THE RAZER BLADE LAPTOPS are all pretty darn sweet-looking machines. Sleek black laptops with perfectly designed keyboards and tiny screen bezels, and powerful internal hardware to boot. The Blade 15’s new Studio Edition is no exception: a ninth-gen Intel Core i7 processor along with a Quadro RTX 5000 GPU, crammed into an impressively slender chassis, carved from a single block of aluminum. This laptop ditches the usual black-and-green aesthetics of the Blade series, though, instead opting for a more professional silver finish.
This Blade feels like a staging ground for turning a great gaming laptop into a great content-creation laptop. A highend graphics card and fully addressable RGB-lit keyboard can still scratch the gamer itch, while plenty of RAM and a large 4K touch display mean that this laptop is well situated to handle video editing and graphic design tasks.
Our review model of the Blade 15 Studio Edition comes with a 15.6-inch 4K display at a 60Hz refresh rate. That refresh rate might be rather unexciting, but this OLED panel brings high brightness and dazzlingly good color that looks great even in well-lit environments. Touch control is a nice bonus for creatives who enjoy quick fingertip navigation, although the potential for fingerprint-related troubles is high, and the Blade 15 SE doesn’t come with a stylus of any sort to avoid such woes.
This story is from the March 2020 edition of Maximum PC.
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