My 1st Razer, the 2020 Base 15

First, I'll be buying a 2nd SSD and would appreciate someone pointing me to tips on setting it up.

I'm a retired CPA who has been frustrated that my laptops only last a year or two. The Lenovo Flex 14 that I had been using has broken wifi, trackpad and fingerprint reader. I am conscious that heat is the principal enemy and am careful to maintain ventilation. When I bought a new XPS 13 I purposely got an I-5 processor and non-touch screen but it still ran hot and was dead in a year.

When I read about the superior trackpad on Razers I was interested, the track pads I've used have been bad and are usually the first thing to go. The two fans got my attention. The trackpad is indeed far above any I've previously had and the laptop runs cool.

The keyboard is slightly better than what I've had recently. The old IBM Thinkpad keyboards got me to buy Lenovas but their keyboards are all bad now. Are there any good keyboards on laptops anymore?

I didn't think I'd get much out of the 144 Hz refresh rate because I'm not a gamer, but what I had thought were wifi bottlenecks causing slow response are now mostly gone. The difference is startling. The display is drop dead gorgeous: brilliance, clarity, color saturation and depth beyond what I've seen before.

I've never minded paying a bit more for quality and this machine seems a cut or two above even comparably priced machines like the Dell XPS. Originally attracted to the 13.3" Stealth I went to the 15 for the speakers and because I feared that pushing the "thin" envelope meant the Stealth would run hotter. While dithering the $1100 Steaths at the Microsoft Store sold out anyway. I paid $1300 for the Base 15, buying directly from Razer during their Black Friday sale. The only weak pint in the 15 from my perspective is the 256G SSD. The open slot for a 2nd SSD alleviated that concern.

 

All I can say is Your-Preferred-Deity help you if something should happen to go wrong with it, doubly so since you bought it directly from Razer.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...s-and-no-sign-of-when-ill-get-it-back.832629/

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/razer-customer-support-reviews.834435/

 

I shouldn't have written "directly". I bought it from Razer on Amazon. I'm hoping that gives me an extra layer of protection.

 

Strongly recommend you buy a third party extended warranty for this machine that is NOT serviced by Razer themselves because they are completely hopeless with their customer support

 

Only for the duration of Amazon's return policy, unless you purchased with a credit card that gives you some additional coverage.

 

About old IBM Thinkpad keyboards, I still have not found anything that comes close to the typing feel of the T43 and T60. But in the world of modern laptop keyboards, Razers is tolerable.

 

If this laptop gets burning hot deal with it right away by getting it fixed else you will cook the battery in a short amount of time. Dust cleaning and repaste should have it sorted out.

 

Which specs is it, Base with 2060? That’s great price if it’s. I’d be weak if I saw that price I’ve 1070maxq that’s around same raw performance with 2060, but newer gpu would be more optimized and has more features like dlss, right choice over stealth with a lot weaker dgpu. For SSD you can buy 970Evo 1tb for around 100 bucks or less, and add to secondary m2 slot but personally I’d use cheaper one maybe crucial 2Tb (got €130 on Black Friday) also nvme only slower but on real world usage like loading games it won’t be hugely different. I swapped Samsung 500gb 3gbs read speed with that ssd on my stealth that has only one slot, the difference I noticed only cristaldiskmark bench, daily use like booting feels same fast.