The Razer Blade 16 is Josh's personal laptop. There is nothing quite like the Blade 16. It's super thin and light, it looks absolutely stunning, and delivers huge performance for its size. However, Razer continues its trend of delivering a laptop that is prone to issues. The laptop often doesn't sleep when the lid is closed, and the trackpad's palm rejection is bad. Razer's support takes forever to diagnose these issues and often asks you to do time intensive tasks like reinstall the operating system, which doesn't fix the issue. Also Razers return window is short at 14 calendar days. So many buyers are stuck with a very expensive laptop with issues. Finally, for a laptop this expensive, Razer needs to get more of the little things right such as better speakers and a higher quality webcam. Overall, buy at your own risk but... I (Josh) really love using it and have kept it for myself. We have put some safer alternative recommendations below
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Very thin and light for a high performance gaming laptop
Looks stunning
Excellent keyboard
Great port selection
Powerful GPUs
Good OLED fast refresh rate display (G-Sync, Advanced Optimus)
Feels cool to the touch, even during gaming or video editing
Trackpad has palm rejection issues
Bad battery life
Small arrow keys
Support is challenging to deal with and return window is short

The Razer Blade 16 is Josh's personal laptop. There is nothing quite like the Blade 16. It's super thin and light, it looks absolutely stunning, and delivers huge performance for its size. However, Razer continues its trend of delivering a laptop that is prone to issues. The laptop often doesn't sleep when the lid is closed, and the trackpad's palm rejection is bad. Razer's support takes forever to diagnose these issues and often asks you to do time intensive tasks like reinstall the operating system, which doesn't fix the issue. Also Razers return window is short at 14 calendar days. So many buyers are stuck with a very expensive laptop with issues. Finally, for a laptop this expensive, Razer needs to get more of the little things right such as better speakers and a higher quality webcam. Overall, buy at your own risk but... I (Josh) really love using it and have kept it for myself. We have put some safer alternative recommendations below
Read MoreĀ
Very thin and light for a high performance gaming laptop
Looks stunning
Excellent keyboard
Great port selection
Powerful GPUs
Good OLED fast refresh rate display (G-Sync, Advanced Optimus)
Feels cool to the touch, even during gaming or video editing
Trackpad has palm rejection issues
Bad battery life
Small arrow keys
Support is challenging to deal with and return window is short
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