Razer Blade 14 ZDNET's key takeaways The Razer Blade 14 (2025) is on sale now starting at $2,000.
It's a gorgeous laptop that redefines portability for gaming machines.
However, the ultraportable form factor results in trade-offs when it comes to performance and upgradability. View now at Razer
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The Blade 16 has been Razer's flagship gaming laptop for years, but the thinner, sleeker design on 2025's Blade 14 (the thinnest Blade model yet) gives nothing short of a stunning first impression.
The new model is 11% thinner and 11% lighter than its predecessor, weighing just 3.5 pounds and 0.6 inches thick, with a slick, matte black finish that looks and feels premium. The form challenges the brand's own aesthetic with a device that looks more like a Dell XPS 14 or MacBook Pro than a gaming laptop.
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The physical build is certainly one of this laptop's best features. Despite its thin and light frame, it feels expressly durable, with minimal flexing or screen wobble. I also love the large rubber posts on the bottom of the device that keep it from sliding around and allow for more airflow.
By highlighting this new and improved form factor, Razer is taking aim at competing 14-inch gaming laptops, particularly the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, which reigns supreme as one of the best 14-inch gaming laptops out there (one of our favorites, as well).
There are a handful of differences between these two laptops, however, with the Blade 14 trading a little bit of that power for its svelte form factor, opening up a use case as a device that's equally capable on the Steam dashboard as it is in the office.
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