I purchased the Razer Blade 15 Base from Best Buy as "Used, Satisfactory" for a good price. The laptop is sturdy, well built with a metal body and a very beautiful 4k screen. It has plenty of ports and everything connects perfectly from ports to wi-fi to bluetooth. I have tried it with high end games as well as multiple graphic design (PhotoShop, Indesign, Fresco) windows open and it is very fast ad responsive. The only thing I have ugraded so far is the storage, I added a second SSD on the open M.2 port as 512 GB of memory is not as much as I would like. The process was just a matter or a few screws, unplugging the battery and plugging in the SSD. It could not be easier. The included 16 GB of RAM work very well, though that is something that in the future I would likely be upgrading (it can use up to 64 GB of RAM). This is not the latest model out there and I have read a number of reviews that critique the rtx 2070 Max-q. This is a mobile version of the graphics card and the new generation apparently is better, I'm no expert. The only thing I can say is that for me it has worked very well. Games play smoothly at the highest graphics. Though I am not one to measure frame rates or anything like that. A few things to note: The all metal body, when gaming gets hot. Really hot, as in, it will burn your fingers hot. Other users have recommended cooling pads for gaming, I have elevated the laptop from the table to allow more free flow of air through the computer's cooling fans at the bottom, that has worked pretty well. I also tend to use a gamepad or mouse/external keyboard for more comfortable gaming. Also, as beautiful as the screen is, it is 4K at 60hz. Even at a lower resolution all you will get is 60 hz because that is the native refresh rate. The screen is also glossy and has a lot of glare in daylight. Finally my one real disappointment with the purchase, I thought I had lucked out with a perfect looking, if used, laptop. Then I opened a white setting screen and saw it: burn in. There is an Xbox Gamepass ad as well as the computer info indelibly etched on the screen. It is really only noticeable in a light screen but I have noticed it when playing games with a bright daytime setting which is annoying. This is something that really should be clearly advertised when selling the computer. I expected scratches and some grit, not burn in on the screen. But it was a great deal so I kept it (over $600 savings from new). The burn in is not that noticeable under normal circumstances (I am including a photo) And my graphics design and digital artwork, I tend to do in an external tablet monitor anyway. Obviously this was a floor model that was left on for hours on end on thee same image, however, it should be noted that burn in is possible.

I do tons of 4K RAW video editing and was looking for a laptop which can smoothly playback real-time frames and render at high speed. Don't get me wrong on why I choose this laptop for content creation. Believe me, I have purchased 10 different laptops including the latest MacBook 16" with 5600M, Asus M16, G14, G15, MSI 15 and bunch of others within 2 months and not single one has provided me with required power and feel to it. At first I was skeptical to buy this model because it has been barely reviewed by the youtubers. It weird that how youtubers who review bunch of other laptops and benchmark them for content creators miss this one which is specifically designed for content creation. It's kind of annoying though. So, in spite of all the confusions, I decided to purchase and give it a try. I don't play much games except FIFA once in awhile so I don't care about gaming benchmarks. So now talking about the laptop, the design and built quality is totally amazing. This is probably the most beautiful laptop I have purchased in terms of how it looks. Even beats MacBook Pro 16. I don't know why Razer does not make this color available for their other laptops. You can barely notice any fingerprint and seriously you'll get addicted to it's look when you start using it. So, I updated all the windows thing and all the drivers. The 4k OLED screen is amazing & feels good to work on it but the flickering issues are too visible and put you out. For me it's not big of a deal. Everything went well until I started editing 4K. The laptop get's so hot within 2-3 hours that you can barely use the keyboard. Then I started doing more research and found out that razer blade battery gets bloated under 1 year of use because the battery area also get's heated. Come on! And the power delivery when rendering 4K video is very low. MSI creator 15 (I returned MSI 15 because it's fan noise is loud is crazy loud) with RTX 2070 can render my sample test under 3 mins while this laptop took almost 15 mins. I simply don't get it. It's the same test. The Asus M16 and G14 2021 for that matter also took same 15 mins. I'll still keep the laptop and do more test before my return period ends. Hopefully. I'll be able to convince myself to keep it but we'll see!

This thing is BEAUTIFUL! But I ended up returning it because of one small issue. If it wasn't for this, I'd have LOVED to keep the laptop. But the screen broke me. OLEDS are marketed towards creators and artists because of their wide gamut. But they reproduce all those lovely colors with a very high rate of deviation. Unless you keep this monitor on one, single calibrated brightness level, the colors will shift as you adjust the brightness. If you do color sensitive work, this will probably bother you. I calibrated this monitor about 5 times before figuring out what was going on. I also don't know if it was specific to my unit, but part of the screen was brighter than the rest. With the bad out of the way, this is a really beautifully designed laptop! If you're gaming, you wouldn't notice the small color inaccuracies that a photographer or artist would, the blacks are deep, and colors punchy with this OLED panel. The build is top of the line, all glass and metal- you really feel like you have something special. I'm fans are quiet as laptop fans go in Photoshop and Zbrush. I am not a gamer so I don't know about it's gaming preformance. Protip: Undervolt it and you can get up to 7 hours of battery life, if the low battery life reported in reviews bothers you.

I love the oled display and I would recommend it to gamers / movie watchers but to people needed for work I wouldn’t recommend the battery on this laptop sucks for a laptop, the battery is small it doesn’t even extend all the way so there’s an empty space, note that it gets really hot so I upgraded the ram the thermal pads to Fuji poly extreme and added liquid metal on both the GPU and CPU and it runs way cooler, I bought this refurbished on Best Buy for 1400 something, I got this because the gpu shortage and it made no sense to upgrade my pc when DDR5, AM5 are coming this year instead I ended up selling all components except some, I mostly work from home as a webdev and graphic designer and I have external display optimized for CMYK

I was a bit worried about going from a 2018 Advance model to this one, mostly because of the battery. I have been using it for more than a week daily and I have to say that everything is holding up really well. I can get about 6-7 hours of light use (emails, documents and youtube videos) even with the screen set to 4K. I know that 60hz may be slow, but most of the games I play are more single player cinematic games, so the OLED is better for that. I was aiming to get a RTX 3060 laptop pat some point, but I could not pass on the price of this one, I am very glad I picked it up. If there is one thing I would like razer to do about this laptop is the battery size; with this model now using 2 M.2 slots, there is room to be able to extend the battery a bit more, with that making it the best option for people that want the budget option.