RAZER BLADE 15 GAMING LAPTOP 2022

 RAZE BLADE GAMING LAPTOP

 raze laptop review of 2022 and we're starting it big with the razer blade 15 and 17. they're both rocking the latest 12th gen intel h series processor and i want to get you guys a bit hyped because the performance boost you're getting this year is way more significant than the previous years it's just a good jump this year plus the selection of laptops you have to choose from because a lot of good ones is going to be a great year if you plan on upgrading now the blade 15 and 17 design has not really changed it's been the same for the past few years i still dig it i think it looks super clean the only thing that has that gaming vibe to it is obviously the logo but overall it's still a very attractive laptop regardless of whether you buy the blade 15 or 17 the port lineup and positioning is identical for example on the left hand side you have your power connector which is razer's proprietary connector rj45 two usb ports thunderbolt 4 headphone jack and then on the other side you have an hdmi 2.1 port usb port another thunderbolt 4 port and then an sd card slot uhs 2 sd card reader now the only difference in terms of ports is that this only has one thunderbolt 4 port the other usb type c port on this is only usb 3.2 while on the 17 and both of them are thunderbolt 4. i do want to command a razer for reducing the size of the power adapter on the 17 inch model like this is a 280 watt power adapter okay this is a 230 watt power adapter that comes with the blade 15. look at the size difference the 230 is taller than the 280 and i want to show you what msi is still using right now because it's kind of ridiculous if you think about it this is msi's 280 watt power adapter not only is it one and a half times thicker it's also longer than both of them i mean come on msi you're releasing expensive laptops now you put some money into power adapter research and get this thinned down so people don't have to break their backs when they carry their laptop the other changes happen to be with the keyboard i didn't really like razer's keyboards in previous models i always felt them a little bit difficult to type on there was a bit too much spacing between the keys what they've done this year is they made the keys bigger so that there's less spacing between them and i find it so much easier to type on than the previous model you'll also notice that there's no more power button inside of the speaker that's because the speaker has now been laser cut into the top deck of the chassis for a seamless look and in order to do that they had to move the power button over onto the keyboard so this is going to be standard on the blade 15 and blade 17. the typing experience still feels like a productivity focus laptop first gaming second but of course you still have that crazy chroma rgb that you can customize per key the touch pad is still glass it feels the same it's no different from the previous model so if you've experienced that you know exactly how this guy is going to feel too now the blade 15 i have here is using the new 4k 144 hertz panel and it is absolutely gorgeous very low response time color accuracy is fantastic it has really good screen brightness over 400 nits this screen is like the perfect screen if you're like a gamer and content creator if you're still a gamer and content creator but want a higher refresh rate i honestly recommend just going for the qhd screen because you get a high refresh rate of 240 hertz and even though the color accuracy is not as good as the 4k panel it's still really good like good enough that you can trust it for design work the one thing that i really love about blade 17s compared to some of the competition is that the hinges are always nice and stiff stiffer on the 17 in fact i think they actually stiffened it up a bit more this year and they just don't wobble when you open them which is great both of them have 1080p webcams they look nice and sharp and of course they support windows hello facial recognition to quickly log you in the other cool thing is that the blade 17 got a speaker upgrade there's now eight speakers inside of here unfortunately i can't play the sound because they're still releasing a driver to take advantage of all them so it wouldn't be fair if i showed you the sound quality now but i promised to do a little story or short later to show you the difference in sound quality compared to the previous model now performance is exciting on both of these models this one comes with the i9 12 900 h the blade 17 is rocking the i7 12 800 h both have the latest rtx ti nvidia gpu the blade 15 can boost up to 110 watts the blade 17 can boost up to 130 watts now i ran crossmark across all of these laptops and the macbook pro m1 pro i don't have the m1 max anymore and they trade blows you know mostly these two laptops win the only area that the macbook comes close is the creativity score but the single core clock speeds on these guys are the fastest i've ever seen on a laptop they're incredible they're hitting the 1800s which is a new feat for intel in the laptop space multi-core speeds are good faster than most 11th gen laptops and the amd 5000 series and if you're a creator you're gonna absolutely love these things i still think the macbook pro has the advantage over these guys when it comes to like adobe premiere pro but as soon as you start dabbling in after effects that's where the nvidia gpu comes into play and it just completely dominates the macbook as for compiling code they do really well much better than the previous year but they fall short compared to the macbook pro in all fairness the macbook pro is based off of a unix kernel so the compile times are going to be a bit better but still a nice upgrade compared to previous models the one area that i saw a major difference was gaming and that's all down to the faster single core clock speeds the full hd results on these guys are absolutely incredible but i truly feel like qhd is the sweet spot now no matter what laptop you're buying with a 3080 or 3080 ti qhd is where you want to be so make sure the display that you get on it supports qhd and get a nice high refresh rate maybe 165 hertz which i still feel is a good place to be now as for heat management i was kind of shocked you know i was expecting these guys to overheat and melt on my desk but the combination of the performance cores and efficiency cores did really really well in all fairness razer is a bit conservative with their heat management because they're trying to balance out fan noise and a bunch of other things to keep the temperatures below 90 and because of that i feel like a bit of performance is lost on these laptops and i bet you in the weeks to come you're going to see other 12th gen inte processors that really push the performance and the expense of fan noise speaking of fan noise they get up to about 50 decibels when they're completely under low that's still loud but when you compare it to other gaming laptops that tend to go up to 60 it' still much better oh i forgot to mention blade 15 17 and even the upcoming 14 all come with a muk switch now blade 15 if you're switching between optimus and discrete gpu requires a restart you can also do it in the bios blade 17 you don't have to restart the computer at all you can just switch it on the fly now internally there's a lot of similarities for example they both have a vapor chamber cooler two big fans at the top these ones are a little bit bigger but the razer blade 17 gives you that fan by the battery both of these laptops have ddr5 memory 4 800 megahertz these are 32 gigabytes in total but yes it can be upgraded to 64. the blade 15 only comes with one nvme ssd this is a gen 4. the read and write speeds are insanely fast same with the blade 17 but if you do go with the blade 17 you do have a second slot over here if you want to add some more storage now this year the blade 17 comes with an 82 watt hour battery this is up from 70 watt hours compared to the previous year and you also have an 80 watt hour battery inside of the blade 15. battery life has been awful like literally only three hours of use which i don't think makes sense like this again is an engineering sample but they said i can do full tests on it so i'd probably wait for a retail unit in order to confirm it what else should you know wi-fi 6e so if you have the router to support it you'll get the fastest speeds and yeah that's about it honestly these are nice performance updates and the way razer works is not so much giving you the fastest laptop on the market there's other laptops that are faster than this coming out but they tend to try to balance everything you know performance fan noise uh heat all of it and if you want a kind of more balanced experience this is the product to buy if all you care about is performance then obviously there's other laptops to choose from i will say this though the i7 1200h was faster in some scenarios and that's probably because of the bigger chassis it's easier to cool and obviously when you saw in some of those performance benchmarks having more power to push towards the gpu does make a difference in the games you're playing so yeah that wraps up my review of the blade 15 and 17. i do have a crazy powerful laptop review coming out on thursday that even beats out the m1 max in.