and it's been a while since i've done a
laptop review
and someone hit the like
it's been a while it has been a while
what we've got right here on the table
is the razer blade pro 17
and it features an i7 8 core 16 threads
it's got a 165
hertz ips display and that goes to 1440p
but of course it is expensive it's
coming in at
$2600 usd or in australia
$3500 aussie dollars and you're probably
wondering at this price tag
is it worth it should i even consider it
and i'm going to be straight up with you guys
if you're looking for a laptop
especially this price point you want it to tick
all the boxes and then some because if i
was spending this kind of money on a laptop
i'd want it to hit all those boxes so
let's get straight into this thing
see what it's packing and then of course
see how it does in gaming and even
things like productivity we've got here
an i7 10875h this model in particular
has 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory
at 29.33 megahertz you've got a 512
gigabyte nvme ssd
70.5 watt hour lipo battery and a 230
watt power adapter
now as for the weights the laptop itself
weighs in at 2.77 kilograms and the
power brick will weigh in at 512 grams
so in total roughly 3.3 kilograms
if you want to travel and put it in your
backpack though the most important part
of this laptop is the gpu
rtx 3070 laptop edition of course where
it will not come in with the same
fps as an rtx 3070 desktop but we will
compare those numbers later in the video
and then we've got the 165 hertz where
razer are claiming we have 100
srgb coverage let's get straight into
testing this we put the x right eye
display pro
and tested it where we saw here that we
got a bit over 80 percent
srgb coverage out of the box and because
it's an internal laptop display there
actually is no
external controls or modes to change on
this laptop you have to go through
windows or different software
to change the color profiles the reds
and blues were a little bit
oversaturated and the greens
were a little bit under-saturated but
overall it wasn't really that
bad you could reliably edit videos and
do color work white uniformity levels
did show that the bottom left hand
corner
was significantly out of whack and
compared to the center where we saw 370
ccd brightness in the middle compared to
279 on the bottom left hand corner
so white uniformity could use a little
bit more quality control in this regard
to pick up the brightness to a more even
level across the whole panel
in terms of the backlight bleed there
was no visible backlight bleed
and that's of course thanks to the ips
like panel and then there was no visible
cross hatching either
where they've used actually a very nice
coating on the monitor itself in terms
of a semi-matte
coating that still does a great job at
reducing glare especially if you're in a
well
sunlit room so now if you're a gamer
here's some of the most important news
and that is the response times
where i measured six milliseconds in
response to the actual monitor
transition times
but real response times of this monitor
were around eight milliseconds so coming
a little bit over that at the refresh
time so at any given time you'll roughly
see two frames
transitioning in the one frame that's
being displayed on the monitor and this
is a decent result of course it's not
the best i've seen for an ips panel but
it's up there and it's pretty close
instead of being
closer to the worst side in terms of the
input lag we use this with the nvidia
ldap
device where we saw here uh roughly 16.7
milliseconds total system
input lag testing over valerian now
moving to the gaming numbers we've got
four different titles we tested here
f1 2020 showed that we were getting some
impressive results for a laptop
where we're scoring 132 versus 165 on
the 3070 desktop variant
shadow of the tomb raider followed in a
similar trend where you are losing i
would guess
around 20 to 30 percent depending on the
title but keep in mind this is a laptop
and it is using a lot less power than
the desktop variants when we measured
that whole total system power
consumption while we're gaming
it went only up to 185 watts max and the
noise was also quite well controlled
coming in around 46 decibels max
and that's with the different three
locations and four fans in total
blowing air in and then all releasing it
out of the back of the laptop
so i thought the cooler design and also
the noise was very good considering the
fps
numbers this whole laptop was putting
out and in terms of black ops we saw a
similar trend to the other games
where we're still getting at 1440p and
this is all 1440p
numbers here at high in ultra settings
we're getting 118 versus 146
and then fortnight we saw yet again a
similar trend at 1440p
epic settings so the gaming numbers
coupled with the temperatures coupled in
with the noise
does get a good pass and speaking of the
temperatures we went up to around mid 70
ambient environment
now what if you want to do some
productivity on this laptop
say for instance you're editing videos
or you're say for instance you're adding
videos
say for instance you're editing videos
this is where the 8 core 16 thread did a
decent job
of course again being a laptop component
you are using less power
and you are of course going to get less
power in the end
but we'll pull up some cinebench score
numbers for you guys getting 3
394 points all core and then single core
was 466.
this did turbo up to 3.9 gigahertz all
core on battery
and then 4.65 gigahertz single core in
this particular benchmark if you want to
do some productivity just on the battery
here is actually where some decent news
does come into play with 2.2 gigahertz
all core speeds still being obtainable
and then 3.85 gigahertz on the single
core
and this did so at 27 decibels with
noise so it does remain extremely quiet
on battery where it does use less power
too so if you are doing heavy work
you will get about an hour and 40
minutes out of the battery on heavy
usage
if you are doing light work and just
using it say to watch some videos here
and there or listen to music
you will get roughly four hours of use
out of the battery
and that does charge quite quickly
though moving through the adobe premiere
pro numbers you're going to get similar
results to a roughly an i5
10 400 11 400 f and then over to the
geek bench
five numbers again a similar trend to
the adobe premiere pro numbers so keep
in mind if you do want to do
productivity on this
then you will want to probably upgrade
the ram from 16 gigabytes to 32 at the
least
if you are doing heavy 4k video work
then you might like me
want 64 gigabytes of ram which in this
case you can
upgrade to 64 gigabytes that's the
maximum spec
supported on the razer blade pro 17. so
with the most important details out of
the way let's go through the rest of the
components mainly the motherboard
and everything connected to it where
they're advertising thx
spatial surround speakers and these
speakers they sound
decent don't expect to run house parties
on them or deep bass
but they will do the job to listen to
music or have clear
skype conversations though speaking of
the on-board audio itself this is one
thing i like to test
out and here is where laptops do fall
behind in terms of
most the time i have tested some laptops
that have really good integrations of
on-board audio but in this case
the razer blade pro 17 does miss the
mark with on-board audio at least from
the test i did here and i did run
from two separate devices on the
headphone out and that was getting some
results that were just all over the
place
the crosstalk was mediocre at best so
you will want to
if you are serious about audio you will
want to get a separate dak amp solution
in my opinion
which of course might chew up one of
those three full-size usb 3.2 gen
2 type a usbs and speaking of those usb
3.2 gen 2 speeds
they were absolutely fine we're getting
up to 800
megabytes per second copy speeds from a
usb 3.2 type c device and they've got
also two usb 3.2 type
c thunderbolt ports and a uhs-3
sd card reader and the last thing is an
hdmi out which is also a 2.1
so you can hook that up to a juicy 4k
120hz
oled or 8k60 and then to top all this
off we've got a 720p
hello webcam at the top of the laptop
right here
and then razer have their synapse
software included
and pre-installed on this laptop from
the get-go and i will say the
software will allow you to change all
the keyboard
and the individual keys to the different
rgb lighting itself
they do use scissor switches too and the
touch pad was doing a great job of being
very accurate to use if you're on the go
of course
i'd always want to use a separate mouse
when i'm serious about using any type of
computer
whether it's a laptop or a desktop but
in this case the keyboard was
very nice to type on it was doing a
great job in terms of not getting
overheated
because the cooling system did a good
job from the underside but on that note
of rgb you also get the option to save
and create your own custom profiles and
you can integrate
different rgb ecosystems into the razer
synapse software for instance if you've
got philips hue lighting you can connect
it and control it from your laptop
and with all the facts laid out on the
table it's time to give you guys a
recommendation on how i see things
with the razer blade pro 17. and the
model that we've got here
i will say one thing and that is that i
was impressed with the overall quality
and how it performed in games with the
noise and the temperatures
they've done a great job from the get-go
the only thing i can critique really on
this laptop
or two things would be the on-board
audio and also
the laptop monitor the ips monitor in
that it wasn't
100 srgb coverage and the response times
could use a little bit of a boost
but now to answer that killer question
directly and that is at three and a half
thousand aussie dollars
or 2 600 us dollars is
the razer blade pro 17 a goer and after
what i've experienced here today testing
this
thing from top to bottom i do think it
is a goal
just keep in mind when it comes to the
world of laptops you are going to be
paying a premium
than you would as opposed to a desktop
pc so i can't really calculate
how much of a premium you would be
paying with the laptop because if i was
to build a desktop and also get a 165
hertz
ips display and then the keyboard and
mouse and everything else
it would be coming in close especially
in the pricing of nowadays
with peripherals and everything else it
would be actually coming close
to the price of this laptop but of
course you would be getting more
performance out of the desktop version
but that being said the price tag is a
steep ask
and so if you are concerned about
certain things with this laptop then do
go back and watch the review
because i believe we've covered and hit
the nail on the head for everything
with this laptop and with that aside i
hope you guys enjoyed this review if you
did
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also let us know in the comment section
below what do you think
of the razer blade pro 17 was there
anything you would add or take away
personally
and with that aside we do have here the
question of the day
which actually relates to laptops i
don't usually get asked laptop questions
much
but one came in here from rayon lee and
they asked
my pc is rtx 2060 max q
core i5 10 300h 8 gigabytes of ddr4 ram
is it a high end or low end laptop it
comes with hard disk drive space
available
and dual channel ram but i'm not
upgrading yet so this laptop i'd say
it's a mid-range laptop it's not too bad
the specs will still play games
very well in 2021 personally i would try
to get 16 gigabytes of ddr4
in that laptop just for a smoother
gaming experience especially if you've
got other things installed on the laptop
but it's not such a bad spec from the
get-go and in fact speaking of the rtx
2000 series you can get some really good
deals on laptops
even from razer themselves where they
offer an rtx 2070 laptop
within 4k oled display and that was
going for around i think
1800 us dollars so if you are a content
creator
you may wish to check out something like
their previous gen models
where you can get a really good deal at
least from the pricing i was seeing
before i did this review hope that
answers that question
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