The laptop performs excellently, never faulting even as I play the highest demand games. The refresh rate helps to maintain the clearest picture, providing excellent clarity while I play my games. The chassis is durable, but very light. The weight and compact size of the laptop make it one that you could take anywhere. It's very mobile, especially since the battery life exceeds that of any other, providing me with hours of use. The chroma keyboard is beautiful, and is well laid out and comfortable to use. The trackpads is perfectly placed right in the center of the bottom portion of the chassis, and is sized just right to ensure precision in use. My only gripe would be that this thing gets HOT when under load. However, a laptop stand or a fan will take care of this no problem.

After 1 month everything is working fine. I fretted over 1060 vs 1070 gpu and in a rare show of restraint opted for the 1060 and am happy with it. Silly stuff like lighted green logo and colored keyboard can be turned off, so you can be in a meeting and still be an adult. Minus one star for the price and lack of a second hd slot, LAN jack, and sd card reader, ...but that's how its so sexy. The build quality and overall design are the best i've ever seen(i've owned several macs, this is cooler). The black surface smudges easily, but they provide a lens cloth, black of course. It performs admirably on large cad/gis data sets, development tools, and x-plane. I hear it plays games too. Longitudinal study is needed, but i like it.

This is my 2nd go on a Razer system and I was hoping that this will be different than the my Blade Stealth which had severe phantom touch issues. Charger - The build on this laptop is amazing and my favorite of all the current laptops out so far. Feels nice and sturdy and looks sleek BUT, after using the laptop for a few days, I start to notice some crackling sounds while doing some light Photoshop work. The sound is loud enough to hear even though I was listening to music with headphones on. I take a look around and hear loud buzzing and crackling from the charging unit like its about to pop and catch fire. I immediately unplug the charger and contact Razer's customer service to replace the unit. After going back and fourth with them, they agree to send me a new charging unit, but it will take 5-7 business days to receive AFTER I send my current one back. That means I'd be without power for a little over a week. That's fine, but I use the Blade for work and need power for the laptop. They will NOT send a charger ahead of time so be prepared to be out of a computer for over a week. Paying such a premium price for this laptop, I would expect the urgency and support to be a little better.. Synapse - One of the reasons for me getting this laptop is its amazing keyboard and the ability to customize the colors through Razer's Synapse app. Customizing colors for shortcuts on certain apps would be very beneficial to me. Only problem is, the app does not work! I have a non-functioning light keyboard. As I am typing this review, only 1/3 of my keyboard is lit up. I tried numerous times to open the Synapse app, but it continues to close it self. It closes itself so fast, I can't even uninstall it. Color Accuracy - Another reason I purchased this laptop is because of their claim of 100% SRGB. Since I do a lot of photo work, this was very important to me. After checking calibration, it only hits 97% using the Datacolor Spyder5 Pro calibration tool. It's not too big of a deal since I can always use my calibrated monitors at home, but it is a little disappointing. Battery Life - Not too great, but expectations were low to begin with. About 3 hours of some lite web browsing and its out. Final thoughts - If there weren't any issues within the first few days of owning the laptop, I'd feel more confident owning it. I feel like after a year, something will definitely go wrong and I'd have to spend another couple grand for a laptop. If you are looking for a laptop to use for work, the Blade is probably not for you. You will be out of a laptop for a week at some point due to some charger failure and if you have projects due, you will be screwed. Now I am not the only one with the issue so please be advised before purchasing the laptop.

I've been using this for a few weeks now. It isn't a bad laptop. Lightweight, great picture and good sound. The keyboard takes a bit to get used to, because of the placement of the keys in the bottom right corner. The arrow keys aren't in the standard positions so it messes with typing here and there. The trackpad is absolutely huge and is too easily hit when typing as well so it is nice, but takes a lot of getting used to. The trackpad does sometime mistake a scroll for a stretch from time to time as well. The keys light up beautifully and feel pretty good when typing so that is a plus. For normal loads, it is a perfectly balanced laptop with battery life and functionality. When gaming, this suck gets hot enough to cook an egg; no joke. It is hot enough that you literally don't want to touch it, because it can burn your fingers, especially towards the top of the keyboard where I imagine the cpu and gpu are located on the mobo. If using for gaming, or anything that fully loads it, I would recommend getting a laptop cooling pad and either a gaming controller or a usb mouse and keyboard to use, because you aren't going to want to touch the laptop at all when it is under load as the heat rises. Temps usually stay around 70-80 C when gaming or just using it to stream another device (xbox another PC etc). It cools off rather quickly once the load is removed though. For everything you get in it, I would say it was a decent purchase considering I can get in usually upwards of 60+ FPS while gaming. The SSD is small in my opinion and gets full fast so I would also recommend getting an external drive or finding somewhere to get the internal M2 swapped for something bigger, but keep in mind the temps get way up there so make sure the M2 can handle the heat. Overall, I'd say the only major problem this the heat when under load, becasue the other issues you can more or less get used to over time.

I want to start by saying this thing is built fantastic! Solid Aluminum feel, good weight, nice keyboard feel & lighting. When you are gaming the thing gets hot fast! Not just the CPU & GPU but the body gets so hot that you can't really put your hand on the keyboard. Even with a repaste and under volting it would still peak @ about 90-92. I took it back thinking I got a bad apple but the next one did the same thing. In the end, I returned it for the MSI GS65 which is about the same spec wise but with a 1070 @ $100 more give or take. By comparison, with under volting (-.150) at ultra that one hits 80 max after long playing. It did perform very well though, so its a toss up if you can deal with the extra heat. The screen is beautiful, could be brighter, but great color. The one thing that did annoy me was the arrow and shift key placement... it was kinda annoying. If you are going to do light, occasional gaming, its a winner hands down. If you are going to do anything more aggressive, get something with better thermals.