Razer Blade 2012 Review + BenchMarks ~ Saad Reviews (Reviews + Benchmarks)

Razer is a new brand in the laptop market. Razer Blade 2012 is the laptop of which we will review and tests its capabilities in gaming and the other BenchMarks.A sleek, jet-black aluminum notebook with a high-end Core i7 mobile processor, a four-inch multi touch screen that doubles as a trackpad, dynamic LCD keys for macros and applications, and the stylings of a possessed MacBook Pro, the 0.88-inch thin machine was billed as "The World's First True Gaming Laptop" by its makers. Unfortunately, even at the company's $2,800 asking price, Razer couldn't achieve that goal. When we reviewed the Razer Blade, we found the gorgeous machine simply wasn't powerful enough to run the latest games at high settings. Bugs and incomplete software kept the LCD keys and touchscreen from reaching their full potential. Creature comforts were few, with an uncomfortable keyboard and terrible speakers to boot.However, less than a year after release, Razer is back for round two. The new Razer Blade looks almost identical from the outside, but there's all-new silicon within: a brand-spanking new quad-core 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-3632QM processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M graphics with 2GB of dedicated video memory, a larger 500GB hard drive and 64GB of solid state cache, all in the same 0.88-inch thin chassis. There's also a brand new cooling system inside, and some very large rubber feet to prop up the rear of the machine to aid airflow.The 17.3-inch display sports a 1,920-by-1,080 resolution. The Full HD display looks great while watching streaming video or looking at high-res images, but where it really shines is gaming. Whether your choice of games is the grit and smoke of Battlefield 3 or the detailed fantasy world of Skyrim, this display looks great. The accompanying audio is pretty good, with Dolby Home Theater v4 and crisp clear sound, but without much bass to speak of. For an immersive gaming experience on the go, you'll probably want to opt for headphones anyway. If you connect up to a home theater via HDMI, you'll be able to enjoy 7.1 surround sound.The keyboard has square tile keys, similar to those seen on the Razer DeathStalker Ultimate gaming keyboard. The scissor switches used for these keys won't match the mechanical switches found on premium standalone gaming keyboards, but they rival the keys found on most gaming laptops. The keys have adjustable backlight with the same brilliant green hue seen on the glowing logo. One feature, which surprisingly isn't seen on other gaming laptops, is the inclusion of anti-ghosting technology, the same used in Razer's peripheral keyboards, which allows multiple keys to be pressed simultaneously, an essential feature when rapidly using the complex key combinations used in MMORPGS.the gaming laptop is equipped with three USB 3.0 ports (in a distinctive green rather than the traditional blue), HDMI output, a combined headset jack, and a Kensington lock slot. With the exception of the lock slot, these are all found on the left-hand side of the laptop, but we wish that at least one USB port were relocated to the right for attaching a peripheral mouse, which is generally used on the right.Without an optical drive, web connectivity becomes that much more important, and the Razer Blade delivers with dual-band Wi-Fi (802.11n) and Gigabit Ethernet. Bluetooth 4.0 is also included for pairing headsets and gamepads. The Blade is equipped with a 500GB hard drive, as well as a 64GB mSATA cache for faster performance and speedier boot times. This is smaller than the two 750GB drives found in the Asus G75VW-DS71.Razer's 3.5 x 2.3-inch Synaptics touchpad/track panel is anything but traditional. Instead of its usual position under the keyboard, the touchpad sits to the right. This takes some getting used to. We constantly found ourselves sweeping our fingers below the keyboard, searching for a phantom touchpad.The LCD multitouch track panel performed well with precise navigation on websites and documents. Highlighting text was also seamless. Multitouch gestures including pinch-to-zoom, two-finger scroll, three-finger press and flick were smooth as well.LCD track panel acts as a second display. In conjunction with the 10 Dynamic Adaptive Tactile Keys, the panel can also be used to activate shortcuts and macros in games via Razer's Switchblade user interface.When we first activated the Switchblade interface (we had to create a free Razer account), the keys were illuminated with bright colorful icons for a screenshot button, game timer, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, and a Web browser, among others. Pressing the Facebook button, for instance, brought up the mobile version of Facebook on the touchpad, where we could log into our account.Users can also create up to 10 pages of personal shortcuts with their own custom icons. You can switch between pages by performing a three-finger swipe on the touch pad. Returning to the home page is a simple as pressing the Razer button next to the touchpad.Launching the web browser, YouTube and other social networking buttons instantly transforms the track panel into a 800 x 480-pixel display, complete with touchscreen capabilities such as pinch-to-zoom and scroll. However, text on the smaller display is difficult to read without zooming in, and once we did zoom in, text was riddled with jagged edges.the touchpad measured 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The space between the G and H keys registered 88 degrees and the underside measured 90 degrees.Things heated up as we played Batman: Arkham City. The touchpad measured 86 degrees, and the space between the G and H keys rose to 99 degrees. We consider anything above 95 uncomfortable,Blade comes with a 2-megapixel webcam, Razer neglected to include any accompanying software. Nevertheless, when we took a test shot using Skype, we saw a pleasing and rich warmth in our skin tone.Overall we can say that Razer Blade is nice Stylish laptop for gaming which comes over $2000 and it looks to deserve that but when we put it under tests. it really disappoint by performace/price ratio.
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