Fat Savings on the Super Skinny Razer Blade 14 Gaming Laptop
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Razer’s updated Blade 14 with an OLED may not have been available for long, but that won’t stop you from snagging a sharp discount on this excellent gaming laptop. The model we reviewed with an RTX 5060 is marked down by $750 at Best Buy, while the upgraded model with an RTX 5070 and 32 GB of memory is marked down by $900. Both are excellent deals, particularly for a laptop that was updated within the last few months.
Razer continues to iterate on the Razer Blade 14, but the biggest change over time has been the chassis. What already started as a very thin laptop has continued to shrink, and is now just an incredible 0.62 inches thin, which is particularly impressive considering the gaming hardware found under the hood. The battery life matches the portability too, breaking 10 hours in a local video-playback test.
This slim and attractive laptop has serious gaming chops. The mobile version of the RTX 5060 was comfortably between 30 and 60 fps at 2,560 x 1,200, a nice compromise in resolution that's made even sweeter when you engage DLSS for frame generation and dynamic scaling. The CPU is a Ryzen AI 9 365, a power-efficient chip that's surprisingly capable in CPU-intensive workloads and games. It's paired up with 16 GB of memory for the RTX 5060 version, or 32 GB for the RTX 5070 model. Both sport a 1TB SSD too, so no need to worry about storage unless you play Call of Duty.
While the updated OLED display isn't the most pristine that we've tested in terms of raw numbers, it is a huge jump over the mini-LED panels typically found in older Razer Blade models. Individual pixel backlighting means black levels are basically perfect, but the Blade's screen struggles a bit with max brightness, hitting just 620 nits in HDR, while competitors can touch 1,000 nits, helping with HDR performance. Still, you'll likely spot a big difference while gaming and watching media over mini-LED or IPS panels, and you're just compromising when it comes to color accuracy and brightness.
While I think the discounts offered here make the Razer Blade 14 an exceptional buy, you might wander over to our list of favorite gaming laptops to see what else is around.
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