The new computer of the American company will offer the full potential of capabilities available on the market today – at a starting price that is higher than NIS 10,000, before tax
After getting acquainted with the Razer Blade 16 and the advanced screen it offers in two of its sub-models, this is a good opportunity to dive into the characteristics of its new big brother – which will allow the company to try its strength for the first time ever in the category of dimensions and weight over 17 inches .
The Razer Blade 18 offers an 18-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 2,560×1,600 pixels, with a refresh rate of up to 240 Hz, coverage of 100 percent of the color gamut in the DCI-P3 standard, an average brightness of 500 nits, a minimum response time of 3 milliseconds, Tone calibration for each panel straight from the factory and support for G-Sync technology for VRR and FRC. It comes with the Windows 11 Home edition system straight out of the box and with a Core i9-13950HX processor with 8 P cores and another 16 E cores from Intel – while there is also one super version that upgrades to the even more advanced Core i9-13980HX model.
Five versions of the Blade 18 will be offered for purchase in the first phase, where the most basic will include a GeForce RTX 4060 card with a power envelope of up to 140 watts, dual-channel DDR5 memory of 16GB at a speed of 5,600MT/s, NVMe storage in the PCI-Express 4.0 generation of 1TB and a processor Core i9-13950HX.
Intermediate versions will include the same processor and the same storage along with 32GB of DDR5 memory at a speed of 5,600MT/s and video cards of the GeForce RTX 4070 model with a power envelope of up to 140 watts or GeForce RTX 4080 with a power envelope of 175 watts – and a senior and even more advanced version will enjoy the The top GeForce RTX 4090 with a power envelope of 175 watts, a Gen 4 storage drive of 2TB and the same 32GB of fast DDR5 memory.
The top and most advanced version of the large gaming laptop will include the Core i9-13980HX processor, alongside GeForce RTX 4090, 64GB DDR5 memory at 5,200MT/s and fast internal storage of 2TB.
The Blade 18 will offer the minimalist black metal casing we know from all the other Blade models, with a thickness of just under 22 millimeters and a weight of about 3.2 kilograms – which also includes an advanced audio array with 6 speakers (4 woofers, 2 tweeters and 3 smart amplifiers) includes support for THX spatial audio technologies, an advanced built-in webcam with 5 megapixel resolution, a pair of M.2 slots for NVMe drives that house flash chips on both sides of the printed circuit board on the way to a combined maximum volume of 8TB, a large touch surface with Glass cladding, a cooling array based on an evaporation chamber and three fans and an internal 91Wh battery (alongside a high-power external power supply unit and reduced dimensions thanks to the GaN technology).
The set of connections of the mobile consists of a full-sized SD card reader, with support for the fast UHS-II standard, an integrated 3.5 mm audio connection, a full-sized HDMI 2.1 port, three USB 3.2 Gen.2 connections in a physical Type-A interface, a pair of USB Type-C, one of which supports Thunderbolt 4 technologies (and both allow charging the device at a maximum power of 100 watts), a dedicated connection to the power supply – and a physical Ethernet connection at a speed of up to 2.5Gbps.
Like the Razer Blade 16, the Razer Blade 18 will also arrive in stores sometime during the first quarter of this year, carrying a starting price tag increased by $200 compared to its brother – $2,900 for a base version with an RTX 4060 and 16GB of memory Dynamic, or 10,200 shekels before tax addition and before we started trying to imagine how much the hardware upgrades for a more powerful graphics card, for a larger amount of storage or to double the DDR5 memory would cost us.
Based on what we’ve seen from Razer in the past, we wouldn’t be surprised if the top version of the Blade 18, equipped with an RTX 4090 alongside 2TB of storage and 64GB of dynamic memory, would carry a price tag of close to $5,000 or NIS 17,550 in direct conversion , before no.
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