Razer - Blade 15.6" Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q - 512GB Solid State Drive - Mercury White

TL;DR - Hitting about a year, with a little care and maintenance, and knowing it can upgrade, this is a great value powerhouse for media work, gaming and everyday use with aesthetics to boot. Quality - Overall 9/10 Chasis: 5/5 - Its solid, feels good and its a beaut! I am not a fan of the green logo on the black Razers, and also they are very much fingerprint magnets (which will bother me to no end). This one is very clean! Internal Specs: 4/5 - This is relative, so I'll share what I do: I work on various mediums such as video, photography and design work. This includes Lightroom Classic, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Silhouette Studio, etc. The most intensive game I've run on here is Red Dead Redemption 2 (possibly Battlefront 2, that one seems to require quite a deal), and it runs great even while connected to a 2.5k monitor and a few steps away from the highest graphic settings. I've found this laptop to be valuable to both my work and my play. The missing point is due to some battery bloating I have recently experienced, but am currently in the process of getting that repaired. I know myself that I've mismanaged heat on this laptop a couple times so that may be my fault. Either way, there is a 2-year warranty on the battery so that was nice to find out! Value - Overall 10/10 With care, I would imagine this can last a person a few years while keeping up with my needs (as noted in the value section). Breaking down the price I paid, in one year I am basically paying $7 a day for reliable, power and good looking machine. Tack on a few gradual upgrades (moving up to 32g RAM soon, and replacing the 512GB SSD with a 1TB SSD), that still be less than $5 a day in two years, etc. Ease of Use - Overall 8/10 It's not complicated to run generally. But to get the full potential out of this thing, and the full life out of it, the more care you put into it the better your results. It is worth noting that this laptop will not take care of itself for you. A couple basic ideas that I think will help. A few basic ideas I'd recommend: - Temperature. The cooler the laptop, the better it will run and the less wear there is on it. While the laptop itself has good systems, certain points of power-use will get it toasty. Lots of ways to tackle this. - Optimize. Get to know your system, tune it up. Don't explore territories you're unsure about (ex: overclocking), but even the smallest tinkerings can optimize the laptop to your needs.

So I was on the fence about this laptop for the longest time because of Razers' support and quality control issues other people were having such as blue screens, bad coil whine, reboot issues, etc etc. After reading multiple reviews and doing research, I finally decided to get when once I saw it was on sale here, which is a big reason why I decided to buy it. I also wanted to give it some time before I wrote a review on this in case I ran into any of these issues. I'll try to keep this review short and cover the things I think are important. I've gone through about 5 Alienware laptops and the last gaming laptop I had was the MSI GS65. They were all great laptops but this one is far better than all of them. Good - Build quality: This is on par with MacBooks. This is the nicest gaming laptop I've ever used. If you hate getting fingerprints on your laptop, go for the Mercury White. Cooling: I was worried about thermal issues at first but with the vapor chamber cooling, the GPU tops at about 77C and the CPU at 82C - 85C and that's while playing Call of Duty Warzone/Multiplayer at basically High settings. With the whole quarantine thing going on, I game like 5-7 hours a day on this and haven't run into any issues so far after a month of use. Battery Life: I get a solid 5 hours of use when browsing the web and watching YouTube videos which is not bad at all for a laptop with these specs. Thats with brightness at 55 and the keyboard backlight at 35. I'm sure I can get another hour or so if I lower some settings but I wanted to base it off of actual usage and not go for a longer battery time. Bad - Keyboard: The keyboard is great but its the wack shift key placement on here that takes some time to get used to. Storage: For a laptop that costs over $2k, you'd think it would come standard with a 1TB SSD but nope. 512GB is definitely not enough Verdict - Buy this if it's on sale. I would definitely not pay full price for this. At $1899, it's worth it for sure. I also bought the protection plan for this in case anything goes wrong and I will update this review if anything does.

I have gone through THREE of these models from Best Buy and every one crashes with a VIDEO TDR FAILURE blue screen error when using the laptop off the internal battery. I do not blame Best Buy for this, but I am not BANNED from their system for doing returns because of Razer's faulty product. I have sent the current on I have directly to Razer. Beware of this product.

It struggled with VR which was not a problem on my 2017 laptop. The screen turned off on it's own a few times, still don't know why, and I couldn't update to the newest windows without doing a weird work around in the system files. Meh, not a big fan. Pretty machine though- returned it after a week.

So, I spent months researching trying to decide on the best gaming laptop. I was looking at the Lenovo Y740, Gigabye Aero 15, ASUS Zephyrus S, and this Razer Blade 15. I heard about people having issues with BSOD's, freezing, various quality control issues for which Razer is known for having. I also saw several positive reviews. So, it seems like luck of the draw in most cases. I decided to roll the dice and I got this Mercury White Razer Blade 15 with RTX 2070 240Hz display. I ended up with one of the good ones, apparently. It has had absolutely zero issues and I've been using it for about a month straight now, since I bought it. I love this laptop and I use it everyday. It's never frozen on me or anything and it is one of the smoothest gaming experiences I've ever had. The form factor is unreal! It's so light and thin, and the power brick is surprisingly small, light and portable. Gaming performance: Overwatch: AVG FPS on EPIC settings 144% render scale 1080P - 80-90FPS, CPU @ 74-77C, GPU @ 71-75C Resident Evil 2: Everything on highest setting 1080P - 80-90FPS CPU @ 71-77C, GPU @ 68-75C Rise of the Tomb Raider: Everything on highest settings 1080P - 74FPS benchmark test, CPU @ 71-76C, GPU @ 70-74C I played Overwatch for a solid two hours and the above temps were the same range. I played RE2 for about 20 mins and ran through the demo in Tomb Raider as well as the benchmark. Gameplay was super crisp and smooth. No stuttering at all. This is all without undervolting. The temps are good enough for me that I haven't even undervolted it yet and gameplay is buttery smooth. I was on the fence about purchasing this laptop for so long, but I'm glad I finally made the purchase. It's so sleek and thin, and an absolute powerhouse of a gaming laptop. The keyboard has very minimal key travel, so be aware of that. I'm used to it now, It would have been nice if Razer put an Ethernet port on here, but they didn't. The base model has an Ethernet port, though. Thermal performance on this laptop is incredible. The CPU and GPU both pretty much average about 75C on every game I've played so far. This was a big concern for me and I can't believe how efficient this laptop is at cooling the CPU and GPU in such a thin chassis. It's pricey, but well worth it in my opinion. I'd highly recommend this laptop to anyone looking for a desktop replacement gaming laptop that is ridiculously thin and powerful.

It can get warm when pushed. By warm I mean cook an old school Jiffy Pop and then melt some butter to pour over. Runs anything at max I've tried and asks for more. Anthem at full specs (pop the Jiffy pop) with Chrome open on 2nd screen. Lightroom, Adobe Rush, & Photoshop have had no issues. I use an USB-C external SSD 1TB drive to keep the unit clean as it's only a 512GB drive. A lot of money - yes. Mid-life crisis purchase - yup. Setup for the next 3-5 years - better be. Did I mention it gets warm - boarder line hot to the touch. I use an external keyboard and monitor and have the Razer on a raised stand to help with airflow. The built in fans do a great job of cooling down once the unit is no longer pushed. I don't mind the fan noise and have it set to auto which is normally a steady stream of background white noise.

PROS -Awesome graphics runs everything I own on ultra -really nice looking labtop feels really well made -awesome RGB lightening in the keyboard (really bright) CONS - Battery dies really quick! (Probably cause I like to run everything on high) I honestly got about an hour and a few minutes before I would have to charge it, spent more time with it plugged in cause I didn’t want to deal with it dying so fast. - Above the keyboard gets really hot! Not like burn your hand hot but like to the point it concerns me - Fans a little louder then I expected but I found myself getting use to it - Backlight Bleeding for my labtop was really bad definitely in corners it was actually annoying to look at when you’re playing a game and you’re in a dark location it’s just an ugly thing to notice CONCLUSION I was really excited to purchase this labtop especially hearing all the reviews on it, it does what I want it to do run games on ultra without a problem, I got it for strictly gaming but unfortunately ended up being disappointed by these cons and couldn’t live with spending that much money on a labtop with theses issues.

I've been searching for the best gaming+programming laptop for months, and I came across Razer Blade 15. This device is capable of all the heavy lifting required of a gaming device and has a niche for other productivity purposes. The keyboard is awesome. I really don't mind the way arrow keys are aligned. More than I expected, the speakers are decent enough for any media viewing or gaming. CPU gets a little hotter when it runs games, but it is manageable. If you are looking for a clean-looking, high-performance laptop, this is it. I really recommend the mercury silver version over the black one; silver finish really hides all the traces of fingers and their sweat very well. + I've only been using it for 5 days so far, and I love it. If there are any problems while using this device, I will keep this up to date.