Andrew Cunningham
The Razer Blade Stealth, Razer's first computer that isn't exclusively targeted at gamers.
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Razer launched its very first laptop, the astronomically expensive 17-inch Razer Blade, almost five years ago. Since then, the company's lineup has grown. It launched a smaller version of the Blade a couple years later, followed by a tablet experiment and some desktops designed and sold in partnership with Lenovo.
Up until now, all of those PCs focused on gaming. You could use them all for general productivity tasks, but if you didn’t plan to play games there were other, better, cheaper options readily available. The Razer Blade Stealth, on the other hand, is positioned to compete directly with regular Ultrabooks from Dell, HP, and other more pedestrian PC makers. Razer still had gaming in mind when it designed the Blade Stealth—a separate Thunderbolt dock can house a dedicated desktop GPU that you connect to the laptop with a Thunderbolt cable—but that accessory is optional and isn’t due out for another month or two.
In fact, the company asked that we evaluate the Blade Stealth primarily as an Ultrabook and not as a gaming laptop, partly because it’s targeting a wider market and partly because its integrated GPU won’t stand up to laptops with dedicated graphics chips. As a laptop for a more general audience, the Blade Stealth has its good points, but the comparison to heavy hitters like Dell’s XPS 13 isn’t always flattering.
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