The traditional approach meant stuffing the most powerful CPUs/GPUs in their chassis - and with that, the thermals generated resulted in laptops 2-3" thick and over 15lbs heavy. As far as we were concerned, those aren’t laptops, those are luggables.
We decided that a true gaming laptop would need to be ultra-thin, portable AND run all the latest games. Our goal was to keep the entire machine less than an inch thin and weigh less than 7lbs but also have the performance to run all the latest games at high settings. However, to contain that level of performance in such a thin form factor is no mean feat.
We had some of the top thermals engineers in the world work on engineering all that performance in an ultra-thin all-aluminum sheath. We acquired some of the top engineering talent in the Bay Area and Taiwan, and today, we have one of the top in-house systems design teams in the world. They worked closely with Intel to redesign, from ground up, an incredible amount of performance in a truly portable form factor.
And the result? The thinnest, lightest 17" gaming laptop in the world. Just 0.88” thin and 6.6lbs.
On top of that, we included an all-new revolutionary user interface with the Blade – the Switchblade user interface. 10 dynamic adaptive keys with an incredible cellphone quality 4” screen, with applications for Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and more.
The Razer Blade is not meant to replace your desktop, nor is it the solution for gamers who just care about performance and don’t mind lugging around a 3” thick laptop weighing 15lbs. For those who care just about performance and eschew portability, I’d say get a desktop or a traditional gaming laptop – the Blade isn’t for you.
However, if you're a gamer who doesn’t want to compromise and just wants true portability with incredible performance - the Razer Blade was designed for you."
If you'd like to find out more about the Blade, do check out www.razerzone.com/blade
