Razer has updated its 14-inch Blade gaming notebook by adding the new Intel Core i7-4720HQ CPU as well as the Nvidia Geforce GTX 970M GPU.

Razer describes the new Blade as "the most powerful Blade ever", and in case you missed it last year, you are looking at a 14-inch, 17.8mm thick notebook that should give plenty of performance packed in small and thin notebook chassis.




Razer has updated the Blade by adding the new Intel Core i7-4720HQ 22nm mobile Haswell CPU clocked at 2.6GHz base clock with 3.6GHz Turbo and Hyper-Threading. It will now also be available with a more powerful Nvidia GTX 970M graphics card based on Maxwell architecture and 1280 CUDA cores. The combination of the new Haswell CPU and Maxwell GPU should also provide much better battery life.

As it was the case with the last year model, the Razer Blade gaming notebook will be available in two versions, with 14-inch 14-inch IGZO 3200x1800 touch screen or standard 14-inch 1080p non-touch IPS screen.

The Razer Blade with 14-inch IGZO 3200x1800 touchscreen now starts with Intel Core i7-4720HQ quad-core CPU, Nvidia Geforce GTX 970M GPU, 16GB of RAM a choice between 128, 256 or 512GB M.2 SSD while the non-touch FullHD version of the Razer Blade shares the same specs but has 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD.




Razer has announced that both versions of the new Razer Blade gaming notebook will be available at Microsoft Stores and Razer's own web-store as of February 16th, while both can now be pre-ordered from Razer with a starting price of US $2,199 for the QHD+ touchscreen version, which is actually exactly the same price as the last year model, and US $1,999 for the Full HD IPS version.






Source: Razerzone.com.