- What do we got inside this
fairly ordinary-looking black box?
Oh, it's only a $3700 laptop from Razer.
Stay tuned.
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So this isn't just any laptop,
this is the ultimate laptop.
This is the brand-new Razer Blade Pro.
It was announced a couple of months ago in Berlin.
This thing is less of a laptop,
more a desktop PC
stuffed into the body of a laptop,
which is exactly what Razer's marketed it as.
Now we've been very, very lucky
to get ahold of one for a few days before the holidays.
Razer's very, very kindly sent us one
to have a little look at.
Obviously we weren't gonna keep it under wraps.
We're in the season of giving, we're gonna crack it open,
we're gonna show you a much, much closer look
at the Razer Blade Pro than we managed before.
So, this is the box.
It's fairly ordinary looking.
You've got the Razer logo kind of
just embossed in there a little bit.
Kind of like a carbon fiber print,
but it's basically a very
plain-looking packaging
for something that costs what this does.
Obviously I've mentioned the base price
for the Razer Blade Pro is $3700 in the US,
3500 pounds in the UK.
So I have to be very, very careful with this
because it's worth more than several cars I've bought.
We'll just take the top off.
And there it is underneath.
So this isn't the very first unboxing of this one,
Razer have already had a go at it.
This isn't actually a retail unit,
this is kind of the final pre-production.
It's not actually shipping here in the UK yet.
But for all intents and purposes
it is exactly the same laptop, so.
We'll prise out the Blade Pro.
It is a 17.3 inch laptop so it's fairly big,
but it's not actually that heavy,
it's all metal but it weighs less than eight pounds
which is kind of remarkable.
We'll have a look at that in a moment,
and I'll try and put that down somewhere
where it's not gonna fall off
and cause me much financial discomfort.
The rest of the box, it's fairly plain.
We've got a power adaptor here which came with a US adapter
which was no good for me, I had to unplug my TV
to be able to charge it which was a bit.
What's really, really incredible
is this is a 250 watt power adaptor.
This is less than I have
on a much less capable desktop PC.
I have an old Alienware PC that has a 330 watt
power adaptor, this is 250 watts and inside
is a GTX 1080 graphics card, so.
It's pretty portable, you know,
it's quite a slim battery pack
and it's not gonna be too bad to throw in a bag.
So we'll put that down to one side.
And the rest of it is,
there's the US power lead which I don't need.
UK plugs number one.
And then Razer's usual kind of paperwork.
Some stickers, already got a bunch of those.
Cleaning cloth because of course it has got
a touch screen, the Razer Blade Pro.
It's a 17.3 inch 4K touch display,
it's really, really fabulous.
And a bunch of stuff here which I'm not gonna read.
So we'll get rid of all this bumf.
Get all the box out of the way.
And then we will bring back the main attraction,
which of course is
the Razer Blade Pro.
So to run off a few of the key specs,
inside this is an Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor.
32 gigabytes of RAM, that's a lot.
Especially for a laptop.
It has a GTX 1080 graphics card,
eight gigabytes of video memory.
This is basically packing the most powerful consumer
graphics card you can get inside a laptop right now.
And even then it wasn't particularly easy for Razer
to get it into something this size,
but we'll go through that in a moment.
There are various storage options, this isn't the highest
of the storage options, it goes all the way up
to two terabytes of SSD storage in RAID-0,
which, again, is unbelievable.
I was lucky enough to sit down with Razer's CEO,
Min-Liang Tan, around the launch of this product,
and they basically said that they didn't
wanna cut any corners.
Everything that could possibly go into a high-end desktop
they wanted to cram it into this.
And, I mean, just look at it.
It's not exactly thick.
To say that inside is a GTX 1080.
Okay, so I've had to adjust the camera angle slightly
because of course this is a 17-inch laptop
so it's fairly big and I'm fairly tight on space here but
I fired it all up, logged all everything in
and the first thing obviously you can see
is that iconic Blade Pro design,
the track pad is off to the right-hand side.
Gamers aren't really that keen at seeing
this one not having a number pad.
It's an unusual design but having used it
for a little bit now, it feels quite natural.
It's where your hand, well, my hand
would rest anyway as a right-handed person,
it's where my hand would be if I was using a mouse anyway
so it feels very, very comfortable.
It'll just take a little bit of getting used to though
because I can't tell you the amount of times
I've actually gone down to the bottom to try and use
the track pad where there is nothing but metal.
So the display is, as we mentioned, 17.3 inches.
It's 4K resolution, it's absolutely gorgeous.
It's got a 100% Adobe RGB.
It's full touch, and it's got NVIDIA G-Sync as well,
which, for gamers, is absolutely incredible.
Throw in that GTX 1080 G-Sync,
your games are gonna look absolutely phenomenal,
because you will be able to run them at up to 4K resolution.
I've run Forza Horizon 3 in a very, very,
very, very quick test on this at 4K,
running between 45 and 50 frames per second
fairly comfortably on Ultra,
so this is a serious, serious gaming machine.
Other key design-ish, design points, sorry,
we've got a kind of a scroll wheel here
which by default has the volume up and down,
it clicks in, it's kind of like a mouse scroll wheel.
The track pad, which is great.
One of the best things about this laptop though for me
is the keyboard, just see if you can hear.
(keys clicking)
To look at it this is a fairly standard laptop keyboard,
but it's actually mechanical,
it's actually a full mechanical keyboard.
It's one of the best keyboards I've ever tried
on any laptop ever made anywhere.
Razer's taken all of their, sort of knowledge
from building their own mechanical keyboard switches
over the years and they've introduced what they're saying is
the world's first low-profile mechanical switch,
so it's not necessarily gonna be, you know,
a gamer's first input choice, especially with some
of the great keyboards that are out there,
and if you're spending this kind of money
on a gaming laptop, you're pretty serious about your gaming.
But it's a really, really good keyboard.
It's absolutely, it's a dream to type on.
I use a kind of mechanical or at the minute
I'm using a semi-mechanical keyboard,
but you know I love typing on them,
these keys are really, really good.
Power button's basically all we've got here
in the middle at the top.
It lets a very, very clean design.
We've got speakers here down the very edges,
and I've said it's all metal, it's all very, very sleek,
it's all very, very thin.
For something this size, I mean, it's still,
it's not heavy-heavy but it's got a bit of weight to it.
But there's so much ins-
So the corners here, these are the two exhaust,
main exhaust vents, so we see there's some
down the back here as well.
These are the two main exhaust vents
for the fans which cool the graphics card.
And Razer's had to do some serious work to get a GTX 1080
into a laptop that looks like this.
We'll have to find out more about it
in our full impressions, but it's basically
the thinnest vapor chamber that's ever been made.
It's a Razer proprietary system,
they've designed it all themselves,
and it's supposed to keep the laptop very, very cool.
I've noticed so far that it does get a little bit toasty
obviously around this area, on the other side as well,
but you can also feel some serious cooling
coming out of these when you put your hands on them,
which is good to know, so we'll be cranking that up
during some benchmarks and some testing.
But yeah, that's a very, very, very quick look
at the Razer Blade Pro.
We have, sadly, only got this for a couple of days
right now, leading up to Christmas.
We just wanted to get something out there, just show it off
because it really is probably the most incredible
Windows 10 machine that we've seen all year.
It's truly a remarkable thing that it even exists.
We're gonna be spending a lot more time with this
into and over the holidays and into the new year.
You'll be able to find full review,
comparisons, and much, much more.
So thank you very much for watching.
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