As a college student I've been dreaming of this perfect laptop something between
an ultra portable laptop that slim and lightweight and something like a regular
laptop that's powerful but not exactly slim for the past month I've been using
razors latest Ultrabook the Blade Stealth and I have to say it's not the laptop of
my dreams but it's pretty darn close i'm Robert Rosenfeld from TechnoBuffalo and
this is a review of the 2017 a Razor Blade Stealth so first things first this
is the gunmetal version of the Stealth and it's only available in the 13-inch model
and with that gunmetal stealth you're gonna lose a couple of things you're not
gonna get that backlit illuminated Razer logo on the exterior of the laptop and
you're not gonna get the option for the all the colors of the rainbow
RGB chroma backlit keyboard Razer is really going for more of a business kind
of an understated for lack of a better word stealthier looking laptop for an
audience that wants it and those two things you're gonna lose but I don't
think it's that big of a deal so one of the first things that stood out to me
about this laptop was just how it was built and how light it is and I know
that we live in this digital age and it's kind of assumed that college
students don't use textbooks anymore and as much as I wish that was true it's not
exactly true I still have to carry a bunch of books for classes so the weight
of my laptop really doesn't matter its then it's lightweight it comes into
under three pounds and it's just built to feel very premium for the price
tag that this thing comes in I wouldn't really expect anything less so it's a
slim and lightweight altra book but it's made by Razer so the specs aren't going
to be too bad inside this thing is a dual core i7 processor 16 gigs of dual
channel memory a 256 gig pci based SSD and Intel HD 620 integrated graphics and
yes it's got integrated graphics but we'll go back to that in a minute
one of the most important things on a laptop is the display and the display on
the Stealth is actually really good it's a 13 inch quad HD plus display with a
resolution of 3200 x 1800 like you're getting a smaller version but it's a
really good looking screen watching videos on this thing was a pleasure
colors just seemed to pop off the display text was super sharp even just
plain text on a webpage look really good very easy to read it's a really nice
display it also has touchscreen capabilities
built in which is really nice and it works well in Windows 10 though I'd say
for the 98% of the time I didn't care about the touchscreen it was just a
really good display I like that Razer didn't make any sacrifices to push that
touchscreen technology into the display but as good as this thing is indoors
outdoors is where it really starts to crumble if I'm outside like this on an
overcast day I just can't see the screen very well the screen just doesn't get
very bright and that's really my biggest knock on this thing is that I love this
display inside but outside it just doesn't look good if it's even readable
at all but for as bad as this display as outdoors I can almost forgive that
entirely just for how good this keyboard is everywhere it's just a really good
keyboard I've typed a lot over the past month on this everything from notes in
class to slack messages to emails to papers and it's just a really
comfortable keyboard to type on it doesn't have as much travel as a
full-size mechanical keyboard but if you compare this to the chiclet style on the
new Apple laptops like on the MacBook in the MacBook Pro I would totally any day
of the week prefer this keyboard over that just because it has a little bit
more travel and it feels more like a full-size keyboard below that keyboard
is a full-size trackpad which I also really happen to like on the 2017
version of the Stealth it now supports Windows 10' s precision drivers that means
it supports gestures it's very fluid very nice to use and I just really had a
good time using it and as a whole it's a really good sized trackpad especially
considering that this is an ultrabook speakers built into the Stealth are pretty
good they're laptop speakers so they don't carry a lot of bass or a lot of volume
but they're decent if you're just gonna listen to music or watch a couple of
videos I know that battery life is always a very hot button issue when it
comes to laptops especially ultrabooks and I'm pretty happy to say that I got a
really good battery life out of the Stealth I was easily able to make it
throughout a full day of classes with note-taking and web research and reading
a bunch of PDF documents online also with a little video watching and maybe a
little video editing sprinkled in there as well but then again do keep in mind
that this is an ultrabook so any CPU intensive task is gonna eat
away at that battery life though the Stealth does have USB type-c so you can
charge this thing with a battery bank on the go if you want
speaking of USB type-c let's talk i/o the blade Stealth has two USB 3.0 ports a
headphone jack a full size HDMI port and a USB type-c thunderbolt port
you can use for charging as well as any fast storage devices or something like a
razor core as a student I spent a majority of my day researching things
taking notes in class maybe watching a couple videos in between classes and
maybe a little gaming here and there and happy to say that the blade handles all
that really well I was able to jump between Chrome and Evernote and watching videos
and email pretty much any multitasking this thing was able to handle I was also
able to do a little bit of video editing in Premiere and I was able to edit 1080p
video on the Stealth just fine though I did have a little bit of issue
with 4k as to be expected I could actually still edit a 4k
timeline but I'd have to drop the playback quality way down I was able to
do some light gaming with the Stealth I could play rocket League at 60 frames
per second on low to medium HD settings I could play battlegrounds though it really
didn't run very well this really isn't targeted to gamers though it's made by
Razer mainly because of that integrated intel HD graphics system it's just not
powerful enough to do a lot of heavy GPU intensive tasks however with all that
being said because this thing does support thunderbolt over USB type-c
plugging in a razor core with a decent GPU in there totally changes the story
at our office we paired the stealth with a razor core with a 980ti inside and the
results were completely different we were able to render 4k video in
premiere 80% faster and playback the 4k video in the timeline at full resolution
flawlessly we were able to go back and play battlegrounds at high settings and
easily maintain 60 frames per second throughout as well as go back and play
rocket league with ultra high settings and get some crazy high frame rates
obviously I know with the razor core you're paying an additional price for
that piece of hardware plus a GPU but I know plenty of people who have a beastly
gaming rig in their dorm room or apartment and a puny little laptop or
the opposite with a heavy desktop replacement laptop with no desktop
inside their apartment or dorm room the razor core kind of gives you the best of
both worlds you can have a super slim lightweight portable laptop but take it
back to your dorm room or apartment plug in one cable and turn it into a beastly
gaming rig so let's get down to it this is a $1,400 ultrabook and for that
price you expect a couple of things you want a well-built laptop with good specs
and a computer that will handle pretty much anything that you're going to throw at it
that's also going to be slim and lightweight and portable and I think
that the razor blades stealth checks all those boxes the 2017 blade stealth is
almost a laptop of my dreams I love how portable it is I love that I
can take it around with me pretty much anywhere I liked how it performed and
despite my issues with the screen and the integrated graphics system I really
can't recommend this thing more especially if you're paying a premium
price like this 1,400 bucks you want something that's going to last you four
years of college and well beyond that I think this thing it'll definitely stay
on the test of time so what do you guys think of the 2017 razor blade stealth I've
had a blast using this thing over the past few weeks and I'd love to hear what
you guys have to say in the comments down below thanks so much for watching
this video guys it's been a pleasure once again i'm Robert Rosenfeld from TechnoBuffalo
and i'll see you guys in the next video
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