The OLED seems nice, however one of many advantages of OLED is HDR in gaming, because of the unbelievable distinction from having the ability to flip off particular person pixels. OLED isn’t recognized for being vibrant, however currently, that’s improved on laptops and exterior screens. The OLED show on the Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 10, for instance, could be cranked as much as over 1,000 nits, creating a powerful HDR impact. The Razer Blade 14, nonetheless, solely maxes out at 620 nits in HDR and 377 nits in SDR. Due to that, I may hardly inform HDR was even turned on. It’s nonetheless a fairly display, and OLED has different advantages over IPS panels, together with sooner response instances, much less movement blur, and better distinction.
Sadly, the Razer Blade 14’s OLED panel isn’t as colourful because the one I examined on the Razer Blade 16, with a coloration accuracy of 1.3 and 86 p.c protection of the AdobeRGB coloration house. Additionally, the 120-Hz refresh price is normal for OLED laptops, however you will get 240-Hz speeds on laptops that use IPS, just like the Alienware 16X Aurora, which occurs to be a less expensive machine.
The Razer Blade 14’s largest competitors is the ROG Zephyrus G14. I haven’t examined the newest mannequin but, nevertheless it’s a laptop computer we’ve appreciated for years now, and it is on sale typically sufficient for lower than the Blade 14. The one actual distinction is that the Blade 14 makes use of a extra highly effective AMD processor, the Ryzen AI 9 365. Not solely does it carry out higher in something CPU-intensive, reminiscent of sure video games and artistic functions, nevertheless it’s additionally a extra environment friendly chip.
That results in some improved battery life—not less than, higher than your common gaming laptop computer. I bought 10 hours and 19 minutes in an area video playback check, which is about probably the most you possibly can anticipate to get from the machine. However, Asus gives higher-powered configurations of the Zephyrus G14, together with one that features the extra highly effective Ryzen AI 9 HX.
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Unhealthy information: The RAM is now not user-upgradeable on the Razer Blade 14, so you may must configure it up entrance with what you want. My evaluation unit had 32 GB, however you can even select both 16 GB or 64 GB. As a result of it is soldered, the reminiscence speeds are sooner. As for inside storage, you continue to get one open M.2 slot to develop house for those who want it, supporting as much as 4 TB.