Razer Announces Second ‘Blade’ Gaming Laptop

By Landon Robinson | 31 August 2012 | 9 Comments

Earlier this afternoon at PAX Prime, Razer Founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan announced the company’s newest product at their keynote, the second iteration of the Razer Blade gaming laptop. It promises maximum power and portability through “extreme performance, ultra-portable form factor, and all new features and applications.”

The second generation Blade takes the mobile performance Razer made possible with the original Blade, increased it significantly, and somehow made it work in a thinner all-aluminum chassis. The new Blade, at its core, contains an Intel Quadcore i7, a Geforce GTX 660M, and 8GB of memory (1600mhz DDR3 ram).

In addition to the new insides, the Blade features a fancy new user layout that adds not only macro buttons for customization of commands in-game, but physically adapts based on the game you’re playing. The secret behind it all is the fact that these buttons aren’t… well, buttons. They’re miniature projection screens that change based on whether you’re playing Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: GO, or any game that supports the custom UI. These buttons can map equipment in Firefall, classes in Team Fortress 2, and weapons in CS: GO, for example.

More interested geeks can check out the hardcore specs over on the Razer site.

The laptop will run you $2,499.99, a few buckaroos less than the list price for the initial blade, which was $2,799.99. It’s pricey, for sure, but it’s a laptop with a whole lot of punch. And seeing that it weighs in at only 6.6 pounds and 0.88 inches in thickness, that’s no small feat to accomplish for a respectable price.

9 Comments

Posted by Ikkis on 01 September 12 at 3:27am

I can say, if you’re looking for a performance heavy computer this might not be a good choice. :/
But it seems like a comfy slick computer, that’s really only advantage I see with this computer.
Posted by Tom on 01 September 12 at 4:38pm

Same laptop but whitout the touch feature, cost me 1 399.99$ LOL
Posted by SAK on 01 September 12 at 9:47pm

No one really is going to pay that much, for that hardware right? right?
Posted by johnxfire on 02 September 12 at 10:29am

Sager/Clevo/Clevo resellers.

Razer’s blade is now invalid.
Posted by DUDE187 on 02 September 12 at 7:09pm

It’s too much money…
Posted by DobyDude on 03 September 12 at 10:26am

@johnxfire
Didn’t you notice that it happens to be half as thick as any of those laptops?
Additionally the closest laptop to compare it to would be a MacBook Pro, so the pricing seems spot on to me. Won’t buy one though I’m happy with my Vaio C.
- Posted by johnxfire on 03 September 12 at 6:25pm
  
  I’m not the sort who needs a slim -gaming- laptop anyways. Got a NP8150 with an HD7970M right now that costs less than this Blade.
  
  If you wanted a slim gaming laptop, Clevo’s got a model thats 17″, uses no MXM, has a GTX660M like this thing does, and costs about 1,365USD, so yeah, there’s that too.
Posted by sigmapsicharlie on 03 September 12 at 10:49am

Damn you, Mongorians!! Stay away from my Shitty Wall!!
Posted by boodah72 on 03 September 12 at 10:53pm

im not gonna pay 2k for a laptop that will break in a year, if i wanted that i would get a mac.