Razer Blade 16 2024

Great laptop

I bought nearly every 4090 laptop and returned them all. THIS was the overall winner. The lighting effects are something I didn't think I would enjoy this much but no one compares to Razer when it comes to keyboard lighting effects. Individual lights and the wider array of color should be the standard. The screen is rich and saturated like a Samsung laptop if that's something that is important to you. Battery life sucks of course cause its a gaming laptop duh. The fans aren't annoyingly loud at full blast like others I've tried. I spent a year and went through around 10 laptops and decided on this. Wait for a renewed version and saved $1500 to take the edge off the price. Its worth it.

I’m so excited when receiving the item but when I unpacked I noticed that it was been opened, so I look over all around the unit it was ok no scratches or dents, then I started to setup but it was took me around an hours to get it started, then after the windows started I noticed that the touchpad not working, can’t connect to wifi, no battery icon, and also when I unplug the power adapter the laptop shutdown right away, I call Amazon customer service then end up returning it, so disappointed when you spent almost 6k but you get the defective item.

Laptop is powerful and it is feels. Under load the front panel below the screen is heats up stronger. But cooling system copes with everything. Touchpad shall be do differently. When you will be printing you often will be accidentally touching with your hand, and it will be changing text pointer to random place and it annoying. But it can be "fixed" via disable "Tap with a single finger to single-click" option in Touchpad system settings. And therefore, the touchpad should be like on MacBook with full clickable space and not only in the lower part. Sometimes after you close the lid and move the laptop to sleep state it continues some intensive work for a while. It noticeable by intensified cooling system. Maybe it Windows 11 peculiarity. Sometimes after it went from sleep state you will get strange periodically screen freezes is about 1.5 - 2 seconds during some time. During these freezes some anomaly behavior in task manager is not found. It's very strange and unusual especially after macOS and Ubuntu use experience for a long time. But I'm sure the freezes have nothing to do with hardware and this is solely a system and software problem and may be to do with my settings changes.

Works great, but heat is an issue so I bought the Razer Cooling pad and that fixed the heat issues. Its a solid system, no major problems, I did a bunch of upgrades myself upgraded ram from 32 to 64 and nvme from 2 tb to 4tb by adding a second 2tb nvme, upgraded Windows 11 home to Windows 11 Pro because I'm a com sci guy. Battery life for regular things is good , battery life for gaming off the adapter you get an hour lol or less lol. The system is quiet for the most part until you start to do things like me(run LLMs locally, many tabs in chrome(I'm a com sci guy so I mean many!), test software lol) , the fans will spin up for games but it won't take away from your enjoyment of the games you play, so noise level is ok. Get the cooling pad from Razer it makes no sense spending your hard earn cash and let your system cook the cooling pad is a must. I have had it a year now so I can say its great no regrets on my purchase.