graphics or playing movies. This is a
gaming notebook, yes, but it’s not
just a gaming notebook.
While the SSD might be quite
small, it still transfers files at
tremendous speeds. Games load
quickly, and copying files from
external storage is faster than with
older hard drives.
The gaming performance is the
best we’ve seen from an ultrabook
without a discrete graphics card.
No, ultra settings aren’t an
attainable goal in most games, but
dropping the settings to Medium
or Low makes just about everything
but the most demanding titles
playable at 1080p. And during all
our game tests, the Blade Stealth 13
ran cool and quiet.
While it doesn’t quite match up
against skinnier notebooks and
hybrid tablets, the Mercury White
model of the Blade Stealth 13 (2019)
has an impressive battery life,
managing to comfortably outstrip
the other models of the Blade
Stealth 13 thanks to its lack of a
discrete GPU.
In video playback with a
balanced power plan, the battery
performed excellently, lasting for
almost ten hours. Running the
Blade Stealth 13 on battery saver
mode guarantees all-day
performance off a single charge
if you’re using it for everyday
work and web browsing.
Games do drain the battery a
lot faster, but this ultrabook can
definitely handle a good four or
five hours of Fortnite before it
needs charging. Of course, we’d
always recommend gaming
with your laptop plugged in for
the best performance.Razer has spruced up its 13-inch
ultrabook with new components,
and it still runs super-quiet.h,replaced by a brushed
finish dubbed Mercury White.
eysare a pure white, with
acklighting and glossy,
dirt-resistant texturing. Even the
Razerlogohas undergone a facelift,
nowappearing as simple line art
with a mirrored finish.
It doesn’t feel as much like a
gaming laptop any more. While
other models of Razer’s flagship
ultrabook pack battery-guzzling
discrete GPUs and the dark ‘gamer
style’. This feels more like a
professional tool, equipped with
just enough of Razer’s gaming
experience to fulfil both roles well.
It does enough to set itself apart in
both arenas, too. A high-quality
braided USB-C charging cable
completes the look.
Other than the total recolour,
this is the same Blade Stealth 13
we’ve seen a few times before.
The trackpad is perfectly sized,
allowing for a generous amount
of finger travel, and the speakers
are concealed under thin mesh
strips either side of the keyboard.
Speaking of speakers – no pun
intended, honest – the sound
quality is surprisingly good for such
a compact laptop. While most
serious gamers will want to plug
in a headset, the speakers are
perfectly capable of pumping
out high-volume audio without the
kind of distortion you might expect
from small drivers.
The keyboard feels good to use
for both typing and gaming, with
nice large keys despite the small
chassis. The RGB lighting effects
can be customised using the
pre-installed Razer software, and
looks bright and colourful.
The screen is a fairly run-of-the-
mill 1080p IPS panel, measuring
13.3 inches. Why do laptop
manufacturers all feel they have the
right to remove the decimal in theirproduct names? We may never
know. Either way, the display is
bright and very colourful in motion,
great for both games and videos.Performance
We knew what to expect from the
hardware inside this Blade Stealth
13, but the results we got still
impressed, as they were slightly
better than the figures we had
expected. The Intel Iris Plus
graphics did great in graphical
benchmarks, and rendering tests
showed performance on part with
other 10th-gen Intel notebooks.
Solid scores in GeekBench and
PCMark demonstrate that the Blade
Stealth 13 is a capable all-rounder,
just as comfortable loading
spreadsheets as it is rendering 3D“Fundamentally, this is a pretty great piece of
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Specs as reviewed
Razer Blade Stealth 13
Supplier http://www.razer.com
CPU Intel Core i7-1065G7
GPU Intel Iris Plus
RAM 16GB
Storage 256GB NVMe SSD
Screen 13.3-inch 1080p IPS
Connectivity Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.0,
Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.0/3.1