Blade 16 Gaming Laptop: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 - Intel Core i9-14900HX 14th Gen CPU - 16" OLED QHD+ 240Hz Display - 32GB RAM - 1TB SSD - Windows 11 - Chroma RGB - Snap Tap

This is about my 12th laptop... I'm an older software developer who general prefers gaming/desktop-replacement laptops so I can do most of my work on the road including running demanding simulators and gaming software at acceptable frame rates. Anyway, I've had a few. This is the best one I've ever had! The build quality and design rivals Apple. The performance is stellar. With the mobile 4080, I can even run most games in 4K at over 120FPS. 1440 is >300FPS all day. The fans are a bit noticeable when under load, a bit higher pitched than I am used to, but acceptable and nothing unexpected. The keyboard tactile feedback/feel is not great, that is really the only con I have on this. A bit more travel and switch sensitivity would be better. I got the 16", because most ~17"-18" laptops are huge and unwieldy to travel with. But this is so efficiently designed, that I would have been happy with even the 18" as a travel laptop and it probably would fit in most backpacks too. The 16" is extremely mobile and is roughly the same size dimensions as my old Dell XPS 15. Well done Razer, well done nVidia.

I am probably not the target audience for this laptop since I rarely play video games, the only game I have played on it is FF7 Remake. The design is awesome, screen is very vibrant (reason why I decided to upgrade), sound, and build quality is excellent. I would not recommend to anyone who would have to pick between this laptop and their yearly vacation or forego necessities, it is definitely a want and not a need. This year's Zephyrus G16 does the same for a $1000 less ($500 now that it's on sale), so it's definitely more about the aesthetic of this laptop if you are considering purchasing.

Started overheating after 6 months. Can't play games on in it any more.

Laptop is powerful and it is feels. Under load the front panel below the screen is heats up stronger. But cooling system copes with everything. Touchpad shall be do differently. When you will be printing you often will be accidentally touching with your hand, and it will be changing text pointer to random place and it annoying. But it can be "fixed" via disable "Tap with a single finger to single-click" option in Touchpad system settings. And therefore, the touchpad should be like on MacBook with full clickable space and not only in the lower part. Sometimes after you close the lid and move the laptop to sleep state it continues some intensive work for a while. It noticeable by intensified cooling system. Maybe it Windows 11 peculiarity. Sometimes after it went from sleep state you will get strange periodically screen freezes is about 1.5 - 2 seconds during some time. During these freezes some anomaly behavior in task manager is not found. It's very strange and unusual especially after macOS and Ubuntu use experience for a long time. But I'm sure the freezes have nothing to do with hardware and this is solely a system and software problem and may be to do with my settings changes.

Beware of components that will stop working. I have had this laptop for 20 months, not even 2 years, and the speakers stopped working. The realtek audio drivers just dumped one day, and all attempts to re-download, update, and fix the issue have been unsuccessful. Now I can only hear audio when I use headphones. This is totally unacceptable for a close to $4000 laptop. Before I bought this laptop my research had came back with some reviews of razer being expensive and overrated. I was hopeful that would not be the case but now I am worried more will go wrong with this laptop in the near future.

This is by far the best gaming laptop I have ever owned. The OLED display paired with gsync, an RTX 4080 a I9 14900hx and 32gb of ram makes this gaming machine a true joy. Really the only other option I would recommend is the OLED g16, but you will be loosing performance with the underpowered TGP and the I9 ultra processor. I just can’t rave enough about the new OLED laptop displays, they are amazing!!

Great build quality. Thinner and lighter than most laptops in its class, but that OLED screen is just SO PRETTY it really can't be beat. Some reviews complain about the fan noise, but honestly it's no louder than most gaming PCs when you run it hard.

Razer is like the Apple of laptops. Great quality with design and function but, software with other companies need to be tested before sale. At first I thought my speakers were defective, but in the synapse software I remember Razer had this issue with their headsets. Reduce "Noise Normalization" as that will reduce the crackling sound. This is an issue with THX and Razer. As the default preset are attended for general demos. Less of negative is that the product is still a finger print magnet. If you like putting skins or sticker this isn't an issue and the touchpad is huge. Now the good things about this 2024 version, the OLED screen is beautiful, artist will love this screen. Best selling point for an upgrade. Software not bad, it knows how to reduce certain functions automatically when unplugged. and even on balance mode plugged in it is quiet. Beware the metal body of the laptop is also a cooling method for Razer laptops and will get hot. The 4080 is a reasonable purchase than the 4090 for plugin performance as the is minimal compared to the desktop. For on the go performance a 4070 will be ok as the battery is the same for all can't handle long anything above. Overall it is a safe expensive investment for gamers and creator on the go, with downtime to sit.

Great laptop

Powerful, very good screen, relatively light. Dream.

I’m so excited when receiving the item but when I unpacked I noticed that it was been opened, so I look over all around the unit it was ok no scratches or dents, then I started to setup but it was took me around an hours to get it started, then after the windows started I noticed that the touchpad not working, can’t connect to wifi, no battery icon, and also when I unplug the power adapter the laptop shutdown right away, I call Amazon customer service then end up returning it, so disappointed when you spent almost 6k but you get the defective item.