Gordon have you heard of the Apple of the PC world what's that aka razor well
you got the the razor blade 15 did you are you talking to compress a company
that makes something out of beautiful bulletin machines aluminum it's
pronounced aluminium aluminium and that's Apple like yes it's a cool Apple
like this is a this is the new one right right yeah we have the old 13 inch blade
still great laptop cable a car quad-core hyper threading beautiful apt I actually
tried to produce videos on this at e3 unfortunately no integrated graphics was
kind of my downfall but this guy has got integrated graphics we're not sure of
the specs yet you know I've never I never get to unbox these haden-guest
unbox on these welcome to the gwelf into the cult of razor okay but that sounds
like a very Apple thing you get out of here
see now this is very this is very like another company that is pretty
nice-looking you get your rubber strap for your cables braided is a fixed power
cable I think power fix power cable I mean why would you not want to breathe
power and of course this is the next best thing is an RGB power brick you
know and I gotta say this this is a I mean looking to get any comparisons
later but this folks tells you everything you want to know about the
laptop this is a 230 watt power brick so that's power that's a lot of power play
never cuz you an do there no go for it go for it blows out the teamwork
teamwork makes the dream we go
you know what I kind of like when you put it down the glow of the green on the
white table like it's almost like it's illuminated a little bit right yeah that
is like it's a nice touch if you're into the packaging and there are people who
are into the packaging I like a good package design hmm and you got that neon
green logo from your green lights up the Big Dipper let's hope I don't drop this
where's the thing about tap I guess on the preamp on the reasoner you're not
supposed to take it out you're just supposed to fire it of course in the
bottom you got doxxed rotations wore knickers you get your razor razor
stickers to Taipei's the razor power dedicated power port not USB PD gets to
230 watts and I get that I mean it's play portal size HDMI
another USB type a I'm gonna guess that's five gig could be could be
take a if they like to make theirs green rather than blue okay and then actually
this is a Kensington lock port not the noble lock port that Dell uses and a USB
type-c but inside this I meant you to see
what's in here where do we see the specs here we go no well we know what's in
here cuz it doesn't they don't offer a core i9 version they do offer a coffee
lake core i7 8750 version 758 great CPU great CPU 6 cores hyper threading really
pushes those clocks up but this is a razor it's made for gamers yeah I can't
I can't tell the video cards so it's either a ten sixty or ten seven yeah so
they did change the design a little bit and you can tell if you compare to the
stealth yeah yeah it kind of stealth has a sort of older sort of older Mac look
in fact we have the curves yep the bezel is is honestly for its vintage pretty
massive but this you have your XPS 15 got your zero bezel kind of us still
have the webcam up top but still that top bezel is not that
tell Nestle is not the webcam is spectacularly small I mean who really
cares they cover it up anyway I gotta say I like this keyboard I've loved
Razer keyboards the lighting is just beautiful he's ready so it looks like
just so intense I really it's really hard to get they are just it feels like
half your power budget is going to the keyboard let's find out what's in here
though and then look look the bard you can
touch it but it's not necessarily gonna do anything okay no you actually have
function keys things cooking it is a 1070 so you got a 1070 gtx 1070 in here
a core i7 so let's find out what is it uh I think it's a 8750 probably so yeah
so 8750 h2 to base these CPUs if properly cooled will push four gigahertz
all day for the most part movie and the panel is at an EP so we have a 1080p
panel that we've got a 4k option but here's what you want to know though is
how does it compare in physical I'm gonna hide these other things because we
are going to be doing some some quick testing later to see how they do this is
the brand new XPS 15 95 70 it also has the same CPU the core i7 80
sub 50 H H in core i7 about a 1050 TL but a 10 to 50 Ti Matt max Q that is
nowhere near the same ballpark as a 1070 max euwe 1070 max Q is a great GPU when
it's properly cool you know you do have a smaller bezels but then that's because
you get the chin cam over here but but other than that I mean those vessels
aren't too far yeah look at that you're going to get a shot here that's close
that's very close that's pretty good bezels and then I'm amazed look at the
body here same thickness it's pronounced aluminium aluminium oh yeah that is that
is just about the same so you see the harder angles on the knee on this razor
they were previously it was more curved harder angles the speakers I think have
been really relocated the power and the bezels and dipping is they're
able to razor says they're able to run a 1070 max-q in this laptop because they
use a gigantic vapor chamber if you if you go back and look at our original
video it's giant slug of copper they have great big vapor chamber this
uses a traditional heat pipe the other of course natural competitor to this is
the MacBook Pro 15 this is the brand-new MacBook Pro 15 when he is someone that's
hot don't burn your hands man yeah I don't want to actually you the edges
will actually cut you but again you can see Apple really went for thinness on
the body look I mean but you feel those in the in the keys you filled in the
keys you give up you may get thinness but the keys are I gotta say not great
and there's a lot of internal compromises I mean look at the stack up
here this is an eighth Gen 6 core with a 1050 Mac ti max Q this is a 6 core Core
i7 with a 1070 gtx 1070 max Q and this is a core i9 sorta with a Radeon last
generation 5 5 5 X it's a pretty old Polaris part it's not gonna hold a
candle to that 1050 Ti and this 1070 will just destroy it I mean if in GPU or
gaming related you know I I know people say well radios are great for compute
but yeah but well they are good for compute but I gotta say I'm not sure
they're gonna they even to compute on the Radeon 5 5 5 X I don't think it's
gonna be faster than 10 70 max Q also also you're not gonna be gaming on this
and you're not gonna be getting on to gaming on this is a Mac but check this
out this is the last piece of the pie I've been using the razor phone it just
fits so nicely within that family or maybe you're right you just get this
thing out of the way that aluminium design you know it just it just it just
fits right in there that whole white style I can see it you know when they
say cult of razor you can honestly see yeah
I want my razor phone and razor laptop you raise headphones you got you razor
mouse there's like a company that kind of does that already how to pushing that
lifestyle cult yeah it's weird but this is cool I mean the black is cool the
hard edges are cool the ID kind of like matches up it's all the harder edges so
here's here's the big thing for me not only does it have a design and I
understand that not everyone's gonna love the design it is a razor design so
you know some people might think it's a little gaudy or both the whole the whole
razor aesthetic but the thing is is that you you still get a pretty good design
but you get power because that's the problem with this you got all design and
you losing out on power like this I think you're getting both you know even
with the Dell you get a lot of power the Dell design I mean it's it's pretty
they've made strides but I mean it still doesn't this is a different look every
different look yeah I mean that's yeah if I was if I was gonna try to find a
sweet spot between power and design I do appreciate what razors doing but you
know it's thinner you're right I can't you got me there but I what I
don't get is if you're somebody who gets yes thinner that's great I need that
project two hours ago I'm still rendering that out loss my laptop over
he then again I just stick it in the freezer to get those render times down
so yeah we're gonna do some testing on this this new razor yeah let's see these
are both core i7s but I mentioned see how it does against the Apple even
though it has the core I nine in it let's look at the bottom does the bottom
does matter to some people you get you get some obvious venting this looks like
exhaust probably right I think they all exhaust from the neons right oh you know
actually a lot of the thickness I forgot so a lot of thickness on movie is from
on the razor blade Oh even even that's - yeah so you know of course a lot of
people say well why'd you put such big feet on a razor remember this is a ten
seventy max Q and eight and a six core CPU you do not want to get the sink down
and have the Vance blocks while you're using it you do not want to do that so I
understand why Razer put the large feed on there okay I'll grab a caliper
out but I kind of wonder if you turn it over maybe we get a better feel for how
they actually are in thickness book still thinner it's still thinner but
this is ten seventy max Q this is a florist 5 5 5 X mobile part so this is
10 70 Fidel definitely thicker right even with that way so why don't we why
don't we cut for a minute and we'll come back and do some some benchmark
cinemates will do that'll quick it's easy we'll be right back hey so we're
back we just finished running a couple quick benchmarks on from a brand new
razor blade razor blade 1515 razor blade 15 has 6 core Core i7 in there and a gtx
1070 max-q but we forgot to mention that this model has the 144 Hertz refresh
rate panel yeah so that's nice it's not a higher res but I think I'd almost
rather have 144 it is just beautiful yeah even if you're not gaming it just
makes smoothies on everything else but so we're gonna put this razor but we put
this razor blade 15 up against the brand new Dell XPS 15 95 70 also same CPU core
i7 but GeForce GTX 1050 TI max q and also the brand new MacBook Pro 15 with a
core I 989 50 HK and I was wrong I said was a Radeon pro 5 5 5 f it's actually a
Radeon Pro 560 X yes come on he's 5 better give it its due come on fly
better so what are the results man what's what's the takeaway this is just
a quick test quick test you know the quick test is no kidding
these both of these are core i7 laptops and this is the problem with thin
designs like the MacBook Pro every bit as fast this slightly slower and I think
it's because of all the graphics hardware it has to cool 9:23 on the on a
single run from reboot refresh on the razorblade 15 but it's core i7 it's an
80 750 H part right this MacBook Pro has a core I 918
50 HK which has a base clock of 2.9 gigahertz in a turbo boost clock give
everything great of 4.8 gigahertz it got nine nine nine nine slightly faster and
this is what we will really iterate this is after the firmware patch that
happened on Tuesday so this is this is a patch MacBook well what about the Dell
what about the Dell so the Dell now this tells you how it's all up to the PC
vendors to tune just like Apple tune this MacBook Pro 15 to the tired of the
game oh you're right they forgot they forgot to tune it but that's cool this
is where they fixed it it's good XPS 15 core i7 87 58 11 88 11 88 versus nine
nine nine that's perfect 200 more I don't know what that means
more nuts but more numbers a bit it means it's faster in multi-threading it
means they're pushing those cores to run if higher clocks it means basically this
Dell XPS 15 with the bottom and coffee like each part is faster than this
MacBook Pro 15 with the very high-end core I 9 CPU and it but it's also faster
than the razor blade which has the same exact thanks you but you're thinking
that because of the thermals of the 1070 right it could be razor said we're gonna
we know we have a 1070 in here it's not exactly a cool GPU we're gonna have to
sort of scale things back a little bit it also could could be because Dell
likes to swing for the fences on CPU Dell is one of those companies there's a
couple like that there's a mossad there's a sous they generally like to
swing for the fences all the time we're seeing that in the XPS 15 it just is
faster than the same razor blade and it creamed the MacBook Pro 15 with a cry 9
CPU in it to be fair we did also run the OpenGL test basically they're all the
same just goes to show you how weak OpenGL is on the PC at this but a 1070
max Q is not the same as a Radeon 4:05 60x no definitely especially in
real-world testing so no matter what you know if you're using premier if you're
doing a video encoding on on the razor blade it's it's it's gonna kill it so I
think what we do next time next week maybe is kind of get all the the MacBook
Killers together and run some runs even more tests and kind of lay out the
results of that because especially you know there's so much talk about real
world benchmarking so everybody wants to suddenly run premiere in the world yeah
well we have plenty of premiere files to work with so I think we load up you know
do a ton of testing on all well we're on a couple games will run premiere maybe
run a couple other cross-platform benchmarks and it'll be interesting to
see how it goes I suspect macbook killer we already know
the answer to it but we're gonna find out we're not if we're wrong we're wrong
but I got to say I think we're we know where it's headed ma'am cool all right
stay tuned for that coming up next week thanks for later