Razer Blade Stealth (13.3-inch, 2018)

Beautiful, thin design ; Excellent gaming performance ; Impressive battery life ; Robust build quality ; High refresh rate display

Questionable keyboard layout ; Runs hot

The Razer Blade is a work-hard, game-hard laptop. In a work setting, it blends in with sleek laptops like MacBook Pro or Surface Book 2. In a gaming setting, it’s every bit as capable as a traditional gaming laptop. You’ll see better battery life out...

Thin, robust design ; Solid performance ; Responsive keyboard and touchpad ; Razer Core compatibility

Large screen bezels ; Modest specifications without Razer Core

The Razer Blade Stealth does a lot of things right, but without the Razer Core, it feels a bit lost. It’s slightly behind other systems in its price range, and the average laptop buyer won’t be attracted to the Razer brand. It feels designed...

Lightweight, durable, and attractive ; More than powerful enough for everyday tasks ; Battery life slightly better than last time

Price-to-performance ratio isn't as good as the competition, or even the previous Blade Stealth ; USB-C charging cable feels like it could snap in half ; Battery life still mediocre compared to other ultrabooks

It’s a great machine, though. Peerless, when it comes to the actual design itself. It’s a real pleasure to use the Blade Stealth, be it on a plane or just at home lounging on the couch. Durable enough to feel rugged and portable, but lightweight enough...

Best-in-class overall performance. Slick, thin design, now with a larger (15.6-inch) screen. Superior high-refresh display. Per-key RGB backlighting. Solid battery life.

A bit pricey for the parts. Design of speaker grilles mars sleek build.

Bottom Line: The 2018 Razer Blade redefines the category it inspired: the super-slim, powerful gaming laptop. The best thin design in the business now packs a roomier 15.6-inch display and cutting-edge components.

Sleek, attractive design; Powerful overall and graphics performance; Great Audio; Solid battery life ; Undersized keys; Runs hot ; With a discrete graphics card and an Intel Whiskey Lake processor, the Razer Blade Stealth is a capable machine for work...

Undersized keys; Runs hot ; With a discrete graphics card and an Intel Whiskey Lake processor, the Razer Blade Stealth is a capable machine for work and play.

With a discrete graphics card and an Intel Whiskey Lake processor, the Razer Blade Stealth is a capable machine for work and play.

Svelte, lightweight design; Great performance; Fast SSD; Bright, vivid quad-HD display; Beautiful, customizable keyboard ; Below-average battery life; Finicky touchpad ; The Razer Blade Stealth offers a lovely 13-inch QHD display, powerful graphics and...

Below-average battery life; Finicky touchpad ; The Razer Blade Stealth offers a lovely 13-inch QHD display, powerful graphics and overall performance in a insanely slim chassis.

The Razer Blade Stealth offers a lovely 13-inch QHD display, powerful graphics and overall performance in a insanely slim chassis.

Impressive GPU performance especially for an Ultrabook ; full-power 25 W GeForce MX150 w/ 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM ; very color accurate out of the box; full sRGB coverage ; sleek and sharp all-matte unibody design ; narrow bezels; very small footprint ; quiet...

no 144 Hz display options, per-key RGB lighting, SD reader, Kensington Lock, or RJ-45 ; battery slowly drains when gaming even with AC adapter connected ; Razer Central customization features require logging in ; slow display response times; more...

The latest Blade Stealth offers the biggest performance boost for the series yet. Its new Whiskey Lake-U CPU is much less susceptible to throttling and its discrete GPU option is close to the gaming performance of the 2015 Blade Pro. The notebook is...

Razer follows the current trend to equip existing devices with bigger screens. The Blade Stealth is now available with a bigger 13.3-inch panel in the same chassis. The bigger panel improves the design and gets rid of the huge bezels we know from the...