Black Razer RZ09-01161E32-R3U1 14 inches Laptop Review

Breaking this review into four categories: Pros, Cons, Neutral, Settings

CONS: HOT, EXPENSIVE
--HOT--
Hot enough to burn you. Not on the keys/mouse which is good. After a little over 2 hours of gaming, but metal near the power button - only worth mentioning because years of gaming will make me nervous and a cooling pad might be in the future expenses.

--EXPENSIVE--
Obviously you know the prices, that's why you're reading reviews. If you want to throw down up to $2600 you better get your moneys worth out of it. I game a lot and i work a lot. BUT I'm mobile; at work and at home. To me the money was justified, don't get me wrong, I cringed throwing this much money down to add the gaming expect of being mobile, but if you're going to throw down for a gaming laptop, make it top of the line - you want to use it for years, so might as well get the best mobile GPU to date, remember you can't replace the GPU.

PROS: GAMING, QUALITY, FAST... Read more

Razer promised a no-compromise gaming laptop. They delivered. This laptop has some seriously impressive specs, and it pulls its wonderful performance off in style. The build feels like a premium ultrabook, unlike most gaming laptops. It's also considerably smaller than most other gaming laptops too (or, for that matter, most laptops, period). It has a outrageous screen (beats the Macbook retina displays in pixel density, and the colors look better in my opinion), which is absolutely wonderful for productivity but ironically limits some higher-end games. If you want to play, however, it runs pretty much everything I throw at it in Ultra settings in 1920x1080 at 60fps (minus some outliers like The Witcher 2 and Crisis 3, which still look and run great at relatively high settings).

A few detailed highlights- the power brick is compact to a noteworthy extent; it fits in a bag a lot less awkwardly than other power bricks I've had. The keyboard is probably the best I've used on a... Read more

I bought this laptop looking for something that I could take everywhere and have uncompromising desktop class performance.
The New Razer Blade 14 was the solution to that!
The packaging was very nice. It was packaged so that it would not get damaged in shipping and it made it here fine.

Initial thoughts.
From the second I put my hand on it to take it out of the (very beautiful) box it came in, I saw that finger prints were going to be an issue. Seriously, I couldn't even enjoy it for 2 seconds without it being all mucked up with fingerprints, they don't even clean off easily. Keyboard is very macbook like but with a slightly longer throw and "clickyness" that is tactile and audible. Spacing between the keys and the size of them are the same as a macbook pro. Construction is very solid, however, I thought it would feel just like a macbook, but it does not. I can't put my finger on what it is, but it just has a different feel than any macbook I have... Read more