Over the past couple of years, the Razer Blade Stealth has stuck our eye as one of the maximum attractive ultraportable Windows laptops on the market. While no longer the most affordable metal unibody pc you can get, Razer has traditionally protected top-stop hardware to go together with their pinnacle-end design, leaving buyers with a incredible product.

For 2018, Razer has updated the Blade Stealth, and whilst the design isn’t overhauled in this improved version, we are becoming Kaby Lake Refresh CPUs inside. Here, the Core i7-8550U is general, bringing significantly advanced performance way to the bounce to 4 cores and eight threads. It’s a chip we’ve covered in detail before with multiple flagship thin and light carrying it already.

The battery capability remains at 53.6 Wh, however with the brand new processor inside we may see some adjustments to battery lifestyles. Razer additionally bumped the reminiscence pace from LPDDR3-1866 up to LPDDR3-2133, at the identical 16GB capacity.

Every different aspect to the hardware is the equal, including the 13.three-inch 3200x1800 IGZO LCD, Killer networking gear and SSD alternatives that variety from 256GB to 1TB.

There are a few very minor modifications to the pc’s dimensions, however they fall into the sub-1mm variety and the burden is largely unchanged. As a end result, the stunning steel chassis is nearly identical to the version I reviewed returned in September, so for my full mind in this design, test that assessment.

As a brief recap, the metal unibody construction is strong, well built and looks stunning, particularly with the slimmer bezel that became new for 2017. The black version seems outstanding, but there’s additionally now a gunmetal gray choice that’s equally as brilliant, and possibly a tad greater stealthy.

I/O has usually been a key selling point of the Blade Stealth, so this new version doesn’t exchange something. You nonetheless get Thunderbolt three and a full-sided HDMI port, along with two USB three.0 ports and a headphone jack. That’s quite tons all you want, and the pc charges thru USB-C for added comfort.

There has been no alternate to the in my opinion RGB LED backlit keyboard or the touchpad, and each stay very good in this laptop. The trackpad specially is one of the first-class I’ve used in a ultraportable: it really works so properly and feels notable to use.

The display is also the identical, I did retest this unit just to make certain, but nothing new to report apart from a few minor adjustments to white stability and gamma correction. The show continues to be excellent as a result, and I love how the 3200x1800 excessive-resolution option is now general.

Before digging further into the Blade Stealth’s performance, I wanted to briefly point out fee due to the fact the most up-to-date Blade Stealth has launched at $100 extra than the ultimate-gen model, moving from $1400 to $1500 for a Core i7, 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD.

Considering the new CPU handiest charges OEMs a few bucks extra than the old one, this appears a touch unreasonable, however it's miles nonetheless inexpensive than equal high-give up laptops like the Dell XPS 13 and HP Spectre. Unlike these structures from Dell and HP, Razer doesn’t have an ‘access-level version’, hence the higher base price.