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Customers consistently note that the Blade 17 is very expensive, with some saying they would not recommend it at full price. Others mention that the battery life is poor, lasting only about 3-5 hours even on the best battery-saving settings.
Just bought this laptop. Definitely worth the money. Very expensive if you get it at full price, but if you could find a deal on it would be a great grab. As a student this has a very nice keyboard and easy to maneuver around. Feels like a high-end laptop should. The one bad thing is that the battery doesn't last long. Everything else is great. Really fun to game on and the display is 10 out of 10. I feel like it's just as good if not better than my PS5 which I thought I'd never say. If you're in the market for a new laptop, I would defiantly grab this one. I'm personal going to keep buying razer products in the future.
Posted by David
This laptop ran great until I encountered a software issue that's made it impossible to do anything but get on the internet. I can't download or update anything, I can't run any of my games, and the internet will go out after awhile for no reason if I leave it running for longer than an hour or so. I have been trying to get support to help me and they've been abysmal. I am in a loop with them because system resets or image restores give me back partial ability to do things like download updates and each time the problem gets minorly better before deteriorating again they force me to go through everything again. Meanwhile I am unable to play any of the AAA titles I have in my Steam library and have been locked out of those for about a month, now. When it did what it was supposed to do I loved it, and now I am fighting to get someone from the company to look at it. Considering when I had an Alienware they had someone out to my house within the week when I had an issue with my motherboard I am extremely frustrated. I saw so many recommendations for this laptop and to have this issue and still have it a month later is just . . . beyond. I mean, if you can get one that doesn't disintegrate because of software issues like mine has then yeah, good laptop, but the support is awful and I shouldn't have to fight so hard for them to look at something that is still under warranty. This should last me two years, not six months. I'm very angry I spent so much to basically have a paperweight. Thanks, Razer!
Posted by Emma
It's worked excellently, but I've had some issues with DPC latency that causes audio to crackle. I had to reinstall windows, which was very annoying, but that seemed to solve the problem. I also got it on a heavy discount (1500 off) and I wouldn't recommend this product for a normal price.
Posted by JohnJ
Good quality for being 2 years later. bottom gets real hot need a flat surface. Handles the games that I play just fine!
Posted by NicholasC
This laptop gaming is a beast mode, the screen is just a next level. 4k on a Laptop? What? And with a 144hz are crazy. I was tried so many laptop from Asus, Alienware, Lenovo and they are run really hot but Razer , they did really good on cooling down. 10/10
Posted by Vincent