Razer Blade 2015 (RZ09-0130)

Excellent gaming performance ; Thin and light ; Great audio system

Expensive ; Poor battery life

If you’re looking for this year’s Razer laptop that best represents the company’s trademark offerings, the Razer Blade 14 (2023) is what you’re looking for. Sporting a thin and light chassis for its specs, it also doesn’t compromise on performance.

Modern, sharp styling ; Vibrant QHD+ display ; Excellent daily driver machine

Some content looks awful at 3K ; QHD+ screen dings battery life, performance

Scores in depth Where can you go after making one of the most wonderfully crafted and gorgeous gaming laptops? Not very far, if the fourth generation Razer Blade gaming laptop is any indication. Unlike with the 2014 Blade, Razer hasn't changed up much...

Remarkable performance ; Great looking laptop ; Comfortable, responsive keyboard ; High quality display ; High quality sound

Inconsistent cursor controls ; Poor mouse button placement ; No full HD resolution ; Expensive

Gaming power and portability ; Generally understated design ; Great battery life

Viewing angle and contrast ; Lack of connectivity ; Uncomfortably hot for gaming

Great overall redesign, with a larger screen, smaller bezels and bigger touchpad. Includes either an Nvidia 1060 or 1070 GPU, which is enough for almost any laptop gamer. 144Hz display option. Cool keyboard lights, if that's your bag.

Painfully expensive considering Nvidia 1060 laptops can be found for under $1,000. The 4K touchscreen option isn't available yet.

The redesigned Razer Blade moves the bar on slim gaming laptops, with better hardware and a bigger screen, but you'll need a bigger budget for it, too.

Desktop-class gaming performance ; Slim, light chassis ; Surprisingly good battery life

Very expensive ; Nothing else to speak of

The Blade Stealth’s reasonably meagre battery life lets it down a little, but as long as you’re always near a wall socket it’s faultless in every other aspect. Build quality is unmatched among gaming laptops and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 is a...

The Razer Blade has a thin, sleek design, an excellent 17-inch display, fast bootup times, and unique touch-pad UI with a lot of potential for gamers.

The innovative Switchblade UI LED buttons are hard to customize, and the Blade has underpowered graphics for its price.

Razer's first laptop, the Razer Blade, is a thin gaming computer with some futuristic design touches, but a high price means you're paying for design -- and for the second-screen signature Switchblade UI interface that doesn't do as much as we hoped it...

Quite possibly the fastest 14-inch gaming notebook ; Good battery life ; Excellent keyboard and trackpad ; One of the best QHD displays

RTX 3080 "true" performance is crippled ; Same, recognisable, notebook aesthetics - is that a good or bad thing though? ; Pricey, considering you won't be getting an RTX 3080 that "flies

Impeccable build quality and attractive design ; Bright and vivid 240Hz display ; Large glass trackpad ; Windows Hello IR webcam ; Great gaming performance

Runs noisy and hot ; Non-standard right Shift position ; No 144Hz display option for 9thGen Core CPU ; Default storage capacity is small ; Quite expensive