Over the beyond couple of years, the Razer Blade Stealth has stuck our eye as one of the maximum appealing ultraportable Windows laptops on the market. While not the most low-priced steel unibody pc you could get, Razer has historically protected pinnacle-end hardware to go together with their top-give up layout, leaving shoppers with a great product.

For 2018, Razer has up to date the Blade Stealth, and whilst the layout isn’t overhauled on this advanced model, we are becoming Kaby Lake Refresh CPUs internal. Here, the Core i7-8550U is wellknown, bringing appreciably progressed overall performance thanks to the soar to four cores and eight threads. It’s a chip we’ve protected in element earlier than with a couple of flagship skinny and light wearing it already.

The battery capacity remains at 53.6 Wh, however with the new processor interior we may additionally see some changes to battery lifestyles. Razer additionally bumped the reminiscence speed from LPDDR3-1866 as much as LPDDR3-2133, at the same 16GB capacity.

Every different issue to the hardware is the same, along with the 13.3-inch 3200x1800 IGZO LCD, Killer networking equipment and SSD options that range from 256GB to 1TB.

There are a few very minor modifications to the pc’s dimensions, however they fall into the sub-1mm range and the weight is largely unchanged. As a end result, the lovely steel chassis is nearly same to the model I reviewed returned in September, so for my full thoughts in this layout, take a look at that evaluate.

As a quick recap, the metal unibody construction is solid, well built and looks stunning, in particular with the slimmer bezel that changed into new for 2017. The black version seems exceptional, but there’s also now a gunmetal gray alternative that’s equally as first rate, and possibly a tad greater stealthy.

I/O has always been a key selling point of the Blade Stealth, so this new model doesn’t alternate anything. You still get Thunderbolt 3 and a full-sided HDMI port, together with two USB 3.zero ports and a headphone jack. That’s quite an awful lot all you need, and the pc charges via USB-C for introduced comfort.

There has been no change to the in my view RGB LED backlit keyboard or the touchpad, and both remain superb on this laptop. The trackpad especially is one of the quality I’ve used in a ultraportable: it works so properly and feels amazing to use.

The display is likewise the identical, I did retest this unit just to make sure, however nothing new to file aside from a few minor adjustments to white balance and gamma correction. The display remains very good as a end result, and I love how the 3200x1800 high-resolution choice is now widespread.

Before digging in addition into the Blade Stealth’s performance, I wanted to briefly mention charge due to the fact the most modern Blade Stealth has launched at $100 extra than the final-gen model, moving from $1400 to $1500 for a Core i7, 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD.

Considering the new CPU most effective charges OEMs a few bucks greater than the antique one, this seems a touch unreasonable, however it is still less expensive than equal high-cease laptops like the Dell XPS thirteen and HP Spectre. Unlike those systems from Dell and HP, Razer doesn’t have an ‘access-degree version’, as a result the better base price.