It's here. If you thought Razer had made some beastly laptops in the past, you'll be hiding behind a cushion when the Blade 18 rolls into town. Everything about this massive aluminium slab goes hard. Its 18-inch QHD+ 240Hz display, its six upward-firing speaker array, its RTX 4090 / Intel i9-13950HX processor, even its port selection - everything is egregiously OP. And yet it all still fits in that trademark Razer slimline chassis. There's just one problem. It's difficult to see just who Razer is pitching to with its latest release.
The RTX 4090 configuration I've had to rearrange my desk for over the last month comes in at nearly $5,000 (and over in the UK at £5,199.99) - and doesn't match the performance of far, far cheaper machines. This is an incredibly impressive gaming laptop, with blistering speeds and an impossibly skinny form factor - but it's a mad scientist's machine, and one with a price that means it won't see the light of day too often.
