- The Razer Blade Stealth 2019
was just, it was so close to being great.
Instead of being the gaming Ultrabook
was kind of just a bad Ultrabook
that was also pretty bad at being a gaming laptop.
That said though, the Razer Blade Stealth 2020
should improve in every single way compared
to what we thought of last time.
Let's get right into it here.
Opening it up.
Razer always absolutely nails the packaging
of their devices.
It just has this premium look about it.
Just the texture of this is so great.
Looking at the power adapter here.
What kind of power can we expect?
100 watts.
Actually, that's quite a bit for a laptop of this size.
You've got to remember, it's a 13-inch Ultrabook.
We've also got the power adapter here.
Power cord I guess.
And now onto the actual fun stuff.
That's a fine-looking machine.
I have to say for a Razer machine,
it's even just a bit classy.
Actually, before we look at that too much,
what else has Razer included in here?
Thank you for choosing a Razer system.
That's actually surprisingly not cult-y for Razer.
Is there anything else in here?
Microfiber cloth, awesome.
Stickers.
Oh, here we go.
Congratulations, there is no turning back.
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that wins battles, it also requires strategy
and agility and joining a cult.
That's more like what we expect.
The overall look of this thing is pretty good.
It's kind of just like a black rectangle
but in a really good way.
It's like rather classy for Razer surprisingly enough.
There are these little green accents on the USB ports here.
Aside from that, nothing really gives away
that this is anything any other than an Ultrabook.
For I/O, we have, on this side right here,
there's Thunderbolt 3 and a full-sized USB Type-A.
Then on this side, we have another USB Type-A,
headphones and this is USB Type-C
but it supports charging, which is freaking awesome
because then you can take your charger here,
we can plug it in over on this side
or swap it over to here
so you don't have to worry about the power cord
has to go over here so it goes around.
But oh no, it's an infomercial
and I just can't figure it out.
It's actually pretty hard to do sometimes.
Let's open it up.
And here's the first complaint.
All of down here, just this kind of wasted space.
In fairness to Razer,
I don't know if they're like 16-by-10
or three-by-two displays that are 120 hertz.
That is what we have here.
It's probably gonna be pretty awesome for gaming
but for productivity,
the XPS 13 or the Surface Laptop 3,
you're going to have that extra vertical real estate
on your screen to just see a bit more
on like your Word document
or your web page or what have you.
I guess it's the kind of trade-off you have
when it's a gaming-focused system.
Now, what they have changed that's fabulous here
is the right Shift key.
It's like a proper Shift key now.
It's just awesome.
So in the last one, they had full-sized arrow keys here
and the top one took up half of the Shift key,
which was absolutely infuriating
because you have the double doozy
of not only do you miss the Shift key
when you go to hit it
but you hit the up arrow at the same time,
so you highlight the whole row
that you're typing on
and then just immediately write over it.
Linus used last year's model as Daily Driver
for probably a month or so
and he just made that mistake so many times
that everybody got really mad at him and made him change
and he's been on the XPS 13 2-in-1 ever since.
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Now we actually get to turn it on.
Okay, I did it.
Let's see if there's anything interesting in here.
I'm not expecting like super duper overclocking in the BIOS
but when you see it, you just wanna take a look.
So hyper-threading enabled, virtualization,
yeah, we want all of that.
Power and performance.
Speedstep and turbo mode are on.
On occasion, there might be like two power profiles
in the BIOS and you might just get lucky
and be able to choose
like the make my chip in inferno option.
No such luck here. Oh well.
It's nice to see like a BIOS anyway.
A lot of laptops just can't even do anything.
Let's prepare for some gaming here
'cause we know that's the first thing
that we're gonna wanna do.
Actually, let's just use the keyboard
for a little bit first.
How is this keyboard?
I think that...
Yeah, as expected, this keyboard is awesome.
So it has this like snappy feel.
I guess it's one way to describe it.
I have to say I really like.
I think I can get up to full speed on this
after just like a minute or two.
I have to say it's pretty awesome.
As for the track pad here,
yeah, unsurprisingly, its thing is awesome.
Razer has been absolutely nailing their track pads.
This is maybe among the best track pads
that you can get on a Windows machine.
Dell's really been stepping up their game lately
so they might take the cake
but at the same time, they're both A pluses.
You're not gonna complain about this track pad experience.
This might have to take the win
simply because of the display.
1080p, 120 hertz is so awesome.
It just feels great
and is oddly surprising on a machine of this size.
It's just something you don't expect
and then it's like oh, like,
I just move the mouse around
and it's just snapping immediately
to where I want it to go.
It adds an immediacy to even just things
like dragging around this folder screen right here.
It's awesome.
High refresh rate, 10 out of 10.
Now, am I willing to give up 16 by 10 for the 120 hertz?
I'm not entirely sure.
I guess it really depends
on how well it games and looking at the specs,
it should be pretty frickin' good,
so for the processor, we have the Intel i7-1065G7.
For the GPU, this is what really makes
the Razer Blade Stealth 2020 stand out compared
to the 2019, we now get an NVIDIA GTX 1650 Ti.
The last one had an MX150, which is,
it's not a good GPU.
There's really no way around it.
That's the sort of GPU
that you put in like a Dell Inspiron
for when you want to like have your Excel sheet
open up faster or something.
It's not what you want for when you're actually going
to be gaming.
So I guess let's just get right to it.
Let's game a bit.
DOOM Eternal.
So what we're gonna try and do
is really test this thing
and push it to its limits.
I'm hoping for high, maybe medium 1080p.
We're gonna try and record the footage
at the same time kind
of just to make the editor's life easier
but also it's a pretty good test
for basically a worst-case scenario.
(booming)
So we're going for high 1080p.
Hoping for playable.
And what, 70 FPS, thereabouts?
It feels pretty jello-y though.
One second.
Maybe medium.
All right, so on medium,
this is like a pretty good experience.
I definitely feel that my aim is worse
than I would normally expect for it to be.
While playing DOOM, I'm pretty sure that's because the FPS
is just lower than normal.
So maybe we should just knock it down to low here.
Low.
So we're right around 100 FPS.
(booming)
So compared to something like an XPS 13,
this is just a completely different sort of experience.
So I am actually, well, I'm straight up
just able to game.
And also, it's like a pretty enjoyable experience now
because like high refresh rate display,
I kind of feel like is just necessary
for a good gaming experience these days.
Now, this does have one really big issue though
is that's that for this machine as it's specked,
it is $1,800, which honestly,
compared to like an Intel machine
is really not that bad
but we don't have to compare it to an Intel machine.
So you guys are probably very familiar
with the ASUS Zephyrus G14.
It is probably going to be the laptop of 2020
and that's basically just because ASUS went
with an AMD Ryzen CPU.
So we could face these two laptops off in a game
but honestly, that would just be embarrassing for Razer.
So this guy right here
has an eight core CPU compared
to the four core that's found in the Razer.
It also clocks higher and beats the eight core versions
of the Intel processor in here.
It also have an RTX 2060,
which is going to stop the 1650 in here.
It also, in our testing, got 10 hours of battery life.
I'm expecting with,
I think this is a 53.1-watt-hour battery.
You're probably getting eight, nine
if you're really gentle on it.
Also, all of that,
the Zephyrus G14 is $1,450.
So it's cheaper, it's better graphics,
has a better CPU, like literally twice as fast,
probably more than twice as fast
in multi-threaded applications.
Why would you buy the Razer?
The first reason for one,
this is all plastic.
And the Razer is aluminum.
It just generally feels better.
You also get the Thunderbolt 3 port.
That's pretty awesome.
And the track pad.
One other thing that the Razer Blade
also really has going for it
is Windows Hello Facial Recognition.
So you're able to just open it up and boom, you're in.
Now, the Zephyrus does have the fingerprint reader here,
which actually is pretty awesome
because this fingerprint reader caches your fingerprint
after you touch it,
so then when you get to the Windows login screen,
it should just do it.
This is kinda tough if I'm honest.
Actually I lied,
I don't think that this is too tough.
I'd get the ASUS.
Realistically, this is probably going
to be a huge problem for every laptop manufacturer
for the next year or so.
I don't think anyone, including ASUS,
given that like that this laptop
has been out of stock basically since it launched.
I'm pretty sure no one expected for the AMD CPUs
to be as good as they are.
I don't know, I'm kinda sorry Razer, honestly.
Like you've done everything right.
You fixed the keyboard,
you have maybe the best track pad,
120 hertz display is frickin' awesome on a 13-inch thing.
Compared to who I thought you would be competing against,
so the XPS 13, the Surface Laptop 3.
This is awesome.
This is like the gaming Ultrabook
but at the same time,
you can get so much more performance out of this guys.
If like a really nice aluminum chassis
and facial recognition are what you want,
Razer Blade Stealth 2020, pretty frickin' awesome.
If you have a desktop that already has all of the muscle
that this guy right here provides,
the Razer Blade Stealth is a nicer-feeling machine.
I'm grasping at straws here.
But it is pretty good.
Anyway, I hope you guys liked this video.
Hit like, get subscribed
and I don't know, have a great day.
Sorry Intel, sorry Razer.
No one saw this coming.