Razer Blade 17 (2022) review: faster and cooler than ever
If you’re after a minimalist, dead-serious-looking gaming laptop, Razer’s Blade is still the one to get. Its aluminum-clad design looks more akin to Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 than a laptop that was made for gaming. The Blade line is also untouchable to the competition when it comes to build quality, port selection, and for having an excellent keyboard and trackpad combo.
Razer has a range of Blade gaming laptops now, at a variety of sizes and price points. But for people who want the biggest, most powerful Blade in Razer’s knife block, the 2022 Blade 17 brings the heat without bringing too much actual heat.
Though the Blade 17 (which used to be known as the Blade Pro 17) looks similar to prior versions from the outside, Razer’s improvements to its fans and cooling system keep it running cooler and quieter than before. That’s despite the fact that it has even more powerful specs now. For 2022, that includes faster DDR5 RAM, faster RTX graphics, and a faster Intel 12th Gen processor.
Additionally, this Blade 17 showcases a couple of new form and function additions that are available in all of Razer’s 2022 models, like bigger keycaps and laser-cut speaker grilles. And just like late-2021’s iteration of the Blade 17, this one has Razer’s fingerprint-resistant coating and a 1080p Windows Hello webcam instead of a 720p camera.
The Blade 17 starts at $2,699.99, but the model that I tested costs a whopping $3,999.99. For those keeping track, that’s the same price as MSI’s even more powerful GE76 Raider, which has a faster Core i9 processor and faster RTX 3080 Ti, along with more storage, but an FHD / 360Hz refresh rate display instead of a QHD panel that’s built-in with the model that I tested.
The Blade 17 has a black
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