New Razer Blade Stealth gets right what the Dell XPS 13 does wrong

[Redaktion]

The 4.9 mm bezels are 60 percent thinner than the last generation with a "retina-shattering" 13.3-inch 4K UHD display. Razer is promising 100 percent sRGB coverage, Whiskey Lake-U CPUs, and optional full-power GeForce MX150 graphics for a starting price of $1400 USD.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-Razer-Blade-Stealth-gets-right-what-the-Dell-XPS-13-does-wrong.372561.0.html

[S.Yu]

Everything about the design of the new generation of Blades is what I said it should be at first glance of the 1st generation. Well, better late than never!

[mike jhon]

Wish RAM was Upgradeable and $1400 for mx150 is too much, they should have a model with GTX 1050 or 1050 ti for this price..

[Vance]

Only one TB3 port? It must be 2 PCIe lanes since the MX150 uses at least 2 lanes. Soldered RAM is a deal breaker for me.

[S.Yu]

Wish RAM was Upgradeable and $1400 for mx150 is too much, they should have a model with GTX 1050 or 1050 ti for this price..

Blades were always expensive, though expect a best-in-class chassis too.

[Kakaowsky]

Only one TB3 port? It must be 2 PCIe lanes since the MX150 uses at least 2 lanes. Soldered RAM is a deal breaker for me.

It writes there that there is TB3x4, so 4 lanes there. There are laptops that use dedicated graphics and have four thunderbolt lanes, f.e. new xps 15, razer 15 2018, msi gs65 and so on.

[DavidC1]

It's very difficult to get thin and light with good battery life without LPDDRx memory, and they are all soldered.

I think people are expecting too much here.

[Vance]

Well I'll be damned. Looks like Intel raised the max No. of PCIe bands supported on ULV CPUs (for the first time in years) from 12 to 16 lanes in the Whiskey Lake revision. Maybe Thunderbolt really is 4 lanes. That will be the first on a laptop with the MX150.

Still wish Razer had put dual TB3 ports, one on each side of the laptop.

Thinkpad T480s, LG Gram and Latitudes have 8GB onboard and leave a single SODIMM slot open for expandability. Larger batteries are adopted in these laptops to compensate for power hungry components. Which is precisely the way it should be, especially now that we have 32GB sticks commercially available. They have no excuse.

Source: ark.intel.com/products/149091/Intel-Core-i7-8565U-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4-60-GHz-

[Eshant]

nvidia gfx card is with optimus or without it