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If you were looking to pick yourself up a branded gaming laptop, then Razer may have just given you the perfect moment to do so, as it's Blade Pro series has just received a small bump in internal hardware that makes it a much more viable purchase.
The new notebooks come with Intel's high end i7-4720HQ quad core CPU, paired off with a GTX 960M GPU with 4GB of its own GDDR5 memory. The system itself has 16GB of 1600MHZ DDR3 and comes with up to a terabyte of hard drive storage, alongside an SSD of varying size, though the largest available is 512GB.
The LCD trackpad is pretty eye catching
“The original Blade shifted the paradigm of mobile PC design and started the transition to gaming laptops being both portable and powerful,” said Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO. “With the new Blade Pro, we’ve continued that heritage in a way that will push the envelope for gamers and creative professionals even further.”
The new Blade Pro even gets an endorsement from the head of Roberts Space Industries, Chris Roberts, as well as other pros in the industry like Paul Oliver, director of Epic Games: [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDeXOkYRBSE']
Size wise the Blade Pro weighs in at just over three kilograms, at around 17 inches wide, though it's only 0.88 inches tall. It isn't cheap, with a list pricing of $2299.99 (£1535), though it doesn't appear to be listed on the UK store just yet.
KitGuru Says: Anyone thinking of splashing out on a new laptop for gaming? This seems like a pretty decent choice, but if you know of a better alternative, let us know in the comments below or on our Facebook page.
I really hope the $2299 price tag is for the most expensive model because for $300 less you can get an MSI Stealth Pro with a 970M instead, a 100Mhz weaker CPU and 256GB SSD. Asus and Gigabyte also have very similar offers in that price range.
I have to say though that the position of the touchpad is interesting.
It’s Razer 2299 is the start price
960M is the bare minimum I’d recommend for Star Citizen. If you want a laptop that will play Star Citizen smoothly only the top-end 980M is what you should get. This laptop lacks a thunderbolt port (or any equivalent high bandwidth port) the user could use to mount an eGPU (external GPU) in the future and keep it up to date with modern AAA games.
I had last year’s edition for about 4 days – and although it takes a bit of getting used to, it is a nice pad.
wtf. an 960m for that price? I got mah 870m last year for two thirds of that price from MSI. The only thing this has are cool looking but useless gadgets.
Eh a 970M with a heavy overclock can do it. ~70% of my 780M SLI gives about 45fps in the hangar and 45-70fps flying around in the training, and a 970M can be clocked to ballpark 780M SLI, so it’ll work. That was with max graphics, though my CPU was clocked to 3.9GHz unlike the 3.4GHz that the 4720HQs do (they’ll likely throttle there too, unless a solid undervolt can be used) so take it with a grain of salt as Star Citizen is Cryengine and thus CPU heavy.