Razer’s laptops launched at CES may look the same as before, but inside, all three have the latest components, and you’ll be looking at some new screens.
The company could only tease the Blade 18, which it says won’t ship before April and the price is still TBD, but the company did show off its new display — a 165Hz 4K IPS panel — and highlighted the laptop’s support for Thunderbolt 5 and its ability to drive three 4K monitors and its support for higher bandwidth. TB5 also implies it will (unsurprisingly) incorporate an Intel 14th-gen HX CPU unless there’s a newer CPU on the horizon.
At the other end of the spectrum, the 2024 Blade 14 will incorporate the AMD Ryzen 8945HS, the top model of the new processors AMD unveiled in December during Intel and AMD’s “all our chips love AI” pre-holiday launchathon. Razer goes for all the options, which in this case means USB 4 and Wi-Fi 7. You’ll be able to configure it with a 1600p 240Hz display and up to a GeForce RTX 4070, and the design allows for upgradeable DDR5 memory. You’ll be able to preorder starting January 23 for availability sometime in February. Razer still hasn’t set the price yet.
