Razer Announce the Blade 14 Mercury Edition with USB4 Support

[TheLostSwede]

The Razer Blade 14, the world's most powerful 14" gaming laptop, is now available in a fresh new Mercury edition finish. This colorway combines the Mercury anodized aluminium chassis with a matte black keyboard for a truly striking aesthetic package. This new colorway is exclusive to two Blade 14 GPU configurations: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. The addition of Mercury to the Blade 14 line marks the first time any Razer Blade is available in three different colorways simultaneously (Mercury, Quartz, and Black).

Along with the colorway release, a software update is now available for 2022 models of the Blade 14, upgrading the two Type-C USB-3.2 Gen 2 ports to USB4 and bringing support for Microsoft Pluton. USB4 expands peripheral compatibility, increasing device connectivity options and enabling multi-monitor deployments, support for Thunderbolt peripherals including Razer's Thunderbolt dock and Core X external graphics enclosures, and more. Microsoft Pluton's chip-to-cloud security technology protects users with an array of hardware-based security capabilities and services. New and existing 2022 Blade 14 owners should contact Razer Support to download this update.




All Blade 14 laptops are protected by a 1-year manufacturing warranty and a 2-year battery warranty backed up by Razer's award-winning customer support. Optional enrollment in RazerCare provides further peace of mind.

Price
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 configuration: $1,999.99 / 2,199.99€ MSRP
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti configuration: $2,599.99 / 2,899.99€ MSRP (France: 3,199.99€ MSRP)

USB4 and Microsoft Pluton upgrade is available as a free update to new and existing 2022 Blade 14 owners.

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[Ravenmaster]

LOL this looks like a 2015 macbook

 

[AsRock]

Well it might look like a Macbook, but you should be able play games on it, well until it breaks.

As for the price WOW, crazy how much people will pay for a laptop.

EDIT:

LOL this looks like a 2015 macbook

Looks like it might have less connection types than a Macbook to which is crazy.

 

[Chrispy_]

These Razers are so dumb.

They're unbelievably heavy for their size which makes them some of the worst travel candidates you can spend money on, so they are clearly bought by most people to spend most of their life on a desk. At which point, why are they so damn thin? €2900 is a lot of cash to splurge on a laptop that's inadequately cooled due to its ridiculous combination of limited heatsink area and vastly over-optimistic component choices. Their performance/$ is abysmal and their overworked cooling makes one hell of a racket when you do.

I'd also like to dispute Razer's claim of "award-winning warranty". I've stopped buying Razer for work; After having RMAs rejected for "customer damage" on two laptops from a £60K+ bulk order despite me sending in photo evidence of the cracked PCIe slots damaged by gorilla-strength WiFi card insertion, and then *actually held together* with a "warranty void if removed" sticker. That's not just abysmal QC, and piss-poor training of assembly staff, that's also Razer customer service denying a crime that their own fucking technicians signed with their own handiwork. How the hell does a customer damage something under one of those disintigrating stickers, exactly? I was stonewalled and treated like a dumb kid who broke his toy, despite having a business account and this being an absolutely indisputable manufacturing defect.

There are other laptop manufacturers who honour their warranties. I told Razer to piss off and have actively boycotted them in all walks of life ever since - I can't say they make anything desirable enough for that to really be difficult for me as the few things that could be good are typically unreasonably expensive compared to the competition.

Well it might look like a Macbook, but you should be able play games on it, well until it breaks.

Is this a snide remark based on your own experiences of shoddy quality and terrible warranty support? Just curious...

 

[Tek-Check]

Heavily overprised. Ridiculous. Hard pass!

 

[AsRock]

These Razers are so dumb.

They're unbelievably heavy for their size which makes them some of the worst travel candidates you can spend money on, so they are clearly bought by most people to spend most of their life on a desk. At which point, why are they so damn thin? €2900 is a lot of cash to splurge on a laptop that's inadequately cooled due to its ridiculous combination of limited heatsink area and vastly over-optimistic component choices. Their performance/$ is abysmal and their overworked cooling makes one hell of a racket when you do.

I'd also like to dispute Razer's claim of "award-winning warranty". I've stopped buying Razer for work; After having RMAs rejected for "customer damage" on two laptops from a £60K+ bulk order despite me sending in photo evidence of the cracked PCIe slots damaged by gorilla-strength WiFi card insertion, and then *actually held together* with a "warranty void if removed" sticker. That's not just abysmal QC, and piss-poor training of assembly staff, that's also Razer customer service denying a crime that their own fucking technicians signed with their own handiwork. How the hell does a customer damage something under one of those disintigrating stickers, exactly? I was stonewalled and treated like a dumb kid who broke his toy, despite having a business account and this being an absolutely indisputable manufacturing defect.

There are other laptop manufacturers who honour their warranties. I told Razer to piss off and have actively boycotted them in all walks of life ever since - I can't say they make anything desirable enough for that to really be difficult for me as the few things that could be good are typically unreasonably expensive compared to the competition.


Is this a snide remark based on your own experiences of shoddy quality and terrible warranty support? Just curious...

Yes all 4 bad experiences ( excluding the RMA's of 4 items which were bad too ), and of others.

 

[mechtech]

LOL this looks like a 2015 macbook

lol I know, I thought it was and I scrolled right by it, then when scrolling back up and seen razor............the light went on, oh it's a pc.

 

[trsttte]

They're unbelievably heavy for their size which makes them some of the worst travel candidates you can spend money on, so they are clearly bought by most people to spend most of their life on a desk. At which point, why are they so damn thin? €2900 is a lot of cash to splurge on a laptop that's inadequately cooled due to its ridiculous combination of limited heatsink area and vastly over-optimistic component choices. Their performance/$ is abysmal and their overworked cooling makes one hell of a racket when you do.

They even advertise compatibility with their Razer Core eGPU, why are they putting discrete graphics on these things? The 6900HX has pretty nice integrated graphics, certainly more than enough for any day to day use, when pushing for the 3060/3070 these things would tethered anyway. The lack of discrete graphics would also allow a much higher cooling budget (like all of it ) to be dedicated to the CPU and make this thing a lot more usable. Such a waste

 

[Minus Infinity]

Looking at over $4K in Australia for the top spec model

 

[Chrispy_]

Yes all 4 bad experiences ( excluding the RMA's of 4 items which were bad too ), and of others.

This was the final straw for me after a number of times Razer burned me. I'm an idiot for thinking they'd stopped being a terrible POS company.

"Customer damage" - they wanted ~$1300 to replace the motherboard:

 

[Deleted member 185088]

For 3000€+ they should've at least put a fake 3080ti, at least you feel you're getting something for 3k€.

 

[Tek-Check]

Looking at over $4K in Australia for the top spec model

It's nonsense prices.