For better and awesome performance Razer packs a full mechanical keyboard into a laptop.
If you want hardcore gaming performance, but need it in a system that's portable, if not completely lightweight, then Razer's new Blade Pro could be just the ticket. Razer is calling it the "desktop in your laptop," and they the company has a point.
On the inside, the system packs a quad core Skylake processor, an 8GB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, 32GB RAM, up to 2TB of NVMe SSD storage in
RAID 0, Thunderbolt 3, and a 4K G-Sync capable screen. That's a machine
that isn't giving much up in performance to most desktop PCs, so
already justifies Razer's strapline... but it's the next thing they did
that really makes this a laptop desktop.
The Blade Pro doesn't have the usual membrane keys found in laptops.
It has a full mechanical keyboard, with switches—not rubber
domes—beneath each key. OK, it's still a laptop, so it's a low profile
mechanical keyboard with reduced key travel and chiclet style buttons.
But it's a mechanical keyboard nonetheless (Razer also has a similar
mechanical mechanism for its iPad Pro keyboard). And of course, being a Razer laptop, it's not just
a mechanical keyboard. It's a mechanical keyboard that can be lit up
with any color of the rainbow. Alongside it sits a giant touchpad.
All this hardware is packed into a unit that's actually surprisingly
portable. It weighs 7.8lbs, and is about 0.9 inches thick. I remember a
time not so long ago when regular laptops were fatter (and heavier) than
that. My current mechanical keyboard is more than an inch deep, and the
closest it has to a powerhouse computer is a USB hub!.
There is of course the small matter of the price; it's a little
eye-watering. With 512GB of storage, it starts at $3,699/€4,199/£3,499.
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