Andrew Cunningham
The Razer Blade Stealth Ultrabook, Razer Core GPU enclosure, and an external monitor. The external GPU can drive both the internal and external screens.
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Razer, once a company that mostly made accessories for accessories for gaming PCs, keeps getting more and more serious about its PC business. It began with a 17-inch gaming notebook called the Razer Blade but soon expanded to a 14-inch version of the Blade and an odd-but-unique gaming tablet called the Razer Edge. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to sell a range of gaming desktops with Lenovo’s help, and it snapped up the remains of crowdfunding-success-story-turned-failure Ouya to bolster the Forge, its own Android TV-based microconsole.
All of those systems have one thing in common: a focus on gaming. Today at CES, the company introduced its first laptop that, in and of itself, isn’t a gaming system: the Razer Blade Stealth. The 0.52-inch thick, 2.75-pound laptop includes individually backlit keys with RGB LEDs (you can color-code each key for aesthetics or to help make it even clearer which key is which) and Razer’s general black-and-green aesthetic, but otherwise it’s a bog-standard Ultrabook that’s not all that different from the ones Dell or HP will sell you.
The laptop is made primarily of black aluminum, and its 12.5-inch IPS touchscreen comes in both 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 flavors (the 4K version covers 100 percent of the Adobe RGB color gamut too). All models include dual-core Skylake Core i7-6500U CPUs and 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 RAM (sadly not upgradeable to 16GB, either at purchase or afterward). All models apparently use PCI Express SSDs instead of the slower SATA-based drives that many PC OEMs are still shipping, so even if you don’t game there are some good reasons to check the Blade Stealth out.
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