Expensive? Yes. Worth it? Yes. Runs hot? Yes. Too hot? No. I purchased this to replace my Asus ROG G703GXR-XB96K. The Asus crashed and burned within 2 years. Purchased Geeksquads extended warranty on it so they fully refunded the original purchase price of $3799.00. So I used the money to purchase this tiny beast and I mean beast. I use an external monitor so the 14" screen size wasn't a problem. What got me to purchase this Razer 14 was what it offered inside. A Ryzen 5900HX with a Geforce 3080 all in a more than light and portable laptop. Going from a hulking 10 1/2 Lb. behemoth not to mention the 5 more Lbs of power bricks. I was sold. I modify GTA V and I mean mod. Like 150 GB of mods over what the original game files are. All settings maxed out to very high and ultra. I also retexture almost all the GTA V files so I needed a laptop that was powerful enough to run Gimp, OpenIV and Codewalker all at the same time. Well this does it without an issue even with just the 16 GB of soldered on ram. Gameplay has boosted 20 to 40 FPS. without any glitching or tearing. Not to mention never dropping below 50 FPS. even under the heaviest loads during cars blowing up, RPG's being shot everywhere and peds all having a shootout all at the same time. Some reviews say the refresh rate on an external monitor is limited to 60 Hz. Wrong. I'm running mine @ 165 Hz. You need to set the resolution and refresh rate according to your monitors specs through Windows display adapter properties in the advanced section under display. All and all I'm very happy with my purchase. And yes I highly recommend purchasing Geeksquads extended warranty. It's well worth it. I got an upgrade with a couple of hundred Best buy bucks left over from my refund. On a side note. If you purchase the Razer 14 my recommendation is to purchase an under the laptop cooling fan ($30.00) which I had originally for the Asus. It definitely helps with keeping this laptops heat under control. Idle 45c under some load 85c with some momentary 90c spikes under extreme gameplay loads.

This stupid Best Buy app crashes as I was writing my lengthy review. Just know this computer is awesome, I compared it with others and I got it on sale for $1,469.99 open-box excellent. Any purchase for this hardware at MSRP is outlandish. Happy hunting for deals!

Nice laptop，although this laptop is very small，but it is better than my blade pro 17(2080)

I watched a lot of reviews on this prior to my purchase and the common theme was this was the macbook of gaming laptops and I have to say that description is spot on. The keyboard is amazing which honestly is one of the most important aspects of a gaming laptop. It has an amazing CPU and GPU. Wish it had a little more internal storage, upgradeable ram, and more IO. It doesnt have bad IO but I like how Dell uses the back of the laptop for additional lesser used ports.

Love the build and materials. Coming from MacBook Pros over the last 10 years, this follows suit in build quality. Although slightly throttled, I think you already know about the performance numbers if you are looking at this 3080 model anyways. Does not disappoint. As for usage: most everyday tasks on battery does not kick on any fans. It's pretty cool and silent for the most part. Plug it in, do some slightly taxing work and the fans will kick on. They are not obnoxious however. Also, out of the box settings has me at about 2 1/2 hours of battery life under light browsing / video watching usage. Tweaking settings for longer battery life (switching screen to 60 hz, using iGPU only for most tasks, etc) I can get about 6 hours. This is at maximum brightness -- if I'm working, looking at text, I want to do it on a bright sharp screen. Screen is good, but I wish it could be slightly brighter. Color is great. I do notice one thing that helps with the screen brightness is turning off all the adaptive brightness settings. First in windows display settings, then in AMD's software settings and then in the NVidia control panel. Once this is done, the screen obviously doesn't dim but at max, it seems about 50 nits brighter...? Finally, I have to recommend getting Razer products from Best Buy. Razer's customer support is really really bad. This is very important should you run into any issues. Best Buy has the best electronics support. I would even go so far as do not get any warranty from Razer. Rather use Best Buy's.