True to its name, the Razer Blade Stealth is a sleek ultraportable with unobtrusive styling for meeting with your boss or taking notes during the day. But it can stealthily change into a gaming powerhouse (with a little help from the Razer Core) by night.
A new, larger Razer Blade Stealth, unveiled on Wednesday at E3, carries on that tradition. The standout new feature is an updated 13.3-inch, touch-enabled QHD display, which packs in 3,200 by 1,800 pixels. That's almost an inch of additional screen real estate, although Razer will continue to sell the 12.5-inch versions: one with a QHD non-touch display and one with a 4K touch screen.
The new 13.3-inch model starts at $1,399, and is un-customizable except for its hard drive. The base model comes with a relatively generous 256GB of solid state storage, and you can swap in a 512GB drive for an extra $200 or a 1TB version for an extra $600.
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The processor is a seventh-generation Intel Core i7, coupled with 16GB of RAM. A Thunderbolt 3 interface is included for connecting to power, external displays, or USB accessories, and it's also used to connect the Blade Stealth to the Razer Core external graphics enclosure, which is part of its stealthy transformation to a gaming powerhouse once you return home from a long day at work.
The aluminium chassis—now available in black or gunmetal gray—doesn't change much otherwise, with few accents that would identify the machine as a gaming rig besides the Razer logo. It has grown slightly to accommodate the larger screen, of course, with the 13.3-inch model weighing in at 2.93 pounds compared to the 12.5-inch's 2.84 pounds.
All three models are available for purchase on Razer's website, although the new 13.3-inch configurations were sold out as of early Wednesday afternoon. Razer says inventory will arrive in third-party stores later this month.