Razer blade 2014 vs Aorus X3 Plus

I'm torn between these two laptops.. The reviews on the Aorus x3 Plus seem mixed in terms of build quality while it's specs are higher than the blade.

What it's coming down to for me will be overall fit and finish along with performance. No budget.

Sorry if that seems vague lol but I've never really got too technical when purchasing a laptop but I figured this time I might as well do it right.

Which would you recommend?

 

may be wait a little?
new GPU's comming soon.

razer has 8gb ram and aorus can handle 16. (that for my opinion main difference)

 

I would second the advice above.

Supposedly the 970m is way better than the 870m. And gigabyte, clevo and MSI should launch new revisions right after the official launch, so if you can, you should wait

 

Aorus X3+ biggest difference has two mSATA slots (stock 2x256GB) and two RAM slots (stock 2x8GB) both user upgradable which is a big difference in my book. But yeah, I would wait a bit. Hopefully all the new thin and light notebooks are refreshed with 970m.

 

Yes wait, the desktop version is so efficient that I would not be surprise to see a 980m or something like a 975m in these things

 

The same here, wait for the razer refresh. It may occur at the end of 2014 or mostly sure in late Q1 2015.
A 980M in the razer blade would be just amazing. Anyone knows its TDP? All i know is that Desktop one GTX 980 is 165W

 

Probably about 90W. 970m would be the best and most logical fit though.

 

Hey HTWINGNUT isn't the 870m already a 100w tdp card, shouldn't the 970/980 tdp be quite lower than that? The difference in TDP for desktop parts are huge the 770 is 230w tdp and 970 is 155w tdp. Just wondering. Cheers

 

Good afternoon,
thanks for this thread. I'd like to buy one of the 2 models as it is what I need but... if the Razer is really great-looking the Aorus is powerful... I don't care about the price but... which one is the best?

I cannot also point out as the Razer community is very (very) ahead than the one of Aorus and it is very important for the support...

 

If money is not a problem then razer is a good choice without doubt.
The Razer community is very good at least you will have feedback from several topic in here, which is very useful.

 

neoideo, but the Aorus looks powerful... starting from the 16Gb of RAM... did I can tweak later my Razor? Which one are the expansions available for both models for to buy them?

p.s. The keyboard for both is 1 single color not like mine M18x?


Cheers,

 

Hi,

Both machines are great, and I do not believe there is any mistake going for one or another.
However there are a few things to condiser in my opinion

1. Wait for MAXWELL GPUs

Then provided they will both come with the same GTX (i bet on 970m), and CPUs.

2. Razer has amazing community, but Aorus one is growing fast as well.
Better overall built quality kind of unibody... and fantastic keyboard also.
Soldered RAM up to 8Gb max.
m.Sata SSDs.
Compact power charger.

3. Aorus x3+ has an average keybord quality. Not built in and sounds terrible. But good features (backlight and macros).
Screen structure is a bit weak and shaky
Modular RAM up to 16Gb
M.2 Sata SSDs.


Considering on ultra slim machines the CPU is soldered Modular Ram is a good way to upgrade later on.
Performance wize, SSD using M.2 sata is better.

I would personnally go for the Aorus x3+ when the Maxwell chips are on board. Maybe I am wring but I am not fan of soldered RAM... and M.2 sata is a nice to have However that will also depend on the quality of the sound system or if any of both moves on IPS screens.

Cheers

PS: please correct me if I said anything wrong.

 

Greenben, good morning and thanks for the great reply! When did you expect a refresh with that GPU?



Cheers

 

Hi Sev7en,

Thanks - Also I am not the best specialist so If anyone has anything to balance my views or comfort them I am more than happy.

I believe that the refresh will come so that laptops are ready for Christmas, as business-marketing wise, that is the ideal period to re-launch products and that leaves time to manufacturers to accumulate new stock and avoid shortage (since the true gaming community does not want Kepler GPUs in laptops is waiting...) and liquidate the existing Kepler versions.

I would add to my original comment the following to consider.

1. Since Kepler runs very hot, maybe next machines will have quieter fans, or at least with lower RPM for lower temps than actual ones that must comply with Kepler. CPU runs hot any way. Maybe another advantage to the Aorus since the cooling copper systems is one piece so overheat from the CPUs goes on the GPUs side... Razor seems to have more copper though...

2. With the refresh it will be needed to do a full review of both, and compare all features. It is possible that Razor goes on M.2 sata... who knows even though it seems that razer was trap in its architecture and had litterally no space for m.2 sata that are longer SSDs.

Cheers,

 

I was thinking of purchasing one of these laptops as well (Hopefully for a Jan 2015 trip) So I was curious if there was any idea when this refresh and availability may happen? I suspect Jan 2015 may be extremely tight (if not impossible)

 

No one knows. Razer will be tight lipped about it until they do an announcement.

 

The Aorus X3+ with GTX 970m 6GB Vram is soon to be revealed. One thing though, they seem to have downgraded the CPU with the 970m versions from a it-4860HQ to a i7-4710HQ... But this is still to be verified on Aorus website when this is official. Excaliber did not wait...

It is yet available on pre order on here: AORUS X3 Plus v3-CF1 13.9" QHD+ Ultra Gaming Laptop. AORUS X3PLUSV3-CF1

As I often say, if they could have made it 14.4" with space for a 5mm thin HDD space that would have been AWESOME.

 

Showing as "discontinued" on that site. Does that mean that Aorus cancelled this or is it just misinformation on excaliberpc.com's part?

 

That is news to me. I recon many people seing thus must have asked Aorus to the point they asked the resaler to stop the leak. Aorus is clearly looking to evacuate its 870m stock for Christmas for those who dont know... My Christmas will be in Q1 2015 personally