Razer Blade 15 Vs Microsoft Surface Book 2: Which is Better Option?

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This article is an in-depth comparison of the Razer Blade 15 and Microsoft Surface Book 2. The choice is not easy and if you don’t know which one you should go for, this article may help you find the answer.

Razer Blade 15	Surface Book 2
BUY NOW	BUY NOW
PROS	PROS
Excellent gaming performance. Huge battery life improvement. Windows Hello camera included.	Crazy long battery life. Massively powerful. Lightweight yet large tablet. Excellent cooling.
CONS	CONS
Awfully expensive. Somewhat goofy keyboard layout.	No up-firing base speakers. Small trackpad. Very pricey.

SPECIFICATIONS

DESIGN

Razer Blade 15:

There are a few other differences between the 2019 and the 2018 model. The 2019 is fractionally thicker, but it pretty much imperceptible. Build quality still remains really good, and you can get a black finish or a silvery white finish–that they call Mercury. I much prefer the silvery white look Partially because it doesn’t have that glowing green logo upfront but if you like the green snakes, you gotta go forthe black one.

Microsoft Surface Book 2:

The build quality of the surface book 2 meets expectations which is to say that like the rest of its family it is spectacular. The magnesium body has soft texture to it and no matter where you touch it, it feels solid and well crafted.

KEYBOARD & TOUCHPAD

Razer Blade 15:

The keyboard has also had a little bit of a tweak. Previously, the Razor Chroma Lighting did not light up for the secondary function or function keys like volume control, brightness control, you couldn’t see that stuff in the dark. It’s a little bit annoying if you want to adjust any of those things in a completely dark room. But now those function keys are added.

The trackpad remains unchanged. The Shift button on the keyboard also remains unchanged. The right Shift key is in a weird spot relative to the arrow keys and question mark key. But that’s just a personal thing.

Microsoft Surface Book 2:

The keyboard is nice. It’s a noticeably better typing experience than the original Surface Book. It’s a little bit quieter, and it just feels more responsive than the original Surface Book keyboard, not that that one was bad It was already good. This is just a little bit better.

DISPLAY

Razer Blade 15:

Looking at this Samsung manufactured display is a treat. 600 nits peak brightness, 100% DCI-P3 coverage, HDR 400 certification, and calibration from the factory. The colors, are super satisfying. 600 nits with perfect blacks means an incredible contrast ratio that just makes all the text and icons jump out at you. Overall, Blade 15 is the most satisfying display that I have ever seen on a laptop.

Microsoft Surface Book 2:

The 13 and a half inch pixel sense display on the surface book is setting to look. It has a 3000×2000 resolution which results in a taller display and it’s perfect for browsing the web or creating documents. While the display looks beautiful in its own right, it’s not as nice as the Razer Blade 15 display. The surface book 2 also features multi-touch and is compatible with the surface pen and surface dial.

PERFORMANCE

Razer Blade 15:

2019 Blade has been updated with some new RTX hardware, with other nice features. Now, older generations of Razer Blades have often had issues with thermals. Because the company is very focused on making the devices really thin, and really nice looking And when you do that, it’s just makes it harder to cool this thing properly. So I was worried that this new RTX GPUs, will run a little bit hotter. But it actually doesn’t. It’s clearly not the coolest running laptop on the market, but it doesn’t throttle for what I would consider, like, average gaming. Performance on this GPU is great. It’s pushing an incredibly high frame rate, especially for a thin and light laptop.

Microsoft Surface Book 2:

Performance is good. It’s the quad core Kaby Lake-R It’s a 15 watt CPU, but it’s fast in short bursts. Multi-core performance is really strong now. But the question is whether this extra speed really makes a big difference for what you do And it really depends on your workflow The truth is for the majority of people that are using a device like this it won’t make their workflow Or just work experience that much faster You need specific apps that can handle multi-core processing. But at the end of the day, it is a 15 watt U processor So it’s not gonna be the fastest laptop in the world.

In terms of gaming performance, It’s actually pretty good. The GTX 1050 pushes out some decent performance You have to run it at a lower-than-native resolution But light-to-moderately demanding titles are very playable on this device.

WEIGHT & DIMENSIONS

PORT SELECTION

BATTERY

Razer Blade 15 lasted for 5 hours and 35 minutes. On the other hand, Microsoft claims the computer will get 17 hours of battery life while playing video. It actually lasts for 20 hours and 50 minutes in our testing.

Expert Reviews For Razer Blade 15:

By TechAdvisor
The Blade 15’s big changes for 2019 come on the inside, and they’re mostly successful. The 240Hz screen offers incredible speed and good quality, and the refresh rate is great for esports. The RTX 2070 Max-Q has the pace to handle esports titles at this…

By GoodHouseKeeping
The Razer Blade 15 Advanced RTX 2070 is an impressive piece of kit. There isn’t much that it can’t cope with and especially thrives at gaming. As well as that, photo editing and word processing is a breeze, and you won’t be disappointed by how fast it…

By Techau
The Razer Blade Advanced 15 is seriously one of the best examples of engineering I’ve seen. The body is so well refined, it feels like every mm has been painstakingly analysed and agonized over, like the designers were true craftsman that took ultimate…

By Techteamgb
Everyone on earth seems to be absolutely in love with Razer’s Blade laptops, especially this one, the 2019 “Advanced” model, with an RTX 2070 Max-Q, but for the life of my I can’t figure out why.A perfect example here is the storage. This is a £2,200…

By Verge
The The past couple of years have been good for gaming laptops. They’ve gotten lighter, thinner, and ridiculously more powerful. But while all of those advancements have been extremely welcome, most gaming laptops are still heavily compromised for…

Expert Reviews For Surface Book 2:

By PCPer
If you are a user who needs a discrete GPU for work like 3D rendering or modeling applications, but still wants a relatively thin-and-light machine, the Surface Book 2 is a great option. It’s one of the best-built computers I have ever used while providing above average performance, and killer battery life.

By TopNewReview
Despite those shortcomings, Microsoft has again delivered one of the best 2-in-ls on the market for pro users — it’s a rarity to find a hybrid device that works equally well in both laptop and tablet modes, but the Surface Book 2 achieves it.

By CreativeBloq
If you’re happy using Windows and want a laptop-tablet convertible, you can do no better; the screen is astounding; the design is fantastic and it’s the best Windows tablet, too.

By Xataka
El modelo base con un Core i5 (sin la GTX 1050), 8 GB de RAM y 256 GB de SSD sale por 1.749 euros, y aunque no lo hemos probado es evidente que las prestaciones bajarán de forma sensible, sobre todo en el ámbito de los gráficos. De hecho incluso en este caso el precio vuelve a ser elevado ante una competencia que también lo está haciendo muy bien. La propuesta de Microsoft es estupenda en casi todo, pero desde luego no en este detalle tan importante.

Jaskaran Singh

Jaskaran, a tech enthusiast from childhood, inspired by his father, began his tech journey by rooting Android phones. He now writes on various tech topics, aiming to simplify complex ideas for a broad audience. His writing is direct, concise, and flows effortlessly, making tech topics accessible and engaging.