14 DAY TRIAL // Ultrabooks aside, notebooks can still end up quite bulky if their makers find the need to favor performance and feature variety over mobility and aesthetic grace. That doesn't mean it's impossible to make sleek gaming laptops though, as Razer has just shown.
The company has introduced the Blade Pro, which isn't on par with Ultrabooks in terms of size and shape, but is nonetheless reasonably thin.
Measuring 17 inches in diagonal, the computer utilizes an LCD screen with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (16:9 Full HD).
To make the best of that display, Razer built the hardware around a fourth-generation Intel Haswell Core-series mobile processor, one of those that will debut next week.
The CPU is backed up by 8 GB of DDR3 memory (two 4 MB modules of 1600 MHz clock speed).
More importantly though, the Razer Blade Pro boasts an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M mobile graphics adapter, with 2 GB GDDR5.
It will definitely run games at their best, unlike the integrated HD 4600 in the Haswell chip.
Meanwhile, the latter will take over during web browsing, document editing and any other tasks not reliant on high video capabilities.
For storage, a solid-state drive is used, with 128 GB, 256 GB or 512 GB space (mSATA).
Between all that, the Stereo 2.0 speakers and the Qualcomm Killer NIC N1202 network card (Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n + Bluetooth 4.0), the Razer Blade Pro has everything it needs to excel.
And yet the feature list is much longer, made up of things like 3.5 mm audio microphone/headphone combo jack, 2 MP front webcam, three USB 3.0 ports, HDMI 1.4, Razer Anti-Ghosting Keyboard (with adjustable backlight), Razer Switchblade User Interface, Razer Synapse 2.0 Enabled.
All the hardware runs on the energy provided by a built-in 74 Wh Rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery. The starting price is of $2,299 / €1,763.58.
