Razer’s Blade 18 laptop price jumps $300, to $3,499.99

Razer’s powerhouse Blade 18 portable gaming desktop replacement is launching today with a astonishment terms hike from its primitively advertised $3,199.99 tag. The institution has softly raised the outgo of the basal spec, which features an RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, to $3,499.99 — a $300 jump from its CES reveal earlier this year.

The Blade 18’s apical RTX 5090 graphics spec is besides getting a dense $400 terms summation from $4,499.99 to $4,899.99. Razer is besides present offering a caller RTX 5080 configuration enactment that starts astatine $4,099.99. As to wherefore Razer has accrued the Blade 18’s prices, the institution has not responded to our petition for remark astatine the clip of publication.

In April, Razer had temporarily halted nonstop sales for its laptops conscionable a time earlier President Donald Trump’s medication announced tariffs that would summation costs of tech coming from countries similar China and Taiwan, wherever galore laptop components are made. At the time, Razer nationalist relations manager Andy Johnston told The Verge Razer had nary remark regarding tariffs. Over a week aboriginal Razer unpaused sales, including for its just-launched Blade 16 laptop.

You tin bid the caller Blade 18 connected Razer’s website now, with deliveries starting June 2nd, adjacent for a maxed-out configuration that features 4TB retention and 64GB RAM for $5,199.99 (RazerCare warranty not included).