The Razer Blade 15 has long been my favorite gaming laptop. It’s gorgeously designed and well-crafted, but doesn’t compromise on performance. But over the past couple of years, I’ve been wondering how the design will adapt to two important trends in gaming laptops: A smaller 14-inch screen size and Ryzen processors courtesy of AMD. The […]
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An extended Blade Runner interview with Westwood co-founder Louis Castle
Edited by Jeremy Smolik. Click here for transcript. As 2020 draws to a close, we’ve still got a couple of extended-edition “War Stories” videos to release, and this one’s been a while coming. We had a great time last year talking to Westwood’s Louis Castle—so much so that we actually got two videos out of […]
Razer’s Blade Pro 17 sports a 300Hz display, Nvidia RTX Super GPUs
Here’s the new Razer Blade Pro 17 gaming laptop. Razer It still has the matte aluminum chassis that has helped differentiate the Blade in a crowded gaming-laptop market. Razer Its 17.3-inch display can either be 1080p and 300Hz or 4K and 120Hz. Razer A look at the port selection on one side of the notebook… […]
Razer Blade 15 vs. MacBook Pro
Riley Young/Digital Trends Apple and Razer typically offer rather different products to one another and as such, typically have rather different user bases too. However, as Razer has trimmed and tightened its laptops into sleek gaming machines, today both companies offer low weight, great looking laptops of various sizes. That means new buyers may find it […]
Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model (Mid-2019, OLED)
The first major wave of laptops with OLED displays is here, and the results are stunning. The Razer Blade 15 Advanced Edition OLED ($ 3,299 as tested) marries the cutting-edge panel technology to the excellent design of Razer’s flagship 2019 laptop to head-turning effect. The screen is a joy, shining with incredibly vibrant colors and […]
Best Buy discounts $300 off the Razer Blade gaming laptop with RTX 2060 graphics
Razer.com/Razer Inc. Touted as the “world’s smallest gaming laptop,” the Razer Blade 15 is now getting one of the biggest discounts: Best Buy is selling this gaming laptop for $ 300 off the regular price, knocking the Blade’s price down from $ 2,350 to $ 2,050. This particular laptop comes with a 15.6-inch full HD display, […]
N1NE: The Splintered Mind is a VR take on ‘Blade Runner’
Blade Runner is one of those cultural touchstones that’s clearly made a big impact on lots of VR developers. It’s even had a few VR apps of its own. But Melbourne-based OD1N Studios seems to essentially be making its own Blade Runner VR game, and it looks great. N1NE: The Splintered Mind is heading to […]
Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe
[embedded content] Shot by Sean Dacanay and edited by Justin Wolfson. VFX by John Cappello. Click here for transcript. And if you want a close-up peek at the awesome Ladd-style logo Aurich cooked up for this video, you can get that right here. Welcome back to “War Stories,” an ongoing video series where we get […]
Alienware m15 vs. Razer Blade
Rich Shibley/Digital Trends Laptop gaming has almost always meant big, chunky form factors with poor battery life that really test the limit of what you could call a portable gaming machine. Today, however, that’s not always the case. Standouts from various manufacturers offer great gaming performance but with a much lighter frame and often better battery […]
Razer Blade Stealth (2019)
Since its debut in 2016, the Razer Blade Stealth has been one of the best ultraportable laptops on the market, a thin and well-designed machine without dedicated graphics hardware for gaming. That last aspect separates it from most of Razer’s laptops, which are made with gaming in mind, like the flagship Blade 15. The new […]
Razer's New Dual-Storage Blade 15 Gaming Laptop Starts at $1,599
Razer’s Blade 15 gaming laptop is getting a new model that’s a little thicker but has more memory and will cost you less. This “dual storage” model includes both SSD and HDD memory and lowers the gaming laptop’s starting price to $ 1,599. You’ll get 128GB of SATA SDD on top of a 1TB HDD. […]
Razer Blade 15 (2018) review
Research Center: Razer Blade (2018) Gamers have grown up. Plenty of us love to play games, but we also have jobs and computing needs outside the arena. We want the best of both worlds — something as sleek as a MacBook, but with the horsepower of a desktop command station. It’s a goal Razer has […]
Dell XPS 15 vs. Razer Blade 15
Dan Baker/Digital Trends You can pick up a dedicated gaming notebook and put up with a sci-fi aesthetic with jet fighter exhausts, or you can pick up a stodgy business-oriented machine that looks like something out of a cubicle farm. Those are your only choices, right? Wrong. Today, you have other options, tweeners that straddle […]