cache. There are absolutely use cases for more. I would love to have my home machine at my desk at work, for example, for EDA tools. But that's why you make 16GB (or even 32GB) an option.
  - sitkack 13y ago
    No way. Everything with a keyboard should probably ship with 16GB. My dev server has 128GB, my laptop has 16, 4GB is a toy and 8GB is the minimum for useful work. This laptop looks pretty good, but compared to a W540 which can have dual sata and 32GB I would have to pass. My next desktop will have 64GB which is not extreme in the least. The worst trend that I don't see being fixed is the lack of ECC memory. ALL MEMORY SHOULD BE ECC!!!1! Lack of ECC is like running an open loop feedback mechanism. no good can come of it. No ECC and terabyte filesystems, recipe for horrible unrecoverable disaster.
    - trouserpants 13y ago
      > 8GB is the minimum for useful work I can do a hell of a lot of useful work with far less than that
      - derefr 13y ago
        Every once in a while, I have a wistful desire to take a notebook with a modern high-capacity battery, pull out everything except those batteries, and slap in an e-ink display, a single flash card for storage, and something less powerful than a Raspberry Pi for processing. And then write just enough operating system for it to boot to Emacs. That, in my mind, would be a programmer's computer. (Or a writer's computer.)
herokusaki 13y ago
Interesting how it's so thin and yet not really that light.
- sitkack 13y ago
  Lead, for solid smooooth heft.
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batoure 13y ago
I feel like I am probably pretty alone in this. But I have really been hoping that they would update the razer edge pro line. I have a surface pro 2 for work that I really like and having something close to that that could do high performance gaming has basically been a dream of mine since forever. Sadly what they have shared on their forums seems to reflect that they don't want to do, or can't make work another edge despite its pretty wide popularity.
lukasm 13y ago
No power button next to backspace? Has a delete key? Shut up an take my money!
kbar13 13y ago
is it wrong that I want one for the screen, but to run OSX so I can write code? I don't game on a laptop.
- shostack 13y ago
  What about dual booting or using Virtual Box and installing your favorite Linux flavor?
  - kbar13 13y ago
    Having done the Windows 7 & archlinux dual boot dance for many years before getting a MBP, I can say I don't want to go back to that :(. Hackintosh is close enough, but if there isn't support for the hardware I would rather try wiping off windows and putting arch/freebsd on there.
rhizome 13y ago
So, with this and the Lenovo Yoga Pro both having QHD panels, I'm hoping there's a lot more in this vein coming down the pipe.
- rogerbinns 13y ago
  Still 16:9 though for some unfathomable reason.
thejerz 13y ago
This is a black Macbook Pro.
- CSDude 13y ago
  With a much more powerful grahpics card
drblast 13y ago
Oooh, this looks really nice. I'm so happy that high-pixel density screens are becoming available. It's about time. But with a built-in battery...ahh, almost had me. Sticking to Thinkpads. I'd gladly sacrifice some thinness to be able to replace worn-out batteries or use multiple batteries on the go.
shostack 13y ago
How hot will this thing get when gaming? Can it be used for prolonged sessions when playing graphics intensive games on high settings (like Titanfall)? I have an Alienware M17x and that sucker will burn you if you have it on your lap. Beyond that, it is prone to overheating when placed on a flat surface and I had to usually put some sort of spacer underneath to give it better airflow.
mistercow 13y ago
I cannot wait for this style of website scrolling to die. It was neat as a proof of concept, but as a way of actually presenting information, it's ridiculous. I want to be able to read some information and see some pictures. I don't need that to try to be a futuristic experience. Get off my lawn!
elclanrs 13y ago
Nice laptop, but unusable website. It takes 3+ seconds to at least see something, and the scrolling effect makes everything seem so slow. There is an obvious memory leak somewhere, the graphs in devtools are INSANE for such a simple site, take a look http://imgur.com/j13Xk6h http://imgur.com/j13Xk6h
- devwebee 13y ago
  They are loading like 20 jQuery libraries in the header. Nothing is minified. By looking at the JS code here http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/products/15348/js/template7.js http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/products/15348/js/templ..., it seems like they vomited jQuery on top of a PSD2HTML site. Bad indentation, bad class names like ".bar-prc1", ".bar-prc2", ".bar-prc3", no selector caching, no consitent usage of chaining, inconsistent style overall, in other words, a mess.
quchen 13y ago
For me, the most important selling point of a laptop has become how good the keyboard is. Usually, that starts with an evaluation of its shittiness. Hires version of the keyboard: http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/razer_pages/16039/razer-blade-gallery-v2-05.png http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/razer_pages/16039/razer... - Has delete key in usable position. Good. - Ctrl is in the bottom left corner. Good. - Right Meta key is Fn. Bad. - No Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys. No-go. Next!

Razer needs to do the right thing and make Blades that are less gamer-friendly and more business-friendly. If you can tame the battery life with a more sane graphics card, you could give Apple a serious run for its money.

w-ll 13y ago
I would say Apple is more artist friendly than business friendly, and that's a perfect place for these high end Razor Blade machines to give them a run for.
- achompas 13y ago
  I think GP was referring to how are Macs are engineer-friendly, since they run *nix and work well with Linux.
  - chimeracoder 13y ago
    They run (an old version of) the FreeBSD userland, but I would hesitate to say that the "work well with Linux". It's tolerable, but it's hardly a stellar experience. Things like suspend/hibernate, fan control, etc. are problematic, even though they're fine on most other pieces of hardware on the market. I always sigh a bit when I hear people recommending installing Linux on a Macbook, because they're not getting the full experience - they end up thinking that Linux is buggy and doesn't support these functionalities well, when the truth is that it does, as long as you use hardware that is actually supported. There are a number of reasons that Apple hardware will probably always be a sub-optimal platform for Linux. There was a HN comment a while back from one of the Linux kernel developers responsible for maintaining the MPB drivers who explained why this is the case, though I can't find it.
    - sitkack 13y ago
      I don't think he means by "works well with Linux" that macs actually run Linux even ok. Which is clearly not the case, a mac running linux is waaay shittier than say a Lenovo W540 running Linux. Running Linux on a Mac is not a good idea. Just getting it to boot is a 4hr plus long endeavor. Best to run Linux in a VM on your mac. Windows on Mac is a better idea than Linux. I think by "works well with Linux" in that it has a bash shell, has Homebrew, etc.
      - achompas 13y ago
        No, I was under the (mistaken) impression that Linux on Mac is fine. It's not. Sorry about that.
        sitkack 13y ago
        No problem. I thought that as well until I had to boot linux on my mac for an SSD upgrade. Witness the help pages organized by specific MBP version: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro yes, it is that complex.
acc01 13y ago
These seem to fit your description pretty well: http://www.asus.com/zenbook/ http://www.asus.com/zenbook/ .

muppetman 13y ago

I feel quite old and stupid that I clicked on this expecting shave technology.

whitewhim 13y ago
I'm only 22 and I clicked hoping for better shaving cream tech. Even though I'm not a hairy person shaving is such a pain.
chimeracoder 13y ago
I assumed that's what it was too. If that's what you're looking for, though, Bevel[0] was just launched. (I used to get terrible razor burn - switching to a double edge razor has made a huge difference. Bevel didn't invent the concept, obviously, but they do make it very convenient.). [0] https://getbevel.com/ https://getbevel.com/
- dmunoz 13y ago
  er, what exactly did they do to make it "very convenient"? Their shaver looks very similar to a Merkur Futur [0], which has existed for ages and isn't considered by many to be the best safety razor. The cost for the razor is fair at $60, but they want to extract $30 a month afterwards! Insane! Their lineup consists of a priming oil, badger hair brush, shaving cream and aftershave balm. None of this is out of the ordinary for well equipped wet shavers, and costs nowhere near $30 a month to supply. Oh well, if it's worth it to someone to subscribe and forget, what do I care. I would rather keep the money in my pocket. You only need to order wet shaving supplies perhaps once a year anyway, even less if you know what you like and stock up. Notice the bullshit copy on their website: they conveniently leave standard single blade double edge razors out of their comparison matrix so that only the Bevel Razor gets the 6/6 checkmarks. [0] http://www.shaving101.com/index.php/product-reviews/safety-razors/261-merkur-futur-adjustable-safety-razor.html http://www.shaving101.com/index.php/product-reviews/safety-r...
pcvarmint 13y ago
I thought it was going to be a scooter.

bhauer 13y ago

I really like the specs and looks of this. Trouble is, I really don't need another computer in my life. I've already got four desktops, and three tablets, one of which is a Surface Pro. But, that screen and those specs are very appealing. Plus, as someone who was just short of addicted—okay, addicted—to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I did not know there was a new Wolfenstein game coming up. Also excited to find out more about that.

codezero 13y ago

Looks beautiful. How long does it run on battery? The specs are nice, but if you can't really be mobile you may as well get a desktop.

sugarstain 13y ago
Even if you have to plug it in, a laptop is still far more portable than a desktop. If you're moving about and working in different areas, but still have access to power then a laptop could still be a better solution.
- err4nt 13y ago
  An iMac is portable, a Macbook is mobile. I'm hoping this is mobile, but knowing the PC laptop world my guess is <2hours of battery under serious use. My question is will this need to be tethered to a power outlet to use? Is the battery just so your machine doesn't shut off while moving from room to room? Personally MacBooks have a good battery but I'm _still_ debating buying an external battery to keep that running longer. I wonder if you could modify the HyperShop batteries to work with PC laptops...
  - selectodude 13y ago
    They're claiming 6hrs of "productivity" and 2-3 hours of gaming, which is about what I get with a less powerful 13" retina MacBook Pro. Granted, this is also 1000 dollars more expensive.
  - batoure 13y ago
    from your post I would guess that you have not experienced the joy of intel haswell based laptops my laptop lasts 7 hours or more on a charge when in power-saver mode. There is nothing special about it besides the fact that it is current. You are going to have alot of fun the next time you get a new machine!

ineedtosleep 13y ago

This is actually a very very interesting laptop where my only question is: Will it run Linux without too much trouble? I have a Lenovo W530, but I have an inkling that the future of the Thinkpad is very grim for my work use cases. Laptops like the Razer Blade would be my next potential go-to if it can run Linux without much fuss.

spiralpolitik 13y ago
I'm also hoping this has good Linux support when it comes time to replace my X1 Carbon at the end of the year as based on the recently updated model I also don't hold out much hope for the future of the Thinkpad.
- JohnBooty 13y ago
  What has you feeling down on Thinkpads?
  - spiralpolitik 13y ago
    The new trackpads. The one of the reasons I've liked Thinkpads is the two solid mechanical buttons, plus the 3rd button in the middle. The latest model replaced those with the integrated trackpad. The old X1 Carbon apart from the display is nearly the perfect Linux Laptop. All they had to do was upgrade the display to HiDPI and it would have been perfect.
    - JohnBooty 13y ago
      That's disappointing to hear! I've been on Macs for a while, and figured I'd go to Thinkpads if I ever switched away.
sitkack 13y ago
How so? http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/ http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/ I really like my MBP, solid fast machine. It only has 16GB and I would like a machine with at least 32 if not 64. I am a little jealous of a W530/W540 owner. You can have RAID SSD and 32GB of ram. Coupled with VMWare Workstation ... swoon!

pseudometa 13y ago

Does nearly every laptop these days look like a Mac Book Pro? Once in a while I see things like the Yoga, but from the radius of the rounded corners, indents for opening the lid, shape/size of the keyboard keys, placement of inputs... They might as well have spray painted the MBP black and called it a night. Maybe they did...

nwh 13y ago
It's nuts. Every laptop I see now is a plastic MacBook knockoff, and this is no exception.
- _zen 13y ago
  What makes it a Macbook knock off? Chiclet keyboard? Sony's VAIO X505 did it first. What else? Smooth, rounded corners? (lol)
- kaonashi 13y ago
  After you've thinned down and chipped away as much as you can from any laptop design, that's pretty much what you get.
n1ghtmare_ 13y ago
Then you have those people that go "NO NO NO It's totally different" ... except it's obvious. It's annoying, laptops use to be very different one from another.

deletes 13y ago

Page design made me dizzy. But seriously, I really wouldn't mind if laptops were a centimeter or two thicker and the battery held far more than 2 hours on heavy usage. My backpack designed for laptops could easily carry two or three, so that is not a problem, and when the laptop is in use, the extra thickness doesn't really matter. I just don't see why this craze for thinness.

derefr 13y ago
I would say it's so you can have a laptop on you in situations where you weren't specifically planning to bring it with you, just because it's light enough to forget you have it.

cfeduke 13y ago

Most of the specs look great, but like most made-for-Windows-8 laptops on the market there is a fixed limitation of 8GB of RAM. Its 2014. I want 32GB of RAM as an option, and 16 GB minimum. I am still looking for a great Linux development laptop but this is not it.

sliverstorm 13y ago
16GB minimum is still a little silly. My desktop has 16GB, kind of on accident, and my machine literally has no idea what to do with so much RAM. Most of the time it spends 8-10GB on disk cache. There are absolutely use cases for more. I would love to have my home machine at my desk at work, for example, for EDA tools. But that's why you make 16GB (or even 32GB) an option.
- sitkack 13y ago
  No way. Everything with a keyboard should probably ship with 16GB. My dev server has 128GB, my laptop has 16, 4GB is a toy and 8GB is the minimum for useful work. This laptop looks pretty good, but compared to a W540 which can have dual sata and 32GB I would have to pass. My next desktop will have 64GB which is not extreme in the least. The worst trend that I don't see being fixed is the lack of ECC memory. ALL MEMORY SHOULD BE ECC!!!1! Lack of ECC is like running an open loop feedback mechanism. no good can come of it. No ECC and terabyte filesystems, recipe for horrible unrecoverable disaster.
  - trouserpants 13y ago
    > 8GB is the minimum for useful work I can do a hell of a lot of useful work with far less than that
    - derefr 13y ago
      Every once in a while, I have a wistful desire to take a notebook with a modern high-capacity battery, pull out everything except those batteries, and slap in an e-ink display, a single flash card for storage, and something less powerful than a Raspberry Pi for processing. And then write just enough operating system for it to boot to Emacs. That, in my mind, would be a programmer's computer. (Or a writer's computer.)

herokusaki 13y ago

Interesting how it's so thin and yet not really that light.

sitkack 13y ago
Lead, for solid smooooth heft.

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batoure 13y ago

I feel like I am probably pretty alone in this. But I have really been hoping that they would update the razer edge pro line. I have a surface pro 2 for work that I really like and having something close to that that could do high performance gaming has basically been a dream of mine since forever. Sadly what they have shared on their forums seems to reflect that they don't want to do, or can't make work another edge despite its pretty wide popularity.

lukasm 13y ago

No power button next to backspace? Has a delete key? Shut up an take my money!

kbar13 13y ago

is it wrong that I want one for the screen, but to run OSX so I can write code? I don't game on a laptop.

shostack 13y ago
What about dual booting or using Virtual Box and installing your favorite Linux flavor?
- kbar13 13y ago
  Having done the Windows 7 & archlinux dual boot dance for many years before getting a MBP, I can say I don't want to go back to that :(. Hackintosh is close enough, but if there isn't support for the hardware I would rather try wiping off windows and putting arch/freebsd on there.

rhizome 13y ago

So, with this and the Lenovo Yoga Pro both having QHD panels, I'm hoping there's a lot more in this vein coming down the pipe.

rogerbinns 13y ago
Still 16:9 though for some unfathomable reason.

thejerz 13y ago

This is a black Macbook Pro.

CSDude 13y ago
With a much more powerful grahpics card

drblast 13y ago

Oooh, this looks really nice. I'm so happy that high-pixel density screens are becoming available. It's about time. But with a built-in battery...ahh, almost had me. Sticking to Thinkpads. I'd gladly sacrifice some thinness to be able to replace worn-out batteries or use multiple batteries on the go.

shostack 13y ago

How hot will this thing get when gaming? Can it be used for prolonged sessions when playing graphics intensive games on high settings (like Titanfall)? I have an Alienware M17x and that sucker will burn you if you have it on your lap. Beyond that, it is prone to overheating when placed on a flat surface and I had to usually put some sort of spacer underneath to give it better airflow.

mistercow 13y ago

I cannot wait for this style of website scrolling to die. It was neat as a proof of concept, but as a way of actually presenting information, it's ridiculous. I want to be able to read some information and see some pictures. I don't need that to try to be a futuristic experience. Get off my lawn!

elclanrs 13y ago

Nice laptop, but unusable website. It takes 3+ seconds to at least see something, and the scrolling effect makes everything seem so slow. There is an obvious memory leak somewhere, the graphs in devtools are INSANE for such a simple site, take a look http://imgur.com/j13Xk6h http://imgur.com/j13Xk6h

devwebee 13y ago
They are loading like 20 jQuery libraries in the header. Nothing is minified. By looking at the JS code here http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/products/15348/js/template7.js http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/products/15348/js/templ..., it seems like they vomited jQuery on top of a PSD2HTML site. Bad indentation, bad class names like ".bar-prc1", ".bar-prc2", ".bar-prc3", no selector caching, no consitent usage of chaining, inconsistent style overall, in other words, a mess.

quchen 13y ago

For me, the most important selling point of a laptop has become how good the keyboard is. Usually, that starts with an evaluation of its shittiness. Hires version of the keyboard: http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/razer_pages/16039/razer-blade-gallery-v2-05.png http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/razer_pages/16039/razer... - Has delete key in usable position. Good. - Ctrl is in the bottom left corner. Good. - Right Meta key is Fn. Bad. - No Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys. No-go. Next!