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

The 2015 Razer Blade almost fully realizes 3K gaming, but unscalable applications and games prevents this dream from becoming a reality.

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.

The Razer Blade is an impressive laptop thanks to its gorgeous display, responsive keyboard and touchpad, and excellent gaming performance for its size. It looks good, too.

It comes with the territory, but the bottom back of the Blade can get very hot, and the fans can get quite loud trying to cool it down. This kind of performance in a thin-and-light body doesn't come cheap.

Whether it's for gaming, multimedia enjoyment, work or all of the above, the Razer Blade is a fantastic choice if you need high performance but don't want to sacrifice mobility to get it.

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

Razer Blade 14 build quality is top drawer.

Expensive.

Kitguru says: The Razer Blade 14 is a stunning looking laptop, like the evil brother of the MacBook Pro. Gaming performance is top class, but it comes with a hefty price.