Anyone else feel compelled to trade up to the new 14'' laptop ?? I just purchased my Razer Blade R2 2 months ago, although I love it I find the new 14'' laptop is everything I want out of a Razer blade... No crappy Switchblade UI which I never use.... Smaller & more portable.....great gaming performance at the native resolution...
Is anyone else feeling this way or am I just nuts?? Huge regrets with buying the 17'' razer blade now knowing the new 14'' was just around the corner....
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The screen is awful compared to the Blade R2. Really, really bad.
Size and weight are perfect, and there's no spiny disc (but there's also no way to upgrade beyond 512GB).
The massive trackpad on the 14" requires maximum palm protection to be usable, and even then the right side still picks up my palm from time to time. That was never a problem with the 17".
Not sure if it's standard, but my 14" Blade came with the double-thick 150w power supply instead of the thinner 120w power supply.
It's a tough call. For carting back and forth every day, the 14" is a big weight and size saver. For non-gaming, the 17" is more comfortable to use. -
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Hint for Razer:
Lenovo has also released an 14" Thinkpad with a 1080p IPS display (confirmed) and maybe a 1600x900 IPS (not confirmed). Apparently the previous model of this laptop was around ~$950 so Engadget is guessing about the same. You would think for $1800-2300 Razer could use this display too.
Lenovo ThinkPad T440s ultrabook surfaces with full HD display and Haswell - SlashGear -
For nerdy professionals like myself who travel a lot and make a large income, the cost for the Razer Blades has never bothered me. They are producing a product unlike anything else on the market.... -
It's not the price that is the problem. It's just that the Razer 14 is almost perfect with its premium build quality, gtx class gpu and a quadcore haswell in a very light and tiny package yet they just slapped in a mediocre screen with low color gamut and high black levels. I would have paid $200 more on top of the $1,800 if they would have put a nicer screen. -
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The 14" Blade came with a 150w PSU that has a three-prong AC input cord. It's around 22mm thick, so not double, but around 1.5x the thickness of the 120w PSU. -
I am also in the 'nerdy professional' category, travel weekly and I am in Australia where the Razer Blade 512GB is $2800 (~$2500USD). It is not the price that is bad it is the fact that they have used such a bad panel (read through the posts above) when there are decent ones available. With a decent IPS in this it would be my ideal machine but not being able to move my head more than 5cm in either direction kind of sucks when you have paid that much. -
Yea I re-read your post and I may have been a little quick on my response, however as a razerblade owner I am used to so many kids trying to compare this machine to a $1,000 laptop. In this case I believe all you were referencing is the screen, I assume you acknowledge that the T440 still is not even comparable to the Razer Blade especially for gaming.
In the end I agree with you regarding the screen, I don't think I will be purchasing the Razer Blade as a result until next year when they do fix the screen. When I purchase machines like this I want the best..... and I would have to agree that they fumbled a bit with this machine on the screen.
Razer Blade Laptop... Trading up...
Discussion in 'Razer' started by Nick11, Jul 7, 2013.