And this is the newest Razer Blade Stealth. This is running the 8th generation

CPUs from Intel, Kaby Lake-R, so it's a quad-core CPU and I did a review of the

previous version of this, the, I guess the 7th generation

Fantastic device, I feel like they had updated a lot of stuff

that people wanted, and this is just kind of revision

that's just a little bit better.

Now, I want to clarify one thing before I go too much further into this review

A lot of people think that this device is a gaming laptop

I know most of you don't, but there's a surprising number of people that are like,

"Hey! Does this thing play games?"

It is not meant to be a gaming laptop

It's made by Razer. Razer makes gaming peripherals and gaming stuff,

but this is not a dedicated gaming laptop

Not to say that it can't play games like, by itself

It can't. It's running some like non-gaming internals

But you can plug up an external GPU if you do want to play games

which I'll explain further down the line

But just to clarify, this is not a dedicated gaming laptop.

Okay, so let's talk about things that haven't changed.

The build quality hasn't changed

Nothing actually from the exterior has changed that much

The one biggest difference is that this model is the gunmetal grey version

So they still make the regular black one with the green Razer logo

and RGB lights and stuff, but this one's gunmetal grey, and I like this one more

Maybe because I've seen the black one so often

But this one's just a cleaner design to me.

The logo is more subtle and everything just looks a little more muted

The one thing that is a good thing or bad thing is that RGB's on the

keyboard that are on the regular Razer Blade Stealth

are not present on the gunmetal gray version

They only light up in white.

The keyboard, the trackpad, basically everything is exactly the same on the exterior

It's a good keyboard, good trackpad

They updated the trackpad in the previous version to use the Windows Precision drivers

which is just way better

And the screen options aren't changed

This one here is running at 3200 by 1800 screen, IGZO panel

It's not the brightest thing ever but it's fairly bright, and it has a pretty good color gamut

lt also is a touch screen if that's your thing.

If you really like the colored RGB keyboard from the black model

But you want to clean finish, like this, you can always get a skin from dbrand,

just cover it up and it'll mute the logo and protect your laptop

The ports aren't changed. There's got two USB 3.0's and HDMI and then your Thunderbolt 3.

Now this Thunderbolt 3 port is for power like you powered up through here

and also supports four lanes of PCIe

so if you connect an external GPU to this thing, it gets full bandwidth

The one thing that's a little bit different between this one

and the previous generation of gunmetal grey is that

This one's a little bit darker, so this is the other one, the earlier 2017 one

It's really hard to tell from this camera, but this new one is slightly darker than this one

You know what? There's also another difference

On the inside, the little Intel stickers, the 8th generation

one is like a quarter of the size of the old version

Now, I've seen some other eighth generation laptops that had a regular-sized sticker

So I don't know why this little one exists

I know this is really important right? You guys should be aware of all the little details

about this laptop

Okay, the internals have changed a little. The layout is just a little bit different from previous

generations. The RAM is still soldered on and the SSD is still removable,

but they've actually used a much faster drive this year

Which is nice. Now, in terms of coil whine, my unit here does not have coil whine

I have seen a lot of reports of people getting Razer Blade Stealth's with

coil whine issues. All the review units I've ever had

didn't have it so I can't really comment on it

But this one yet again does not have it. Performance is excellent

This one's running the i7 and 16 gigs of RAM

and these new Kaby Lake-R chips are quad-core CPUs that get

really fast for short bursts. They benchmarked really well. The built-in GPU is still pretty weak

You're still not gonna be able to play some amazing games on or anything

You can play some light games

But even moderately demanding games are gonna make it choke

So if you want to play games, you either get something completely different like a gaming laptop

Or you're gonna have to connect an external GPU to this thing

Thermals under load are fine and same thing with fan noise

It doesn't get super loud or anything and we connected to an external GPU

Temperatures are also good. The external GPU

handles most of the graphical stuff so the laptop stays cool

Now if this is the type of setup you want

so it's like a thin and light Ultrabook combined with a external GPU

There's a lot of companies that do this kind of thing, but I still think the best company is Razer

They were the first people to do it so they probably have a little bit more like experience with it

But the connection is rock-solid, and it's just it just works really really well,

and I'm running the first generation Core still

They have a newer version that has an updated Thunderbolt 3 controller,

and you can connect external devices that work on a different pipeline

But I mean the performance is going to be identical to the first generation, but yes

If this is what you're looking for, I cannot recommend a better setup than these two. Now

Now, it's still not a hundred percent efficient.

There's some issues with using Thunderbolt 3 GPUs, but for the most part

They're pretty good. Now, if you want to learn more about them

I've done a video that kind of details this whole process a little bit more

I'll link that below. Okay, the performance and video editing is not as good as you might expect

This is a quad-core CPU, but it's a 15 watt CPU. There are quad-core CPUs like gaming laptops

that are 45 watt CPUs

And those are just able to maintain a higher clock speed for

just longer periods of time this can hit 4 gigahertz for a little

burst and then it'll drop down to its base clock and when you're video editing

That's just not ideal. So you can get stuff done if you're working with 1080p footage

or just not video editing very frequently

Sure, it can kind of work especially with an external GPU,

but if you want something that's just more long-term

Are you working with higher res footage? Go with something like a quad core gaming laptop

Those just do much better for edits.

Okay, battery life has not changed. I'm still getting seven hours on this thing

I know with the Kaby Lake-R's, it's supposed to be slightly more efficient

I'm still getting seven hours, and I think it comes from the screen.

The IGZO panel looks nice and the colors pop

But it just uses a little more juice

It is still like, for the most part, of full day batteries

So I'm not too worried about it

If I had to nitpick on some things on, if I, I mean I do like this laptop a lot

but if it just had to be that guy that just

hated on something, it would probably be

The speaker's. They're not bad

They're like really well positioned, but they don't sound amazing

they sound very like you know, run-of-the-mill Ultrabook

There are thin and light Ultrabooks like the MacBook's that just sound amazing

And it would be really cool if a Razer could stick something like those into here

Then this thing would be like really really cool, but yeah,

not amazing speakers. The other thing is the backlighting on the function key

So like F2, F3. It also controls volume down and volume up, but in complete darkness

You can't see the secondary controls because they just don't light up,

and it doesn't bother me because I rarely work in complete darkness

But for people that require that, yeah, can't control brightness and stuff unless you know exactly

which keys do what, but that's basically it.

Those are some minor complaints about this really good laptop

They did a really good job that last revision, and it's just even better now with the 8th gen CPUs

I'm gonna talk about one last thing. It's customer support

because I talked about in my previous videos with other devices

Razer's customer support is, I would consider a pretty mediocre

They're not a laptop company, right? They were originally a peripheral company,

and they got into the laptop game

And they do a good job at it

But their customer support is lacking, and they don't have stuff like next-day support

So if you have something with your laptop some companies like Dell and HP

They'll send a technician to your house or your work

And they'll kind of try to fix it

Razer doesn't have that, you have to send it back to them

So that's a bit of a bummer. It depends on what you want or need if your laptop support

I mean if it's really important to you, then you might want to look elsewhere,

But they make great laptops

And I think especially their Stealth line is

thumbs up, all around.

Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video!

Thumbs if you liked it, subs if you loved it.

See you guys next time!