Razer Company is known worldwide as a manufacturer of gaming peripherals and various “widgets” for gamers, mostly mice, keyboards, headsets, and more. But there is an assortment of the company and a gaming laptop, called the Razer Blade 14 2014 review release. Like its predecessor, Razer Blade 14 2013, this laptop has high performance and compact dimensions, with its beguiling improved somewhat, but the most important change was the 14-inch display with a resolution of 3200×1800 pixels fantastic, which is made by technology IPS. Recall that the older model had the same diagonal, but the resolution was only 1600×900 pixels, besides TN-matrix was not very good quality.
Design – Razer Blade 14 2014 review
When you first look at the Razer Blade 14 2014 review comes to mind comparisons with the Apple MacBook Pro, which was repainted in unusual black and put another emblem. But on closer inspection it becomes clear that this is a completely different laptop that looks like an apple representative only smooth curves and rounded edges.
Razer Blade Enclosure 14 is made of aluminum, which is coated with soft. Despite the fact that the surface of the laptop is not glossy, they are still perfectly collect fingerprints, and their removal becomes a real test, as an easy cleaning process cannot be named.
What really makes this laptop unique and stylish, so it’s a combination of coal-black and acid green? And if you do the whole body black, the green colored logo Razer, USB ports and keyboard labeling. Incidentally, logo spectacularly illuminated when the notebook is turned on. As for the assembly, then no complaints and cannot be, all assembled perfectly.
The bottom of the Razer Blade 14 2014 review is similar to Ultrabook, but it is attended by large air vents, which are inherent to gaming laptop. Sami slots pretty massive, but so that through them nothing fell inside, they closed a fine mesh. There is no usual rubber feet at the corners, instead of them there are two large rubber strips, which are very good at keeping the laptop on slippery surfaces.
Everything we’ve learned that gaming laptop to be big and bulky, but the company Razer thinks a little differently. So Razer Blade 14 2014 review has dimensions 345x235x17.8 mm, which does not allocate it among the other models with a similar screen size. The weight of our test model is slightly more than 2 kg, compared with the classic gaming laptops have a mass nearly twice as much. Thus, you can easily carry this laptop with me.
Display, sound and webcam – Razer Blade 14 2014 review
Relatively small 14-inch display has a shockingly high resolution 3200h1800 pixels that provides a very high pixel density. It is made by technology IPS, which surpasses TN-matrix least over the width of the viewing angle. Color, brightness and contrast of this model are average, so to work with graphics, this laptop is not suitable, however, as the diagonal, but for games of all this more than enough.
Another advantage of this display is that it supports touch input, and simultaneously varies up to 10 touches. So if control via mouse and keyboard you get bored, you can always resort to the more intuitive touch input. The only pity is that the display cannot be transformed, then we could turn the Razer Blade 14 2014 review at the plate.
A fly in the overall impression of the screen, this notebook makes it a glossy finish. Sure, it looks mirrored display is beautiful, but it brings in a lot of discomfort, and especially in high ambient light source, in which case you’ll only see their reflection and glare on the screen.
The audio system has support for Dolby Digital plus Home Theater Edition consists of two speakers, who are deprived of assistance from the subwoofer, however, in such a compact and thin notebook model, he would have no place in any case. The sound quality produced by this laptop can be called good, but not great, the thing is that the speakers are virtually reproduce bass frequencies, and high purity, also leaves much to be desired. Undoubtedly, Razer Blade 14 2014 review can cope with scoring games and movies, but more it is not enough.
As for the webcam, it is located on top of the usual place in the frame of the display. But its resolution is slightly different from our usual 1 M and 1.3 M, is a webcam Razer Blade 14 2014 review has a 2 MP and can make better quality pictures and videos. Also it can be used to chat in Skype.
Keyboard and Touchpad – Razer Blade 14 2014 review
The keyboard and the internal working space in general, very similar clearance laptops Dell XPS. Here installed island keyboard without a separate number pad, on the one hand it is a disadvantage, but on the other – is it possible to make the distance between the keys are quite large. Horizontally were only up and down arrows, but their functionality is almost not affected.
The key travel is average, but they are quite gently pressed with regard to speed and comfort typing, in this respect, Razer Blade 14 2014 review is not perfect, but it is a good laptop. We should also highlight the key labeling; she’d done quite original thanks to the use of non-standard font.
There was no place in this laptop Razer Blade 14 2014 review and the multimedia keys, which is not the game model, although again you can make allowances for its compact size. The only private key is the power button; it is located in a prominent location in the center of the main keyboard.
Razer Blade 14 2014 review has a backlit keyboard, which will be very helpful in dark rooms. Her greenish glow continues overall stylistic line and does not irritate the eyes. There is also a possibility of a multi-stage adjustment of its intensity. Another advantage of this keyboard is the function of suppressing ghosting, so in game mode recognizes up to 10 simultaneous keystrokes.
The touchpad Razer Blade 14 2014 review is not very original and completely devoid of any decorative items and edging, but it has a fairly large size, which has a positive effect on the convenience of management. The touchpad supports all the most common multi touch gestures, and in the lower part there are two mouse buttons.
Productivity – Razer Blade 14 2014 review
Razer Blade 14 2014 review is running the operating system Windows 8 (64-bit), this OS is familiar to many users, and can realize the full potential of this laptop.
Intel Core i7-4702HQ is a high-level processor that can easily handle even the most difficult applications, not to mention the daily tasks. Four cores of the CPU clocked at 2.2 GHz, but thanks to Turbo Boost it can be raised up to 3.2 GHz. There is also support technology Hyper-Threading, which allows the processor to simultaneously process up to eight data streams. As for the cache in the third level, the Intel Core i7-4702HQ it has a volume of 6 MB.
In this hard to believe, but modest in size 14-inch laptop Razer Blade 14 2014 review features not only a powerful multimedia or gaming entry level graphics card, and graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M, which is one of the most powerful solutions for laptops. This video card has 1344 shaders, 3GB GDDR5 video memory standard and 192-bit memory bus, all it offers high performance in games and other applications. An interesting fact is that this card has a TDP of 100 watts and should be installed in notebooks with a diagonal of 15.6 inches, but experts Razer been able to create the right conditions for it to work correctly in a 14-inch laptop.
With on-board NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M, this notebook is able to provide a comfortable game on ultra-settings, such as shooters Call of Duty: Ghosts or Battlefield 4 to 37 fps and 34 fps respectively. In other games, for example, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, performance slightly decreases to 31 fps and 24 fps, but in general, the game itself will be quite comfortable. It is worth noting that the test was performed at the highest possible settings and a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, but if you put a native 3200h1800, performance drops noticeably.
RAM in this laptop to 8GB, and it standard DDR3L, a little effect on the autonomous operating time. RAM running at 1600 MHz, but if you need to replace it, you do it will only be a qualified service center, as the memory soldered on the motherboard.
To store the information in the Razer Blade 14 2014 review is used solely SSDs, they differ only in volume. So, for example, is used in addition to our laptop initial 128-gigabyte SSD, there are also options for 256 GB and 512 GB. It is also worth mentioning the unique cloud storage Razer Synapse 2.0, its peculiarity is that it is designed to store all the settings of the devices Razer. So, for example, that “to bind” the keyboard to suit your style, you only need to synchronize with the Razer Synapse 2.0 and the software itself will load on your keyboard, or other device on the settings that you have saved.
Ports and Communications – Razer Blade 14 2014 review
A set of communications is not like in the usual game of monsters, in this model, the engineers decided to go the way of minimizing and removed not only all unnecessary, but also some of the necessary connectors. The reason is that the Razer Blade 14 2014 review is a “camp” gaming laptop that is not designed for connecting a plurality of monitors or other external components.
The main part of communication, if I may say so with respect to the four connectors on the left side. Then there are two ports USB, which is not painted in the familiar blue and bright green, this is not a new standard, and long familiar USB 3.0, which has become a victim of the general style. Also on this side is a combined audio jack and power connector.
On the opposite side there is another port USB 3.0, HDMI video output, and Kensington lock.
Rear and front face completely devoid of ports. The only thing worth noting is the presence at the front of the display, and it does not matter that he was only one, but it can display three modes: white – laptop is in sleep mode, the green – Razer Blade 14 2014 review runs, red – the device needs to be recharged.
But in terms of wireless networks, the notebook favorably even most gaming laptops, thanks to the Wi-Fi 802.11ac, which is several times faster than Wi-Fi 802.11b / g / n. But Bluetooth 4.0 standard – a common occurrence, so that in this respect the Razer Blade 14 2014 review does not particularly stand out.
Battery – Razer Blade 14 2014 review
If most gaming notebooks have a removable battery, the Razer Blade 14 2014 review has a built lithium-polymer battery capacity of 70 Wh. Charging the device comes with 150-watt power supply is medium in size, which is also unusual for this line of laptops.
If the standard battery life gaming notebooks in gaming mode is often no more than one hour, the Razer Blade 14 2014 review was able to surpass this figure almost doubled, having worked for 1 hour 50 minutes. Of course, it is worth considering that the display of this model has a smaller diagonal, rather than the classic gaming laptops, so the comparison is not quite correct. But in medium load, such as when watching movies or surfing the web, this model can hold about 5 hours, which is an average result.
Conclusion – Razer Blade 14 2014 review
Razer Blade 14 2014 review Sample 2014 is a unique device that indicates the direction in which in the future will develop laptops. One of the main features of this device is a combination of compact size and high performance, so we get the full game filling in ultra-thin package. Also worth noting is ultra-high resolution 14-inch display, which has 3200h1800 pixels. Design Razer Blade 14 2014 review can be termed as restrained and catchy, but certainly not boring. To the assembly itself, as there are no claims, it is made perfectly. Overall, Razer Blade 14 2014 review – a welcome laptop for gamers and for ordinary users, but the price in the $ 2,600 for the 14-inch model casts doubt on the advisability of purchasing this laptop for the first category of buyers, and for the second.
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