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Razer Blade Pro 17 2020

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PRICE £2,667 (£3,200 inc VAT) from razer.com

Razer has built brand around its powerful laptops, but the Pro is biggest and baddest the Its 2020 refresh of this monster is more powerful ever: with latest Intel CPUs and Nvidia GeForce Super silicon inside, Razer’s machine poses a serious threat to Apple’s finest: the 16in MacBook Pro (see issue 305, p52).

It looks the part too, with a slab-like chassis carved from a single block of blackened aluminium. I wouldn’t want to drop it on my toe. Decorative adornments are kept to a minimum, with only the three-armed Razer logo backlit in green on the lid while the Razer Chroma RGB keyboard glows with multicoloured menace on the inside.

Weighing 2.4kg, it looks decidedly chunky next to the 1.38kg LG Gram 17 (see p56), but this is a surprisingly compact machine: note the slim bezels to

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