OneSickRazer

The pendulum swings making the personal choice the key really. For me I want mega power, in laptop form, at the house and light portability for going to the beach, the park, tuning my car (automotive uses), etc, and build quality. Peak performance as compared to desktop is the sacrifice I'm willing to give for it. Others can not. I spent $3300 on a mid-upper tier HP Omen 17 in July 2020 and it was always that. Especially the screen. Served me well with only the fans needing to re replaced in that span. The Blade screen and all the features just make it really nice. I will say at 18" we're hitting the size limit and also the just right spot imo. Most likely I'll upgrade in the upper 60 series or 70 series. My time with the Blade will be considerably better though. Even if it's a higher cost.

True but with a small GaN charger being plugged in isn't that crazy. Heat wise on the lap in full heavy duty gaming is a bad idea for sure. The best example I can give is getting my windows tinted on the new car. I sat in the lobby plugged in with a controller, earbuds, propped the rear up with the earbuds case, and gamed for two hours or so. The noise is low as Razer doesn't like loud fans at all. No one else was bothered. I like the inovation for sure but even with watercooled we still run up 330w total power available to cool, 230w dynamic between both cpu/gpu full load, and the water cooling easily being way overkill outside a 1000w beast desktop.

May I ask why you would want this? Huge attachments really kill the laptop feel imo. Including watercooler and eGPUs. The 4090 laptop gpu is delivering insane power without any of that.

So I hear people saying this but is it actually true? And to exactly how much? A few hundred dollars? Remember at the class of laptops we are looking at. Sometimes excellence costs a bit more. Not saying Razer was excellent before the Blade 18 but this thing freaking slaps in every metric! Everything that is i9-13980HX 4090 (175w) 240hz QHD+ 16:10 500+nits super colorful LCD 64gb 5200mhz (I dropped to 32gb for 5600mhz) and 2tb nvme m.2 (I swapped to 2x 990 Pros). Comes in around $4500+ easy. Not talking HP Omens etc. Not comparable here. Mine (i9-13980HX) was $5k plus tax as I wanted the best CPU possible. So if you go down to i9-13950HX you save that $500. Making the Blade 18 even more comparable. It's taking fully water-cooled laptops to barely get ahead of my blade on a Vaporchamber alone with standard thermal paste. That's in rendering type workloads not even gaming. That's also without a paste swap to Honeywell PTM7950 pads as well. I could've went with any system I wanted this time around and the Razer really did beat them all. MSI GT77 Titan is another competitor but looks like absolute trash and the build quality is not good at all. Also Razer has fully unlocked my power sliders now too. When people were reviewing they were only getting 130w to cpu. Then first update came and made the stock 160w turbo work. Now the power sliders work but of course cooling is always the main limit. Which brings in this post from reddit after a PTM thermal pad swap which was when the cpu was locked at 130w. so imagine putting 175w into it and actually being able to cool. at 160w my R23 is 33k which is already insane. SO 175w be 34-35k on a laptop. That's nuts. Disclaimer: I don't care about battery life as running in iGPU and not gaming it easily goes a few hours. Which for me covers almost all my use scenarios. I would never recommend a full tilt gaming laptop for someone in college. Due to cost, risk of damage, batt life, noise, etc.. Excellent video on 4090 Laptops: Reddit: User repastes Blade 18 to Honeywell PTM7950

Razer Blade 18 with i9-13980HX, 4090, 32gb 5600mhz ram, 2x 2tb 990 Pros, and 240hz QHD+ 500+nits super colorful screen. TimeSpy of 22300 overall Speedway 6000 Cinebench R23 33000 Nothing will reach peak power like a desktop but this thnig runs amazing! Bascially a dektop 3090 in laptop form.