Purdy frikin sweet. The only downside to them is the price and the fact that if you try to mod them at all you can void your warranty.
It's like buying a Porsche Boxster. For the price you pay, it's not going to be as fast as another car around the same price and sure there are other cars as fast that cost a lot less, but what you get out of it is a smaller, more refined, fantastic driver (or user) experience that you won't get out of other models similarly priced. You also buy a name as well and a damn good one (Razer is an wesome company), and exclusivity, hard to put a price on those.
My friends/family/random peeps that have seen my Blade didn't oooo and ahhhhh over my G73 when I first got it. I got all kinds of that with my Blade. People that I never even talked to at the office (people that aren't even gamers lol) were coming over to my desk just to see it from word of mouth from others that had seen it. Friends that arne't even huge computer gamers wanted one just because of how smexy it is.
It literally is like a Porsche. You don't come up to a Porsche driver and say "Yeah well my Mustang (or Camaro SS, C6 Vette..etc) is faster" (Well...some do...but they're obv s). You go up to them and ask to see it close up, take a ride, YOU oogle over it. THAT is what you get with a Blade that you don't get with other laptops.
Build quality is great, it's got the unibody design that Mac uses on their laptops that everyone loves, you can just tell a lot of time went into it, and it shows, it stands up to everyday use like a champ.
Performance it could be better of course compared to other laptops on the market but compared to laptops that have the same thermal issues due to their size it's great, but regardless you're not buying it for that. You're buying it for the awesome user experience it provides.
Styling is fantastic. When I first got it I would just stare at it, before opening it, after it's done booting, before turning it off, and after turning it off, it just begs to be looked at with all the style it oozes. And touche too! it's so smoooooth. Would like to see multi-color back lighting, but I get why Razer keeps it green.
As far as price goes yeah, its hard to swallow since you don't get the top of the line gfx card and cpu, but it's hard to do that with the thermal headroom Razer is working with, they're doing the best they can atleast. Another reason is they're not a huge player, they don't get as good manufactureing contracts that the big dogs get, the more people that buy the blade, the better deals Razer can get with their Manufact. The lower the price goes. Price will get better over time as long as the Blade keeps being a huge success. I'm just happy to have started my ride on the train sooner than later because using this thing is just awesome. I've used Alienware I've used Asus, but this is the first laptop that I'll definitely be lining up to buy the next gen of regardless of the competition it has.
(this part is less a review of th blade but more of a reason why I wanted it so I could support Razer)
Also me perosnally, I like to support companies that "go against the grain" I guess you'd say, companies that do things they want to do because it's a good idea, not because it's where the market is or isn't going, even if it seems like a terrible idea, they don't let anything hold them back from creating or doing something, they don't care about the market, they don't care what the other companies are doing, they aren't doing it because some consumer report told them it would be a great way to make money etc etc y'know what I'm saying? That's what Razer is doing, and thats what I love. Everytime Min posts something like that it just makes me feel that much better to have bought a Blade so I could support him in what he's doing. I remember he said Dell gave an expiration date on when the PC will die out and tablets will just take over the world and he literally said "I don't give a about what those guys are doing we're still PC gamers and always will be and Razer will still make the Blade as long as we can" - not word for word, but something to that extent. I ALMOST had a tear come to my eye haha...Anyway, same thing with T mobile going no contract plans now, it's "month to month" service, I'll def be switching to them to support that and hopefully if theres enough like minded people all the other big guys like AT&T and Verizon will follow suit...HATE 2 year contracts..hate them hate them hate them.
Also, the company is small which is great. john here bought an Edge and the CEO tweeted with him about it, asking him how he liked it, etc...You don't get that from Dell (Alienware) or Asus. The support guy I've dealt with was great, phenominal customer service. Don't see that from the other "giants" lol
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