Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased the Razer Blade 15 Base from Best Buy as "Used, Satisfactory" for a good price. The laptop is sturdy, well built with a metal body and a very beautiful 4k screen. It has plenty of ports and everything connects perfectly from ports to wi-fi to bluetooth. I have tried it with high end games as well as multiple graphic design (PhotoShop, Indesign, Fresco) windows open and it is very fast ad responsive. The only thing I have ugraded so far is the storage, I added a second SSD on the open M.2 port as 512 GB of memory is not as much as I would like. The process was just a matter or a few screws, unplugging the battery and plugging in the SSD. It could not be easier. The included 16 GB of RAM work very well, though that is something that in the future I would likely be upgrading (it can use up to 64 GB of RAM). This is not the latest model out there and I have read a number of reviews that critique the rtx 2070 Max-q. This is a mobile version of the graphics card and the new generation apparently is better, I'm no expert. The only thing I can say is that for me it has worked very well. Games play smoothly at the highest graphics. Though I am not one to measure frame rates or anything like that. A few things to note: The all metal body, when gaming gets hot. Really hot, as in, it will burn your fingers hot. Other users have recommended cooling pads for gaming, I have elevated the laptop from the table to allow more free flow of air through the computer's cooling fans at the bottom, that has worked pretty well. I also tend to use a gamepad or mouse/external keyboard for more comfortable gaming. Also, as beautiful as the screen is, it is 4K at 60hz. Even at a lower resolution all you will get is 60 hz because that is the native refresh rate. The screen is also glossy and has a lot of glare in daylight. Finally my one real disappointment with the purchase, I thought I had lucked out with a perfect looking, if used, laptop. Then I opened a white setting screen and saw it: burn in. There is an Xbox Gamepass ad as well as the computer info indelibly etched on the screen. It is really only noticeable in a light screen but I have noticed it when playing games with a bright daytime setting which is annoying. This is something that really should be clearly advertised when selling the computer. I expected scratches and some grit, not burn in on the screen. But it was a great deal so I kept it (over $600 savings from new). The burn in is not that noticeable under normal circumstances (I am including a photo) And my graphics design and digital artwork, I tend to do in an external tablet monitor anyway. Obviously this was a floor model that was left on for hours on end on thee same image, however, it should be noted that burn in is possible.

I do tons of 4K RAW video editing and was looking for a laptop which can smoothly playback real-time frames and render at high speed. Don't get me wrong on why I choose this laptop for content creation. Believe me, I have purchased 10 different laptops including the latest MacBook 16" with 5600M, Asus M16, G14, G15, MSI 15 and bunch of others within 2 months and not single one has provided me with required power and feel to it. At first I was skeptical to buy this model because it has been barely reviewed by the youtubers. It weird that how youtubers who review bunch of other laptops and benchmark them for content creators miss this one which is specifically designed for content creation. It's kind of annoying though. So, in spite of all the confusions, I decided to purchase and give it a try. I don't play much games except FIFA once in awhile so I don't care about gaming benchmarks. So now talking about the laptop, the design and built quality is totally amazing. This is probably the most beautiful laptop I have purchased in terms of how it looks. Even beats MacBook Pro 16. I don't know why Razer does not make this color available for their other laptops. You can barely notice any fingerprint and seriously you'll get addicted to it's look when you start using it. So, I updated all the windows thing and all the drivers. The 4k OLED screen is amazing & feels good to work on it but the flickering issues are too visible and put you out. For me it's not big of a deal. Everything went well until I started editing 4K. The laptop get's so hot within 2-3 hours that you can barely use the keyboard. Then I started doing more research and found out that razer blade battery gets bloated under 1 year of use because the battery area also get's heated. Come on! And the power delivery when rendering 4K video is very low. MSI creator 15 (I returned MSI 15 because it's fan noise is loud is crazy loud) with RTX 2070 can render my sample test under 3 mins while this laptop took almost 15 mins. I simply don't get it. It's the same test. The Asus M16 and G14 2021 for that matter also took same 15 mins. I'll still keep the laptop and do more test before my return period ends. Hopefully. I'll be able to convince myself to keep it but we'll see!

This thing is BEAUTIFUL! But I ended up returning it because of one small issue. If it wasn't for this, I'd have LOVED to keep the laptop. But the screen broke me. OLEDS are marketed towards creators and artists because of their wide gamut. But they reproduce all those lovely colors with a very high rate of deviation. Unless you keep this monitor on one, single calibrated brightness level, the colors will shift as you adjust the brightness. If you do color sensitive work, this will probably bother you. I calibrated this monitor about 5 times before figuring out what was going on. I also don't know if it was specific to my unit, but part of the screen was brighter than the rest. With the bad out of the way, this is a really beautifully designed laptop! If you're gaming, you wouldn't notice the small color inaccuracies that a photographer or artist would, the blacks are deep, and colors punchy with this OLED panel. The build is top of the line, all glass and metal- you really feel like you have something special. I'm fans are quiet as laptop fans go in Photoshop and Zbrush. I am not a gamer so I don't know about it's gaming preformance. Protip: Undervolt it and you can get up to 7 hours of battery life, if the low battery life reported in reviews bothers you.

I love the oled display and I would recommend it to gamers / movie watchers but to people needed for work I wouldn’t recommend the battery on this laptop sucks for a laptop, the battery is small it doesn’t even extend all the way so there’s an empty space, note that it gets really hot so I upgraded the ram the thermal pads to Fuji poly extreme and added liquid metal on both the GPU and CPU and it runs way cooler, I bought this refurbished on Best Buy for 1400 something, I got this because the gpu shortage and it made no sense to upgrade my pc when DDR5, AM5 are coming this year instead I ended up selling all components except some, I mostly work from home as a webdev and graphic designer and I have external display optimized for CMYK

I was a bit worried about going from a 2018 Advance model to this one, mostly because of the battery. I have been using it for more than a week daily and I have to say that everything is holding up really well. I can get about 6-7 hours of light use (emails, documents and youtube videos) even with the screen set to 4K. I know that 60hz may be slow, but most of the games I play are more single player cinematic games, so the OLED is better for that. I was aiming to get a RTX 3060 laptop pat some point, but I could not pass on the price of this one, I am very glad I picked it up. If there is one thing I would like razer to do about this laptop is the battery size; with this model now using 2 M.2 slots, there is room to be able to extend the battery a bit more, with that making it the best option for people that want the budget option.

Great computer. Just easily runs hot. I had to buy a fan just to use it for a long amount of time. Battery dies extremely fast! You literally have to keep it plugged in the whole time or it will die within 30 mins of a full battery!

This laptop is very nice, runs cool, the oled 4k screen is the nicest screen i have ever seen. even in 4k, tripple a games are still very playable. got this laptop open box, got a great deal.

I was very excited to get the laptop, although once the laptop was tested for performance it wasn’t quite what I made it out to be, or the specs. All software was updated prior to use, and granted I did use it with no cooling pad, but the laptop was as hot as a pan. (Which I now realize you always should use a cooling pad for gaming laptops). Anyways, because of the premium aluminum construction, which is not a bad thing at all, the heat transfers on to your hand, therefore making for a pretty uncomfortable typing experience, or gaming. It’s hot to the touch and it burns if you use it for long enough. As far as the 4K qualities go, they’re great but I found myself using it very rarely for the little amount of time I had it for. I Watched movies and played like 2 games on it, one of them being WarZone. The gaming part is when this laptop just doesn’t do it for me. As previously mentioned it gets hot, and the rendering, as well as refresh rate is poor. Shortly after I bought another laptop from MSI, which runs everything buttery smooth. Although it is warm, it is nothing compared to the heat the Razer gives out. Plus, for the same price, I got a proper 2070 SUPER. Which the sales person emphasized the Razer blade has, and it obviously doesn’t. But whatever. Anyways, I also did some research and found that in the long term, 4K can be detrimental to the laptops life-span and display. This is a PC for moderate users, movie watchers, and perhaps, content creators or college students, but take very good care of it.

Amazing product. Perfect screen. Beautiful construction. Best build of any windows laptop I’ve owned rivaling MacBooks thinkpads. Only downside is no usb c charging and low battery life.

Bought on Sale for 1400 - Great for doing a little bit of everything. Would have been a bit too much for me at full price. The OLED screen is great for content consumption and looks incredible whether web browsing, gaming, or watching video. I thought the lower refresh rate (60hz) would bother me, but the screen is so vibrant and nice to look at that I have no complaints. Build quality is off the charts compared to any other laptop I've had. Feels like a macbook pro. Performance is good. Components are a generation old, but work well for playing games like Halo at 1080p with the settings turned to high. My only complaint is battery life. This unit has a smallish battery and even with all battery saver settings enabled, screen brightness turned down, and backlighting on keyboard disabled I don't feel like I'm lasting on a charge as long as I should be. I'd suggest a basic laptop cooling pad for gaming - the metal chassis gets super hot and a little extra air flow seems to go a long way.

Bought this as a gift for my wife. Initially it was the most awesome thing ever from its visual features to it processing speed. Then just a few days before the return window closed, it refused to connect wirelessly to the internet. A day and some research later the component used for WiFi connection is faulty and common with the Razer Blade. And once it breaks it stays broken. You can try to trouble shoot away but the error never leaves

So I had the dell version same specs. The dell would heat up to 100c and underclock it self to 1ghz cpu and 300mhz gpu. This on the other hand some one tested and made sure it actually worked. I ran cinebench 20 times and it got the same consistent score of 1100 never going over 75. The dell does get a higher score the first run at 1300, but hits 100c and the next run gets 600. Same with pass mark the dell gets 13000 2890 hits 100 c next run is 6000 1000. Vs the razer gets 12000 2800, but never hits over 75c and can run that all day long. Same results with heaven it can consistently get 2324 ,1920 1080 extreme setting, where the dell gets that, but second run it would underclock it self some times down to 10 fps. This laptop is equal to a 7700k at 4.6ghz with a overclocked 1070. The oled display is the best you can get for quality looking. It is 60hz and some wouldn't be able to handle the 4k. You need to have 20 20 vision to be able to tell 4k from 1080 at laptop distance at 15.6. The text is really small and if you don't have prefect vision you won't be able to read it. It does do 1080 though, which would still look better than any led. I went from 240hz to 60 it takes about 3 hours to get use to it again. I 100 percent would take a oled over a bad looking 240 hz ips VA or TN. The construction of it is metal and is nicely done, very sleek and well built. The speakers are loud enough to be heard over the fans. I was able to hear it over my desiel engine and generator in the parkinglot testing it. I wouldn't of paid the original price of 2400 for this though, I got it for 1899. Asus has the same spec machine but with a 240hz led which looks terrible compared to a oled for 1549, no way though that a oled is worth 800 more than that. So if you can get it on sale, want a oled, this is def the only choice for a oled gaming laptop. Asus is a much better choice for a 240hz machine, as it is way way cheaper.

Got this laptop around 3 weeks ago and honestly I still can't get over how amazing it is. I love the mercury white finish, it's super sleek looking. The CNC aluminum gives you that premium feel every time you hold it. They keyboard and trackpad are super responsive, there's a ton of ports for basically everything you will need. But the main feature of this model is the screen. The OLED screen is honestly unbelievable. Colors are incredibly vibrant, the screen pops, I still can't get over how beautiful it is to look at. Obviously, be aware that for now, OLED is capped at 60hz on laptop displays. This will change in the future, but for now we're stuck with 60hz. Personally this doesn't matter to me as much as I don't play completive shooters, so I would choose the image quality over the refresh rate. But just keep that in mind if you play those types of games you should probably look at the high refresh options. You can also always hook up a higher refresh monitor via thunderbolt 3 if you do plan on playing those games sometimes. This laptop along with the other razer base models this year have an extra m.2 slot which is a NVME/SATA combo. Obviously the 512gb storage the laptop comes with isn't alot if you're gonna be playing games so I threw in a 2tb drive and I'll be set for a while. The advanced models this year don't have the extra slot so this is actually a pretty big advantage the base model has this year. It's super simple to access the internals and you can also upgrade the RAM to 64gb as well. The battery life is actually bit better than I expected. You should never expect much with a gaming laptop but I was actually getting around 4-5 hours of light work. This is pretty impressive for a laptop this powerful especially one with a 4k OLED screen which will usually drain the battery super fast. Obviously more intensive applications will drain faster but that's with any laptop. Obviously this has some pretty powerful components. Six core i7 pared with a 2070maxq will be giving you some great gaming and application performance. Fan noise is great, basically silent on idle which is always good, some gaming laptops have fans that go nuts doing simple tasks. I really value a machine that I can bring to school or a cafe and not have to worry about my laptop disturbing others. If I had to find a con, it would be that the surface area does get hot while under load, gaming or applications will get this machine toasty. The thermals are actually really good, but the downside of an aluminum build is that it will transfer heat. There's not much you can do about this, this will happen with any aluminum laptop. I'll take the premium and sturdy build quality for some warmth any day. The speakers are also pretty unimpressive. Personally I don't use them too much, but with two speaker grills on the sides of the keyboards I would've thought that I'd be getting better and louder sound. I also think at full price they could've justified putting a 1tb ssd instead of 512 Other than pretty minor complaints, this is almost the perfect laptop. Razer is one of the only companies making laptops with build quality on par with Macbooks and that's something really special. You are playing a premium, however this model has been going on sale for 1899$ lately and at that price, it really isn't asking too much compared to other laptops.

Let me first say that this laptop get so close to perfect it hurts. The 4k oled screen is so beautiful it is a pleasure to use for both web browsing and gaming. The coupling of the 10th gen intel with 2070 RTX gives you plenty of power to game and games look perfect! I tend to play games like Civ 6 and Cities Skylines so the 60hz screen is great. I don't like FPS games on laptops so i didn't need the high refresh rate. The ability to add a second m2 drive is also great since MMOs these day eat so much room. Now to the part I will never understand as long as i live, No windows hello. Windows hello requires a IR cam which the 2019 model had but for some reason Razer decided to skip it. In a $2300 machine this is insane, I could see if it was a limitation of the 4k screen with bezels limitations but even the 1080p 144hz screen skips it. Typically missing one feature can be forgiven but logging into your laptop is something you do EVERY time you use it. In the end I still really like this laptop and would highly recommend it but the lack of windows hello becomes glaring to say the least.

Very powerful machine. The Intel 12 cores make task easy. The monitor is stunning, best i have ever seen so far. 60 Hz is a bit low but with 4k and color accuracy it can be forgiven. Only downside is the keyboard keys (very shallow and smushy) and the edge are very sharp.

Full disclosure - I bought this machine at a steep open-box discount, but I still returned it. I need a windows laptop for gaming almost exclusively, and the Max-Q part of the RTX 2070 wasn't giving me any real performance boost over my previous GTX 1070. Plus, the display is 60hz, which works for games with ray-tracing on but not for silky-smooth Doom Eternal. I opted for a cheaper, 17-inch computer with a full 2070 and a 300hz LCD display, and haven't looked back. Observations in the short time that I had it: OLED look awesome, but clearly, for me, if it is a choice of gaming at 60hz in OLED or 300hz at HD LCD, I prefer the latter. I didn't notice a difference in image quality between HD and 4K at 15 inches. The build quality is awesome! This thing is both a tank and a pleasure to hold. My replacement machine was a cheaper, plastic, 17-inch Dell, and I miss the build quality. My only beef with the build was the mushy keyboard. Internals are easily accessed as long as you have a small enough star or torx screwdriver. Thermals are hot! Not much you can do about thermals in gaming laptop these days (apparently 10th-gen Intel processors are not friendly to undervolting even if the BIOS permits it), but there's no way I will be gaming on a throttled GPU that is already crippled by Max-Q.

So I had a late 2013 MacBook Pro 8gb of ram, 256 of storage and it was an old intel i5. I loved it but when it came to editing on premiere pro (had to use proxies because editing 4k videos was impossible), and trying to use all the el gato equipment i has recently purchased (want to start filming gaming videos with my wife), it would give me the WORST results! (Sometimes even crash the computer) The MacBook Pro would sound like it was about to blow up whenever I used premiere or even tried recording gameplay from my switch! I can’t even imagine how it’ll act with the new PS5. I’m a big MacBook Pro guy, I set a budget on buying a used MacBook Pro for around $1400 maybe $1500. I would find MacBooks pros around that price and would see their specs. Nothing spectacular for that price in reality. It was hard for me to look for anything other than a MacBook Pro but i said eff it lets see what I can find. I saw the Zephyrus G14 and the performance was incredible for the price! I was doing my homework on this laptop and loved it! Only draw back was the build quality vs the MacBook Pros. My wife started googling and found the Razer Blade 15 was considered one of the best gaming/high performance laptop of 2020. She luckily went on BestBuy.com and saw that it was selling for ... wait for it ... $2,300... it was a beautiful laptop. The base model with a 4k OLED screen! But that price is way more than I expected to pay.. but she saw there was a Geek squad open box in Miami Beach for $1650... i was in shock. We drove 35 mins to get it as it was the only one for that price and the fact that it was Geek squad certified, we knew we could trust the laptops conditions. Of course we bought it and now I’ve had it for maybe a month or so and I could easily say this is the best laptop I’ve ever had. The build quality is amazing, and the 4k OLED screen is stunning. The gaming is incredible!!!! The editing 4k videos on Premiere literally shocked me how easily you can scroll through the timeline without it even struggling (4-5min to export a 8min 4k video with effects and transitions vs almost 2 hours on the MacBook Pro)... the gameplay recording was FLAWLESS too! With these laptops, if you want it to give you the highest performance, you should plug them in whenever you do these tasks as it will unlock their full potential. I absolutely recommend this laptop. It’s incredible. Only downside I can think of is battery life, which for me the battery life is more than fine since I usually have it plugged in so it can run any task at the highest performance! Hope you guys enjoyed! P.S. I still have an iPhone and am most likely never gonna switch my iPhone as I love Apple products and it works best for me and my wife (my opinion) but Apple won’t get another cent from me in their laptop/pc machines. Not until they are on par or better than these laptops with their amazing performance and great graphics cards!

This is powerful laptop that can handle any 3D applications and video editing you throw at it. It also has an expansion slot for another m.2 ssd and can handle 64gb of ram. I absolutely love it and the screen is gorgeous. It does tend to get hot quickly, so I recommend a laptop cooling pad with it. Val

Straight from the box, the laptop feels premium. Beautiful metal chassis and has one of the best build quality among gaming laptops. It runs most games with ease but can be toasty to the touch. A cooling stand/pad should alleviate most concerns. The OLED 4K screen was a huge plus - the display was crisp and color accurate, which was what I needed for photo editing work. 6 months in however, the laptop started to have BSODs. This is when the issues started coming in. It would automatically shut down regardless of what you were doing on the laptop. After weeks of trying to figure out the problem, I came to the conclusion that the stock SSD was failing. How it started failing only a few months after purchase is beyond me. It was a hassle to pinpoint the problem, not to mention buying a new SSD (adding onto the premium of what this laptop originally cost). This was an expensive laptop and I expected more from it. I spent more money on top of the original price just to supplement and support it, when most of these things should have been a given. Maybe I got a defective unit, who knows. I would have recommend the laptop, if not for the issues I encountered.

Quick take followed by my pros and cons for this laptop: this is a beautiful device, but performance and thermals suffer as well as the "Razer tax" making this a poor overall value. Pros: - Beautiful OLED screen with thin bezels. - Keyboard is great, trackpad is the best I've used on a Windows laptop, and the keyboard lighting is excellent but I wouldn't expect less from Razer there. - Very easy to add another M.2 or upgrade the ram, bless Razer for not using the easy to strip Philips head screws like most manufacturers - 2070 performs well in this device delivering a good gaming experience with high frame rates - Overall build quality is excellent, feels solid but is still light enough for a 15" laptop to not limit mobility Cons: - Intel laptops just suck thermally. Inneficient and the performance lacks compared to their Ryzen counterpart. PLEASE Razer, make a Ryzen version - This thing gets hot. Like, 100C thermal throttling hot. It's loud as well struggling to keep up with the heat. - The Asus Zephyrus G14 absolutely destroys this thing and runs cooler, so this is just a bad value. - Price. You're paying the Razer tax and not getting anything for it that others don't do better