New Razer Blade & Razer Blade Pro

Yeah. Don't let it discharge if you can help it. Obviously if you're mobile that's not possible. Keeping it charged will prolong its life. Don't let it discharge to 0 if possible.

The best scenario would be a setting that would it at around 80% charge if you leave it plugged in all the time, but not all notebooks have that option. Letting it discharge to low all the time is worse than leaving it plugged in to full. Try to top it off as often as possible if you are not plugged in. The more discharge cycles you go through the shorter the battery will live.

And don't listen to the discharge fully then recharge nonsense. It's bollocks. Software knows what to do to measure capacity and calibrate for charge remaining readings. Let it do what it does.

 

I've been wrapping up the entire bundle of wires with the included rubber belt thing. It's a small enough power brick. I'm thinking of buying those reclosable velcro fasteners that you can put on wires from home depot or amazon or something. Something like this:

Amazon.com: Velcro Reusable Self-Gripping Cable Ties, 0.5 Inches x 8 Inches Long, Black, 100 Ties per Pack (91140): Office Products

Kojaku

 

Can't find a sleeve for this anywhere. What are you guys using?

 

Whoops...double post. Also, is it me, or does the chassis on this thing vent heat really quickly? I was gaming at like 80 degrees C and within about a 40 seconds after quitting the game, I was back down to 61 C.....

Kojaku

 

I've been using my briefcase for work. I'm actually selling one just like it on ebay for like 60 bucks (even though it's originally $165). Plus, the one I'm selling is brand new. Tumi. Really a great bag for any laptop in this size range


Kojaku

 

Love my Blade 14. One annoyance: The touchpad occasionally "sticks". What I mean is, I'll start moving around, but the mouse cursor will not move unless I back-off for a second or so. Is there some sort of gesture thing I need to disable in the synaptics properties? I have disabled most everything already, but the problem still persists. I really want a super responsive touchpad just like all of my Alienware laptops do (I have many of them). I really don't care about any of the new "innovative" gesturing or multi-touch options on a touchpad and would just assume do without for the sake of having a good responsive touchpad.

 

@wapo I am using a case logic laps114. Put up pics earlier in this thread. Good width fit but a little too deep. Fixed that with a little foam (came with it inside as a place holder) lukast I think also started a thread about sleeves with more info and ideas.

@kojaku I agree this thing heats up and cools down pretty quick. Happy you got yours man

 

Note on the screen. If any of yall are laptop collectors (I am), and have had the pleasure of the first Alienware m17x screen, then you would know what a bad screen was. Otherwise, STFU, the Blade14 screen is fine!

 

I use enterprise class hardware, I know a bad screen. Have you used a matte screen from 2006? that thing doesnt even allow you to use it with some sunlight, its that dim

 

I had a business-class HP laptop back then and the matte screen that was supposedly better for sunlight and I couldn't see it at all on full brightness outside....

 

LOL. That's funny because I was just fixing something on my parent's Dell laptop that was probably from like 2007 or 2008 and couldn't figure out how to increase brightness and then I realized that is as bright as it gets, lol. Although I am still really surprised Razer didn't offer a better screen considering the premium content of everything else. It's like putting a Chevy Cruze dash panel in a Corvette.

 

Mr Laptop collector. So which one has the better screen. Shouldn't the most expensive laptop have a screen were we don't have to say "It's not that bad".

 

exactly that. I remember one time that I was very very pissed because of this, I was doing last minute changes to a presentation for job interview and for the life of me couldnt do it, I was outside the building, I was thinking my pc is dead, that lead me to smoke 5 cigarettes at the time, then I entered the building and saw that the brightness was the problem

now since when corvette is a car?

 

Noob question, how do you change the function of the power button of the Blade to either shut down/sleep? I thought I could change it in Synapse, but can't seem to click the power button. Is it a new feature in W8?

Edit:

Found it, what a noob.

 

I am a noob can teach me how as well ? lol

found it. LOL

 

Lol!

What I found confusing was the two different options though: a Power button and a Sleep button. Do we have two different buttons in the Blade for this? As far as I know, I only see the Power button - haven't seen a Sleep button anywhere...

 

So wait...if you weren't ok with an "okay" laptop screen...why did you buy the blade? Could've gotten a samsung series 7 gamer...or an alienware 14...I mean, I'm sure you saw all the screen banter on here before making your purchase...

Kojaku

 

he didnt buy the blade. he bought the w230st, he is plenty aware about the screens

 

I don't believe there is a sleep button. I think the guy on reddit who was saying to hold vs press was speaking of force shutdown, which is not the same.

I keep my lid close to no action, button to sleep and you can use alt + F4 to shutdown, or a small rainwater addon

 

Agreed,,, These responses about the screen are getting old. Fact is the Razer Blade is essentially an ultra book with the gaming performance of a mid-high end gaming notebook. NO other laptop on the market can make this statement. Yet the screen is not perfect this fact has been made several times in reviews.

If you want an ultra-book that you can game on... get the Blade. If you want a PERFECT laptop don't buy the blade and stop ing about it. Fortunately we are at a point where I would say, if you truly want the "perfect laptop" wait around 2 years because Razer has proven to me with this model that we are very close to obtaining "perfection".

 

Im actually hoping to buy the blade r2 next year, so lets not say that this will take 2 years, I want 3 things, more ram, better screen and thunderbolt, so I can dock it when I arrive at home, if they can provide a better screen Im sold, all 3 I will say and thanked that I waited

 

I'm having a slight issue with Windows 8 on the Blade 14". Windows 8 is no longer displaying the Battery time remaining when the notebook is on battery. The battery indicator show percentage but not the time remaining. DOes anyone know how to re-enable this feature?

 

I think that's just a oddity of Win8, it should show up in a while once you start using it on battery

 

Agree. Mine doesn't show immediately once it's on battery either. It (the time estimate) starts showing up roughly 95% below.

 

Finally got home to open up my box and loving this thing (blade 14). Also, I can see the MBPR is a better screen....but come on, this thing isn't terrible If you think its terrible you've been spoiled with better screens I think . But seriously the v-angles aren't great, but I'm using it in my lap right now and I'm not having any problems. This thing is also amazingly quiet (haven't gamed on it yet though).

 

Btw, for anyone who has blue flickering on the camera, all you have to do is turn off low light adjustment/ white balance on whatever app you're using. For Skype, this is called low light adjustment. The flickering should stop in each individual program you use. I only use Skype, so this fixed my problem. Just thought you'd like to know !

Kojaku

 

I recommend everyone follow this guide to optimize the SSDs in their new Blade. My AS SSD benchmark went from 797 aggregate to 928, and the shutdown and startups feel a second faster (meaning, a 15% improvement )

The SSD Review « The Worlds Dedicated SSD Education and Review Resource | The SSD Review

Also, I'm not some sugar coating buyer's remorse poster, despite feeling that the display is pretty good, so I will say the camera on this thing is abysmal, they could've at least put a 2MP camera..but whatever I have an iPad for facetime anyways.

 

So I'm not sure if I'm having the static issue that everyone has been getting but my Blade is starting to do this thing where the sound that is playing will glitch a bit and then everything get's a little louder and there's a slight fuzzy noise. Is this the grounding issue? Do I have to send it back or can I reinstall audio drivers or something?

 

Guys why the estimated delivery time vary between 128gb, 256gb and 512gb. 128gb take 3-4 weeks. 256gb for 5-7 days and 512gb doesnt say any delivery time. Does it mean they have it in stock and will ship right away?

 

My grounding issue was actually consistently there as long as it was plugged in, not an occasional thing. Any specific activities that seems to cause this? Earphones/headsets or speakers?

 

I know that this issue has been mentioned a couple times before but I can't seem to find them for some reason.

The trackpad on my 14" Blade is being unresponsive. Once in a while when I try to move the cursor it just won't move. After about two seconds it will start working again. It's not the biggest deal but it's starting to get annoying. Any thoughts?

 

This happened to me, I had to mess around with the trackpad settings; specifically the designated areas. Check out the provided pictures.



Move the green areas off to the sides, you shouldn't need one-finger scrolling so long as two-finger scrolling is there.

 

Happens when headphones are plugged in and I'm in a Skype call. A very light fuzz, could just be background noise from the other person's mic. The only thing that bothers me is the weird audio glitch that occurs occasionally.

 

Ah. I verified my grounding issue by completely shutting off all the other programs, going to my desktop and just moving around my mouse/clicking+dragging. The sound was generated from there, which proved it was the grounding issue. I think yours might be different entirely.

Have you installed Razer Surround? I found that the first time I installed mine (which was interrupted), it caused weird glitches on my audio as well. Reinstalling it fixed it.

 

Nope not yet, I'll try to install it.

EDIT : After installing Razer Surround I'm getting some weird clicking noises in my Skype call.

EDIT 2 : Nevermind the clicking noise is gone, I'll update if I get any more of those weird audio glitches though.

 

why don't you just disable one finger scrolling?

 

Here is a new color profile I did with a Spyder 4 pro.

The difference between the one I made before is this is not as warm in color. Therefore making the whites looks better. The old profile at times made white pages with a very very red tint to it.

View attachment 100120

For detailed information this thread looks informative.. I haven't read through it all yet.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/492790-m11xr2-calibrated-lcd-icc-profile.html

 

So I spoke with a tech at Razer support about my RMA'd Blade Pro who was VERY nice. After we had been experiencing many, many lockups and BSODs, I sent it back. I got a call (!!) from Razer saying they were having a problem reproducing the issue (oh no!). They had been running a GPU test program that failed to find anything wrong.

I asked him to go into the Nvidia control panel and choose the option that shows the spinning Nvidia logo. "Ok. Oh, there it goes. It's locked up."

He had never seen a Blade behave this way and was processing a replacement. It didn't seem like a driver issue (I had tried upgrading), but it was *very* repeatable.

 

I'm using a 15" Samsung Ultrabook sleeve that John Nobts recommended in his original video review - it's pretty good, not outstanding (a little long one way a little short the other). Right now my biggest issue is that I travel with both the Blade and a work laptop (13" Dell) in a fairly sturdy hard-frame backpack and the weight is liable to give me a scoliosis. Current solution - working on design for custom bag for both machines that doesn't weigh another 10 lbs.

Anyone else find a good solution, particularly if traveling frequently with multiple units?

 

Why do you need two laptops? The Razer will eat the Dell alive. If you have certain work applications that must be kept separate, set up a virtual machine to run your work stuff, or a dual booting scenario if you need more hardware resources. Dual booting is so easy now - you don't even have to make a partition (recommended, though) as you can run it off a VHD.

 

I'm not sure how portable that Dell unit is, but I could imagine a 13" laptop and it's power components (if you bring them along) would easily fit in my backpack, and I'm already carrying a Pro and it's components in it.

Nixon Shadow Backpack (large). I can easily fit my Pro in its magazine sleeve, and it has another laptop compartment in there that I'm sure would easily fit the Blade 14 too.

 

its a simple of matter of who gave that notebook, if the company has a policy of BYOD, and if the hardware meets the requirements of the firm

to which the razer wont meet any security standards

 

Its the availability of the SSD that causes the variation as all three models share the exact same hardware except the SSD.

 

Just nit picking here.. but has anyone else noticed that their mousepad's bottom right corner is more elevated compared to the other corners? It's hasn't really been an issue, just a little OCD kicking in now that I'm aware of it lol -.-

 

Mostly this. I work for a larger company that has its own set of enterprise technology/data protocols and for a range of clients that have their own requirements. BYOD hasn't fully taken form yet for my company, and there will probably always be clients that limit the use of personal devices (some clients even mandate the use of client-owned devices).

Aside from policy I also have a preference to keep my personal stuff (media, gaming, projects) separate from my work stuff.

 

yep there are 3 main problems with BYOD

1) security - you have to set up a limit of what is possible to use, i.e. kills a lot of the appeal from BYOD. However this can be converted as some trickling down features from enterprise class to consumer, what has happened though is the consumerization of enterprise class

2) support - with only 3 major providers for enterprise class hardware you could have a stock of common parts that fail and some other logistics service devoted to you, with the range of notebooks available for consumers thats impossible, leading to extended downtime period

3) separation of personal and work - this is problematic for a some people, dont have any numbers regarding this at all, if they are relevant or not I havent saw a study regarding this. I dont have a problem with it, in the end I use an encrypted external for that storage on my devices, I wish I could have some james bond equipment and that would have a remote physical destruction mechanism

in the end I think the benefits outweighs the downside regarding BYOD, I just wish that enterprise class hadnt suffered that and that high consumer models would have benefited from that trend

 

So for those of you who have had to send in your blades do to one of the fans making a clicking noise how long was the turn around time? I leave for college on the 19th and would prefer to have my machine with me. I really don't want to have the start off school with my HP POS. Otherwise, its a great machine, and to have the occasional, battery won't give me a time, only a percent problem.

 

It took 1-2 days to verify information and get the RMA and pre-paid shipping label (more delay on my part than theirs). From the time I sent it back to the time I received my replacement unit was about 5 days (Saturday PM to Thursday PM), including 2 Day shipping on either side. I thought that was pretty speedy though; could be longer if yours ends up being a repair instead of a replacement, if you are in a less convenient ship location, or if stocks have changed (mine was 256 GB 14", returned from Chicago to CA, replacement sent from Ontario to Chicago).

Best of luck!

 

Mine is flat all around. At least that I can tell. I do have 3 small nicks out of the aluminum (but they are painted black) on the groove where you open the screen. You can't notice it unless you run your fingers over it. I'm not going to be that picky anyways. =)

 

It really depends on the organization and what technology they have. For instance if your company offers virtual desktops, for instance via citrix, a personal device is no risk. You dont store data locally, everything is encrypted on the backend, and company data never touches your device.