Let's get the elephant in the room out of the way first: this is indeed a very expensive laptop. Could you get comparable performance in a self-built desktop for much less? I'm sure you can. In my opinion, though, you're not just paying for the performance when shopping for a gaming laptop, you're paying for the portability and the package, and let me tell you: with Razer's 2020 Blade 15 Advanced Model, you get what you pay for. Out of the box the reason for this high price tag is evident very, very quickly; all those expensive, high-performance components advertised prominently by Razer are enclosed in a sleek single-block, precision-milled aluminum chassis, cool to the touch and providing a premium feel definitely not matched by the plastic often found on lower-grade Windows laptops. It is very comparable in build quality to the Macbook Pros circulating from Apple this year. The touch pad is large and satisfyingly responsive, though I prefer using a mouse. The keyboard is nice and clicky; I've heard complaints about the travel depth of the Blade's keyboard but I quickly adjusted from my old Dell and HP laptops and find it a joy to type on. The beautiful RGB Chroma for the per-key lighting, enabled in the onboard Razer Synapse 3 software, looks gorgeous, and offers more customization options than I'll ever be able to figure out. The slim size of the laptop is shocking; my old laptops, despite having the same screen real estate, look like veritable bricks compared to the Blade, with its slim bezels and small footprint. You're spoiled for choice with ports, too: three zippy USB 3.2 Gen-2 Type-A ports with great transfer speeds, one latest-gen UHS-III SD card reader, an HDMI 2.0b port, two USB-C 3.2 Gen-2 ports (one Thunderbolt 3-capable) able to power the laptop, and a 3.5mm audio jack. Even the charging cord speaks to the quality of the product, with a thick, wear-and-tear-resistant woven braid cord providing the power this machine needs (side note: battery life is highly dependent on your settings; to maximize it requires a lot of customization). The speakers are quite good for a laptop! They get louder than I'll ever set them to, and the audio is clear, with decently punchy bass and distinct mid and high ranges. I love the 300Hz screen; I didn't even know refresh rates got this fast, but its blistering refresh rate makes games buttery-smooth and leaves absolutely no screen tearing. I personally prefer this 1080p, high-refresh screen to the lower-refresh, 4K OLED models for gaming, but for the creators out there those options are available. The onboard video camera is... decent. 720p is sad in 2020, but it's also rather-disappointingly par for the course with most laptops on the market. The infrared camera works brilliantly for Windows Hello, though; I'm still surprised by how fast I'm logged in. If you'll be doing serious teleconferencing, I recommend a headset with a mic over the built-in one, but if you're only talking with friends on Zoom, the integrated one should suffice.
The performance of the laptop once you really dive in and start to use it has blown me away (a low bar considering the inexpensive laptops I'm used to, but still). The Intel 10-Gen i7 processor is great. While AMD's options this year certainly improved more over last year's models than Intel's CPUs, this i7-10875H still isn't a slacker, newly-upgraded to 8 cores and capable of handling intensive tasks quite well (Adobe programs run like a dream, a nice change of pace with how poorly Windows normally runs Adobe products relative to Macs). The NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super Max-Q graphics card provides just about all the frames I could want in gaming. Games run great at high graphics settings; I reach an average of about 100 FPS in Battlefield 1 at the "high" preset, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order reaches about the same on "high" too, with max frames for the latter sometimes reaching the in-game cap of 144 FPS. The 16GB of dual-channel DDR4 RAM is more than enough for my needs (at last, I can open more than five Chrome tabs!), and for memory-heavy games you can download Razer's Cortex software, with optimizes your RAM and diverts it to the game you're playing at the moment. Booting on the SSD is incredibly fast, with programs opening quite responsively, though it is worth looking into upgrading the storage size from the 512GB included (Razer makes it easy to upgrade both RAM and storage, you can look up tutorials on YouTube). I couldn't ask for much better performance than the Blade provides; you can look up professional reviewers for better benchmarks on speed (I'm just a college student here happy with a product).
TL;DR: The Razer Blade 15 2020 Advanced Model is pricey, but you get what you pay for in both performance and the package. If you can afford it and you need a high-powered computer, this is well worth the splurge.