2020 Razer Blade 15 Base Model Laptop Review: The 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake-H Update

[Redaktion]

The latest Blade 15 revision brings just minor year-over-year upgrades. Users can expect slight keyboard changes, slight port changes, some storage differences, and a few new configurable options here and there. Otherwise, overall gaming performance remains about the same as the 2019 Blade 15 series.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/2020-Razer-Blade-15-Base-Model-Laptop-Review-The-10th-Gen-Intel-Comet-Lake-H-Update.465895.0.html

[LHPSU]

The keyboard layout is obviously very different from previously reviewed models, yet you're telling people to check out the old reviews about a different keyboard?

[Warney]

You should go for this year's model just for the shift key. (I have had the 2019 advanced model for a year and still press the up arrow sometimes and lose a line of text)

[RSS]

Gigabyte aero and msi gs66 both are better machines than this, and they considered to be too expensive so what about this...

[Proto]

Beware of the 60Hz PWM on OLED screens.
We are numerous to get eyes/headaches with this ...

[anon]

The system cannot be recharged via USB Type-C as that feature is reserved only for the 2020 Blade 15 Advanced Model.

Thank you very much for pointing this out! As for Razer... I am surprised that this feature is left as a device for market segmentation. The lower power, non-Advanced models would make the most sense to use a sub-100W charger with. Well, Razer will do as it does and I hope this feature is "trickled down to the less expensive Base Model" like some of the other things.

I am absolutely envious at the I/O which Razer has nailed down. At least one type-C and type-A port on each side, and then other useful ports as needed. This is something I really wish others would copy--as long as they would make their type-C ports fully featured. I won't be spending an extra thousand to be able to charge using USB-PD.

[EnzoLamborghini]

Weak performance, small battery, single zone RGB, but still gets overrated 86%. Maybe the rating scheme for this kind of thin-and-light gaming laptops needs to be updated?

[Daniel Barakat]

Can you disable Optimus?

[Mdm]

Hi Allen,
Where did you receive this unit from?  It does not show up as options on canada or US Razer sites (mercury white option, oled, on base models)

[powerslave12r]

I know that OLED displays by their nature will have PWM, but man, 60Hz is horrible.

[Radiokryl]

Beware of Razer Laptops! Top performance laptops without good Support Team are real headache! My next laptop will not be razer anymore!

[Sidney Johnson]

for the pwm oled test, you may want to review the intel graphics driver refresh settings. Another reviewer on youtube turned off the self- refresh display power setting and said the oled flicker went away.

[Anonyneko]

Can you disable Optimus?

As far as I understand from the various posts on the internet, you can't do that on the Base Model.

You can do it on the 2020 Advanced Model with FHD (there has been a report the no-Optimus switch is not available on the 4k display models, though this is not certain) and you can do it on the Blade Pro 2019/2020 - at least on those with 4k 120 fps displays (which is what required that switch in the first place, as the iGPU just cannot do 4k at 120 fps)

[Nathan Mazzara]

does anyone know if they kept the hdr 400 certification from the 2019 models? I dont know why they wouldn't but cant find evidence of it having HDR on the 2020 oled models base or advanced.