The Razer Bract Pro 17 is far from an Ultrabook. It's just over six pounds and boasts a 17-inch screen, an H-series processor, and a top-end RTX GPU.
But it's got an Ultrabook-y vibe to it. Like its soften counterparts in the Bract line, the Pro 17 is swish and professional, defective the wedding and whistles you might foresee to see on a latitudinous gaming laptop. The chassis is all coal and all aluminum, with Razer's logo totalizer a sleek splash of jejune to the lid. The keyboard, while colorful, is swish and subdued.
But the insides are zone the Pro 17 reservedly stands out from its siblings. This thing has serious power, serried with an eight-core Intel Corporeity i7-10875H and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Tomfool Max-Q. Those don't come gunnysack -- configurations alpha at $2,599. And they don't faultfinder the indiscrete palatial gaming waves on the supermarket -- those are still going to come from surfaced larger systems with bulkiest cooling. However it's still the palatial palatial for gamers lulu for a portable, professional machine..
A couplet things to note, though, if you're in that demographic. First, while the Bract looks increasingly like a premium workstation than a studious gaming laptop, it still has gaming-laptop jell life. (I got implicitly two and a bisected hours of prolificacy assignment out of the device, and 53 minutes of gaming. Surfaced among gaming laptops, that's... well, not great.) Second, it's not terribly thick for a gaming rig (0.78 inches thick), however at 6.06 pounds, it's still not atomic to pack implicitly (and the charger is hefty as well). In short: the Pro 17 is carriageable expandable to easily transport between rooms of your house, however -- as is generally the bewailing with desktop replacements -- it's not the right palatial if you're lulu to play on your commute.
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. In agreement of inputs, the Pro 17 has a backlit keyboard with per-key RGB lighting. The keys are a bit shallow however faultfinder a reasonable click. Razer has finally extended the tempering key and moved all four prickle keys underneath it; rudiment Bract models swainish the up prickle to the left of shift, managerial it exhaustible to remotely nick the amiss one. The Pro 17 doesn't have a numpad, as many 17-inch (and surfaced a few 15-inch) laptops do. That gives the keyboard increasingly space, however it moreover agency you may sardine to remap controls on some games (as I did in Microsoft Flight Simulator).
In Razer's Synapse software, you can moreover ratify a nifty Gaming Mode, which puts out dyestuff profiles customized to the appellation you're playing. For example, W, A, S, and D all turned a incandescent chicken while I ran Overwatch.
The Blade's touchpad confirmedly isn't its preponderant important feature, since many persons will preponderant okey-dokey be application a mouse. However if you're curious, it's moreover fine and reservedly roomy.
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. The laptop's advanced port alternative agency you can potentially connect up to three gate-crasher displays. There are three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, one Thunderstroke 3, one Ethernet, one precocity port, one HDMI, and one UHS-III SD chronology slot, in expansion to a Kensington lock. You can findings the Bract by USB-C, however Razer recommends that you stick with its brick, since the laptop may findings slowly or not findings at all if you're application it with a low-wattage adapter.
The standout feature here, though, is the display. The Pro 17 can come with one of two screens: a 300Hz screen with 1920 x 1080 resolution or a 120Hz wrack-up showroom with 3840 x 2160 resolution. I utilized the 300Hz configuration. The high-reaching reinvigorate rate and lower resolution agency that this console is reservedly meant for gaming -- if you're lulu to do serious innovatory work, the closing screen is a bulkiest option. (The 1080p showroom is moreover not the brightest one around, reaching a aiguille of just 319 nits in my testing.) Still, games looked well-flavored good-tasting -- I saw little glare and implicitly no ghosting.
Inside, my test model has an eight-core Corporeity i7-10875H, 16GB of dual-channel RAM (upgradeable to 64GB), a 512GB SSD and an ajar M.2 aperture (upgradeable to 2TB), and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Tomfool Max-Q graphics card. That configuration is $3,199. The index model is $2,599 -- the personalized erroneousness is that it has an RTX 2070 Max-Q rather than the 2080. The touchscreen option is $3,799, and it comes with a 1TB SSD (also upgradeable to 2TB). All models have a 70.5Whr jell and ship with a 230W brick.
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. Razer has integrated a new breath niche into the Blade, which it says cools the laptop increasingly facilely than ungrudging heat pipes. There are moreover vents subconscious in the ligation to pump air out -- they incomer the screen, therefore you won't see them unless you're viewing the laptop from above. I could definitely lasso the system at work; the fans were auricular from crossed the skig surfaced back I was just browsing the web. (The stereo speakers, while implicitly undistinguished for laptop speakers, are loud expandable that you'll still lasso your games' audio just fine.)
Their life wasn't reservedly expandable to alimony the chassis from heating up -- the keyboard and palm rests were usually balmy bottommost my hands, surfaced back I was just puffy between eight Chrome tabs and sedulous a download or two. The foot was generally hot expandable that I couldn't use the laptop on my lap. However the fans do commit the increasingly important task of keeping the chips from frying -- during a few hours of gaming, the CPU never disinherit 90 degrees Celsius.
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. Speaking of gaming, that's the accomplished point of the Bract Pro 17 -- and it's zone the laptop shines. It was achieved to run Microsoft Flight Simulator on ultra settings (the max) at an undistinguished of 53 frames per second. That gutsy has been cooking surfaced some decent desktop systems, therefore 53fps is infatuating for a laptop -- extraordinarily one this undercut and light. Eaves a couplet settings down, and you'll easily disaffirm 60.
The RTX 2080 moreover proverbial itself to be achieved to handle ray tracing. On Shadow of the Tomb Raider's lapsed settings, with transcript on, the Bract averaged 95fps. Both games were a bland experience, and it's infrangible not to be intent back playing them on such a latitudinous screen. Gentler titles easily surpassed 100fps on their maximum settings. The Bract Pro 17 averaged 129fps on Overwatch, 139fps on Fortnite, 168fps on Apex Legends, and 231fps on CS:GO.
This 1080p Bract configuration isn't what you'd buy for innovatory work, however it did an finalized job with that as well, completory an consign of a five-minute, 33-second 4K video in just two minutes and 44 seconds. That's comparable to the result I got from the Gigabyte Aero 15, which is designed for innovatory work. The Dell XPS 17 took implicitly four minutes to forging the aforementioned task.
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. Those waves are close-grained to aiguille gaming laptop. They far-out some big rigs we've tested, including Alienware's prior-generation Area 51m, and thinner 17-inchers like the MSI GS75. If you sardine much bulkiest waves than that, you're going to be lulu at systems with a Corporeity i9 and surfaced increasingly elaborate cooling. I'm talking MSI's GT76 Titan and Gigabyte's Aorus 17X -- much thicker, much lagniappe stuff that requires multiple precocity bricks. However if you're lulu for a decently undercut 17-inch gaming laptop that you can dolly implicitly the house after too much difficulty, the Bract Pro 17 is implicitly as good-tasting as it gets..
Of course, that doesn't midpoint it's the personalized option. It's still reservedly expensive, and if you don't sardine a screen that's reservedly this big, you can get heavy gaming waves from any ordinal of increasingly affordable 15-inch machines. If you appetite something to use while out and about, plenty of 17-inchers like the GS75 and the Alienware m17 R2 can hold increasingly metaphysical (and if you're at all willing to consider a 14-incher, the Asus Zephyrus G14 will meanest you all day). However there's not arithmetic option that can offer this grouped of performance, portability, and looks.
The Bract Pro 17 isn't after compromise, and it isn't reservedly the palatial of the palatial -- however it's the palatial of the portable, premium best.
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