I don't own a Razer Blade 14 (yet). Ordered one, on its' way.
I had a few driver-related questions.
1) What does Razer Synapse control on this laptop?
2) How (un)bloated is the default OS installation of a Razer Blade 14 (purchased from Razer, not MS Signature Edition)?
3) Any storage space wasted on Recovery partitions?
4) Compatible with standard nVidia GeForce driver updates?
Thanks all.
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2. It is completely unbloated, except for the Razer Synapse software. (I bought my directly from Razer)
3. Disk Management shows an 11.72 GB recovery Partition, 100 mb EFI system partition, 819 mb Recovery partition and 225.73 GB NTFS Boot partition (This is after upgrading from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 without a fresh install)
4. Not only is it standard, all nVidia drivers are done through the Nvidia GeForce Experience.
4a. I have seen some automatic updates through Windows updates that specificly mention Razer. Otherwise, you may run the updates manually from Razer's website.kent1146 likes this. -
Thank you very much for the answers! +rep
It's too bad that there's a recovery partition. OTherwise, I could just use the laptop as-is out of the box. -
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The problem with the Recovery partition isn't around actual practical usable space. Like many people on NBR Forums, I have an OCD compulsion to always make sure that I "maximize" the best possible configuration out of my hardware.
So I'm not trying to reclaim that 11GB partition because I need 11GB... I want to reclaim that 11GB partition simply because I want "the best".
I'll probably end up doing a clean Windows install once I get the laptop anyway, for several reasons:
1) I want a clean install of Windows 10 (and not a Windows 8.1 --> Windows 10 upgrade)
2) I want that space from that 11GB recovery partition back.
3) I don't trust partition resizing tools, because of bad past-history with 4K cluster alignment.
4) I'm going to be swapping out the 256GB M.2 SSD with a 512GB M.2 SSD immediately once receiving the laptop anyway.
5) I actually enjoy doing Windows installations, just so I can see how much faster my new hardware is compared to my old hardware. -
Razer Blade 14 - Drivers? Updates?
Discussion in 'Razer' started by kent1146, Jan 18, 2016.