Razer RZ09-01652E21-R3U1 The Blade (2016) 14" QHD+ Gaming Laptop (6th Generation Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, GTX 970M 6GB)

I give it 1 star because of how disappointed I'm but I might deserve 3.5-4 stars based upon price, the screen resolution which doesn't meet expectations and that it's a finger print magnet.So after 2 days of use I started having problems with the Bluetooth connection, as an engineer who knows his ways around computers and phones I don't know if I was more upset about the fact that it took me a whole day to fix it or the fact that the Bluetooth settings randomly dissappeared (read the other comments and you will see that this happens frequently).After that... I had problems with the track pad and with the keyboard. Some letters like 'kcdx' were not responding. I contacted Razer support and to my surprise they responded really quickly (same day) and I was able to basically have a full conversation with Alex (who assisted me) like if we were on a chat. He provided me with a couple of options, which I already tried and didn't worked, and afterwards was kind enough to open a return case for me and they offer to give me "an exchange if it was necessary" and they were going to pay to the shipping and everything. But I opted for a refund with Amazon because I wasn't sure if Razer was actually going to give me a new one or how long it was going to take for them to decide for an exchange... That's why I give it 1 star.But before it started malfuncting it was behaving like a beast.Pros:1. Lightning fast, the thing was just Flash like fast. Very responsive and I was able to have 10 different programs at the same time and it was able to open Matlab, minitab, R and obviously Excel in literally a second or two. Very impressed, but again it does cost $2k.2. The look: it's really really attractive. That black everything it's gorgeous and the feel of it it's great.3. The chroma features: not only the keyboard, but I bought the mouse, the Razer pad for the mouse... Everything at the same time looked amazing(check the photos). The colors make everything very appealing.3. Audio: it's good and loud enough but not the best either.4. Battery: better than what people say in the other comments. About 6-6.5 hours using it under work related conditions.Cons:1. The screen: to me this is the biggest and basically the only turn off about the computer, as in if I knew I think would not buy it. The colors wasn't as crispy and clear as other, even cheaper, laptops and the contrast didn't do it for me either.2. Finger print magnet: I had to buy skins at dbrand for it since I was getting annoyed of how my hands would get printed on the laptop.Conclusion: great machine! Would I buy it again? NO, based upon the screen and the constant Bluetooth problems. Would I kept it if I didn't had the track pad and keyboard problems? Yes, the thing was just fast, I don't play games much but I do work about 10-12 hours a day and many of the programs that I used are a bit heavy for a $1200 laptop and I ALWAYS have at least 8-12 programs open at the same time and it was performing like if I was using 0% of the ram. And with the skins the finger print were no longer a problem. Should you buy it? No, I think you should at least wait a couple of months until the new Dell's xps15* and Apple's MacBook pro comes out, that is if you have and want and need to expend $2k and more on ultrabook with gaming abilities (not sure if you will be able to play games with the MBP though). And Btw I know that a MBP isn't considered ultrabook much less a gaming laptop.

Pros:Gaming prowess, beautiful screen, build quality, stylishCons:Not my favorite keyboard, miss the 10 key, does get hot, FINGERPRINTS!I've loved almost every minute with my Blade so far. I own a desktop with an SSD boot drive and was still impressed with how quickly the Blade boots. No bloatware you get from other manufacturers. It runs BF4 and many other games very well at high quality levels. Frame rate isn't quite playable at the screen's native resolution so I drop it down to play but still impressive performance from a laptop, much less one so small. Speaking of the screen it's gorgeous. As bright as you could ever reasonably want it to be. I use it well below full brightness in most conditions.Other likes here are the stylish design and the overall build quality. Design hints to the power beneath but in a very understated way that I appreciate. Build quality is fantastic. It just feels rock solid in your hands. My tower has more flex than the Blade. Finally there's just something awesome about picking it up when it hasn't been on and feeling the cool metal on your fingertips. Yes. I like.For the dislikes... I'm admittedly getting a bit picky here. As you can see from my overall score I don't have many complaints but here are some small ones. The keyboard is raved about in many reviews but for me it's merely ehh. For gaming, not one problem with it. Where I ran into issues is in typing. I use it for some work from home in addition to gaming (how I justified the purchase to the Mrs.) and it just seems to struggle to register every keystroke. With time I may adapt to it and have more success but so far it's been a challenging keyboard for me. I also miss the 10 key more than I thought I would. Again this more for the work use than the gaming use. Powering through spreadsheets is a bit annoying without it so I purchased a wireless 10 key for work use.It does get pretty hot under gaming loads but the design pretty efficiently routes the heat away from your hands so you don't feel it too badly unless you have it on your lap. I recommend gaming on a desk or table if you plan on procreating.My final nitpick is fingerprints. I heard this in some early reviews and thought what you probably are: "how oily and nasty are these people?" Turns out they were likely no more oily and nasty than I. This isn't about the screen. I loathe touch screens and do not use that feature on the Razer. This is about the aluminum case. It attracts fingerprints and smears like my white dress shirts attract spaghetti sauce stains. I find myself consistently trying to wipe away prints with a lens cleaning cloth so society doesn't quarantine me.The price was painful and I considered many others before taking the plunge. Many laptops game as well as the Blade. Many laptops are as small as the Blade. Many laptops are as stylish as the Blade. You see where this is going right? From my research and examination of alternatives, the Blade had the most satisfying combination of all of these factors and more. I don't regret my purchase for a moment.

I received the laptop today and was so excited because of its specs to only be very disappointed with the panel it comes with. It seems very fast but it is unbelievable that for this amount of money, the panel has a lot of texturing/cloudiness when viewing whites and greys in it probably due to the touch screen. I ordered an Asus Zenbook Pro UX501 weeks ago and returned it for the same reason. I ordered an Asus Zenbook UX303ub from Amazon and it came from Upgrade Kings that has 20Gb of ram, a 512Gb ssd and 2Gb graphics card. The processor in the Zenbook is only a dual core and the graphics card in it is nowhere near the performance of the 970m that comes in the Razer, but value wise, the Zenbook beats it hands down. The Zenbook is opening applications faster than the Razer which isn't that important but that shouldn't happen either. And what amazes me is for so much less money, the panel on the Zenbook is way better than the Razer which is why I am holding on to the Zenbook. What a deal breaker...Razer needs to get their act together and upgrade their panels as I have read they are a couple of years old now. I am sending it back tomorrow and waiting for the Macbook Pro to come out in the fall because I can count on them to have an incredible panel....my 15" 2015 Macbook pro with lower screen resolution was much better than the one that comes in the Razer and spent close to the amount of money on my MBP that I did on the Razer. Nobody makes panels as well as Apple..not even Dell. I just don't get what the big deal is with the Razer now and will probably never consider one again.