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Razer Blade 18 Review: A Bigger, Better Gaming Laptop

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  1. Shahriar Hossain

    February 8, 2023 at 1:04 pm

    Guess there goes one of my kidneys

    • Mr. Erik Chun

      February 8, 2023 at 1:07 pm

      I don’t think any organ of yours will covers the even 1/4th of the cost

    • Shahriar Hossain

      February 8, 2023 at 1:10 pm

      @Mr. Erik Chun and that’s what friends are for

  2. James

    February 8, 2023 at 1:11 pm

    i wish they can make 32″ though…

  3. Anthony

    February 8, 2023 at 1:26 pm

    I’ll buy it in 5 years👍

  4. JogBird

    February 8, 2023 at 1:33 pm

    my last gaming device was a PS3.. i didnt know how crasy priced are.. the top end Razer16 is $6500 CDN w taxes

  5. Nathan Juan

    February 8, 2023 at 1:36 pm

    Why can’t they put a full sized keyboard for that big 18 inch laptop. Waste of space. Having a num pad on the side is way better because it is faster to type and can type one hand for that one it is way easier specially when typing password or doing excel like seriously all 16 inch above laptop should have a full sized keyboard.

    • PED Garage

      February 8, 2023 at 1:59 pm

      Just put it on a stand to raise the monitor to your eyes line and use an external mouse and keyboard 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • Goran

      February 8, 2023 at 3:03 pm

      We are all different if it had numpad I would definitely not buy it so the reason you don’t like it is exact reason I bough it

    • Nathan Juan

      February 9, 2023 at 12:38 am

      @Goran 1st it looks ugly on a 16 to 18 inch the space gap between the keyboard and the space it waste 2nd for productivity it makes you type slower the advantage of having a num pad typing with just one hand is a breeze even for gaming playing GTA V with no controller good luck on flying a plane, submarine, and chopper. The usefulness of num pad vs no num pad weather its gaming or doing productivity stuff working or student is greater. They keep on copying apple.

  6. Rommel Christopher Manicad

    February 8, 2023 at 1:38 pm

    Steve Rogers review with new razer blade 18

  7. PED Garage

    February 8, 2023 at 1:42 pm

    The “laptop” form factor it’s just wrong for these kind of beast PCs.
    I would much prefer they pack all the hardware in a box and sell it as a MiniPC.
    Let’s be real, as pointed in the video 15″ screens are small for gaming and productivity, 20+ inch screens take too much space, but what if you let the user decide?
    With a MiniPc you can choose the monitor you prefer and most importantly, mount it on a stand to align it with your eyes and not having the neck curved down.
    Laptop keyboard are kinda meh for gaming and the touchpad is a backup solution if you don’t have a mouse. Battery life will probabily not pass the 2 hours mark, but with those dimensions and weight I doubt on the use on portability of this Pc.
    Gamers and creators will probabily use this on a stand to raise the monitor or hooked to an external monitor and with their prefered keyboard and mouse, so a MiniPc with that power would work just fine and maybe save you some bucks.
    Something like the Minisforum HX99 G (that comes for 1.100$ with 32gb of ram and 1 tera ssd) but made by more known companies would be great.

  8. Kroen Redstone

    February 8, 2023 at 1:47 pm

    Not single word on battery life?

    • alfprieto

      February 8, 2023 at 3:27 pm

      Or noise

  9. Ashutosh Kureel

    February 8, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    And people say macbooks are overpriced lol if anything apple products are the best priced in the industry

    • Samuloflipsitup

      February 8, 2023 at 6:38 pm

      @Rajika Sandun MacBooks got some of the best displays. The pros have mini led promotion and peak at 1000 nits with hdr… and MacBook Air get 500 nits of brightness with accurate colors

    • Rajika Sandun

      February 8, 2023 at 6:43 pm

      @Samuloflipsitup Samsung galaxy book 3 ultra has most accurate 2k 120hz dynamic AMOLED display and apple can’t challenge this lol

    • flameing rage

      February 8, 2023 at 10:08 pm

      ​@Ashutosh Kureel higher end gaming laptops and MacBook aren’t for majority of people so of course both will be costly and would be considered overpriced for most people.

    • Jose Arreguin

      February 8, 2023 at 11:02 pm

      No theyre not

    • mex reax

      February 9, 2023 at 5:26 am

      Both apple and razer are overpriced

    • RilvX

      February 9, 2023 at 6:05 am

      @bruh I’m sorry, cheap materials? I had been a Windows user my whole life but after getting a MacBook haven’t looked back. Top quality quality control and quality.

    • Joel Conolly

      February 9, 2023 at 6:26 am

      Until you add storage and RAM to the mix.

    • Adam Wang

      February 9, 2023 at 9:00 am

      Macs are bargains for high end video editing. For everything else, it’s still overpriced!

    • John Bach

      February 9, 2023 at 2:02 pm

      If you want a laptop to go surf the internet or edit meme videos there’s plenty of laptops I can suggest over a MacBook and said you cash if you wish.

    • Ravi Verma

      February 10, 2023 at 6:06 am

      MacBooks are 100% overpriced.

      Windows laptops are expensive but totally worth it.

    • TruFire710

      February 10, 2023 at 12:18 pm

      You do know MacBooks don’t have dedicated graphics at all right.😂

    • August B

      February 10, 2023 at 4:34 pm

      MacBooks aren’t gaming pc’s

    • Ravi Verma

      February 10, 2023 at 4:45 pm

      @August B MacBooks are not for 3d artists and also not best video editing machine.

  10. pitha 1337

    February 8, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    Can you please share your experience with the palm rest? it is still getting too warm?

    • rpcrl

      February 8, 2023 at 3:17 pm

      I believe there is a third fan under the palm rest.

    • pitha 1337

      February 8, 2023 at 3:21 pm

      @rpcrl the third Fan ist in the middle of the splitted battery. It was the same as for the mid 2022 Blade 17. Unfortunately the left palm rest was getting very warm

  11. big dawg

    February 8, 2023 at 2:30 pm

    Its a LAPTOP. I’v had a 17″ xps for a year and even as compact as it is a little too big. 15 and 16″ is definately the sweet. Thin light bezeless and powerful 15″ laptops are the way to go imo. If you’re gaming at home use an external gpu

    • Joseph K

      February 8, 2023 at 2:36 pm

      To each their own. I went from a 17″ to a Razer Blade 15″ 2 years ago. I miss the 17″ screen a lot. The 15″ does not do it for me and going forward, I will be more than willing to lose a bit of portability for screen real-estate.

  12. swiss_crypto

    February 8, 2023 at 3:27 pm

    Some benchmarks would have been nice…. thermals, noise, gaming, cinebench. This information provided here in the video you can easily just get on the vendor page

  13. P M

    February 8, 2023 at 3:29 pm

    What about how it sounds? Who allowed this to be published without once mentioning how it sounds for a gaming laptop? Seriously! What happened for you not to mention it once? Does anyone in the comment section know how this laptop sounds in general?

    • J DB

      February 9, 2023 at 12:02 pm

      because sound from a laptop is irrelevant, gamers use headphones, this being portable you could use it with Sony, apple, sennheiser wireless earbuds

    • P M

      February 9, 2023 at 2:37 pm

      @J DB It is not irrelevant. It is important to some if not most of us.

  14. Jeremiah Gillis

    February 8, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    Razer is nickel and diming customers here. We know the 4000 series GPUs are expensive. Razed has decided to include Windows 11 Home edition on laptops which start at $3600 (16”) or more… Deal breaker for me due to their mentality.

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  15. Mr Kx

    February 8, 2023 at 3:44 pm

    OMG, that’s expensive. Who spends that much money to play video games? I know folks would say, they could use it for work also, etc etc…You can buy a PS5 an Xbox and a nice laptop for less.

    • Nathan Juan

      February 9, 2023 at 12:49 am

      Can you bring PS5 to a plane going out of the country or cruise? Seriously the reason for buying a gaming laptop is for portability. Also they use powerful laptop for productivity that needs a powerful CPU and GPU out in your house like video editing, graphics deign and other more. There is a lot of option than razer like ROG or even Legion for much cheaper price.

    • J DB

      February 9, 2023 at 12:00 pm

      if you’re gaming on a console thats your first mistake 😂

    • Mr Kx

      February 9, 2023 at 1:27 pm

      @Nathan Juan I understand the portability, I have a ROG I got for $1700 and it blasts through games and video apps. But over $4k for a laptop just blows my mind. Maybe I’m just cheap.

  16. P41N

    February 8, 2023 at 3:46 pm

    about the function keys stuff.. i believe Lenovo does it the best with its legion series where you can fn escape to function lock the function row, that way you can quickly switch between whichever use you need for the key without having to open a software, or messing around in the bios

    • flameing rage

      February 8, 2023 at 10:13 pm

      Razer actually has that option in their synapses application that let’s you choose which you want as a default.

    • P41N

      February 8, 2023 at 11:42 pm

      @flameing rage is there a function lock system tho? like holding function and escape to switch between the function rows?

      a lot of times when I play games or switch to video watching, i like switching between function buttons and volume buttons etc by the press of just one key combination instead of having to go into synapse and switching the default function..

      that’s what I meant why I find legions convenient

    • flameing rage

      February 9, 2023 at 12:11 am

      @P41N ah yeah that would be more convenient have a default button. I see that on my Razer the synapse application has a Hypershift setting for the keyboard that allows you to have a second layout form you keyboard at a click of a button. So you if you take probably less than 3 minutes you can setup it up how you’d want it. Not as convenient as the Legion having it out of the box, but once you set it up once it’ll work the same way.

  17. CubanHitman21

    February 8, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    Can’t wait to buy it off eBay in 5 years 💪

  18. Bryan Loki

    February 8, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    If you’re complaining about Function Keys to do Volume then you dislike the ENTIRE Razer Lineup, there has NEVER been a razer laptop that have the button/keys you’re talking about…. I mean they’re following Apple’s footprint on design language and Apple said get rid of F Keys all together. This is Razer’s attempt to do the same and well Windows uses F Keys. I’ve hackintoshed my Razer Blade and run Mac OS on mine and guess what??? No issues what so ever on the keys. So is it a Laptop Problem or an OS problem?

  19. 이준희

    February 8, 2023 at 4:11 pm

    I will wait for 21” laptop

  20. John117

    February 8, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    This will be like $800 in 3 years

    • THE PUNISHER BRAZIL

      February 9, 2023 at 3:22 am

      Yeah but who is gonna buy? it will already be out of date and with some problem in the battery

  21. Beau Croom

    February 8, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    I need to know what 17” laptop does OLED that’s a standard laptop not the Zenbook touch

  22. UGOCHUKWU Harbor

    February 8, 2023 at 7:05 pm

    How is a $3k Razer laptop being reviewed above be called “lower end”?

    • LinusMLGTips

      February 9, 2023 at 5:06 am

      Because they’re selling laptops in the $4k range too.

  23. Vaux Glandzer

    February 8, 2023 at 7:52 pm

    For people that want/prefer more discreet looks of their gaming laptop without showing or needing dedicated gaming buttons, that razer blade 18 would be nice with those great specs..

  24. OnesPhor

    February 8, 2023 at 8:18 pm

    Razer is going the Apple route with prices i see

  25. JC Cox

    February 8, 2023 at 8:47 pm

    for how expensive this is it’s sad it doesn’t have a 4k screen, 240W USB C ports or a finger print sensor.

  26. THE PUNISHER BRAZIL

    February 9, 2023 at 3:21 am

    The price is ok

  27. jon

    February 9, 2023 at 5:10 am

    dedicated ethernet is a big selling point for me. but i also expect mechanical key switches for the price. and 4k 120hz would make me happy

  28. Rad Sheets

    February 9, 2023 at 7:11 am

    Extra dedicated media keys on the sides always throws off my typing (like the alienware one now). Prefer w/o it!

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  29. J DB

    February 9, 2023 at 11:57 am

    How is that laptop over $4000 and not have a high refresh rate OLED display

    • Absolute Longplay

      February 10, 2023 at 1:04 am

      Yeah I may have considered picking up this laptop if it came with an OLED display.

  30. II SG93 II

    February 9, 2023 at 12:26 pm

    Price is a joke. Instant pass. Lol Razer 😂

  31. Neekzu

    February 9, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    Thanks for reading and narrating the spec sheet. When is the review coming out?

  32. Sam Hawkes

    February 9, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    i really dont get why they put an amazing mini led screen in the 16 but just your bog standard ips for the 18

  33. P H

    February 10, 2023 at 2:51 am

    How are the temperatures? Is the cooling improved as promised?

  34. chase uba

    February 11, 2023 at 10:43 pm

    Literally the Holy Grail of Laptops with none of Macbook Frustrating Limitations. 16:10 FOREVER.

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