New Razer Blade & Razer Blade Pro

Good luck! Hopefully it's a congrats present to yourself then!

 

haha good luck! I actually bought this thing to work on my dissertation as well (and maybe a game or two), but I won't be defending until the winter so I still have some time .

 

I have the mamba and I hate it... it's basically just a wired mouse that cost $100 bux. Does the Orochi work simply through bluetooth with no base or USB attachment required?

Thanks,
Hans

 

Bluetooth only, although you can connect USB if you want

 

I think the Orochi is really the only decent Bluetooth mouse out there. I believe the lag and standby issues are also fixed with the 2013 (Bluetooth 3.0) model. It goes to standby after 50 seconds instead of 5 seconds now

 

Great Review.

Razer Blade 14 Unboxing & Overview - YouTube

 

Received my Blade 14, 512gb today. From USA to Singapore. First ordered on the 4th July. Took a total of 3 weeks to get it on my hands.

First look on the Blade itself. It does really have a premium feel and look. Worth every of my penny.

Flip open the laptop. Turned it on, fortunately after checking every corner and inches of it, there is no defects nor there was any dead pixel.

Downloading and installing games at the moment ^^

 

Grats! great to hear that (hopefully) there's no need to send it back at all.

I'm curious though. Were the previous Blade models released in Singapore too?

I wonder if the Blade 14 is released in Singapore, and you find yourself needing a repair or RMA, would you need to still send it to the USA? Or would Singapore now be sufficient since they've released it there?

I'm under the impression that they only release the Blade models into regions that they have repair centers or offices in.

 

No Blade 14 not yet release over in Singapore. and for repairing, I am not very sure.

 

If you find out, I'd love to know . I'll be situated in Australia, but as far as I know, Razer doesn't have an office or center there. I know they have one in Singapore. Hopefully, if their Singapore office becomes qualified for Blade repairs, we can send ours there instead of all the way to the US.

 

I tried 326.19 and got an error. NVIDIA Installer cannot continue. The graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware. I am thinking I need to modify and inf and change a device id or something. Anyone have some instruction on this?

Here is the link I downloaded from:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-326.19-beta-driver.html

UPDATE:
Nevermind. Dug a bit more on NVidia site and found a "notebook drver" for 326.19. Going to try that.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8-win7-64bit-326.19-beta-driver.html

Done. All is well. Now to try some games.

 

Synapse 2.0 keeps disabling my trackpad on my Blade14. It started when I plugged in my deathstalker keyboard and synapse updated itself. I actually had to plug in a mouse in order to move the mouse pointer. I disabled Synapse in startup, but everytime I run it, the trackpad gets disabled. The the trackpad mouse buttons still work, but no trackpad. Can't find any setting in Synapse either. Is there some keysequence that I might have fat fingered to cause this? I also noticed my Synaptics tray icon disappeared. Couldn't run it manually either (C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe).

Next, I tried uninstaling Synapse. It crashed during the uninstall (bluescreened). But after the reboot, it appeared to be uninstalled (no remnants in C:\Program Files (x86)\Razer). Then I downloaded and installed Synapse again. After a few restarts and crashes, Synapse finally installed and the trackpad still worked. This has to be the crappiest most frustrating install ever. I much prefer to download drivers. Anyway, I plugged in my deathstalker again and the problem reproduced itself exactly (trackpad on both Deathstalker and Blade stopped working). So it seems something is colliding when their cloud Synaptics driver for the touchpads (Blade and Deathstalker) try to setup through Synapse. If anyone has any ideas for a workaround, please let me know. But for now, I am concluding that the Deathstalker is incompatible with the Blade.

 

Had a quick battery question for the Blades,

I've been reading that frequent power cycles are good for batteries. Does this mean I should be unplugging my Blade when battery is full and plugging it back in when it's low? Should I do this as often as possible?

For example, if I game for about 4 hours and the battery life of the Blade is only an hour on gaming mode, should I start gaming with battery mode, plug in and charge after first hour, continue playing, unplug after second hour (assuming it's fully charged), continue playing, plug in again after 3rd hour, continue playing, unplug after 4th hour, and so on?

Basically, does frequent power cycles mean unplugging my Blade everytime the battery is fully charged and plugging it in every time the battery is low?

 

no, that will decrease even more the battery life.

batteries are consumable products the more you use the less you have.

what is good for the battery, in general, is to not be left unused. So once in a while (I do this every week) go and use your battery till around 20%, and plug it in. The best range of usage is 20-80% of the battery capacity, i.e. charge it till 80% and when you are going to use it, do it till 20%

 

I see, that's what I was confused about, whether at what frequency to do the discharges. Once a week sounds much better than every hour. Lol. Thanks!

 

Not allowing the battery cells to discharge ever so often kills them sooner! There are many articles on the Internet about this. People who use their laptops/notebooks on the go are the ones who can expect their batteries to last the longest. I've also personally experienced this with one laptop I nearly never used on battery and the other I occasionally used on battery and lasted longer.

 

So today is the day. The previous letter sent out to those of us who ordered over the past few weeks stated today as the adjusted ship date for what was supposed to be a previous 5 day wait. My question is.. Has anyone received a shipping notice today?

 

Sorry for asking such a dumb question but can you reliably use the RB 150w adapter with another laptop that isn't a RB? I would assume yes but I would just like some input from people who actually own it.

 

They will send them out soon - probably tonight.

 

I have not received anything... If my order does not ship today I will be canceling it. This is not me getting upset or inpatient, fact is with alternatives to the Razer Blade now surfacing I am starting to think that my Razer blade R2 will last me just fine until next spring.

My advice for Razer is to ensure future releases do not suffer the same supply shortages... a lot of buyers are like me and buy some what on an impulse. The more I think about my purchase the less I am excited about it......

 

Received mine on Wednesday and I am very pleased thus far. No dead pixels and no sound clicks or static here. I found the synaptics pad stuttered a bit until I downloaded the new nvidia drivers. Somehow that fixed it.

I am going to be sampling games now to see how things go and learning Windows 8. Other than the speed of w8 I would just as soon go back to 7. Heh.


More to follow as I dig deeper into settings...

 

Wondering the same thing...I'm gonna be pissed if not since I would have just assumed it was going to take longer anyway if we had not received these emails...

 

I would not risk it unless you know the adapter and unit actually match. How to know, I wouldn't know either. Heh.

 

Thanks for the reply but yeah I know I don't want to risk it so I just want to know if anyone has to let us know. Although the accessory itself costs $130 eek I think it really would help with portability if I can use it with another laptop. I believe it should be fine though I would of assumed the plug not fitting is probably the worse case scenario.

 

1. Does the pin fit properly? A too loose or too tight pin will cause problems. Try this without power first.
2. Is the voltage correct? Read the label on the adapter and on the laptop you want to use it with. The wrong voltage will likely fry something.
3. Is the current capacity sufficient? The current rating of the adapter must be greater than or equal to the current requirement of the laptop to be connected. If it is the other way around, the adapter will go into current limiting mode and the voltage will drop at peak loads. This is undesirable.
4. Is the voltage polarity correct? Read the labels on the adapter and check with your laptop's original adapter. In mine the center pin is the +ve terminal.

If the answer to all 4 questions is yes, then you can safely use it.

 

Has anyone received a shipping confirmation yet?

 

*Crickets*

 

(-_-)....

no....

 

just an update to anyone interested...

I've just bought a 480gb mushkin ssd from bhphotovideo and its shipping to Australia as we speak. I'll install that and will update the thread again whether everything will work fine. I don't think anyone has put in a second ssd at this point, but I did read that there was no seal or anything to void the warranty, so I might give that a try. anyone know if the msata will need to be screwed in or whether it is just plug and play?

 

Its not necessarily plug n play, but it will work with a little know how. Have fun

 

Yeah I gave up on getting reliable estimates from Razer awhile back. I spoke to a guy at HIDevolution and he maintains that Razer's last estimate of distributors receiving units in July has not been changed at this point. I really really doubt it'll happen though, with the shipping dates dropping back to 1 week again...

Kojaku

 

I received a call today from Razer support today saying they are getting a shipment in and I would get a tracking number soon. When I received my first unit, it shipped late at night. I expect the same procedure - tonight or tomorrow night.

 

Well, the bad news is this "killer" NIC is garbage for anything OTHER than gaming. Doesn't support EAP-TLS, 802.1x, LEAP, or any enterprise wireless protocols. Performance and connection strength at a distance is also significantly worse than my 3 year old thinkpad. Trading off throughput for latency isnt really boosting anything! Hopefully it's just a standard half width mpci...that Intel 7600ac looks real nice!

 

No shipping notice although I did get an email from the Razer store saying that although the targeted ship day is today it could still take one or two more days to ship because of order contention in the Warehouse.


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So I guess it's going to be tomorrow night?

 

Please let us know how it goes!

 

It will need to be screwed in. You'll need to remove a small plastic cover from the screw hole first

 

By enterprise protocols do you mean like WAP2-enterprise and the likes? I need this connect to a secured university wireless network and it will be a huge let down if it can't.

 

Question on the Razer Blade battery. Should you run down to zero or around 5 percent etc once a month?

 

Should do at least once when you get it, after that no need

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I'm actually interested in this also as I need to connect to certain networks that would need this. It seems like it would be a weird omission though.

On another note - anyone else who was told it would be shipped yesterday pissed? I had expected it today originally (i.e., 7 business days) but had gotten my hopes up about yesterday because of the email......

 

I work at a university as a research assistant. I had no problem getting on WiFi. No one else in the lab can get WiFi since we are so far from the WiFi routers, but I had a strong signal! THey all use ethernet. I am seriously impressed with the WiFi card.

802.11 Operating Mode: Infrastructure or Network (not ad hoc)
Security Mode: Enterprise (not Personal)
Network Authentication: WPA2
Data Encryption: AES or AES-CCMP
Authentication Type or Outer Authentication: Protected EAP (PEAP)
Authentication Protocol or Inner Authentication: MS-CHAPv2

 

Yeah looking at the reviews, the 1202 looks amazing and I think Razer made the right choice putting one in versus 7600ac adapter

 

I am going to e-mail them and personally cancel my order. At this point enough is enough... good luck to the rest of you !

 

Mm, that's a bummer. I can see where you're coming from though.

 

I ordered the 14" 256 Monday night and got the shipping confirmation Thursday morning. It should me here by next Tuesday! Not bad at all!

 

Ironically I got an email this morning (7/26) at 5am saying and I quote "Your order should be shipped on July 25th." Well that obviously didn't happen so I would take any ship date given to you that does not include a FEDEX or UPS tracking number with a grain of salt.

 

I promise you this machine is worth the wait. I have been waiting a month (today). Had to RMA a couple of weeks back due to some dark pixels. I am eager to get the machine, but I understand the wait since I don't want Razer to ship more bad ones and the demand is so great for this laptop. There is nothing else out there even close to this machine.

 

Just got this response.
"We have replacement units being received today and they should be shipping out very shortly. If they do not ship out today (Friday) they should be leaving early next week. Once they ship you will get an email from our warehouse with a Tracking number of your replacement."

 

My worry is that this seems to be a pattern. Each time the previously given shipping day comes and pass there is another email saying "we promise today but if not today just a few more days".