Want a Razer Blade soon, should I wait for Kaby Lake refresh?

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, NA_NotAvailable said:

Really? can you say that with a straight face? I mean after you used a Cherry MX. Then getting on a laptop and trying to type.

 

Are they great because you have no other option or maybe you had to use your Mechanical keyboard to smack this guy who was trying to bite you because that guy had the strong desire for human flesh after eating a contaminated burger?

Yes, I can, very easily. I love my MX Clears, but I also love a good laptop keyboard. 

[Pendragon]

7 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

So not only does it have lousy quality control and poort customer support, but it also doesn't really have the performance you think it has. 

Basically. Extended loads force it to performances to desktop 1050ti oced. All those fixed firestrike benchmarks mean nothing because the blade isn't even hot yet. 

[Kalm_Traveler]

ahh yeah I have several Cherry-switched keyboards at home (Corsair K95 LUX with blues, and WASD TKL with browns) as well as a Cherry-branded basic keyboard with browns at work.

 

These are of course preferable to any laptop keyboard, but I will need to use it at school, traveling, etc so it can't be terrible.

 

Everybody has their preferences of course, and my pipe dream would be real Cherry MX blues on a laptop, but until that happens I'll just have to make do with something that is at least ok to type on. Truth be told my Lenovo is fine for the little bits of time I need to type on it, and sampling a few laptops in-store I found that the Blade and Alienware 15 keyboards were fine too.

I have to use some Macbook Pros at work (IT guy here) and am not a fan of how their keys feel. Longer travel distance even on a rubber dome keyboard feels better.

[Kalm_Traveler]

Random question related to this...  Are the stealth models overheating as much as the larger ones? 

 

I'm still debating over what to get, but as mentioned earlier with my old Lenovo X240 it just feels slow even with an SSD.  It has only 8gb single channel ram,  the 12.5 inch 1366 x 768 screen feels too small and awful, and the i5 2400u is not any kind of fast. 

 

I like the idea of a 1080p Blade because of the portability, greater overall power, and ability to do some light gaming occasionally but would mostly be using it for light stuff like web browsing and homework. 

 

But...  Everyone here seems to feel that they will go supernova within minutes of bootup.  Nobody wants that, but I'm not finding anything similar in overall size and power. 

 

I would be willing to sacrifice some gaming power to keep everything else but could really use some suggestions. 

[Pendragon]

5 hours ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

I would be willing to sacrifice some gaming power to keep everything else but could really use some suggestions. 

 

xps15 or the upcoming y520

[Galm]

57 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

xps15 or the upcoming y520

Or Aorus.  They can't quite compete with the aesthetic quality of the Blade but they are much better designed for thermal loads.  Both the X3 and X5 are in my opinion the thinnest machines with a 1060 and 1070 that can actually perform acceptably.  

 

The MSI GS63 1060 version is good too (not the GS43) and I'm interested to see the 1070 versions.