Razer Blade Stealth, an Ultrabook announced at CES 2016

[Tasuma]

That's what I'm doing. But not with TB currently...

 

What are you using then? I am going away to finish my undergrad and would rather not have to lug my full tower if I can just take my gpu to play games. 

[SuperShires]

I really like the look of The Core mind, I wouldnt mind a setup that consists of that, a keyboard & mouse with a monitor, then just dock a laptop and boom, ready to play

[Decon]

I might buy the dock....

[ShadowCaptain]

Razers gaming ultrabooks are really appealing to me.. but they wont even release them in the UK so fuck them

[Kirrr]

What are you using then? I am going away to finish my undergrad and would rather not have to lug my full tower if I can just take my gpu to play games. 

 

It's in my signature.

[suicidalfranco]

wonder if the core would work with TB1.0 if someone made an adapter for TB3 to TB1

[Agent181]

well shit its like they took a big step back with that dual core 

[boboman342]

 

Linus hit the fucking nail on the head! We need a quadcore option in the stealth and it would be great if future razer blade laptops supported this tech!

[TechStyle]

Wonder how the battery life is. Then again, bezels.

[little_shiet]

My Thunderbolt 3 is super horny for that dock, I wonder if they block it for non razer laptops.
I hope some other company will make similar eGPU dock

[Syfes]

The Razer Blade just released is almost $1000. Just when I thought Google's pricing in Europe was outrageous for its phones, Razer come and do this.

Deduct VAT and it's only $200 or so more expensive. Which can probably be explained with import charges...

[Belgarathian]

The Razer Blade just released is almost $1000. Just when I thought Google's pricing in Europe was outrageous for its phones, Razer come and do this.

 

 

 

 

Probably doesn't justify the whole difference, but don't forget tax differences and import tarrifs/duties/quotas for electronics

[The Benjamins]

The more I think about it, this seem like a great laptop for me. 

[Ltdeclipse]

I watched like all the videos on this to see if anyone got some extra info on the core and stealth. I saw or read a review saying razer will allow third party to integrate the Core if manufacturers choose too. But just like asus and dell have their own, I'm sure the numbers will be few

[AlexGoesHigh]

The Razer Blade just released is almost $1000. Just when I thought Google's pricing in Europe was outrageous for its phones, Razer come and do this.

 

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Yeah, like others have said US price doesn't included tax, there's also import charges, customs and all that, it still would be more expensive to import it from USA that to buy it locally, the only way that you can get it cheaper, is going to the US but on an already planned vacation/business trip so technically the trip expenses aren't counted towards the cost of the purchase, also being such a high price you might convince the cashier to do the paperwork to excluded taxes from the purchase since AFAIK non US citizen can get tax exemptions under certain conditions.

[Valentyn]

Probably doesn't justify the whole difference, but don't forget tax differences and import tarrifs/duties/quotas for electronics

These aren't manufactured in the USA like Apple's MacPros. They all come from Asia, so the USA price has to includes import tariffs, duties and the like as well. Only thing not included is VAT ( it doesn't show if the UK price has it included either ).

Even then it's still more expensive. 

Poor folks in the Southern Hemisphere pay even MORE. Despite being easier to ship to than the USA, or EU.

[96Evo]

can you enable g-sync on the laptop with that dock or not is my question. Like you buy a laptop that support g-sync but the gpu it has is weak and you use the dock to gain more power, so can you still use g-sync or not.

 

edit: also I want to see 5 way sli or xfire using the dock on desktop that support thunderbolt 3. I wanna see something like that lol

[RedRound2]

The Razer Blade just released is almost $1000. Just when I thought Google's pricing in Europe was outrageous for its phones, Razer come and do this.

 

That's a different model the one Linus uses. Look specifically for Razer blade Stealth. I don't think they have published it up on the UK site yet

[alexyy]

I'd rather get the XPS13 the bezeless design is just to beautiful.

[kameshss]

can you enable g-sync on the laptop with that dock or not is my question. Like you buy a laptop that support g-sync but the gpu it has is weak and you use the dock to gain more power, so can you still use g-sync or not.

 

edit: also I want to see 5 way sli or xfire using the dock on desktop that support thunderbolt 3. I wanna see something like that lol

If you use a GSync compatible GPU on that dock, then yes. It's not about the dock or the laptop here. It's about the GPU.

 

And there is no such thing as 5 way SLI. Max you can do 4 way, but not in here  

[96Evo]

If you use a GSync compatible GPU on that dock, then yes. It's not about the dock or the laptop here. It's about the GPU.

And there is no such thing as 5 way SLI. Max you can do 4 way, but not in here

Why destroy the dream. For me I want to see more laptop has thunderbolt 3 from now and Razer almost got me buying it but there cpu is duo cores which turn me off and not a worth buy, if only it was a quad cores then it would have win me over. Have to see the laptop that asus show off at ces that Linus broke will it price be the same as the Razer if it is then that laptop is way better

[Curly_Fork]

Having read all the thread I would say that people are not so excited about those news.... 

Too bad, I think this concept is a game breaker, I am really really waiting too see how much the core will cost (independently of the gpu that it will contain)

[potoooooooo]

My Thunderbolt 3 is super horny for that dock, I wonder if they block it for non razer laptops.

I hope some other company will make similar eGPU dock

It's not razer specific hardware, it's just thunderbolt 3 to PCIE.

 

Razer said any OEM can make it work with their thunderbolt 3 laptops, it just requires a change in bios and a special driver.

[ZestyJalapeno]

This looks like my next laptop.

 

For people worried about bottlenecking, this is an excerpt from cnet:

 

"The Stealth actually only has integrated Intel HD 520 graphics inside, which aren't terribly good for gaming, but at CES I was able to play Fallout 4 at a high 1080p resolution on maximum settings at a buttery 90 frames per second with a Core attached -- one with an Nvidia GTX 980 Ti graphics card inside."

 

This is a benchmark using a reference 980 Ti and a 5930K, on Fallout 4 from gamersnexus:

 

 

 

 

   

 

Was about to pull the trigger on an MBPr, good thing I held off...

[Belgarathian]

These aren't manufactured in the USA like Apple's MacPros. They all come from Asia, so the USA price has to includes import tariffs, duties and the like as well. Only thing not included is VAT ( it doesn't show if the UK price has it included either ).

Even then it's still more expensive. 

Poor folks in the Southern Hemisphere pay even MORE. Despite being easier to ship to than the USA, or EU.

 

I know they're manufactured in Asia... Like most electronics, cars, consumable goods, clothes, etc, etc are these days. There are a number of factors that need to be thought about:

 

• Asian manufacturers like to list per-unit costs in USD, therefore making fluctuations in currency something to worry about for countries outside of the US. 
• Differences in import tarrifs/quotas, goods and services tax, import duties, etc between the USA and other countries (as we're using the USD as a reference price). 

The Southern Hemisphere has it's own set of issues. Australia isn't so bad as you have a pop of 20m or so, but NZ is another basket. Both NZ and Aus have to have their own set of compliance certificates, distribution, and support centers so it can significantly add to your overall costs and for some companies they just don't bother because of this.

 

Hope this helps.