I’m still testing the new Razer Blade 16 and I have mixed feelings

The Blade 16 is arsenic crisp looking arsenic ever.

The Razer Blade 16 is designed to beryllium the gaming-focused alternate to the MacBook Pro, and I’m ever present for that. I emotion a gaming laptop that inactive looks and feels similar a somewhat mean laptop, and the caller Blade returns to a thinner and lighter chassis plan aft the last-gen got a spot chunky. The top-end configuration besides adopts the caller flagship Nvidia RTX 5090 laptop GPU and an adjacent heftier terms of $4,499.99 ($200 much than the 4090 model).

I’ve spent immoderate clip with the caller Razer Blade 16, but my archetypal reappraisal portion had noticeable hardware issues and was replaced by Nvidia, which provided the Blades for RTX 5090 testing. I’ve lone had the replacement portion for a fewer days, and portion it doesn’t grounds immoderate of the aforesaid show issues oregon buzzy speakers, it’s had a mates of random bluescreens of its own. I’m successful troubleshooting talks with Razer, but portion that’s ongoing, I’m inactive investigating this laptop and sizing up my feelings astir it. Consider this maine posting done it — a small glimpse into my interior dialog. (You’re welcome. But also, I’m sorry?)

I emotion astir of the hardware connected the caller Blade — most. Its 16-inch, 2560 x 1600 OLED show with a …

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