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For gamers, though who will utilize such a device mostly indoors, it gets the job done. The display also gets plenty bright and well past 300 nits, but it's not the brightest panel. Black are nearly indistinguishable from the black bezel, thanks to the IGZO display technology. I found color accuracy to be on point with the Blade Pro. There are reasons for thick bezels, including a larger base to the laptop (useful for all of the components and cooling that is stuffed inside). It's perhaps the one design change I hope Razer addresses eventually, as thin bezels are the rage now. The big difference is Dell's is nearly bezel-less with its Infinity Edge design whereas, the Blade Pro's bezels around around an inch on all sides. With 8.3 million pixels and a glossy finish, it is easily one of the best laptop screens around and rivals the Dell XPS 15's. The Blade Pro features an impressive 17.3-inch IGZO 4K (3840 x 2160) LED display with touch. I hope that 8,294,400 pixels is enough for you. The biggest problem with them is in gaming, where they require very robust systems to power those 8.2 millions pixels. In 2017, 4K displays are becoming increasingly common, but are still on the high-end. There are also dedicated media keys for play/pause, mute, skip forward and back.ĤK never looked so good Razer Blade Pro display Above the trackpad is a scroll wheel that can be designated for volume control or act as a trackpad button. Opening the Blade Pro reveals an off-center keyboard and an adjacent Precision trackpad to the right. The back-lit Razer snake logo adorns the display's back side, and the light can be disabled in the included Razer Synapse software. That black metal is also still a grease and fingerprint magnet, but is relatively easy to clean with a cloth. It makes the Blade Pro feel substantial without adding much weight. The Blade Pro is made of the same black machined aluminum found in the Blade and Blade Stealth. Honestly, for its size and specs, the Blade Pro is a thin and light machine. While an 8-pound laptop is not something you want in a shoulder bag, the Blade Pro feels proportional for its size and the quality of the material used. I have used some 17-inch gaming rigs before, and they always push 9 or 10 pounds and are much thicker. It's nearly comical since 17-inch laptops always seem out of place in the sea of current Ultrabooks and increasingly rare 15-inch laptops.Īt less than an inch thick (0.88 inches / 22.5mm) and weighing 7.8 lbs (3.54 kg), the Blade Pro is not a small laptop, and yet… it is. Just a bigger Blade 14… with a twist Razer Blade Pro designįrom the outside, the Blade Pro is, for all intents and purposes, a blown-up Razer Blade 14 (much like how the Stealth is a shrunken version of the 14).
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Well, that and the famed restrained Blade aesthetics. The RAID 0 storage configuration and GTX 1080 video card are at the heart of the Blade Pro and what makes it stand out from the competition. Razer has done a great job here with components. When it comes to ports, there is a single Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C, three USB 3.0 slots, HDMI 2.0 for an external display, and a full-size SD card reader.
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There is also Killer DoubleShot Pro for Wi-Fi and a full Gigabit Ethernet port for your favorite LAN party, as well as Bluetooth 4.1 for your peripherals.
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There is no more capable graphics card on the market today - unless you pair up two of these monsters together.
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The RAM is clocked at 2133MHz, which is not as fast as a high-end PC gaming rig, but does well enough for a laptop.Īt the center of the Blade Pro, however, is the powerful NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 with an outstanding 8GB of GDDR5X VRAM. There is no option to configure RAM on the Razer Blade Pro, but since it comes with 32GB of DDR4 for all configurations there is little to worry about need for future updating. It's the same processor found in the Dell XPS 15 (9550) for comparison. It's a 45W processor so not quite as powerful as a desktop Core-i7 6700 (65W). The Intel Core i7-6700HQ quad-core processor with Turbo up to 3.5GHz is of the 6th generation (Skylake) class. We'll see below in the benchmarks that Razer's choice here was the right one - performance is off the charts.Īt the center of the Blade Pro, however, is the powerful NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 with an outstanding 8GB of GDDR5X VRAM. This type of RAID configuration is best for high-performance systems but is a riskier if one drive fails. RAID 0, also called a 'striped volume', is where two separate drives work in parallel, but without redundancy or parity. There are only three user configurations for the Blade Pro, and your choices comes down to just storage: 512GB ($3,699), 1TB ($3,999) or 2TB ($4,499) options in a RAID zero format, all SSD. Thunderbolt 3, 3x USB 3.0, HDMI 2.0, SDXC reader Anti-ghosting, backlit mechanical keyboard