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Razer Blade 16 (2024) review
You really feel like you’ve spent your money wisely when you first get the Razer Blade 16 (2024) out of its box and into your hands. Its anodized black aluminum chassis feels pleasingly cold under your fingers, while its build quality, slim dimensions, and glowing Razer logo in the lid make it look and feel like a truly luxury product. It feels crass to use the word “sexy” to describe a computer, but it works here. You’d expect that, though, when this laptop lineup starts at $2,999. The question is whether it’s truly worth all that money.
It’s that base $2,999 version that I’m reviewing here and, on paper, it definitely has the makings of one of the best gaming laptops I’ve ever used. Unlike the 2023 model of the Blade 16, the new 2024 model has an OLED screen as standard, and it comes with a 24-core Intel CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU as well. To see how well this new Razer machine fares, I’ve been using it as my main gaming PC for a week, as well as taking it out and about to hotel rooms, cafes, and the office, to get to know its pluses and pitfalls.
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