Razer unveils new Blade 14 laptop with Nvidia RTX 50 series GPUs and 3K 120Hz OLED display
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Head_of_Lettuce@reddit
And approximately 18 minutes of battery life, I’m sure
cloud_t@reddit
Ryzen "AI" chip, so you're likely wrong as these are very efficient (as long as they can switch graphics properly and the dGPU idles properly too).
Given AMD currently has better mobile chips and Intel still isn't releasing proper Thunderbolt5 on-die controllers, I say great. And when they do, the market will probably have moved on from the need of Thunderbolt5 peripherals anyway (except for the ultra pros). Dang, why did everyone drop the ball on proper external gpus...
Head_of_Lettuce@reddit
Yeah I’m mostly being facetious. It’s just frustrating that, for all the advancements with tech, we’re still heavily limited on battery due to the FAA 100 Wh battery restrictions.
Famous_Wolverine3203@reddit
I'm sure the FAA wasn't without reason for that restriction. I'd like to see 100Wh batteries in 14 inch laptops using say something like SiC.
Fit-Produce420@reddit
Yeah 101Wh, belive it or not - straight to hell.
Famous_Wolverine3203@reddit
They've gotta give a hard limit at some point. 101 isnt so far from 100. Then 110, 150, 200 are not so far from the previous capacities. So I kinda get why they gave a hard limit.
Fit-Produce420@reddit
We used to fly on airplanes with as much liquid as we wanted.
You're living under control.
Famous_Wolverine3203@reddit
Regulations are written in blood.q
Swaggerlilyjohnson@reddit
Not many laptops or smaller things used the 99whr limit in the past really only some larger 16+ laptops and not even all of them.
But now that we got sic batteries it is definitely starting to restrain electronics. We definitely would have started seeing 120 or larger whr batteries this year otherwise I would bet.
shugthedug3@reddit
Dell included 97Wh batteries in a bunch of 15.6" models, even down to their Inspiron line.
Probably the biggest batteries I've seen in consumer laptops
Darkknight1939@reddit
Apple has had multiple generations of full 99Wh batteries in their 15/16" laptops.
tyrannictoe@reddit
Idk you just scream poor to me, ridiculing tech you can’t afford ;)
cloud_t@reddit
Honestly, I'm pretty happy with the current status quo of sub15 laptops: 4-8h (sometimes 10 but who really uses a laptop for 10h just for light stuff...). And I really think the airliner limit makes sense unless - I don't trust Li-Pos bigger than that to be safe in such a cramped environment. Honestly I'm surprised shit hasn't happened yet.
Strazdas1@reddit
Its Razer, so it just means they are going to put in a smaller battery instead.
lintstah1337@reddit
Lunar Lake has way better real world CPU battery efficiency than Strix Point.
The iGPU performance is roughly the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LmI3iw-yvg
Jaz1140@reddit
Don't forget thermal throttling and insane fan noise
Famous_Wolverine3203@reddit
You do know that these laptops don't use the dgpus all the time right?
Dependent_Big_3793@reddit
It seems that manufacturers now prefer to use amd.
QwertyBuffalo@reddit
This is a pretty hard sell. $2300 for a 5060M and 16GB soldered RAM when the 5070M Ti 32GB G14 is only $100 more. And the Blade 14 doesn't even go higher than the 5070M, so you literally cannot get it with more than 8GB VRAM.
Ar0ndight@reddit
Razer kind of lost the plot. They've always wanted to be the Apple of the gaming space, but one thing that sets Macbook apart is their reliability which is the very thing Blades are infamous for. The Razer tax would be just fine if it got you the highest quality windows laptops on the market, but it's pretty much the opposite.
A shame they seemingly keep selling well enough they never felt the need to actually do something about that.
Hen-stepper@reddit
Gaming laptops are a joke.
shugthedug3@reddit
Won't touch anything Razer after learning about their policy on parts availability.
It's next to impossible to get replacement parts for them, browse ebay for 'broken' Razer Blade's and you'll start to understand how idiotic this is given nearly all of them will have the same broken display cable issue that could be fixed for about $20 if the part was easily available.
jc-from-sin@reddit
Nice. Does anybody have any idea, does the battery survive for more than a year? My razer blade 14 battery from 2016 turned into a spicy pillow one year later.
LowTraditional2973@reddit
Razer just needs to give up now.
battler624@reddit
14" 5060/70 with Ryzen 365
Now if they make 18" (3K/120 OLED) with 70ti & 385
cabbeer@reddit
When are we getting arc mobile dedicated gpus? or new amd mobile gpus? I don't wanna give nvidea my money...
Ok_Fix3639@reddit
Looks nice the pricing on these is just absolutely ridiculous
0riginal-Syn@reddit
Razer makes the best looking paper weights.
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