2016 Razer Blade Pro Review
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It has an on-board ARM chip and firmware that handles 100% of function through simple Fn key combos: http://www.duckychannel.net/download/user_manual/DuckyOneRGB...
No one said the term "4k" had to make sense. :-)
4K resolution, also called 4K, refers to a horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels and vertical resolution on the order of 2,000 pixels.
Every single other resolution was referenced by its vertical resolution: 480, 720, and 1080. But the marketing people wanted to sell TVs so they went with the horizontal resolution because its a bigger number.
"UHD-1, or ultra-high-definition television (UHDTV), is the 4K standard for television and computer monitors. UHD-1 is also called 2160p[6][7] since it has twice the horizontal and vertical resolution of 1080p.[6] It has a resolution of 3840 × 2160 (16:9, or approximately a 1.78:1 aspect ratio). UHD-1 is used in consumer television and other media, e.g. video games."
I can't justify that as a chef, what about you devs?
That said...Developing against a cloud machine sucks too. I think VNCing to a machine on the local network from a good ultrabook might be best.
Really depends on where your cloud is in relation to you. I'm currently sitting in a coffee shop, and ping times to my workstation at home (on the other side of the city) are ~5ms.
The thing was so expensive that I had to declare it through customs.
The thing was grunty though; not a machine for document editing and email.
Yes, that sounds like the spec we sent to E3 2 years ago to run our servers for the demo booth - had to be fully encrypted as well.
I use a Microsoft semi-split ergonomic keyboard, and a Razer Naga mouse (heaps of bindings for dev stuff). Prior to getting the ergonomic keyboard (and a decent mouse) I had pretty extreme RSI.
However, if I look at my keyboard setup right now, whilst the keyboard as a whole looks fairly centred, ever so slightly to my left due to the mouse. The keys I actually type on (i.e. not the arrow keys or numpad) are all farther off centre, to my left. I'd assume this to be the case for most devs, excluding perhaps vi/emacs aficionados whom don't ever use their mouse.
It's hard to tell without touching the laptop, but I doubt having the keyboard off centre is going to cause problems. If anything I find using the trackpad on my Macbook below the keyboard gives me extreme RSI pain (I don't do it except when travelling).
The price tag is fairly extreme, but it's roughly on par with a high-end Macbook Pro (which many devs, including myself, use), however unlike a Macbook Pro it has the hardware to back-up the price tag.
However, the current top-end rMBP is $4,299.00, whilst the top-end Razer Blade Pro is $4499.99. They're certainly both in the same (insanely expensive) ballpark, with the Razer Blade Pro having:
* a significantly higher resolution display * twice the RAM * a touch display * a higher resolution webcam * a significantly better GPU.
In favour of the rMBP:
* 15", instead of 17" (although that's my personal preference) * Faster CPU (I think, I'm not up to date on which model beats which)
I'm by no means suggesting go out and buy a Razer Blade Pro. Just that, whilst expensive, it's no worse value for money than other high-end market laptops that are presently available.
To me a low-quality keyboard is a deal breaker, much more so than a less-than-perfect trackpad, because if you don't like the trackpad you can always carry a small, portable mouse while if you don't like the keyboard you don't really have a solution.
In saying that, I'll wait 6 months and watch the price ease, decent reviews to roll in and the kinks to be worked out.
Not saying one is better or another, just letting you know they are out there and that you should consider them too :)
Currently on a W541.
Still light enough to carry, has enough 3D juice (NVIDIA Quadro K1100M) and way cheaper than that.
I care mostly about Ram for virtual machines.
The GPU is whatever I don't need it as much, maybe if I get into neural network.
CPU just needs to be fast but not insane to burn my wallet really.
I'd like mine to be portable to do work not play games.. This laptop is not it.
I think Dell got a nice 32 gb ram one with good spec and decent price.
(at least in the UK)
A little bit more, but at about 8 hours of battery.
in fact, you probably couldn't even pay me to use it.
Anecdotaly I had to get a third monitor as my next was aching from always turning straight to right then back only, no left turning.
I used to play semi-pro gaming back before it was a televised event, and an offset keyboard was normal. The mouse was of equal importance, and home row was WASD. I controlled the keyboard with my left hand exclusively, so having it offset to the left on a laptop would make sense. Of course, I wouldn't use a track pad but I actually know people who did (believe it or not).
The target market for this device already have their keyboard offset to the left. And they're not typing 120wpm into NetBeans.
(Besides, as a desktop replacement they're almost expecting you're going to have a mouse and keyboard attached)
What is the market like for gamers who are going to drop nearly $5,000 on a laptop to play games on? A couple thousand units?
Can't they go up to 160Wh? See https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
1. An upgrade to a Samsung 2TB 960 PRO M.2 (which I will do soon).
2. A fucking Intel HD 530 driver which doesn't cause intermittent flickering. Note: this is absolutely an Intel borne issue. I have tested, at length.
I look that the stupid trackpad placement and then promptly lose all interest in the laptop, the specs become completely irrelevant.
EDIT: To clarify they do sell left handed mice, but to my knowledge they're all models from years ago. For example, I'm unaware of any left handed models with Chroma lighting.
Plays games fine. 400eu in total.
Dafok are these people thinking.
Give us better battery life plz. I'd pay 4500 for a laptop that can go a week on a single charge and weigh/have the size of my x220.
I was looking at one but the egpu only is over 400.
Thanks a lot!
Ud need an external power supply to feed it, and u gotta see if it runs as a 1x or 2x on your machine to see if it's upgrade worthy -
It's won't run the newest, heaviest games at max, but I'm Happy to get my 60fps on darksouls 3!
It's a dyi project, not a ready made bundle, do some research, itsreally well documented!
U sure can!
I'm kind of disappointed it's really about a (very) expensive gaming laptop.
1- Lenovo's website says it is not available yet http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p51/
2- The GPU is a 4GB Maxwell, i.e. 2 generations behind and with relatively small memory. The type of person who might buy a Blade Pro (I am that kind of person) clearly has very different requirements.
PS. At least in my case, support for ECC memory, while nice-to-have, doesn't make up for the above.
How does this justify the MASSIVE price increase?
It's just very different hardware, optimized for very different things.
Actually, it is the even-more-ludicrously-so 1080.
I'm thinking of upgrading my own desktop 980 SLI to the 1080TI, that must have upset my keyboard buffer somehow.
Considering how much stronger the 1080 mobile is to its desktop equivalent (within 90%, iirc) is than what was the case on the 9xx series, it is rather remarkable how much power the Razer packs.
For example a thin laptop like the new Dell XPS 15" sports a 4GB 1050 Ti, just 2 years ago a card with that power could be had only by buying some really heavy gaming laptop.