Razer has reportedly updated their Blade Pro.
The new laptop will feature an Intel Core i7 4720HQ and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 960M.
At this point, I have pretty much lost all respect for Razer as a laptop maker. The 960M is nothing but an overclocked 860M. The LEAST they could have done for $2300 is installed a GTX 970M like the new Blade has. It boggles my mind as to why Razer would have a weaker GPU in a larger laptop.
Pricing and other details are available on Razer's website as of now.
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They did the same thing last time as well. Not sure what their official stance is on why it doesn't have a larger GPU. Probably something about it's supposed to be for professionals and the 14 blade is for gamers. Shrug.
I would never buy the 17 anyway, so I don't really care much, but it is somewhat eyebrow-raising. -
Yeah, it's still a strange decision to not put the same GPU as the 14 inch...
Glad to see they included a spinning drive as well at least for more space, that's new fro
I actually like the thought of the Pro model. I use intensive creative software every day I turn on my computer, and although I have the 14 inch Blade (and love it), often when I'm working in Premier or modeling in Max, I really pine for the extra screen real estate.
I even owned the 2014 Blade Pro, THREE of them to be exact, but the switchblade UI was so wonky, and the trackpad unreliable that after that final RA, I was fed up.
Now if they ACTUALLY updated the software and/or hardware for the switchblade UI for this 2015 model, then I may be interested again. -
Switchblade is probably expensive so maybe that's how they offset the cost and I don't think they're marketing this to gamers. They're aiming it more towards developers maybe as a rMBP 15" alternative. At least they added a HDD.
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Awful, just awful.
960m? Really? This thing desperately needed a 965m, instead, yet another year of the 860m with different clocks. Terrible.franzerich likes this. -
I understand everyone saying this is for developers etc. etc. however the keyboard.... Is that keyboard for Developers or Gamers?
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NVidia must be almost giving away these 960m GPUs to vendors and manufacturers.
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There is another reason the 17" has a lower performance GPU than the 14" that I don't think people realize.
The thermal solution in the 14" has shared heat pipes so both fans are working to remove heat from the GPU, but the 17" has completely separate thermal solutions for the cpu and gpu, and cannot handle as high of a peak thermal load on one or the other. Of course, if you max out both cpu and gpu, then shared heat pipes wouldn't help.
The marketing reason will be something like only full HD vs QHD+... but that is just marketing. -
I think it's official, available for purchase
http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-blade-pro
although the 960m is a let down ............... -
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I have the Razer blade pro 2013,
I wish I had bought the 14 one. The Switchblade UI is just useless really, just works on paper not in practice. -
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I would like to know if they spent some time putting serious revisions and work into the SBUI this time around (their website doesn't mention any revisions or changes to it...), because its now been a couple generations with a less than stable touchpad/selling point. -
It reminds me alot of Logitecths dekstop gaming keyboard for desktops. It has anLCD which again seemed cool in theory but in practice it was just more of a gimmick then actually useful, plus not incredibly well supported within various applications or games.I mean even in the stock photo they are showing you an analog clock... .YAY!!!!
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This announcement I saw while on vacation. I lol'd
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If I ever buy another blade, I will go straight to the 14 inch model. -
SBUI almost swayed me to buy the blade pro
By the way, the 2014 blade (256 GB) now sells for $1789 on amazon, if you're ever interested
Razer Blade Pro 2015 announced
Discussion in 'Razer' started by DataShell, Mar 12, 2015.