Razer is best known for its line of gaming peripherals, particularly mice and keyboards. Taken in that context, Razer's elegant-looking laptop, with its quirky keyboard layout and 17-inch display, can be thought of as the ultimate gaming peripheral. As a general purpose or desktop replacement laptop for everyday computing chores, though, it's less useful, of occasionally downright frustrating.
First, though, let's talk about the good.
Thin and elegant
The Blade is built into a chassis just 0.88 inches thick, weighing in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and an almost even 7.5 pounds with the amazingly small power brick. Since the Blade ships with a 17-inch, 1080p LED backlit screen, that sub-7 pound weight is actually impressively light. The whole package, when closed, looks like the evil twin of Apple's now-defunct 17-inch Macbook Pro.
When you pop open the lid, you start to realize you're not in Kansas anymore. First, the trackpad is not below the keyboard, but to the right, where most big laptops locate a numeric keypad. Second, it's not just a trackpad, but a small, 800 x 480 pixel color LCD display in its own right. It's a full multi-touch trackpad supporting gesture recognition. Placing the trackpad on the side means you never accidentally send your cursor shooting across the screen when you type. However, if you're used to standard laptop touchpad placement, you're going to spend some frustrating hours adapting to the new location.
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