Ultimately, though, the Blade was never about specs, and despite its maker's penchant for calling it a "gaming" machine, it's really just a striking, fast and beautiful laptop. Despite its flaws, the Blade is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Conclusion: We're mixed
With its sleek, black aluminum casing and unique customizable "Switchblade" panel, the Blade may be one of the most beautiful, let alone powerful, laptops ever made. You could do a whole lot worse than to roll up at a LAN party with one of these. But at $2,800 this blade cuts way too deep for all but the most obsessed PC gamers.
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Razer intends the Blade for consumers that don’t mind paying a premium price to get a very unique product, or gamers more focused on the overall experience of mobile gaming than raw computing power and the highest framerates. It’s definitely a different notion.
Read the full review →While Razer isn't trying to sell performance here in the way that say, the cats at Origin are with their gaming PCs, it's still hard to not want something slightly more out of machine that costs nearly three thousand dollars and isn't really upgradeable.
Read the full review →A gaming laptop with moderately good performance, stellar design, an intriguing but ultimately unnecessary gimmick, and more portability than any other portable PC game machine.
Read the full review →In the end, the Blade is a sleek, versatile and unprecedentedly compact gaming notebook that is completely overshadowed by its extraordinarily high price.
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pd8472
I recently purchased this from Tiger Direct for roughly 1499 US dollars, and I have to say, when looking at the specs in contrast to other machines this size, it was a steal that I couldn't pass up. Amazon is now offering this model as well for 1499, and their shipping and return policy is much...
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Keith04
This laptop and the retina MacBook are similar but this comes in a one size fits all the MacBook maxed out is 3800 dollars the speed is good enough not great but good enough the display is Beautiful and bright it does get a tad bit gaming but everyday tasks it is fine I don't like the lack of...
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