![]() ![]() Nothing too fancy, just your typical laptop-grade display. The display, at least for the base and graphics models, is a 13.3-inch 1080p IPS at 60 Hz. This limits the available effects, but I don’t think per-key RGB is all that necessary for an ultraportable and I’m sure this new single-zone design saves both space and battery. Rather than per-key RGB lighting for the keyboard like previous Razer laptops, the Blade Stealth just has a single backlight zone that encompasses the entire keyboard. It wouldn’t be a Razer product without some form of Chroma RGB lighting, but the new Blade Stealth includes it in a pretty limited form. It’s also not cramped and includes full sized arrow keys as well as a range of handy functions mapped to the F-keys. And the keyboard has a great tactile response to it, nice and clicky for a laptop keyboard which is what I like to see. The trackpad is expansive, accurate and responsive just like Razer’s other trackpads. There are speakers on either side of the keyboard that are fairly average as is the case with basically every laptop these days. The Blade Stealth also has a basic 720p webcam above the display with Windows Hello support. To hook up a monitor you’ll likely need some sort of HDMI or DisplayPort adapter. ![]() While there are more USB ports on this laptop than its predecessor, that’s come at the expense of the full-sized HDMI port which is disappointing. There’s a Thunderbolt 3 port, a USB-C 3.1 port and two USB 3.1 Type-A ports plus a headphone jack. Looking at the ports and features, it’s all standard affair for this machine. That’s not particularly light for an ultraportable in 2019 but it’s not heavy either. The key area of interest is the weight, which varies between 2.8 and 3.0 lbs depending on the model. While the overall footprint is smaller than before thanks to its slimmer bezels, it is ~1mm thicker than previous models which makes next to no difference. It’s a bit of a fingerprint magnet but that’s the case with most black metal laptops. The main chassis is a solid aluminium unibody with a black anodized finish, it’s simple, it feels really sturdy and it looks fantastic. We’re not at crazy screen to body ratios just yet, but the new Blade Stealth doesn’t feel like there’s wasted space around the screen.īuild quality has always been a killer aspect to Razer’s notebooks and that’s still the case here. It’s now at the point where the display dominates the lid area like a lot of modern ultraportables. It uses a similar build to the 15-inch Razer Blade in that it’s a squarer design with slimmer bezels around the display. The previous Blade Stealth looked pretty decent and improved upon the chunky older designs in many ways, but this newer design steps things up another notch. As tends to be the case with Razer laptops, it’s pretty expensive. Pricing wise, we’re looking at $1,400 for the base model, $1,600 if you want the MX150, and $1,900 if you also want the 4K touch display. Do note this laptop was released towards the end of 2018, so it's readily available and it’s an impressive piece of hardware that’s worth looking at in detail. Both variants come with 53 Wh batteries, while in some regions there’s an even higher-specced model with a 4K display and a 512GB SSD.įollowing up to our look at Intel Whiskey Lake CPU performance, it’s now time to properly check out the laptop we used for those benchmarks. The graphics model, the version we received to review, has GeForce MX150 discrete graphics, a 256GB PCIe SSD, and 16GB of RAM. The base model does not include discrete graphics, it packs a 256GB SATA SSD and 8GB of RAM. All models come with an Intel Core i7-8565U processor and a 13.3-inch 1080p display. ![]() The new Razer Blade Stealth uses a new design with new hardware. Having reviewed nearly a dozen Razer laptops in the past few years of which this is our fifth Blade Stealth, it's always a delight to discover what's new and what's been improved on newer iterations. ![]()
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