Razer Blade Pro 17 - 2013

Overview

Razer Blade Pro 17 - 2021

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TechSpot Metascore

Based on 8 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

2
Average:

1
Bad:

2

Pros:

Extremely fast
Thin and light
More portable than its rivals

Cons:

Expensive
Stiff keyboard

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Last revision on April 22, 2020

Reviewers Liked

Extremely fast
Thin and light
More portable than its rivals
Snappy aesthetics
Great battery life
Above average audio

Reviewers Didn't Like

Expensive
Stiff keyboard
Flimsy mouse buttons
Lacks Blu-Ray player

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Expert reviews and ratings

Our few complaints are minor, such as the placement of the trackpad, the lack of 802.11ac networking, and the omission of a card reader. There are more powerful gaming laptops available at this price, but none that are as thin, light or beautifully designed as the Razer Edge Pro.

By T3 on August 07, 2013

It's hard to imagine porting around a 17-inch laptop, but at only a little under 7 pounds all-in and with surprisingly stellar battery life, the previously unthinkable is perfectly reasonable here. The notion that you could sit in a café and play Borderlands 2 on this thing pleases us.

By TechRadar on July 01, 2013

100

Offering the best products and forward thinking technology is was keeps Razer at the forefront of PC gaming and keeps providing you with an obvious choice for the best gaming laptop. Even with all the choices for a new gaming laptop, Razer poses the question that most consumers fail to ask: Why go big when you can get it so small?

By NewGamingLaptop on June 04, 2013

Razer's first laptop, the Razer Blade, is a thin gaming computer with some futuristic design touches, but a high price means you're paying for design -- and for the second-screen signature Switchblade UI interface that doesn't do as much as we hoped it...

By CNET Australia on April 09, 2012

The Blade's spec sheet isn't incredible for a dedicated gaming laptop — there's a dual-core Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and Nvidia GeForce GT555M graphics on tap — but there are three things that set the Blade apart. First, Razer stuffed that hardware...

By The Verge on March 02, 2012

There's something fundamentally broken in the world of PC laptops: Machines designed nearly four years ago still provide the basic model for how to build one correctly today. The Razer Blade is, in some ways, one of the best Windows laptops I've...

By Gizmodo on March 01, 2012

Razer's first gaming laptop is impressive, though marred by minor, yet head-scratching flaws. Barring those (and its sky-high price), Razer has a winner on its...

By Engadget on February 22, 2012

In retrospect, the first Razer Blade only seemed insane because we'd gone down such a preposterous path with gaming laptops. Bigger, huger, less practical. Then Razer decided to bring premium gaming back to regular computers. Its first outing succeeded...

By Gizmodo on October 03, 2012

Razer's Blade is a heck of an expensive gaming device. But it's a damn good notebook that deserves it all. Well, minus the heat and the battery life problems. If you don't mind this detail, we say: go for it. We don't know of any other gaming laptop to...

By evogadget.com on June 01, 2012

Please enable JavaScript to watch this video.There's something fundamentally broken in the world of PC laptops: Machines designed nearly four years ago still provide the basic model for how to build one correctly today. The Razer Blade is, in some ways,...

By Gizmodo on March 02, 2012

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