Testseek.com have collected 92 expert reviews of the Razer Blade 14 R3 and the average rating is 79%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Razer Blade 14 R3.
January 2014
(79%)
92 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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238 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
This is very close to a perfect body for a gaming laptop. The Blade is gorgeous and well built. There is zero flex anywhere. It runs current games on high graphics settings at good-to-acceptable framerates. The trackpad is more responsive than the majorit
Desktop-grade performance in a tiny clamshell frame
Good battery life
Slick design
Gorgeous 3K display...
It's the Blade I've been waiting for Razer to make
14-inches
Best-in-class graphics and a 1080p display
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Still has one of the best Windows trackpads I've ever used. Its touch gestures work so well that I almost never even u
Solid quality and design
Good keyboard and touchpad
Great gaming performance
The Razer Blade 14 has a slim design with a powerful combination of fourth-gen quad-core Intel processor and Nvidia graphics
Battery life is strong
Too
Slim
Ultraportable design. New Nvidia GeForce GTX 870M graphics card. Upgraded graphics. Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) display with 3
200-by-1
800 resolution and touch capability.
3
200x1
800 touch screen impressive
At least on paper
Good looks
Sturdy construction
Sexy
Lightweight chassis
Extremely portable
Excellent graphics and performance
Comfortable
Fully programmable keyboard
Long battery life
The new Razer Blade boasts the same beautifully thin design
But adds a sharp 3
800 touch display and advanced Nvidia graphics
Portable
Sexy design
Stunning
3200 x 1800 display
Excellent overall and graphic performance
Comfortable keyboard
Sleek
Light design. Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) display with 3
800 resolution and touch capability. Intel Core i7-4720HQ CPU and 16GB memory. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M GPU. Improved performance and battery life over previous iteration.
Beautiful design
Useful
Customizable gaming trackpad
Large screen.
Still the best way to get gaming to go. Responsive touchscreen and touchpad. Impressive speaker quality. Upped resolution now supports 3200 x 1800 pixels
Great design
Sharp
High-resolution display
Good touchpad performance
Thin
Light
And strong
Games like a champ
6+ hour battery life
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Fast and powerful
Excellent trackpad
Stellar battery life (for a gaming machine)
Compact and thoroughly attractive
Almost perfect combination of performance and mobility
High build quality
Good battery runtimes
Low weight
Thin chassis
Great 3
200 x 1
800 display
Compact and attractive
The editors didn't like
The mostly awesome trackpad is almost completely submarined by its idiotic buttons. Battery life is hugely improved from your standard gaming rig
But you're getting nowhere near the six hours claimed by Razer. The screen is sub-optimal
On color performa
But you'll never need 3K resolution
Expensive
Shorter battery life than last year's model. That's never good
The 1080p model only comes in a single configuration. What if I want more storage space than 256GB?
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I wish I could disable the backlighting on the lid's Razer l
Not user upgradeable
Limited port selection
A lackluster low-resolution
Nontouch display doesn't fit the high-end design. The baseline 128GB SSD for $1
800 isn't sufficient for a gaming PC
You'd better pony up for the 256GB or 512GB model
Runs very hot. High-resolution display may actually hamper performance. Shorter battery life than previous model reduces portability
Graphics performance comes up short
Runs hot and loud
Not inexpensive
Runs hot while gaming
Limited viewing angles
Lacks SD card slot
The battery life is worse than last year's model's. Adding more SSD storage can turn this into a pricey laptop
Runs incredibly hot
Below-average battery life
Gets very hot. Discrepancy between graphics and display capability
Price tag suggests beefier components.
Dimmer screen is a letdown
As is the price hike. What
No page up/page down keys? One key's backlight died during testing
Poor battery life
No SD card slot
Some games don't work at full resolution
Sub-par screen
Burning hot while gaming
Touchpad can be finnicky
A bit slow to boot. Pricey. No touchscreen. Still no SD card reader
Middling screen and audio quality
More expensive (and less powerful) than other machines
Published: 2014-07-22, Author: Luke , review by: gizmodo.com.au
If you're in the market for a gaming laptop that fits into a normal backpack or satchel, you're in luck: the Razer Blade 14 is a masterpiece. It's fast, functional and all-round brilliant for most out-of-the-box PC gaming experiences...
Published: 2014-07-11, Author: Eric , review by: gizmodo.com.au
If you really desperately desire the ability to game on the go then yes, the Razer Blade 2014 is a beautiful and powerful machine, and the most gaming PC you could expect to be packed into such a small sleek package...
Published: 2014-05-10, Author: Scott , review by: cnet.com.au
The new Razer Blade boasts the same beautifully thin design, but adds a sharp 3,200x1,800 touch display and advanced Nvidia graphics
The battery life is worse than last year's model's. Adding more SSD storage can turn this into a pricey laptop
Razer's newest gaming laptop trades ultralong battery life for a fantastic screen and even better graphics. It's a trade worth making: this is the best Razer gaming laptop, and the best thin gaming PC anywhere....
Stunning screen, Great design, Very fast, Thin and light
Keyboard gets uncomfortably hot, Whirring fans are audible
When Razer introduced the Blade last year, it set out to redefine the gaming laptop. It wanted to prove a powerful machine doesn't have to mean a bulky one. Razer's first go succeeded in meshing mobility with function. With its new Blade, Razer has staye...
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Published: 2013-07-03, Author: Scott , review by: cnet.com.au
The Razer Blade 14 has a slim design with a powerful combination of fourth-gen quad-core Intel processor and Nvidia graphics; battery life is strong, too
A lackluster low-resolution, nontouch display doesn't fit the high-end design. The baseline 128GB SSD for $1,800 isn't sufficient for a gaming PC; you'd better pony up for the 256GB or 512GB model
Ditching gimmicks and delivering on function, Razer's slim 14-inch gaming laptop marries true power and good battery life in an excellent PC. All it lacks a stellar display....
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Published: 2013-07-02, Author: George , review by: techradar.com/au/
Remarkable performance, Great looking laptop, Comfortable, responsive keyboard, High quality display, High quality sound
Inconsistent cursor controls, Poor mouse button placement, No full HD resolution, Expensive
Ultimately and despite these few concerns, the Razer Blade sets a new high mark for what a mid-size Windows laptop can and should be. It looks fantastic, exhibits top-notch performance in both day-to-day use and gaming. And it's comfortable to work on. I...
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Published: 2013-06-05, Author: Ray , review by: itwire.com
Abstract: I know that gamers are a breed apart but I want one of these, Razer Australia has pre-released the Blade 14” gaming laptop.The technology is/will be the latest Intel Haswell CPU and its cutting edge in all other respects. The 128GB SSD version is $2299, 2...
Razer has crammed more into its Blade laptop than ever while somehow making it the lightest it has ever been. More (and better) ports, more video memory, more battery life – yet, there's a (albeit barely) smaller device containing it all, The updated and
To be honest, the graphical improvements are incredibly minor here. While there isn't much Razer could've done about it, given how dependent it is on chipmakers' release schedules, that fact doesn't make us any more enthused about the scant visual boosts
We've always appreciated Razer's Blade gaming laptops for their attention to build quality and design. It's something that, at the time of their debut, was a bit lacking in the world of Windows notebooks. From the start, Razer has always been after a very...
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Published: 2016-12-02, Author: Dave , review by: pcgamesn.com
The Razer Blade is a laptop dichotomy - a machine that wants to be both an Ultrabook as well as a gaming laptop. While it has some success as the latter, form factor aside, it utterly fails as the former.The performance comparison between the Razer and Gi...
