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Is a Razer blade 14 worth it?

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What's up! I plan on buying a Razer Blade 14, probably from the MS store because of its blend of dimensions, weight and performance. I've heard amazing things about it as well as terrible things about it (specifically in the realm of QC and support).

 

I wanted to know if anyone here owns an RB14 and could share their experiences with it. How's your battery life? Any major issues picked up along way? I think Linus uses a Blade as his daily too if I'm not mistaken. Shoot your thoughts on your Razer Blade at me!

 

I'm really leaning towards this computer so yeah, I just need a push or pull off the edge money cliff that is the razer blade 14. Thanks!

HP Pavilion p007tx (i5 4210u, gt840m, 8GB DDR3 memory and a 1 TB HDD that makes cool sounds when booting up) 

Since my laptop can't run modern games too well I use a PS4

 

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I found it very loud even when under a light gaming load and would get very hot to the touch. battery life wasn't great. also my original unit had a faulty keyboard and support wasn't the worst i have ever experienced but was not great. as you can probably tell by the wording of my post i no longer have the unit i ended up selling it and put the money towards a desktop and lower powered laptop. 

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6 minutes ago, STOMAN said:

I found it very loud even when under a light gaming load and would get very hot to the touch. battery life wasn't great. also my original unit had a faulty keyboard and support wasn't the worst i have ever experienced but was not great. as you can probably tell by the wording of my post i no longer have the unit i ended up selling it and put the money towards a desktop and lower powered laptop. 

Jeez that sounds bad. Where does the 2100$ go anyway lol 

 

Well my second choice is an ASUS ZenBook Pro UX550. It ticks all boxes except for the fact it has a 1050Ti, it is 400$ cheaper though. 

 

Do you think a 1050Ti is a good GPU? The Zenbook also has a TB3 port so maybe I can use an eGPU in the future when the GPU starts losing its steam. I would like to use this laptop for around 4-5 years 

HP Pavilion p007tx (i5 4210u, gt840m, 8GB DDR3 memory and a 1 TB HDD that makes cool sounds when booting up) 

Since my laptop can't run modern games too well I use a PS4

 

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Tons of issues, avoid it

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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There are other solid choices as well for cheaper price than Razer Blade 14 such as Gigabyte Aero 14 or MSI GS43VR

Daily drivers:

- HP Elite x2 1012 G2: Intel Core i7-7600U, Intel HD Graphics 620 + Aorus Gaming Box GTX 1080 eGPU, 16GB LPDDR3-1867, 256GB Toshiba NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD + 128GB Toshiba Exceria UHS-1 U3 MicroSD, 12.3" 2736x1824 + HP Pavilion 22cwa Monitor 21.5" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

- LG V20 (H990DS): Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (ARM-based), Adreno 530, 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC UFS 2.0 + 64GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-1 U3 V30 MicroSD, 5.7" IPS LCD 1440p + 2.1" 160x1040, Android 7.0 (LG UX 5.0)

 

Other devices:

- Lenovo IdeaPad Y400: Intel Core i7-3630QM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M SLI, 16GB DDR3-1600, 120GB Kingston mS200 mSATA SSD + 1TB HGST Travelstar 7K1000 7200rpm 2.5" HDD, 14" 768p, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Dell Venue 11 Pro (7139): Intel Core i5-4300Y, Intel HD Graphics 4200, 8GB LPDDR3-1600, 256GB SanDisk X110 M.2 2260 SATA3 SSD, 10.8" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Acer Iconia W4: Intel Atom Z3740, Intel HD Graphics, 2GB DDR3L-1033, 64GB Samsung MCG8GC eMMC, 8" IPS WXGA (1280x800), Windows 10 Home 32-bit

- Asus ZenFone 2 ZE551ML: Intel Atom Z3580 (x86-based), PowerVR G6430, 4GB LPDDR3, 64GB eMMC, 5.5" IPS LCD 1080p, Android 6.0.1 (Asus ZenUI)

- New Nintendo 2DS XL

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17 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

My review of the latest version of it is coming very soon

I would like to see a major improvement especially the internal build quality and cooling solution. (and let's hope Razer QC will be improved)

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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You can't have good cooling in a light and thin laptop unless you sacrifice performance for it.  You can't break the laws of physics, Jim, and some of these ODM's seem to think if you try to break the laws of physics and logic, you will get rich.

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Introducing the all new8 Razer Blade 14! :P

 

Intel Xeon E5 1650 v3 @ 3.5GHz 6C:12T / CM212 Evo / Asus X99 Deluxe / 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 3000 Trident-Z / Samsung 850 Pro 256GB / Intel 335 240GB / WD Red 2 & 3TB / Antec 850w / RTX 2070 / Win10 Pro x64

HP Envy X360 15: Intel Core i5 8250U @ 1.6GHz 4C:8T / 8GB DDR4 / Intel UHD620 + Nvidia GeForce MX150 4GB / Intel 120GB SSD / Win10 Pro x64

 

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5820K & 6800K 3-way SLI mobo support list

 

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