Is the 2019 Razer Blade Worth It? #Helpful Post

so uh your Apple stickers stole my

laptop she's gonna take this off now hey

guys Boston when it comes to gaming

systems Razer is almost always on the

expensive side of things that doesn't

mean they don't make really nice stuff

but value is not really going to be the

strong suit here for the money though

this delivers some of the best build

quality around but with the brand-new

2019 Razer Blade 15 is this the new king

of the hill or is it straight up not

worth it inside you'll find the latest

Archie X cards so the advanced version

starts with an r TX 2060 but you can

spec it up to an r/t X 2070 max Q or a

28 MX q which is what my review unit is

rocking there's no doubt that it's

powerful the blade can handle pretty

much any game maxed out at 1080p

previous at frame rates this includes

apex legends battlefield 5 black ops 4

you name it it can't quite hang with the

17 inch ROG Zephyrus as with its crazy

over-the-top cooling this far as

performance goes the razor blade lines

right up with what you would expect out

of a standard 28 Emacs acute design a

lot of the other specs are basically

identical across all of the razor blade

models so you're getting the same six

core i7 8750 h getting 16 gigs of ram

really the main choices besides your SSD

size and your screen is the 2060 2017 or

2018 but there is a huge price

difference between the three just going

from the 2070 to the 2080 as a full $400

to the price of the blade okay

so let's just take a second and talk a

little bit about price now of course the

razor blade has always been a premium

lea priced laptop if that's a word which

I think it might be but on top of that

RTX has inflated the price of pretty

much every gaming laptop it's gone into

and this is absolutely no exception and

a full $3,000 for the 2080 version I

have here and $2,600 for the 2070

version it's just difficult to justify

that kind of price when other options

such as the 15 inches FSS come in with

very similar specs for about two

thousand dollars the razor also has a

couple of key features that the Zephyrs

is missing namely fender bolt three now

I get that this is not going to be a

deal-breaker for everyone but for me I

actually do use a Thunderbolt 3 dock and

monitor pretty much every day so there's

a big feature that I want included in

pretty much any kind of gaming laptop or

Walt really

any laptop I buy at this point now you

can't talk about the razorblade without

mentioning the design now as far as I'm

concerned this is about one of the

nicest pieces of laptop hardware out

there right up with the mac books in the

MacBook Pros of the world it's all cnc

aluminum I know it's a very expensive

process to pull off especially with this

anodization and put simply it's a very

solid very sturdy very nice feeling

piece of technology you're paying more

but at least some of that cost is

definitely in the actual build quality

and some of the design work that they've

done here you also get the generally

solid razor keyboard with the perky RGB

backlighting you give the nice large

touchpad the good speakers you even have

Windows hello facial recognition I mean

there's a lot of good stuff here but

does it justify that $3,000 price tag

I will definitely admit I have had

issues with quality on some razer

laptops in the past but as far as I can

tell they basically nailed it this

generation I mean Hardware wise there's

not a lot to complain about there's

always a good thing when you're spending

this much money on a laptop is it

getting old and I'm complaining about

the price the laptop it's a big issue

it literally is it's a very very

expensive piece of tech and you're

paying a lot of extra money and I think

pretty much everyone expects to get

something when they pay that and you're

getting some stuff like hardware wise

it's a little bit nicer but performance

wise you can get a lot more performance

or basically the same performance for a

lot less which i think is a compelling

argument for almost everyone as a

surprise to basically know when you're

getting a very solid display now this

model has the 1080p 144 Hertz panel but

there is an optional 4k unit as well no

it's solid but it's really nothing all

that exciting I mean basically every

other gaming laptop in this class has a

very very similar panel and what is a

little bit more exciting are some of the

new options that are coming for the

blade a little bit later this year

see I got to take a look at two of these

new options one of which is a 240 Hertz

panel which let's be real I don't know

if all that many people can tell a

difference but for some people it might

be nice specifically people who are

playing very very high frame rate games

but more importantly than that for me is

a 4k OLED panel now I know I mentioned

earlier that there was already a 4k

option that you can get for the blade

but it's still a standard panel and it

looks nice but the OLED panel I was able

to take a look at at the razor booth was

incredible I mean the contrast the

brightness it was such a match

massive step up now doesn't support

those higher frame rates but as far as

I'm concerned I want all that all up in

my razor blade and well basically

everywhere else in fact just February

the 2019 razor blade delivers a

rock-solid build and good performance

but it comes at a steep cost now if this

was like sort of a no price comparison

we're just picking the absolute favorite

piece of hardware on the market I

actually might go with the blade when

you look at that Zephyr assess for a

significantly cheaper price you're

getting that better performance you're

getting a little bit of an unusual

design but I think for most people it is

totally worth the trade-off so is the

razor blade worth it

well for some people yes but as far as

I'm concerned I'm holding out for that

OLED panel that that is what's going to

get the money and oh I just realized

think about how expensive that oh that's

gonna be oh no I well excited about

getting a new razor blade with OLED Oh