2019 Razer Blade Stealth with GTX 1650

Hey Guys! Welcome back to Interesting Intelligence! Now I know that this blog is 4 months late, I will be honest with y'all, My own laptop had stopped working. Now wait I know it's very contradictory to my topic of blogs, but I should tell you, It was used for 8 years so yeah! It was a MacBook. Anyways, This is my review for the 2019 Razer Blade Stealth! So let me tell you If you're loaded this laptop is awesome. But if you're broke.......................................................................
this laptop is still awesome!

This is a very small gaming laptop. It's a 13-inch device rocking a GTX 1650, it's the new Razer Blade Stealth and they've managed to make an incredibly small package. If you compare this to their 15-inch Razer blade which is already a very small 15-inch gaming laptop, it's super small in comparison. Now it's not going to be the world's most powerful gaming laptop, it obviously has limitations because of its size but this is a very strong performer considering how small this device is! Actually, I don't think there are other 13-inch devices out there right now that has a GTX 1650. The external shell of the Razer Blade Stealth has not changed, it looks exactly the same as the previous generation in terms of its aesthetics. It's around half a millimetre thicker, it also has this well-built black aluminium chassis and it has the triple-headed snake logo up on top. It is a very nice looking laptop, Razers laptops tend to have this particular design aesthetic and this device just follows the tradition. It's not super thin though, keep in mind that Razer built this device to have a little bit of room in there so we can cool the components properly. It's still a very thin and portable device but it's not like this paper-thin ultrabook.

Let us open it up real quick. You have a replaceable SSD and a replaceable Wi-Fi card. Your RAM is permanent and the battery down here is the same size as the previous year. It has a seven-hour battery so this is running a 1080p screen. If you get the 4k screen it's probably a little bit less than that, but on the 1080p screen around 7 hours and that's what the regular integrated GPU now powering the system is a 100 watt AC adapter and there are both good things and bad things to that. So the good thing is that it's got plenty of power. There are some older generations of Razer blades Stealth's that used a smaller AC adapter (I think it was 65 watts) and there were times when you would be running the system really heavily and the AC adapter wouldn't be able to power the system properly, so it is no longer an issue as it's got 100 watts piping into this. The unfortunate thing is there are very few monitors out there that can pipe a hundred watts overpowered every to power this laptop so if you're someone that wants to have a single cable set up where you just have your monitor and a single USB-C cable that connects your laptop to juice everything up, there's like only two or three monitors out there that can do it. 

Now let's talk about performance. This is running the 10th gen Intel CPU so these are quad-core CPUs with incredibly long names. They can't sustain boost clock for a particularly long time for gaming. It's not too big of an issue a lot of games don't press the CPU that hard so you're getting pretty good frame weights for low to moderately demanding games. One thing I did notice is that this is running a GTX 1650 max-q and if you look at their website there's no mention that it is a max Q GPU that comes on the Razer Blade Stealth, so I think some people may be misled by that. I feel like Razer should be more clear that it is kind of like the lower-powered and lower performing version of 1650 but it is still a very solid performer considering it's a 13-inch device. Now, if you were looking at the Razer blade stealth as a potential video editing machine; if you're working with 1080p footage sure. But still, for 4k footage, the performance isn't there, especially when compared to the big boy 15-inch devices. It mostly just comes down to CPU, these things just have much more power-hungry CPUs that can process a lot more information. This thing is running a much lower wattage chip,  if the advantage to that is thermals, the temperatures on this device are excellent, like really really good. I think most of it is Intel CPU that 10th turnip is quite powerful but it's also the thermals, here the cooling is done quite well. 

A lot of the other components in the inside of the laptop haven't changed compared to the most recent iteration of the Stealth, but I'll go through them real quick. The screen is still running that 13-inch screen, it's pretty bright and colour accuracy is good enough. It has a 60 Hertz refresh rate so it won't look as fluid as some other high-end 15-inch gaming laptops. they do offer this model in a 4k version but having seen a lot of 13-inch devices in both 1080p and 4k, my recommendation for most people is to stick with 1080p even if you do content creation and you kind of rely on colour accuracy. It's just that the 4k panels suck up more juice and it's almost too pixel-dense. A 1080p screen at 13 inches is already quite sharp, the speakers on the side sound pretty good. The keyboard and the trackpad also remain unchanged. I still don't like the bottom right shift key, though if you're someone who actually uses that shift key for anything like shift question mark or just when you regularly type you're gonna have to get used to this layout, but the rest of this keyboard is quite solid it does only have single-zone RGB, so the entire keyboard has to be one colour. You can switch it to whatever colour you want, but if you're used to Razers -  like crazy RGB customization, you only get one colour at a time right now. The trackpad is also amazing. It has the smooth glass surface and it's got winners precision drivers so their tracking experience is solid. 

The overall device is on points like there's very little I dislike about this machine especially considering how powerful it is for a 13-inch device. However, we have not talked about its price point and therein lies the rub. This is a very expensive device, it starts at $1,800 for the GTX 1650 equipped version and I'll let that sink in 1800 US dollars. However, there is no competitor no one else is making a 13-inch device with a GTX 1650. They're really the only people with this product so, in theory, they can charge whatever they want and that's kind of how Razer does their stuff sometimes like when they have a unique product that no one else has they jack up the price. I don't think you'll be disappointed. It does offer a very unique experience and it's a good one,  but if you're in a budget, this is clearly not a value-oriented device.
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