One universal complaint about the Razer Blade Stealth is the screen bezel. Next to the XPS 13, those bezels just look ridiculously thick. My question is: Why would Razer ship something with such an obviously inferior design? They could have easily stuck a 13.3" screen in that amount of space and made it much more attractive. So was it cheaper somehow to only have a 12.5" screen? Or is there another technical reason for doing this?
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I don't believe that, because it's razer. They're known for making excuses for overlooked design issues. -
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Dell managed to put a 13" screen in a 12" laptop.
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It's not all that surprising, really. Yea, Dell and HP are working on the thin bezel thing, but most other OEMs still pack a more traditional thick bezel. Lower your scaling and it's not really noticeable.
Of course the other side of that is if they'd gone with a wider screens, what kind of affect would that have on battery life, ESPECIALLY on the high end screens. -
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"Negligible" is really relative in this case: If it got 10 hours to begin with I might agree. but at half that every minute counts.
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That's... really flexible thinking.
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On the bright side, Razer has a decent track record of using this kind of feedback for future product revisions, like when they replaced those absolute garbage 1600x900 TN panels on their original Razer Blade 14 models. So hopefully, they'll get their act together, and cram a larger screen into their future revisions. -
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mindinversion Notebook Evangelist
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The main issue was major backlight bleeding around the top and bottom and pressure marks which created bright spots in the centre of the screen. Many people have reported this. The screen is one of the most important parts of a laptop and I won't accept one with bright splotches in it. It also washes out the colors from nearly any angle.
defects with the back of the lcd panel aside, it's just not a great screen in 2016 on a top-dollar machine. I didn't notice it that much when it was my only laptop, but when I looked at it next to my xps's 4k display it's just night and day.Bursotto likes this. -
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Isnt 2014 screen a TN panel? And yes the 2015 QHD screen is BS. viewing angles are bad, colors look washed out. Changed to the 2015FHD model and never looked back. Better colors and viewing angles to me. Have to live with 8gb ram though.
Hope 2016 blade comes with a better QHD screen, or have a FHD model that speced the same so we have a choice. -
2014 has the 1800p IGZO touch panel. They're was also a 1080p IPS I think. I like the panel, never going back to FHD now that both my notebooks have hidpi.
The 2013 blade had a crappy 900p TN panel.
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I will definitely say I had to calibrate it, it was way better from a color accuracy standpoint after I did that. The default calibration from the factory was a tad saturated.
The reason the XPS is off my list is the GPU is too weak for my uses.
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Razer Blade Stealth Bezel
Discussion in 'Razer' started by gametime10, Apr 27, 2016.