New Razer Blade & Razer Blade Pro

I sincerely hope Razer doesn't push their luck with this. If they aren't pushing manufacturing at full tilt, the orders will keep them swamped. Amazon is the largest retailer of Razer systems outside Razer, and a bigger retailer in general (by a long shot). It'd be in their best interest to get it in stock over there as soon as possible.

Kojaku

 

I just did this in my Pro; it seems that Steam is not causing the GPU to remain active. Nevertheless, I just installed the 320.49 drivers - using the modified inf someone posted earlier. I don't know if that has any effect on that.

Also, I haven't re-ran benchmarks to see how the GPU works with the new driver... I'll probably do it tomorrow, I'm to lazy to wait for 3DMark to finish right now.

 

Lol I think Alienware is taking a shot at Razer on my facebook news feed

"No simulated screenfill images here. These aren't intended to be professional shots but just some photos we took during the shoot to illustrate the rich color saturation, contrast levels, and viewing angles of the Alienware 14 1080P IPS display You're going to be looking at the screen 99% of the time. Whether it is gaming, movies, or just general web browsing, a better picture improves the entire experience."

 

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried to install Windows 7 onto the new Razer Blade 14"?

 

hey guys.

Got my blade yesterday in the UK.

Love it! Absolutely love it!!!

I am honestly not disappointed by it!!!

I do, however, have a little bit of a problem: the trackpad scrolling is working in that idiotic osx way. how do I invert it back to normal scrolling?
In the mouse settings, I did not find any of these settings.

Thanks!

 

It's reversed? Someone mentioned that you can do it through the Trackpad options. No idea yet if Razer has that in one of their programs?

Probably a clue for some Razer people reading this thread that we want it normal scrolling =p

Congrats btw!

 

Why the hell would anyone consider the alienware to be superior to this!? This thing is THREE TIMES thinner than the Alienware 14 and performs 2FPS lower than it in most games. The alienware is 200-300 dollars cheaper when the specs are almost the same, and 3 times thicker. Im sorry there's no comparison here. Ive played with the blade 14 and the screen isn't a big deal. If this thing were to have an IPS display, kiss the Framrate and battery life goodbye. Also, isnt the point of buying a laptop so it can be portable? You might as well just buy a desktop if your considering the alienware 14. Thing is heavy and most people aren't willing to lug a heavy laptop around with them. /endrant

 

Yes, when you move your fingers down the trackpad, the page scrolls up.
I have gone through all settings in the mouse settings and did not find anything related to inverted scrolling. There are settings for 2 finger horizontal/vertical scrolling, but not for inverted.

In the Razer Synapse software, I do not have trackpad settings, just keyboard, macros and some other stuff.

Thanks!

 

I can't find the inverted scrolling option anywhere.

 

its a win 8 thing, I hate those natural scrolling options. you can disable it in control panel or something

 

After reader some users post I notice my logitech software was in the nvidia tray, made sure steam client was off, and did not run CPUID in the background. I was able to get 2x battery life compared to my first test.

HD Video playing in a loop with display brightness to the lowest.

 

This is a Synaptics driver bug. Go into Synaptics settings and check the reverse scrolling option then save. Turn right around and uncheck it then save again. Scrolling will then work correctly

 

I'm coming from an AMD card and this Blade will have my first NVIDIA. From what I've read, I have to make sure that the Optimus programs uses the integrated GPU while on battery right? Does it not do that automatically?

 

ok, I looked again in the settings, and I saw the inverted scrolling option, and yeah, it was disabled.

This worked! sweet, thanks!

also, what settings do you guys have on the trackpad, cause mine is a bit wonky. sometimes the cursor skips, sometimes it doesn't respond...it's not that good with my settings. Do you guys mind sharing yours?

Thanks!

 

Disabling one finger scroll fixed that for me. I just use two finger scroll only. For some reason by default both are turned on.

 

Might I ask how you managed to get this sent to the UK?Did you use a shipping forwarding service or a 3rd party retailer or otherwise?

 

yup, used BundleBox.

The shipping rates are pretty decent, it's just the tax that's a sucker. will probably get the tax back though.
Anyway, I got the whole thing cheaper than a macbook pro's price here in the UK.

 

How did you buy from the Razer website itself? Doesn't it need a US credit card and AVS?

 

FWIW I tried to do the same thing through MyUS.com and after going through the CC verification process, and then sending them a wire transfer because the amount was "too a large to be processed by credit card" I just got an email from them stating that:

"Hello,

I regret to inform you that we are unable to purchase from this company through our Personal Shopper service.

They are no longer willing to ship to us as a freight forwarding company. I am so sorry for any inconvenience. Unfortunately some companies do not want us to export their items due to licensing with their labels. Your order has been cancelled."

I am extremely nonplussed right now, to say the least. However, I don't know whether this only applies to MyUS or all mail forwarding services.

 

Grrr 8 days and no shipment notice. Guess I will get it next week. At least they don't charge you till it ships!

 

I bought it using my Barclays debit card exactly half an hour after the website went live.

Yeah, I just used my Barclays debit card for that.

However, the billing address needed to be a US one, but I just used the address BundleBox provided me, and it worked fine.

I got the Blade just yesterday. The Razer invoice in on the US address, but the BundleBox one is on my UK address.

 

ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-prod...laptops/alienware-14_Owner's Manual_en-us.pdf

The Alienware 14 service manual is up online. Some go you might be interested in the new cooling design. There is a huge space between the vent strips in the chasis and the motherbard

edit: actually it looks like the bottom half inch of the notebook is purely there to accommodate the optical drive

 

They are scared or they wouldn't even bother drawing passive aggressive attention to it.

 

Shouldn't this post go in the Alienware forum?

 

Has anyone seen official reviews of the Pro? Battery life/performance and what not? Only found reviews of the Blade with palpable techno-lust across the board. Pretty impressive.

And has anyone started accumulating tips/tricks for a Blade post? Neatly packaged together for easy reference?... might do that when mine comes in.

 

Also because Razer has pretty much backed them in to a corner and ruled them out completely on portability. They're basically positioned as being not portable anymore, so no choice but to focus on other aspects that are "better", depending on the perspective.

I used Johnny Air Cargo to get mine from NY to Manila, and then coordinating with a relative to bring it over to where I'm at. It's supposedly a tax free service, but the timeframe isn't great. I was told a 5-7 day shipping time from when it was picked up almost two weeks ago, and just received news that it might not come until next week. I had plans of using it for this contest I plan on joining. Oh well.

Still, incredibly excited!

 

Hey how did u buy it in UK?

 

That's amazing!

 

Definitely depending on perspective. Since it's gaming first and foremost for me I would much rather have the 900p panel. 768p is just a tad too far the other direction, to include the default AW 14 panel into the discussion. The fact that it weighs 2lb less and is half the thickness while still being quiet and looks so much better is just insane.

Ball, meet outside of park.

I'm just trying to figure out how I can dump my Sammy to get this.

 

Wow 6 hours battery it is. Nice razer!

 

The verge did a review:

Razer Blade review (14-inch) | The Verge

Any have the problems with the touch pad that they encountered? Also, is the screen really that bad (for the price) or is it tolerable? Lastly, hows the Pro? I haven't been able to find a good review of it but I;m wondering if the screen is any better and if it can match the 14's 6 hours of battery life.

 

Despite the fact that the Razer order page specifically states that "your billing address must match the address that appears on your credit card"? That's surprising.

If anyone has managed to order through a mail forwarding company address such as MyUS or BundleBox in the last days, I'd be very interested to hear about it because from that email I received I definitely got the impression that Razer completely stopped delivering to any of those.

 

I don't know why they would not want to sell them like that. I had no problems with that. As soon as I placed the order, I checked my account and the money we're not charged, but we're reserved.
After about 3 weeks, I received an email saying that the laptop has gone on backorder and that it will ship in 2-3 weeks, but it shipped in a few days.

It then arrived at the BundleBox address and they forwarded it to me.

It was the first time I used such a service and was pleasantly surprised how smoothly it went.

Lets just hope the Blade doesn't go wrong with something.

 

I think I'm just ridiculously unlucky.

I first tried going through a friend of mine, but the guy had just moved to Mexico for work and couldn't order it from there.
Then I found a friend of a friend who lived in NY, but that guy was very unresponsive and either had an issue with his Paypal account or was completely clueless, because the Paypal transfer I sent him remained unclaimed for almost 2 weeks.
I cancelled it and finally found out about MyUS.com and other mail forwarding services (which, frankly, I should have done before trying to go through other people, live and learn I guess) but for their personnalized shopper service first they required a credit card verification, once that was done they required a bank transfer instead, and once that was also done they emailed me to say Razer wouldn't ship to their company anymore.

So now a month has passed, and my options are to either order from Amazon to MyUS, but nobody has any idea when Amazon will have Blades in stock, trying my luck with another freight forwarder that Razer may or may not still accept to ship to, or simply give up.

Unfortunately, the harder it turns out to get, the more badly I want it (and that's on top of already wanting it very, very badly since day 1).

I do realize why Razer would restrict sales to the general public to North America for support, warranty and coverage reasons but it shouldn't be so, impossible for the most dedicated ones, who perfectly understand the risk they're taking and are willing to eat the potential return costs, to get their hands on it.

 

These days for most an optical drive is a waste of space, they could hace easily added another fan and made this much thinner to compete with the Blade.
Seems like AW is going backwards snd not moving forwards...looking at the manual they call the lights "TRON" lights Oh c'mon AW.

 

The screen really isn't bad, in my opinion. It just seems to be the only flaw of the Blade and is blown out of proportion, consequently.

The Pro battery life will definitely be shorter than the Blade. Same battery, bigger machine for the Pro. At least that's how I understand it.

 

70 vs 74 wh in the pro. Very good battery life on the Pro as well.

 

the screen is worse than average, however its got this much attention due to the price of the notebook, you simply expect a perfect machine out of the price range, or one without a glaring flaw

I think the best would be to see if its possible to replace with the screen on x1c, which is an average display, but still better

 

For anyone who's installed the Windows 8.1 preview, here's a modified .inf that I used to install the 326.01 preview drivers.


EDIT: Doesn't work, sorry for the confusion.

 

how about the billing address? You keyed Bundlebox's address or your own residential address ?

 

Screen quality is subjective in the end. What isn't subjective is the numbers Anandtech put up compared to other screens. And sure, the same screen in a lower end product would be fine I suppose.

 

Oh, my mistake. I don't know why I had the understanding that they had the same battery, must have misread somewhere.

I agree on the price point, it's one thing that the Blade didn't move forward on.

I just don't agree that the screen alone could be the deal breaker in deciding whether or not to get the Blade, unless it's that much worse than average laptops today. Some first-hand experiences don't seem to think it's a huge deal. Maybe this is coming from a gaming perspective or someone who doesn't expect too much out of a screen versus professionals that actually need a good screen.

Either way, at least Razer now knows the one feature they have to work on for the next revision.

 

for anyone buying in alberta. There is only Gst ?

 

This is another company that can customize and ship most laptops gamers want to anywhere in the world.

Razer Blade 14" Gaming Laptop

 

I just ordered my Razer Blade 14!!!

Very excited!!!

It's safe to say I wanted this laptop on specs and aesthetics alone. After reading through some of the reviews I finally pulled the trigger this morning (I actually ordered HDMI/VGA adapter, USB/Ethernet adapter on amazon for it last week ).

I would've preferred an IPS based touchscreen. In fact, before learning of the Razer Blade I was looking at the Asus Zenbook Infinity announced at Computex. I travel frequently for business and my laptop serves as my primary machine. But after thinking about the tradeoffs (or perhaps just rationalizing them), I decided that the display in the Blade would be acceptable for 3 reasons.

1. I've lived without touchscreen for this long so probably wouldn't mind sticking with keyboard and mouse for another year or 2.
2. Coming from an Asus N53SV (TN display), I'm hoping the Blade's screen is at least on par.
3. Viewing angle is less important since most of the time it's just me sitting there starring at the screen.

Razer's website is saying 5-7 business days before shipping. Can anyone here let me know if that time frame is accurate?

Any owner's of other Razer laptops care to comment on their reliability, durability, and after sale service?

 

The screen is horrible and i'm not talking about the resolution since 900p is good enough. It is the screen quality that is pure horror. I mean putting a garbage display panel on a high priced premium machine like this is inexcusable. The Sony Vaio S13p had one of the worst displays ever with a 1.2ish cdm black level value that made blacks and overall screen quality fuzzy and cloudy and Razer 14 takes the cake from Vaio S13A for having even worst black level cdm of 2.2ish.

And then you have other problems like the lack of ethernet port, lack of multi card reader, lack of optical drive and the lack of better warranty like free 2 way shipping both ways and onsite warranty compared to thinkpad or Dell/AW.

 

That is your opinion.

I'm pretty sure these features were weighed by importance accordingly. Maybe they have data that showed that gaming laptop users needed these features the least.

 

at the price point its much worse, if you compare to bargain bin no it isnt.

and thats the thing, the screen aint right for the price point.

For graph/video professionals you are dealing with 150% aRGB screens in notebooks, or at least 100% aRGB, with great color accuracy (its not only about how much you can display colors but also how accurately you do it). Macs are considered to have above average, they deal 70% aRGB in the pro machines, lower in the mbas. The average for the price point is at least 60% aRGB (you have displays that bring it down like ux51vz LG display and displays that bring it up like the 15" AUO that deals 90% aRGB or the workstation that deals 150% but lets leave those out)

I actually hope that they improve the screen on the r2

s13 had an average display thats all. people didnt like it, because they were expecting Z quality.

Regarding warranty, I think they really need to improve that, but it doesnt make sense to offer things like onsite if you only have 4 notebooks launched so far, the peripherals that they sold before didnt need it. Mail in is good enough for now. Not that I wouldnt mind on site, ACD and NBD warranty at all, that would just make me want one more. But as said before, while more is good it doesnt make sense for them

Regarding missing stuff:

ODD: I dont see the value, people that still use those are usually out of the thin and light, since they usually dont pack one
Ethernet: I rarely use it, I like to have
Multicard readers: I dont use it, people like to have it, I agree

To solve ports give us TB, it can have all those, and since those card readers are for on the go purposes built it in.

 

In regards to the screen, that is not an opinion, it is a FACT. I didn't make an opinion when I said the panel had horrible contrast ratio with black level cdm of 2.0+ or the screen only has 48% color gamut which doesn't even comes close to covering SRGB. Those are not opinions, those are facts gathered from researching and reading Razer 14 testers/reviewers and owners so far.


This is an OPINION - Razer design looks like a macbook copy w/o originality
This is a FACT - Razer uses a TN panel with low contrast ratio and color gamut with horrible high black level cdm.

See the difference?

 

@Colpolite

This is an opinion-The screen is horrible.

This is a fact - Razer uses a TN panel with low contrast ratio and color gamut with poor high black level cdm.

See the difference?