The RAZER Blade 15 (2018) 4K (UHD)
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Could somebody please specify a specific release date for this year's 4K Blade 15 in the UK because i have been waiting for it and, although Razer said July on their website, the month is almost up and there is no sign of change or release. Pls reply if you know more than I do because it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Synclide
hey, just a quick one because I'm wanting to get into basic coding softwares myself later this year, what makes the 4k version good for someone who wants to code?
It's just about "screen real estate" which just means more space
Although the physical screen size for a 1080p and 4k are identical, you can fit more information on a 4k screen (Exactly 4 times as much).
So if you take a simple spreadsheet, and on a 1080p screen you could see 26 columns and 30 rows at once - on a 4k screen you could see 92 columns and 120 rows which is a lot more information (albeit smaller in size).
So for coding, you can see twice as much script vertically at any one time (which is useful for long blocks of code).
If you use the unreal engine - other game engines are available - you can have a 1080p view port and still have half the screen left for coding and another 1080p worth of space for debugging (or email
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Synclide
hey thanks for the update! this is definiately strange from amazon's side not to update the blade 4k's status, so for you if you go on amazon and type in razer blade 15 4k does it still show 'available for preorder' written on it or is that just me? and did you get the standard amazon emails saying its been dispatched, it will arrive tommorow etc? whatever this is must have to do with pre-order date as mine was placed 30th june, much later than yours.
Questions aside, congrats on your new laptop!! i bet you must have loved to unbox it after waiting so long XD! do let us know how it peforms generally and whilst gaming if you get the chance, hopefully you are impressed as the vast majority of the people on the forum with regards to display, performance, build quality, feel etc!
once again congrats on your new laptop, enjoy!
misterg36
Brilliant, have fun with it
And thanks again for letting us know. I was starting to think Amazon was never going to get them in, but it looks like they have them and are fulfilling orders in a first come first serve - which is great.
Soooo many times I've been tempted to get the 144hz which still seems awesome but I'm glad I've waited as I need the 4k for coding :)
Hi both
After the teething issues with getting the right drivers installed, (see throttling thread although I didn't really have thermal throttlin), and fixing the charging when off (dedicated thread) it's been rock solid through about 10 runs each of firestrike, timespy. and cinebench GPU and CPU tests.
Relevant only to the 4k model I will say running the aboveabo 1080 mode makes a small improvement compared to 4k. But I also ran firestrike ultra 4k for shits and giggles and although it scored fair frame rates were clunky.
Also pcmark a few times although those results were a little on the low side and I was running on battery (although max perf). It's a long test and ran out of patience so reeun plugged in. Besides running on battery was more to test the battery. The full suite took from 90% to 72% with max perf, fans on auto. Not sure about the GPU oc because I think synapse overrode my afterburner seeing when I unplugged power.
I've posted some benchmarks on the throttling thread. I don't think I have thermal throttling but there is some power limit going on I think. Temperature wise the bbi everyone was complaining about, and that concerned me, was physics temperature. The top bit above the fn keys never got too hot to handle and not hotter than say the outside of a mug of hot chocolate trut a thick mug.
Pcmark as i said something else was going on, it was only marginally warmer than hand hot temperature when it'd finished.
Screen is even. No backlight bleed at corners or edges although l can see where I believe there's two horizontal bars ever so slightly dimmer at 30% and 60% heights horizontally across full screen. I guess this is either the shade for the led at that position or perhaps where less at 15, 50 and 75 aren't quite overlapping. Only visible at higher brightness settings and not visible except in flat colour test images. I'm comparing it to my LG oled TV of which I've got a good un and the slight zipper I have at the edge of that screen at 5-10 IRE is more pronounced. Comparing it to a LCD screen it is much better I think.
Keyboard is lovely and I'm just getting there with the right arrow.
Touchpad also excellent although finding two finger scrolling, and two finger right click less precise. I think it detects my thumb resting at bottom of the laptop while I'm using the first and second finger. I need to get used to moving thumb completely off the pad/ device and I think is because it's larger touchpad and extends lower than the older macair I had.
Overall. Happy. Although as my brother in law said, bloody should be at that price.
Well I ordered from Razor on Friday, tracked it all the way from Hong Kong Friday to Oxford UK and it arrived a few mins ago
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misterg36
I know. I even said that on the call. All they would say to me was "if it says it hasn't been released we have never had them - otherwise it would say out of stock"
I've seen them on the Razer site for the last 2 months - they pop up for sale for about 10 mins and then are out of stock again.
I just got off the call to Amazon, saw they had one in stock - ordered it and saw it go out of stock 2 mins later.
I think if they had just given me a real date I would have waited.
On a slightly different note I have to say I totally love it. If I stay off "gaming mode" the temperatures never get too high (something the other 6 laptops I sent back never managed).
I also saw 45fps in 4k with Destiny 2 (none gaming mode) - so am really happy you can choose full performance with heat, or usable performance with no heat issues.
And wow is it a beautiful laptop :)
Hi misterg , been a while, not sure why insider didn't notify me of the new comments made in this thread and I got occupied with work, so I've only just seen all the comments past our last 'why coding is better with 4k' talk. But that aside, I can completely understand the decision to order it from razer directly, this is now becoming a joke from amazon's side, I'm going to give them a serious phone call tomorrow morning, this will be like my 6th phone call about the release date since early august. I think it's crazy that the 4k has been in stock then out of stock on razer UK 2 times since early august now and amazon still haven't managed to satisfy all pre-order customers. Every one of those times I called, i'd get the same sort of reply ''on the system it shows up as not yet released, when it gets released you will be notifyed by email'' LOL. I might even ask directly for a manager. Bottom line is there's only so long I am willing to wait before buying it from amazon holds no benefit.That insurance covering accidental damage for 2 years is the main reason i haven't cancelled my order from them. What's the point of ''pre-ordering'' an item if you don't actually have it in your house sometime resonably close to when the manufacturer released it (early august for razer UK on the 4k model). That time window of being 'resonably close' has probably ran out for me at this stage, and theres only so much longer I'm willing to extend it for the sake of that 2 year accidental damage coverage (which I probably will never even use).
Digressing, Congrats on finally getting the 4k I know you've been waiting ages on it XD! 45 fps in 4k on destiny without gaming mode is fantastic, if it can run that good on 4k then I bet on 1080p or 1440p (settings I will use for gaming) it could easily get 60fps. By chance do you play fortnite? I was wondering if you could test out 1080p, 1440p and 4k on epic settings with shadows off and see what sort of fps you get? By the sounds of things this was definately worth the wait and the right choice over the 144hz for us 50/50 gamers/editors, the fps delivers and the additonal touch screen and 100% aRGB must make the media consumption pleasant to watch and amazing.
Synclide
Hi misterg , been a while, not sure why insider didn't notify me of the new comments made in this thread and I got occupied with work, so I've only just seen all the comments past our last 'why coding is better with 4k' talk. But that aside, I can completely understand the decision to order it from razer directly, this is now becoming a joke from amazon's side, I'm going to give them a serious phone call tomorrow morning, this will be like my 6th phone call about the release date since early august. I think it's crazy that the 4k has been in stock then out of stock on razer UK 2 times since early august now and amazon still haven't managed to satisfy all pre-order customers. Every one of those times I called, i'd get the same sort of reply ''on the system it shows up as not yet released, when it gets released you will be notifyed by email'' LOL. I might even ask directly for a manager. Bottom line is there's only so long I am willing to wait before buying it from amazon holds no benefit.That insurance covering accidental damage for 2 years is the main reason i haven't cancelled my order from them. What's the point of ''pre-ordering'' an item if you don't actually have it in your house sometime resonably close to when the manufacturer released it (early august for razer UK on the 4k model). That time window of being 'resonably close' has probably ran out for me at this stage, and theres only so much longer I'm willing to extend it for the sake of that 2 year accidental damage coverage (which I probably will never even use).
Digressing, Congrats on finally getting the 4k I know you've been waiting ages on it XD! 45 fps in 4k on destiny without gaming mode is fantastic, if it can run that good on 4k then I bet on 1080p or 1440p (settings I will use for gaming) it could easily get 60fps. By chance do you play fortnite? I was wondering if you could test out 1080p, 1440p and 4k on epic settings with shadows off and see what sort of fps you get? By the sounds of things this was definately worth the wait and the right choice over the 144hz for us 50/50 gamers/editors, the fps delivers and the additonal touch screen and 100% aRGB must make the media consumption pleasant to watch and amazing.
Hey Synclide, no worries
Destiny 2 runs at about 12-150fps at 1080p
I play quite a bit of fortnight (though save the world), so happy to give you some framerates when I'm next on.
I will try and get you some 1440p ones too (I have a 1440p monitor, but usually use a razer core, so will try going direct to see what it gets.
I've also managed a -150v undervolt, so with Destiny 2 the CPU didnt get above 85C - which was amazing
Synclide
Hi misterg , been a while, not sure why insider didn't notify . By chance do you play fortnite? I was wondering if you could test out 1080p, 1440p and 4k on epic settings with shadows off and see what sort of fps you get? By the sounds of things this was definately worth the wait and the right choice over the 144hz for us 50/50 gamers/editors, the fps delivers and the additonal touch screen and 100% aRGB must make the media consumption pleasant to watch and amazing.
Ok, I've got some Fortnite Battle Royal numbers for you:
The lower number is what it was at most of the time, and the higher number was what I saw some of the time.
- 4k - 35 fps
- 2k (1440p) - 65fps - 75fps
- 1k (1080p) - 90fps - 150fps
All of them with ultra everything, but blur off (I can't stand blur) - so you could probably tone down stuff if you want it higher.
Also I think Battle Royal is more cpu and network intensive
If you ever want more, a razer core and 1080Ti gives you at least 80% of the full performance of that card so awesome if you want better desktop performance (and the core and core 2 act as a docking station and give ethernet)
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misterg36
Ok, I've got some Fortnite Battle Royal numbers for you:
The lower number is what it was at most of the time, and the higher number was what I saw some of the time.
- 4k - 35 fps
- 2k (1440p) - 65fps - 75fps
- 1k (1080p) - 90fps - 150fps
All of them with ultra everything, but blur off (I can't stand blur) - so you could probably tone down stuff if you want it higher.
Also I think Battle Royal is more cpu and network intensive
If you ever want more, a razer core and 1080Ti gives you at least 80% of the full performance of that card so awesome if you want better desktop performance (and the core and core 2 act as a docking station and give ethernet)
Hey thanks for the reply, those FPS readings are much better than I expected tbh, so that’s a bonus, yeah blur and shadows are always off for me.
But yeah thanks dude
BurntUmberdomeclassic862
Soooo at this point I’m assuming that razer won’t be releasing the 4K in Australia :frown_:
I had to constantly check the UK Razer store. If it says "notify me" they are available (as far as I know).
I was checking every few hours, and one moment I just got lucky. Although Amazon UK have shipped a some (despite telling me they haven't)
So you may be in luck
My preorder has been sitting there at amazon uk since the 17th of June. There have been no stock notifications from the Razer store.
Support say 'please be informed that the Razer Blade 15- 4K is currently out of of stock and there is no estimated date when the product will be back in stock.'
Anybody got any insights?
Support say 'please be informed that the Razer Blade 15- 4K is currently out of of stock and there is no estimated date when the product will be back in stock.'
Anybody got any insights?
luxhibernia
My preorder has been sitting there at amazon uk since the 17th of June. There have been no stock notifications from the Razer store.
Support say 'please be informed that the Razer Blade 15- 4K is currently out of of stock and there is no estimated date when the product will be back in stock.'
Anybody got any insights?
I ordered mine 8th June. I got mine coincidentally 8th September. I feel extremely lucky and judging by lack of reviews seems to be one of the few in the country
luxhibernia
My preorder has been sitting there at amazon uk since the 17th of June. There have been no stock notifications from the Razer store.
Support say 'please be informed that the Razer Blade 15- 4K is currently out of of stock and there is no estimated date when the product will be back in stock.'
Anybody got any insights?
So Amazon UK have delivered at least one (to crypticc above) - but denied ever having one in for me.
I gave up a few weeks ago and ordered one from the Razer store.
This is how I did it:
1) Kept my pre-order on Amazon just in case - figured I could cancel the second I got order confirmation
2) Realised the "Keep me informed" button just doesn't work
3) Every hour or so I tried to buy the 4k blade on the Razer store
4) Got lucky, ordered one and about an hour later it was back to "notify me"
So they are available, but they don't last long but do sell them in batches as the "on sale" period is around 1 hour, so as long as they are on sale, and I have no idea if they are giving any to places like Amazon or Scan.
I was monitoring all the sites every few hours, Razer has had them on sale since mid August (off and on)
The bottom line is:
You have to keep watching the Razor store like a hawk, and keep trying to order - they will be available every so often and the button will change to "add to cart"
Good luck (note this message won't self destruct though not through lack of me trying to make it happen
)
Thanks for all that. I see the 4k Razer is in stock on their site at the moment, but they'll only ship it within the UK, not Ireland.
luxhibernia
Thanks for all that. I see the 4k Razer is in stock on their site at the moment, but they'll only ship it within the UK, not Ireland.
Sorry to hear that. I did see some counties in Ireland in the dropdown.
Do they not have your address, or do they turn you down once you actually order?
United Kingdom is the only country available in the drop-down. the 4k model is not available to EU members.
luxhibernia
United Kingdom is the only country available in the drop-down. the 4k model is not available to EU members.
Can you not buy it from the UK site?
I noticed the EU one only has Norwegian keyboards (possibly as the only option)
luxhibernia
My 4k laptop was fulfilled by Amazon last week. It took 5 months but I have to admit I am very pleased with it now.
Great to hear. I kinda wish I'd managed it due to the extended protection option but had enough after 3 months!
Enjoy, it is a thing of beauty - and the best of the laptops I've used
Late reply... Razer moved onto the 2019 models now, and I think the 4k will be oled. Not sure isI want an oled laptop.
I have an oled TV. They're amazing. But not sure I'm confident about static tool bars and stuff.
I have an oled TV. They're amazing. But not sure I'm confident about static tool bars and stuff.
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