The Razer Blade Review
by Vivek Gowri & Jarred Walton on March 15, 2012 3:01 AM ESTBy gaming notebook standards, battery life is pretty respectable. The 60Wh battery is significantly smaller than the Alienware M17x and M18x (90Wh and 97Wh, respectively) but battery life gets pretty close, so it ends up being a lot more power efficient. The internet browsing life of nearly 4.5 hours is actually pretty usable—obviously it won’t match up with the who’s who of ultraportables, but for coffee shop browsing, it’s definitely adequate. The x264 HD video test came out past the 3 hour mark, which is similarly efficient compared to the rest of the gaming notebook class. Our idle test gives a theoretical maximum runtime of well over 5 hours, but you can bank on somewhere around 4 hours in light-workload mixed usage scenarios.
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The Ugly Truth - Saturday, March 17, 2012 - link
http://www.change.org/petitions/anandtech-forum-en...Freedom of expression and freedom to have an online life outside of AT forums reach is all we ask.
santiagodraco - Sunday, March 18, 2012 - link
I'm very dissapointed in one aspect of this review. It seems that you were actually trying to protect the Razer from looking bad by not including the Alienware M17x in the review. You post it in the matrix, at almost 900 less, but don't compare it?I'd think your readers would be very interested in seeing the top gaming notebook on the market compared to this new Razer.
Rogie - Sunday, March 18, 2012 - link
Got wrong numbers for Razer's relative battery life for idle and h.264.5.35 and 3.28.
That, or the actual minutes are wrong.
KaRRiLLioN - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - link
I think the form of this thing is sweet. The touchscreen/touchpad stuff is a bit gadgety and I'm no fan of chiclet keyboards, but I might snag one of these things just because it looks so cool.At the very least, it'll be better for typing/web browsing than my Dell Latitude 13--and people will probably think I'm a hitman.
asdfzxh - Friday, June 14, 2013 - link
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