Razer blade questions

I understand that the razer blade is a very nice looking slim & light laptop but id like to get some owners views on things
1. what made you buy one over say an upgrade able clevo?
2. when did you buy your laptop & when are you planning on replacing it?
3. what is the build quality like?
4. have anyone tried re casing one or any mods? more than just upgrading SDD/ram
5. how well does it deal with heat?
6. how well does it deal with being transported do you take it everywhere with you?

 

1) I bought both Use the Razer for work and on the go, use the Clevo to play with and work from home

2) Bought it last Feb. Plan to replace it next year with whatever Raxer comes out with that has mobile Pascal

3) Fantastic. Very solid computer, no issues in 15 months

4) Nope, havent tried

5) It gets hot. I have only run a few benchmarks, and havent noticed any throttling. I dont use it on my lap., its always on a table. After gaming for a while, you can def feel the heat around the keyboard, but not enough to bother me.

6) I take it everywhere. Back and forth to work everyday (I dont like the company issued laptop) and on vacation and any flights. So far so good ...

 

1). Bought it for design. I travel a lot for work, so I spend a lot of evenings in hotel rooms where I want to games during my down time. I wanted a single laptop that I can use for work and gaming, and was portable enough to be carried around airports, trains, etc.

I also want something professional enough to look good in client board rooms. I obviously can't walk in there with an aggressively styled "gamer bling" laptop. And to be blunt, I also can't walk in there with a cheap-looking laptop with a name that the client probably has never heard of (gigabyte, Sager, clevo, Acer).

The way I look at it is that your laptop is something you're going to use every day that you go to work / school. And maybe even a fair number of evenings, if you're a road warrior like me. So pick a laptop that you like, because you're going to be spending a lot of time using that laptop.

As for the price? Well, if you ARE going to spend that much time with a laptop, then its worth spending the extra money to buy exactly the one you want. Two years from now, you're not going to care about the $500 extra that a Razer blade costs over a Sager/clevo, or a Gigabyte P34W v5. You ARE going to care about how the laptop you relied on every day for work/school was the best laptop you've ever owned.




2) January 2016. Going to replace it after about 2 years. That's usually when something new-and-shiny comes out that is a big upgrade from 2-year-old laptops.

3) fantastic build quality.

4). Repasted the CPU and GPU. I would not recommend doing that. I made a thread on my project doing that.

Accessories... Got a lenovo flex 3 14" laptop sleeve. Looks great, and perfect for for a Razer blade.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00SYFU5UI/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1

5) does fine. 85C when running artificially hot benchmarking and stress tests. Real world scenarios always run temps lower than that.

6). Transport is fantastic.
Laptop is highly portable... And the power brick is highly portable. You're not going to find any mention of a portable power brick from a Taiwanese company like clevo/Sager, Acer, Asus, MSI, gigabyte, etc.

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