Razer Blade Stealth (2016) Review

Razer has been producing its Blade series of notebooks for several years now. The Stealth is their first notebook to not have a dedicated graphics card. However, that doesn’t mean the Stealth won’t eventually find its way into the hands of gamers. The Razer Core, which we previewed at CES this year and is not yet available at the time we wrote this review, accepts any full-size desktop graphics card, and can be used to turn the Stealth into a full-fledged gaming machine.

That said, we’ll be reviewing the Blade Stealth as just an Ultrabook. It’s well-equipped. with a 4K display, Intel Core i7 dual-core processor, 256GB SSD, and 8GB of RAM. Among the Stealth’s many highlights are its elegantly simple design, and individually RGB backlit keyboard. However, its below par battery life and loud cooling fan hurt its overall value proposition as an Ultrabook. At $1,399 as tested, it’s also far from inexpensive.

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No quad-core CPU, no 16 GB of RAM, no thank you.

 

Yes to the 16GB RAM part - it should without doubt offer 16GB as an option, and I did note that in the review.

Based on today's technology, I don't think a quad-core processor would be feasible in a computer this thin.
Perhaps if they made a larger/thicker version of this notebook, it would work.

Charles

 

Everything about it works for me as a traveling system, except for the battery life. The dual core isn't ideal but the clock speed is fairly high for such a slim device - and if the fan is already loud, then adding two extra cores of a quad would have made the noise even louder, under heavy use. 8GB of RAM is actually OK for my usage but it clearly won't suit everybody. Less than three hours of battery just isn't good enough - although the small power adapter suggests they've tried to make it work for people who require portability.

 

You might look up reviews with the QHD+ display, that should get better battery life.

The battery test we run is pretty demanding, but a ThinkPad T450s for example gets approx. double the Blade's life, as we tested. I'd expect at most 4-4.5 hours, 5 tops from the Blade 4K.

Charles