I'm digging out the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals using my many years of experience and an NFT of a shovel
Sorry for the Razer-based pun—the deals season does strange things to a person. Anyways, my editor and I are trying to decide between these here two seemingly near-identical Razer Blade 16 gaming laptops.
Both come with an RTX 4080, a Core i9 14900Hz, and a price tag of near-enough $3,000. These Blade laptops don't come cheap, and arguably other companies offer similarly fetch models for less. But some people only want Razer and you can't blame them once you've used one yourself. They're really lovely. As they should be for the money.
The price isn't what we're disagreeing about, it's which one is the better deal.
On the one hand, my pick: the Mercury White option.
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Razer Blade 16 | RTX 4080 | Core i9 14900HX | 16-inch | Mercury White | 32 GB RAM | 2 TB SSD | Mini-LED | 2400p/1200p | 120/240 Hz | $3,599$2,999 at B&H (save $600)
My boss and I are arguing over this one. Not on its deal worthiness (it's a monster of a laptop and the Razer premium is real even if slightly mitigated by this deal), but on whether this Mini-LED model with a 2 TB SSD is worth it over the OLED version below with a 1 TB drive. This one benefits from a beefy resolution that can be tuned to 1200p and 240 Hz if you want more frames, plus it has double the storage. All of which makes it, in my opinion, better than the one below.
Price check: Razer store $3,199.99
This comes with 2 TB of storage and a dual-mode Mini-LED screen. That means the screen can be set to either 2400p or 1200p, and the refresh rate will adjust accordingly between 120 Hz and 240 Hz. It's not a perfect system of switching on these devices but it's a neat feature if you're looking to game and work on this single device.
Plus, the one time we really rate Mini-LED screens is on gaming laptops. They're compact enough where the lighting zones actually work as intended, whereas on larger gaming monitors we're team OLED all the way.
Now for Dave's pick: the Black OLED option.
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Razer Blade
