Razer Blade 15 Advanced (2022)

Be careful what you wish for…

- JEREMY LAIRD

A LAPTOP WITH a 4K 144Hz display? That’s impressive. But does it actually make sense? Before we get to the answer, let’s cover off the new Blade 15’s speeds and feeds. The 4K screen is a 15.6 incher, an IPS panel described as the ‘Creator’ option—you can also opt for 360Hz 1080p and 240Hz 1440p alternatives—and backed up with impressive 100 percent coverage of the demanding DCI-P3 digital cinema color gamut.

To that, you can add the cream of the available crop of performance laptop components. That’s Intel’s mighty Core i912900H CPU with six high-performance cores and eight efficiency cores, plus 32GB of the latest 4,800MHz DDR5 memory. On graphics duty is the finest mobile GPU known to man, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 16GB of VRAM. And you get a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, too.

It’s all wrapped up in Razer’s familiar 15-inch chassis. Available in any color so long as it’s black, the main chassis remains one of the better-built all-alloy affairs out there, though there’s just a touch of flex in the keyboard bed. The keyboard, incidentally, is per-key RGB backlit and fully programmable with all the usual effects.