Razer Is Trying to Break Out of Gaming with the Razer Book 13

Over the previous couple of years, Razer has been regularly increasing its portfolio outdoors of gaming with merchandise just like the Razer Blade Studio and its Professional Click on peripherals. However now Razer appears to be like prefer it’s lastly getting critical about normal productiveness with the Razer Bookay 13.

Whereas at first look the Razer Guide 13 would possibly appear as if a silver model of the Razer Stealth, there are a handful of essential variations. The primary main one is that as a system designed strictly for productiveness, the Guide 13 doesn’t include an possibility for a discrete GPU, which suggests you’re caught with built-in graphics (although you may join the Guide 13 to considered one of Razer’s exterior GPUs if you would like). That signifies that although you would possibly have the ability to play some older sport on the Guide if you’re away from dwelling you gained’t actually have the choice to play newer AAA titles.

Moreover, not like the Stealth, the Guide 13 contains a 16:10 facet ratio display screen with three totally different configs: a matte, non-touch 1920 x 1200 show, a 1920 x 1200 touchscreen, and a 4K touchscreen. So as soon as once more, whereas this alternative makes the Guide 13 barely much less best for watching films or enjoying video games, that 16:10 facet ratio gives extra vertical display screen actual property, which is essential should you’re writing essays, utilizing spreadsheets, or modifying images or movies.

Lastly, whereas the Guide 13 options an aluminum unibody design and twin upward-firing audio system like different Razer laptops, the Guide is about 10% lighter than Razer Stealth, regardless of each being 13-inch techniques.

Elsewhere, although the Guide 13 isn’t meant for gaming, it’ll nonetheless have robust specs together with your alternative of Eleventh-gen Intel Core i5 or i7 CPUs, as much as 16GB of 4267-MHz RAM, a choice of SSDs, and Intel Iris Xe built-in graphics. Port choice on the Guide 13 can be significantly better than common with Razer together with a microSD card slot, a full-size HDMI port, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a USB 3.2 Sort-A port, and a 3.5mm audio jack.

The Guide’s battery life additionally appears to be like respectable, with Razer claiming the Guide 13 ought to final round 14 hours on a single cost. The truth is, whereas the bottom Guide 13 doesn’t have the specs to be Intel Evo licensed (on account of its lack of a touchscreen), the remainder of the Guide 13 fashions are, which suggests they’ve been examined by Intel to ship issues like quick wake occasions, vivid screens, and Wi-Fi 6, and extra.

And whereas the Guide 13 is concentrated on productiveness, Razer hasn’t totally ditched its gaming heritage, which suggests you get full per-key RGB lighting and Razer Chroma integration, so you may arrange primary single colour keyboard backlighting when your working, after which activate the total rainbow at night time to calm down.

So although Razer isn’t the corporate you’d usually flip to for a normal productiveness laptop computer, the Razer Guide 13 is shaping as much as be an fascinating various to one thing like an HP Spectre or Dell XPS.

The Razer Guide 13 will begin at $1,200 (for a FHD+ non-touch show, Eleventh-gen Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD) and is anticipated to go on sale someday later this month.