Razer FINALLY Fixed the Blade - Razer at CES 2025

Razer's Blade laptops are always sooooo close to being an easy recommendation, but with their premium price point, the little annoyances add up to a mixed experience. Luckily, the new laptops they're showing off at CES look like they could be the polished experience we've been waiting for.

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Don't skip the Razer Booth
0:16 Razer Blade 16 (2025)
3:24 Sponsor - dbrand
4:09 Teardown
5:32 Razer Remote Play
6:51 Project Arielle heated/cooled chair
8:07 Iskur V2
8:33 Outro

[rachmanfachri]

Alex: "hat's off guys"
Alex's hat: (still on)

[chunkyhippo]

Only thing wrong with them now are that they are stupid expensive

[thebreatho]

THX Surround Sound?
Yeah
I recommend turning that off 🗿

[MatthewWelker]

For anyone wanting to try moonlight, it's honestly not hard to setup, you download sunshine on your PC, moonlight on your phone, start it on your PC and you're technically good to go, you can use wired/wireless controller on your phone and it'll automatically transmit the input, now virtual displays to match your phones native resolution and have it as an entirely separate monitor is where things get a lil complicated, but still relatively easy to figure out with tons of tutorials if you get stuck

[snjert]

I love that he confirms the surround sound and then goes "yeah, turn that off" hahahaha

[APassingCloud_]

You guys have been killing it with presenting this stuff. The marketing teams on the floor would kill for the energy you put into the camera. Great job.

[POUSSIERE]

"Conveniently the speaker module has fallen out..."
Yes, yes, sure💀

[name]

I think far too many people have been burnt by razer products and laptops already. Let me know when one of their products can last a reasonable period of time and Ill consider one.

[zag]

My razer blade just died after a solid 4.5 years of use. They don't really last long in my experience and razer's customer service is a nightmare to deal with, Ill probably never buy a blade again

[Pittk]

But did they solve the issue with the thermals? Because my old Razer Blade 15 2021 model had issues where the battery would get swollen due to the battery heating beyond it's manufacturer temp guidlines. I end up having to replace the battery once every year.

[nyxterius]

We're currently living in bizarro world where razer's laptops have the best I/O(they decided to include more than just two usb-c)

[blodyholy_]

They're not getting another look from me until they update their bloatware they call 'drivers'. 'software', etc.

[ComboSlicer]

Razer - the stuff which ends up in warranty after a few months of use

[star_man]

They’ve probably made the touchpad smaller as they were having a nightmare where their touchpads were registering unintended clicks as people were typing on the keyboard and brushing the touchpad, they had to release firmware updates to try and reduce it happening. I’ve got one of their utter trash mini led local dimming screens and their local dimming algorithm is abysmal for desktop use (atrocious screen uniformity, weird inverse darkening around windows, and slow backlight update causing smearing), we complained on their forum, they eventually after months released a firmware update for 2024 models where you could turn off local dimming completely as they couldn’t properly fix it, but for my 2023 unit their response was essentially “we’re not fixing it, you’re stuck with your sub par screen on your £4000 laptop, we have your money and we don’t care”. Utterly appalling behaviour.

[pooriakhosravi]

2:37 when ur palm rejection is so bad you have to shrink trackpad

[priorpriority]

Nah, ever since their stupid service people broke my laptop during repair and they didn't take responsibility for it, I'll never touch Razer again until the day I die. DO NOT USE RAZER! EVER!

[thepan]

155w TGP in a chassis reserved for a 115-120w at best is crazy. Hope we can get a better thermal & a nice CPU+GPU combined performance.

[mikeyhope]

surely the blade is fixed and wont die within 48 months like all the other ones.

[tobysimmons]

The chair is actually genius. It’s a lot less energy to cool a person than to cool a house or office.

[biggiebagel]

Are they reliable. I got burned with 2 bad razer laptops.