Best place to buy Razor Blade 15 in the UK?

[Lint]

Hi guys

 

So I've decided its time to invest in a gaming laptop, and the obvious choice for an all-rounder is the razor blade 15. I've begun my search but have struggled to find many deals on this laptop in the UK. Just wondering if anyone on here knows of a great place to pick one up at a great price to avoid the dreaded buyers remorse. 

 

Appreciate your help and advice!

 

Thanks!

[r2724r16]

Amazon has great customer service IMO, I'd personally overpay a bit to get something from Amazon rather than a crappy retailer.

[jiyeon]

Curry's PC World is a great place to buy consumer electronics, I saw a Razer Blade 15 in-store, I totally forgot the specs and price, but one of the staff nicely talked to me about it and other options to consider.

I've only ever bought one SSD from a Curry's PC World and I nearly bought a HyperX Cloud 2 from the same store, but ended up not getting it at the time due to price.

[genexis_x]

Why Razer Blade? Terrible QC+QA

[D2ultima]

18 hours ago, Lint said:

Hi guys

 

So I've decided its time to invest in a gaming laptop, and the obvious choice for an all-rounder is the razor blade 15. I've begun my search but have struggled to find many deals on this laptop in the UK. Just wondering if anyone on here knows of a great place to pick one up at a great price to avoid the dreaded buyers remorse. 

 

Appreciate your help and advice!

 

Thanks!

So, the Blade 15 is a very broken overpriced piece of crap pretending to be a laptop. It just happens to cool itself this year... kind of.

 

Crackling power bricks, insane backlight bleed, performance differences between units ranging north of 10% in the GPU, as well as Razer's other standard garbage are abound. There was one point Amazon UK stopped selling it because of literally too many returns and complaints of broken units. Don't waste your money.

 

Instead I'd consider something like the XMG Neo 15. It has mechanical switches on its keyboard though, so if you need a very quiet keyboard don't take it, and I'll suggest something else. Avoid the unit from PC Specialist UK because the company manually neuters the unit's performance and insist they don't, and you'll end up with a 35W allocation to the processor once the CPU and GPU are both loaded, throttling you to very very low speeds.

[genexis_x]

39 minutes ago, D2ultima said:

Instead I'd consider something like the XMG Neo 15. It has mechanical switches on its keyboard though, so if you need a very quiet keyboard don't take it, and I'll suggest something else. Avoid the unit from PC Specialist UK because the company manually neuters the unit's performance and insist they don't, and you'll end up with a 35W allocation to the processor once the CPU and GPU are both loaded, throttling you to very very low speeds.

Some GK5CN5Z/6Z does come with Brown switch which has less noise (eg Illegear Onyx)

And I didn't know that Recoil II has that issue, thanks for pointing out

[D2ultima]

11 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Some GK5CN5Z/6Z does come with Brown switch which has less noise (eg Illegear Onyx)

And I didn't know that Recoil II has that issue, thanks for pointing out

i tested it with brown. It is still audible. All mechanical switches are audible. Period.

[genexis_x]

9 hours ago, D2ultima said:

i tested it with brown. It is still audible. All mechanical switches are audible. Period.

Hmm weird. Someone tested it in the Onyx and the difference is noticeable

Anyway, will try out myself if I'm free

[D2ultima]

1 hour ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Hmm weird. Someone tested it in the Onyx and the difference is noticeable

Anyway, will try out myself if I'm free

it's not unnotice-able. It's just that mechanical switches no matter what you do are loud. The brown is still going to annoy people in a classroom. It'll still have your bro hear you typing like a madman across the room. A Blue Yeti is still gonna pick up your click clacking. Etc etc.

 

If you need it to be as quiet as you can get for some cases, then the version with a membrane keyboard should suffice, but I only know of Eluk who sells it and they are resistant to sell it with the 8750H/1060N/144Hz

[genexis_x]

26 minutes ago, D2ultima said:

The brown is still going to annoy people in a classroom

agreed

26 minutes ago, D2ultima said:

the version with a membrane keyboard should suffice

hard to find