Razor Blade Stealth?

[jaged]

My nephew saved his summer job money and wants to buy a laptop for gaming.

I am a desktop gamer so I am little help to him.

he said he was thinking of buying the Razor Blade Stealth.

Based on the info below, can I get some opinions/options?

We'd be buying any hardware in Canadian funds

1. What is your budget? $1500

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? CS:GO, Sims 4, Star Wars on MED-HIGH resolution

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) no editing, basic school work

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? 1tb+

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. myself I deal with NCIX in Canada but I believe he was considering buying the Razor directly from them.

13. What country do you live in? Canada

Thanks in advance.

Jaged.

 

[TechyInAZ]

No I don't recommend the Razer Blade Stealth. YOU NEED the dock to game on it well, and it's a completely rip off at $500 for the dock alone!

I highly recommend the MSI GT72 notebooks. It's a bit bigger, but it's the best bang for your buck in terms of price to performance on a laptop. (I recommend the GT notebooks with GTX 1060.)

Here is a good example: http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834154292&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=PPSSIFVAIZNAPM-_-34-154-292-_-Product

 

[xapoc]

Unless I'm seeing things, true gaming laptop does not use intel integrated graphics. Which mean graphics card would be an add-on, what graphics card is he going with on this laptop?

 

[superninja12]

i hope hes fully aware that a laptop will never reach the peformance of a desktop for the price.

the current razer blade stealth features intel hd graphics 520: which means for gaming: 30 fps medium settings for triple a games like gta 5 witcher 3.
sure csgo league easily 60fps and youtube 60fps on 2k.

 

[superninja12]

Unless I'm seeing things, true gaming laptop does not use intel integrated graphics. Which mean graphics card would be an add-on, what graphics card is he going with on this laptop?

thats the problem in that price range u get these intel graphics or a gtx 960m which will give the fps in my previous comment(for both of them)

 

[TechyInAZ]

No I don't recommend the Razer Blade Stealth. YOU NEED the dock to game on it well, and it's a completely rip off at $500 for the dock alone!

I highly recommend the MSI GT72 notebooks. It's a bit bigger, but it's the best bang for your buck in terms of price to performance on a laptop. (I recommend the GT notebooks with GTX 1060.)

Here is a good example: http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834154292&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=PPSSIFVAIZNAPM-_-34-154-292-_-Product

 

[superninja12]

a good video about the newest laptop graphics cards that is defenetly worth a watch : https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQHaNPi_3c8

 

[jaged]

Thanks for all the info. I'll pass it along.