After you tone down the Chief Gamer and CEO of the Razer Group, Min-Liang Tan’s seriously driven enthusiasm for the product what you see is one of the best 14” notebooks ever made – equally at home - well at home - or in a corporate boardroom making a style statement.
You need to understand Razers pedigree. Razer has become, over the past seven years, perhaps the world’s leading brand in gaming hardware. Min-Liang Tan is a respected gamer and I suspect a closet businessperson who has shaped Razer’s success. “Razer is for gamers, by gamers,” he says.
It made its mark with mice, keyboards, headphones and controllers for the PC gamer – a market that is steadily growing and expected to surpass console games – Xbox and PlayStation – by 2015.
Its unique design signature, a cool logo – that gamers like to tattoo, and the degree of human engineering (ergonomics does not begin to describe the process) have led to success and market leadership in a crowed gamers market.
Back to the Blade – serious power tucked into an ultra-thin notebook format – with few perceptible compromises.
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Let’s look at the technical specs (vitally important to gamers)
- Processor: Intel Core™ i7-4702HQ Quad Core, Hyper threaded, 2.2GHz / 3.2GHz (Base/Turbo)
- Chipset: Mobile Intel PCHM 8 series chipset, HM87
- Memory: 8GB DDR3L-1600MHz RAM
- Graphics and Video: Intel HD4600 (for general use) and nVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M, 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
- Display: 14.0" HD+, 16:9 Ratio, 1600x900
- Storage: 128GB / 256GB / 512GB SATA III SSD
- Power: Built-in 70Wh rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery
- Built-in HD webcam (1.3MP), stereo speakers, backlit anti-ghosting keyboard, 3.5mm microphone/headphone port, 3x USB 3.0 ports, HDMI 1.4a, Dolby Home Theatre v4 7.1 Codec support (via HDMI) – note no Ethernet port – requires a dongle.
- Communications: Killer Wireless-N 1202 (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0)
- Weight: 1.88kg – milled aluminium chassis
- Operating System: Windows® 8 (64-Bit)
It is also Razer Synapse enabled storing all gaming preferences, custom settings, and Razer add-ons in the cloud eliminating reconfiguring your PC.
At AU$2,699 it is at the top end of the scale – but the power and quality of the milled aluminium construction make the price extremely fair.
