Refreshed Razer Blade 18 goes on sale with Thunderbolt 5 support, starts at $3,099.99

[Redaktion]

The new Razer Blade 18 can be configured with an Intel Core i9-14900HX, 64 GB of RAM, 4 TB of storage, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, although it won't come cheap, as pricing tops out at an eye-watering $4,799.99.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Refreshed-Razer-Blade-18-goes-on-sale-with-Thunderbolt-5-support-starts-at-3-099-99.822957.0.html

[Bernie1982]

Primarily interested in this because of the 18" 1000nits qhd display and its compact size but i'll wait for a review to see if they managed to improve battery life to be comparable to the rog scar 18 (which has a similar display). Honestly i'd prefer a laptop with this display with an amd ryzen 8940h...

[DF]

TB5 is a game changer.  Price is ouch territory but they are the first and only ones to utilize TB5 along with pretty serious screen tech.  Review will expose more of the details (fan noise for example).  At this price I doubt you'd want to leap before a full review.

[NikoB]

TB5 is a game changer.

Not at all, it is only 2 times faster than the obsolete pci-e 3.0 x4.

The eGPU requires an optical channel of at least pci-e 4.0 x16 (32GB/s=256GBit/s), which is 4xTB5 ports in aggregation mode.

The funny thing is that Zen4 has 28 pci-e 5.0 lanes, of which 20 are available. Each line 5.0 x1 = TB4. Or 5.0 x2 = TB5.
So last year's 7945HX could easily support a 4xTB5 port matrix, but no manufacturer has done so even at the 4xUSB40 (pci-e 3.0 x16) level...

[NikoB]

What is the benefit of replacing the terrible unreliable copper with optics? People who require powerful 3D/computing (which is noisy) will be able to move this equipment from the desktop to the utility room up to 50m away without a problem, unlike copper wires.

It will be possible, if you have a 1Tbit/s optical link (and even 500Gbit/s), to simply put the computer in a utility room or another room in order to generally work and play in 100% silence. Having on the table only a hub for connecting peripheral devices - mice/keyboards/monitors/sound cards/external drives and other equipment.

An era is coming when there is no need to keep a PC on your desktop. Complete silence is needed.

[Neenyah]

TB5 is a game changer.

Not at all, it is only 2 times faster than the obsolete pci-e 3.0 x4.

Lol.

The eGPU requires an optical channel of at least pci-e 4.0 x16 (32GB/s=256GBit/s), which is 4xTB5 ports in aggregation mode.

Lol.

The funny thing is that Zen4 has 28 pci-e 5.0 lanes, of which 20 are available. Each line 5.0 x1 = TB4. Or 5.0 x2 = TB5.
So last year's 7945HX could easily support a 4xTB5 port matrix, but no manufacturer has done so even at the 4xUSB40 (pci-e 3.0 x16) level...

Lol.

[dhskdh]

how long must we wait for this laptop? it's been 3 months since the ces announcement and now we're told the 4k display is coming 'late summer'? by that point there'll be other tb5 laptops and we might as well wait it out until 2025 for new cpu/gpu's...