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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JarredWalton - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
GT 555M; sorry for the error.VivekGowri - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
Yeah, sorry guys - I copied the table from a different review; I changed all the GPU specs but forgot to change the GPU title itself. This is most definitely a GT 555M, the text references it numerous times (Google Docs tells me it appears in the text 16 times).Articuno - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
And it's because putting a heat source almost TRIPLE that of your natural body heat on your lap destroys your sperm faster than you can blink. There's a reason why human males have external testicles, people, and it's because *34* degrees Celsius is too much for your sperm.piroroadkill - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
Who cares. We've got too many people as it is.shriganesh - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
why? Are you going to bask your balls on ur brand new laptop?bennyg - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
Use a ten buck cooler bro. Then you can have it lap-top for as long as you like.abscode - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
Santorum to soon push for outlawing such computers.Granseth - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
I really like how the dare do something different. And hope the mouse and shortcut buttons catches on even though it's expensive now, it might get installed in cheaper models in time.Hrel - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
Maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression if you're main intent for a display is gaming, where response time matters most, that IPS displays were worse than TN Panels. Since they have signficantly high response times. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought IPS was pretty much only useful for professional image editors, for pictures and video and the like. Things where color accuracy is of the highest importance.RoninX - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
I have a Dell Ultrasharp IPS monitor with my desktop gaming rig (i7-2700k + GTX 570), and I don't notice any lag in response time at all...