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expired Posted by saberlol • Dec 9, 2021
Dec 9, 2021 12:28 AM
REFURBISHED Razer Blade 14 RTX 3080 $1903.99
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To me the 3080 mobile at 95-105w on the advanced does just fine; I run 4k/60 at ~90% render perfectly on AAA games without a lot of heat, it's portable, and runs great at 100w usb pd. For a pure desktop replacement I would look at the bigger ones, but for portability with great build quality I love these.
Razer is definitely a qc roulette though. I'm 2/2 with a stealth 13 and advanced 15, and kind of want to test my luck with one of these.
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One thing to know is that you should also upgrade the RAM if you buy that Lenovo if you're using it for top top gaming performance. Look into the youtube videos that explain which ones to buy, because there's a few ones that fit the mark. Has to do with dual channel ram and timings or something.
Anyway, I found that I'll be commuting a lot and have time to get some studying done in between work, and I managed to randomly find the Razor 3070 version when it was on sale for $1500ish. For a 4lb 14" laptop with decent 350+ nits, 1440p screen 165hz, it covers a lot of what I want.
However, I know the cooling is not going to be on par with Lenovo's larger laptops.
The exhaust in the back of that thing is a great design feature, as the keyboard will remain cool to the touch unless you're hardcore gaming, and even then it's still very comfortable to use.
But the thing is so chunky I can barely get it out of my bag. The G15 and M16 Asus had all sorts of weird lag issues and the brightness was kind of meh, and when I changed the OS it killed the battery life. Overall really sluggish on battery with Asus due to some weird throttling stuff going on, touchpad would stop working often on both of those machines. Lenovo is generally a perfectly smooth machine.
It's kind of wasteful but I might keep both the Lenovo and the Razor, especially since I don't really trust Razor's quality. They can't make keep their DeathAdder and other peripherals from being disposable products, but I've heard good things on their recent laptops... 2 year warranty made me bite.
I also heard that if you change out the NVMe you gotta play with some settings to keep it from disconnecting due to some power constraints issue. Looking great already...
From what I read online, the allstate is basically square trade which I have used in the past and was absolutely trash. I am not 100% if this is the case but any input here would help.
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The real waiting would be for the 2070 version which should be about 3-500 less than this and have about 90% of the performance.
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