BLADE IN HEAVEN Razer Blade 15 Advanced

Money no object? This super-premium laptop cuts through tough games like butter and looks great doing it

SPECIFICATIONS

CPU 2.3GHz octa-core Intel i711800H GPU Up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 RAM 16GB/32GB Screen FHD 360 Hz, QHD 240Hz or 4K OLED Touch Storage 1TB Operating system Windows 10 Connectivity 3 x USB 3.2, 2 x Thunderbolt, power port, HDMI 2.1, SD card reader, microphone combo jack, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 Dimensions 16.99x235x355mm Weight 2.02kg

There are three certainties in life. Death, taxes, and Razer following every hardware generation with a new and ever more powerful laptop. And the Blade 15 Advanced is a laptop with enough performance to power through long into the future - it's a satisfying and silky smooth machine.

The outward design is not a radical departure from Blades past. Indeed it's all-but identical to the 2019 spin, beyond the addition of a couple of extra ports. That's not a bad thing.

The Blade 15 design is, and we say this without too much hyperbole, pretty much perfect: it's solid, clean, has just the right level of glitz via Razer's Chroma-lit keyboard, and affords itself plenty of airflow without cutting down on the cool factor.

Inside, the Razer Blade 15 is well-equipped in all of its spins; in the model we have here, it's better stocked than most other laptops on the market.

Our model comes with a 320Hz screen. Frame rates that high are way beyond the limits of the eye, but that's not really the point: this is one of the smoothest panels we've ever seen. We ran it through Blur Busters' entire suite of tests: ghosting, trails and persistence are kept to an absolute minimum no matter how hard it's pushed. It is frankly brilliant.