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Review on πŸ’» Razer Blade Pro 17 Gaming Laptop 2020: Intel Core i7-10875H, RTX 2080 Super, 4K 120Hz, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Thunderbolt 3 by Kip Ruach

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Fantastic build quality and high quality components. Terrible keyboard and touchpad.

This comes closest to a MacBook Pro with excellent build quality. Very strong, inflexible one piece construction and very high quality components. What is clear, however, is that the Razor engineering team consists of nine geniuses and one idiot. In an incredibly stupid and unjustified move, they changed the labels on the keys. For some silly reason, which serves no purpose other than to make your life miserable, they decided to place the symbols BELOW the numbers instead of above them. And all double character keys (like colon and semicolon) are also in reverse order compared to every other keyboard on the planet. Insanity. Everyone's brain is programmed to move up to symbols. Do not move DOWN towards them. Therefore, typing passwords with characters is a big problem now. Are you looking for a period, an equal sign, or a semicolon? I promise you that your eyes will go straight to the key and then you will not find it. No one, blind typist or not, remembers whether to indent a square bracket or a curly bracket. You see, you see the reverse layout, and then you type the wrong one. Again a completely idiotic move without the slightest benefit. I can still return it before the return deadline. The only other major complaint is with the touchpad. I struggle with that all day. He alternately ignores very specific touches and then reacts to the slightest touch with the back of my hand. This causes the cursor to randomly jump to a different spot on the screen, or, like TWICE while typing, highlights all of the text in the text box, causing your next keypress to overwrite everything. The touchpad on my MacBook Pro has always been flawless. No changes to Windows settings will solve these problems. All in all, silly aside, the components and build quality are excellent. It's truly a desktop replacement when it comes to performance and graphics performance. I just wish they fired that engineer.

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