- So lots of various companies are pretty bad
for this, but I think Razer's the worst.
Where kind of like two, three times a year
they're like, guys, we reinvented the wheel.
Gaming's never gonna be the same.
Creativity is never going to be the same.
Like, wow, wha!
And then like it's,
it's a pink blade or something like that.
And you're just like, guys, cool I guess, but why?
No, that's not the level of hype.
But here they might actually have something.
Like, it's the new Razor Book 13.
Terrible name guys.
You couldn't think of anything?
Like whatever, it looks pretty sweet though.
Let's get into it.
All right.
That's an interesting, oh, is that the power brick?
Wow, 65 watts in this size right here
is actually pretty impressive.
It seems like it's just a standard charger.
I was wondering if it was like gallium nitride
but I guess not.
This is a pre-production unit
so we aren't allowed to run benchmarks on it or whatever,
but, meh, we're going to anyway.
All right.
Only a couple little scuffs now, but I don't,
ooh, a lot of scuffs actually.
Oh, it's fine.
They're coming off.
Pre-production marks aside though,
this thing feels and looks great.
It just has the, I dunno, razor stiffness,
I guess you could call it.
It's all aluminum CNC machine
and just generally feels great.
Has that almost like Apple feel about it.
You know how they're just super solid.
I guess Razer's always had that as well.
Just a nice, very tame Razer logo on the back.
See that there?
- [Jono] Oh yeah.
- It's not their typical like straight gamer stuff,
which I appreciate in this.
- [Jono] Is that RGB?
- Yeah, no RGB.
So you get a full-size Type-A.
Awesome.
That's the sort of thing that's just such a pain
if you're using like an XPS 13.
We have Thunderbolt on this side,
Thunderbolt on the other side.
So you can, you know, charge from both sides of the laptop.
Awesome.
Then we have what?
Full sized HDMI.
And my only complaint here is that it's a micro SD card
instead of full size.
They probably just didn't have the space though.
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Oh, there's the RGB.
They, there's no way that Razer could, you know,
make a computer and just leave it boring.
This one that we have right here is the 1920 by 1200.
So it's a 16 by 10 display.
This is the one thing that I thought
Razer probably would get wrong.
They'd be like, it's a productivity machine,
but like with gaming display and stuff or whatever,
like I figured they go kind of just the Blade Stealth route
and not fully commit.
This extra bit right here is just so nice though.
And it really just adds that like modern look to it.
Just that nice little, (clicks).
It also feels surprisingly heavy.
Like it's not, it's just under three pounds,
actually just under three pounds is kind of heavy.
It's like really dense.
Like when you hold it it has that real just block
of aluminum feel.
So if you look here,
there's absolutely no flex in the chassis here at all.
Like I'm just, I'm pushing really hard right now.
One thing that is interesting
about this screen is that it has gorilla glass on it.
So you can
I'm not going to do anything that would scratch it
but the things that would scratch other laptop screens
are not going to scratch this one nearly as easily.
There is a version
with their i5 model that doesn't have touch.
Wouldn't necessarily recommend getting that one.
And there's also a 4k touch model
which I also probably wouldn't recommend.
Like this is plenty sharp.
I can bring it right about here.
I can start seeing pixels.
And I don't know, I'm not doing this very often.
So this right here has an Intel Core i7 1165 G7.
That gets you four cores, this is one
of the tiger light guys.
Along with that, we have 16 gigabytes of RAM.
I believe that that's all soldered.
We'll find that out in a bit.
A, oh, 240 gigabyte SSD.
I would want to see at least five 12.
And then yeah, the Iris XE graphics, which, you know,
if you actually want to game, get a Razor Blade 15.
Probably just completely skip the Blade Stealth.
Especially since now this thing right here
is going to deliver not the same
but a very similar gaming experience
to what you'd get on the Stealth
because the Intel XE graphics are quite good.
(mumbling)
Oh, okay.
First big problem.
Small backspace.
You'll probably get used to it, but that's
why?
That's it. I'm not super concerned about it.
You will get used to that after being really mad
for a week or two.
I don't know how I feel about this.
If I'm honest,
it's good.
But I don't know if it's great.
It seems like the problem is is that the top
of the key is a lot more like it has a lot of give
whereas the bottom of the key has a nice snap to it.
So if you're hitting the bottom of the key, it's fine.
But if you're doing something like coming
across, oh no.
Some, so like Z, it's totally fine there.
Like, you press the top and it just actuates.
But if you look like Q, you're already hitting
like the chassis before the key's actuating.
So they're not quite consistent.
So some of them like J here, J is a great key.
You can hit J all day long.
Yeah. They're just inconsistent.
Okay, let's type on it for like a minute
and then I'll get back to you
if I still don't really like it.
(typing)
Yup.
That's what like maybe a B plus?
I think Linus might enjoy it more.
He kind of likes the older Razor laptop keyboards
which I hated.
So your mileage might vary
but I think it's safe to say that it,
it doesn't quite stack up to like the Dells
or the HPs in a similar form factor.
As for the track pad though,
that's at least a bright point on this.
It's the kind of track pad that you sort of just
don't really think about.
'Cause it just does what you want it to do
and is like they're maximizing their space up here.
Really no complaints for that.
Okay, we're going to try
and do the classic synced crab rave.
(upbeat pop music)
- [Jono] That's it?
- Yeah that's it.
That's all you're getting.
- [Jono] What?
- Okay, we're...
(upbeat pop music)
(laughing)
Yeah, you got wrecked Razer.
That's hilariously bad.
(uplifting music)
That's not a 2020 speaker set
up in a, what is this $1,800 laptop or something?
Let's find that out.
All right.
1599.99 gets you the speakers of a $600 laptop.
I imagine at least the battery is pretty good.
So it's 55 watt hours.
You're going to get what, in the new Intel,
probably like nine, 10 hours, something like that?
That said, you can still get that in much cheaper laptops.
The layout in here though is really nice.
You just get your SSD that you can take out.
You don't get access to the RAM, but whatever.
I don't really expect that in laptops like this.
And then we have this nice big old vapor chamber
that just kind of goes
all the way around here.
I don't know that we've seen a vapor chamber in
a thin and light yet.
They're just kind of, they're taking over everything.
It's frigging sweet.
That does mean though that like your Intel XE graphics
and stuff are probably going to run probably the best
out of all of the laptops around on this guy.
Just because of that extra cooling.
Intel is really good in their mobile designs
for just extracting every single last little watt
that they can out of your cooling and VRM system.
So I imagine this right here will be
among if not the fastest
like little 13 inch laptops that you can get.
I guess that's about it.
I'm kind of torn on this.
Like Razer got everything
that everyone else gets wrong right.
Like in this tiny laptop, they got great IO.
The IO is awesome.
Cooling: excellent.
Big old battery.
They have the 16 by 10 display.
They have
everything that I would expect them to totally screw up.
Oh, Windows facial recognition, they also have that.
But they just kind of lost it with the keyboard
for me personally.
Like if you're using a laptop like this,
what you're going to be doing most of the time,
I think is like
answering emails, writing in word documents,
watching crabs dance.
You can do that very well on this actually.
- [Jono] Excel spreadsheets.
- All of that's going to be fine
but could be better just because of that keyboard.
And the speakers are pretty disappointing as well.
I really want to see a Razor Book version two
with a better keyboard
and a brighter screen and better speakers.
And then I'll probably use it every single day.
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