Razer Blade 15 Advanced Gaming Laptop 2020 Intel Core i7-10875H 8-Core, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q, 15.6” FHD 300Hz, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, CNC Aluminum, Chroma RGB Lighting, Thunderbolt 3 : Electronics

5.0 out of 5 stars

Amazing gaming laptop for a decent price!

Payed USD1099 for this Razer base model. At that price this is a steal, at USD 1199 is an excellent purchage but at the original price of USD1599 not worth the money. The SSD included is really low performance. If you plan to really game with this laptop buy a new NVMe ssd storage.Amazing how BAD the sound of the speakers in this laptop, terrible terrible bad quality sound. Not sure why Razer use THX…

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Instantly better than everyone

This is exactly what you think it is. A very well designed powerful gaming laptop. The chassis looks and feels awesome, gaming on desktop, steam, stadia is incredible and Razer technical support is top notch. Added bonus is having this laptop when everyone else at the coffee shop has a Mac.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great laptop

Ordered the product and finally arrived to my address in the Philippines via a freight forwarder.The unit delivered to me works. Seeing as there’s a lot of 1 star reviews, hoping there would be no defects or errors encounteredOnly complaint about the product is that it runs hot despite running basic tasks as mentioned in other reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars

I feel like it cant do anything without being inconvenient.

I love this laptop, the build wuality is amazing ,the track pad, and the screen are godsends, but the battery life is awful even when you arent gaming, and when gaming (or not) its just awfully loud and hot at all times. Seems like more of a hassle than a laptop should be.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Great computer.

Absolutely love this computer, Graphics are amazing, processing speed is great, Razer chroma looks great on the keyboard. the 300hz screen is beautiful, i have had no problems with it. how ever there is no touch screen. i’m ok with that but just be where the title says touch screen but it is not(Edit 2024) Still a very strong computer but for the price the graphics card is a bit underpowered, iv found that it’s starting to struggle with newer releases. still very practical for travel or work.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Love these laptops

Bought 2 of the 2080/1TB version and we are really enjoying them. I would think most people would know this, but this is a very thin and powerful laptop, so it is going to have high thermals, I would recommend using a laptop cooler as a stand for it. The build quality is great, the attention to details like the keyboards and software are great. I am really struggling to try to find something negative to say about this laptop. Maybe the price but I feel like if you are in the market for a clean/quality gaming laptop (or hard-working work laptop) with an aluminum finish, you are looking at this price tag already. Razer I think really nailed it with this laptop.

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Great Computer, Bad Battery

This computer has done great with all of the games that I’ve played, but the battery life is the worst I’ve seen on any computer. It lasts maybe 2 hours before a low battery notification. However, this isn’t an issue for me since I don’t take this computer on the go.

4.0 out of 5 stars

It’s good at everything a laptop should be great at, and the typing experience is abysmal.

If you’re worried about the hardware being outdated, do not be. Dying light 2 maxed to the limit connected to a monitor averages 65fps with drops to 50 in high activity sequences. I usually get 100-130 fps on all low settings. Rainbow 6 on Vulkan averaged 250fps. Both connected to a monitor-bypassing intel graphics. If you play on the display that is on the laptop, you will see a 10-20fps drop at higher fps. However, the display is still great, but 300hz is a gimic, you’ll never see anything higher than 240 on a consistent basis. If you’re wondering, you cannot play Minecraft RTX on this machine, it didn’t give me the option no matter how hard I tried. COD Warzone multi ran at around 120 at low. The laptop has great build quality. But, the keyboard, infuriates me. The keyboard experience is horrendus for typing at high speeds/touch typing. The Dell G5 and Asus zephryus are vastly better for typing although the razer has the better performance of the three. You should expect 2-3 hours of battery life with medium activity such as a few browser tabs. Cooling isn’t the greatest but it’s passable. GPU never went above 80c on high gaming loads.Tl;dr: it’s great in every way, except the keyboard, the keyboard is trash.

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Great laptop; runs hot; no home/end keys

Great laptop, especially at its price. Only complaints are that it runs so hot you need to be careful where you set it, and the keyboard is missing the home and end keys. I’d definitely buy it again if given the choice. The battery performs as advertised which is pretty decent considering what’s under the hood.

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Great laptop for price

Great laptop for price, and CAN game on but i dont plan on being a hardcore gamer on this laptop, it definitely gets warm and loud when you push it. Im not a fan of the huge touchpad and not having a number pad but again its a great laptop for regular use that can be gamed on

5.0 out of 5 stars

Exactly what I ordered

This product arrived and what exactly what I ordered and expected. No dead pixels. No issues with my battery charger. I’m mostly reviewing this product because I noticed a lot of negative reviews. I gave it the standard windows updates and that took care of some start up issues. Razer synapse is the only bloatware that comes pre-installed. I needed it though to edit the lighting configuration. Everything I have experienced with this laptop has met or exceeded my expectations. Gaming on warzone, league, and overwatch have been superb.

1.0 out of 5 stars

Loved this machine – unfortunately no warranty.

Worked great / loved it for first 9 months. Unfortunately after 9 months, it would not power up. I tried working with the OEM’s tier 1 & 2 support staff, reseller, and customer service reps with little / no success. OEM claimed my purchase was not thru an authorized source and therefor I had to pay them to repair it out of warranty.Reseller instructed me to send it directly to OEM (went back – forth / round – round for over a month), finally reached out again to AMZN who apologized for the situation and offered me a refund. I was instructed to send it back to AMZN (who’d originally sourced the item to reseller) and was unpleasantly surprised to be down one laptop and charged a restocking fee of $249. Suspect the fee is likely more that what the OEM would have charged to repair it out of warranty.Note current warranty and support description no longer links to the OEM website which used to show AMZN as an authorized retailer.Ultimately bought a highly rated product which lasted only months and cost me ~$250 to not get it repaired – buyer be ware … do your homework.

5.0 out of 5 stars

amazing !! but very hot

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i love this laptop !!! right now, i could only afford to get a gaming laptop that works alongside school, or i could get a full on PC and not have a laptop for school. its a great machine ! im a streamer, and it consistently pumps out 60fps streams which is really nice. its not super loud so if i want to cool it down on stream i can max out the fans and not have it be super annoying to listen to. the thing about this laptop though is that its SUPER hot. i usually stream minecraft and have discord, streamlabs, spotify, and vtube studio all on at the same time, and it gets quite hot. like, if my food was that hot i’d probably have to blow on it before eating it. its super noticeable when you press down on the keys and you feel it on your fingertips, and its kind of uncomfortable. despite all that, i can get a solid 120fps on every game that i play with no issues. personally, upgrading from an actual potato to this was a legendary change.so to summarize ,,pros : gaming is very smooth ! i love the design and the razed synapse is easy to work around. the rgb on the keyboard is nice looking and pressing on the keys feels nice. the screen is nice and bright and i dont lag whenever i stream and play games at the same time. its easily my favorite laptop ! its light, really aesthetically pleasing, and works just the way i want it tocons: the speakers suck. its really funny to me because on my old potato the speakers are leaps and bounds better than these. not that i use them often, but whenever i want to take a break from my headphones these speakers are not it. the battery doesnt last too long when off the charger, but i havent ran that many tests so it could probably stay on longer if i changed around a few settings to take the computers focus off of performance. it gets REALLY hot. an ice cube could melt pretty fast on the surface of it if i were playing genshin impact on high settings, medium if im streaming and listening to music.overall, i like this laptop because its a lot better than my old one. if i were you, i’d probably sit tight and save up some more money to get the advanced model for that cooling system, or look for something else if you want a cooler laptop. honestly, i think it cools on pretty quickly if you close the game and wait for a minute with the fans maxed, but im pretty lenient when it comes to machines. anyways, i hope this helped !

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Pretty good so far…

Took a gamble and bought “Used – Very Good” and the condition was basically perfect.Been using for 4 months and so far only had a few “issues” that were resolved (by me).1. Heard electric whine coming from laptop. Was concerned at first but noticed my other laptops also do it… seems normal for laptops.2. Games were suddenly very sluggish with huge fps drops. I just had to update the GPU drivers and it was fixed. (I didnt think to do this right away). Mainly play csgo and easily run at 300fps. Sometimes play apex and have no issues except it cant run apex at 150fps+.3. Speaking of Apex… the laptop gets VERY hot for intense games. I plug external monitor+mouse+keyboard so its not a big issue but it WILL heat up your room. The room temperature increase is noticeable. I dont think it’s feasible to play on the laptop keyboard when playing something like Apex since the laptop gets too hot. My palms get sweaty and overall not a pleasant experience. The vapor cooling seems to work pretty well though… even when gaming for 10hours+ at high temps I dont get performance drops which is amazing imo. I considered getting a fan that sits under the laptop but it doesnt seem necessary. We’ll see how it holds up over time.4. One day, bluetooth stopped working entirely. It just disappeared… even from Device Manager. I googled the issue and a BIOS reset fixed it.PROS:Build quality feels great. Impressed by it. Almost at mbp level.Great performance. I’ve played csgo, apex, gtav, mordhau, and valorant all with no issues.Screen looks pretty good. Not mbp level but better than average laptop screen imo. I’d imagine the 4k 60hz looks even better. (higher refresh rates monitors almost always look worse than lower rate picture-focused monitors)Does not come with a bunch of bloatware. (i hate bloatware w a passion)CONS:The laptop keyboard is HORRIBLE. Travel distance is so low it’s annoying to use.You must install their proprietary razer software to customize the keyboard lighting.Gets VERY hot.Brand doesnt seem to have a good reputation for longevity so I do worry that it will randomly die on me one day.Logo on the lid is very ugly in my opinion.Wish it had one more usb c port.Overall, it’s an extremely difficult task to compete with Apple and I’m happy that Razer put effort into creating a high end product that feels fairly polished. Four months in and I’m pleased with my purchase.Some misc thoughts… I dont think it was necessary for the screen to go up to 300hz… 240 is good enough imo… Would be nice if, for future versions, they got rid of the huge charger and made it usb c charge. Would be nice if I could buy a version with no webcam and they got rid of the top bezel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Love I got this deal on Prime Day

Love that this is sturdy, light weight and aluminum metal covered and I don’t think I’ll have broken hinges in a year or two like my last two plastic gaming laptops. That was my biggest concern in looking for a gaming laptop I could use to game a little but mostly to quickly photo edit and use photo shop when on the road. It is extremely fast, out does my desktop and is now out of 4 pc’s the one I use. It’s so quick I can’t handle waiting on the others. Last years graphics is fine for the saving I garnered. I’m a firm believer in I’d still be happy with my last years pc this year. I easily installed a 2 TB m2 hard drive in the extra slot (love it has an empty slot for that) and the 16 GB ram seems to run my photo editing with fine speed and my older games. This does not have thunderbolt to connect a display through the C port but has two type C ports that I use to connect all peripherals and then just use the hdmi to connect one monitor and use the laptop screen as a second so don’t purchase a C type universal docking station to connect displays, display put through won’t work on this 2020 model, i believe it has been updated by razer to work on the 2021 models. Very very happy with this purchase for my needs. Oh i thought I would miss the number bad, especially when photo editing but i’ve adapted to that quickly and do not miss it.

3.0 out of 5 stars

3 Years Later

Purchased originally for work. Needed high processing speeds. About 1.5years in, I transitioned to a desktop for work. Since, this has been used for amateur gaming and personal photo editing. I could run everything all at once and it all worked okay with occasional, tolerable issues.Now, 3 years later, I shut it down after a day of editing to give it a break. Came back, it did not turn back on and no sign of life. Charging cable was replaced in 2022 (a year after purchase…) with an offbrand cable that hasn’t failed me. I shut it down with full charge, so it shouldn’t be “dead.” Did all the things online folk recommended to no avail.If this isn’t something fixable, I will have lost faith in this Razer.Also gets extremely hot to the touch despite having a fan board beneath it. The heat level is pretty concerning.

3.0 out of 5 stars

Laptop starts out great but overheats quickly

The laptop is very unique and different than any other laptops I’ve ever had I would give an A+ to the design. The laptop version I got had a small hard drive which would definitely need upgraded one game takes up almost the whole hard drive or at least 1/3. The laptop also seems to play every game pretty well I do not get into the most high-tech games but I do play the total war Series games and it runs perfect for all those except when it overheats. It seems to overheat very quickly when you start playing a game and this causes the computer itself to freeze crash and shut itself off. And if it doesn’t do all that the game usually lags uncontrollably until you give it a timeout and shut it down for a while to cool. The battery life does not last very long even if I’m just running a simple app while having it unplugged it drains fast. If I have it unplugged during a game I’m lucky to get 20 30 minutes out of it. It’s quite a shame this is a very unique laptop and I really want to love it but there are issues.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

No bloatware!

I’ve had a lot of computers and laptops over the past 30 years. One thing that has gotten progressively worse (and annoying) is all the bloatware. Almost every manufacturer ads their own support aps, anti virus, market place, etc. All they do it slow it down and bug up the system.This is my first Razer and I’m never going back. They only ad 1 app and that’s to program all the RGBs and tweak the system performance. It’s a subtle app too.Combined with the great hardware they put in their systems, the build quality is what really sets it apart. I got mine for engineering work. Other brands add an “enterprise tax” to anything they say I’d for professional use or if it mentions CAD in the description.I run Fusion 360 on this with no issues. Renders like butter too.

4.0 out of 5 stars

Great laptop but if you’re going to game long hours, might not be a great idea.

The battery life I’m getting is around 4 hours on a full charge with low performance. It is super thin and light, however, the main concern I have is the amount of heat it produces.Even though this laptop is supposed to have better thermals than the base model, when you crank the GPU up, the fans will kick it up to around 85-90C. (Hot enough to burn your hands).The reason for this is due to how thin the laptop is. Due to this, the laptop isn’t able to cool itself as well as the thicker variants. Do take this in mind before purchasing.Overall : Solid laptop, just remember that you’ll probably want to get a cooling pad, do whatever you can to make sure it stays as cool as possible.

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