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[NEW] RazerBlade Stealth vs. Lenovo Yoga 900S
[NEW] RazerBlade Stealth vs. Lenovo Yoga 900S
I would love to buy a Lenovo Yoga. Does anyone know if they are as great as they sound? The price is a bit much for me so I'm trying to find it anywhere cheaper. Know of anything?
If you ever had to deal with Razer's support, you'd not be even thinking of throwing money at this company.
Backstory:
A client of mine had a Razer Blade 2014, his son spilled a miniscule amount of liquid on the laptop, just enough the make the 'J' key non functional. Client asked that I see if I can replace the keyboard. Tore the whole laptop down, (I will say they are very well built), got to the keyboard and "Yup ... needs replaced".
Looked everywhere for a replacement, non to be found ... really?
Called Razer, "We don't sell parts" .. Only, ONLY option is to send into Razer for a repair. At a minimum $100.00 even if they don't fix it. Should you decide not to have them fix it after they try to slam you for 2/3rds the original cost of the computer new, for repairs, if you don't pay the $100.00, you don't get your merch back.
So after $65.00 Shipping to Razer, Sure enough two weeks later, get an Email with an invoice enclosed for $1100.00 in repairs. No if's, ands, or buts about it. All or nothing.
Do yourself a favor, buy a laptop you can atleast get parts for if needed. These things are so expensive as it is, and the life/upgrade path for a laptop is minimal as it is.
It's your money, but I'd rather give my money to a company that isn't out to screw it's customers.
Backstory:
A client of mine had a Razer Blade 2014, his son spilled a miniscule amount of liquid on the laptop, just enough the make the 'J' key non functional. Client asked that I see if I can replace the keyboard. Tore the whole laptop down, (I will say they are very well built), got to the keyboard and "Yup ... needs replaced".
Looked everywhere for a replacement, non to be found ... really?
Called Razer, "We don't sell parts" .. Only, ONLY option is to send into Razer for a repair. At a minimum $100.00 even if they don't fix it. Should you decide not to have them fix it after they try to slam you for 2/3rds the original cost of the computer new, for repairs, if you don't pay the $100.00, you don't get your merch back.
So after $65.00 Shipping to Razer, Sure enough two weeks later, get an Email with an invoice enclosed for $1100.00 in repairs. No if's, ands, or buts about it. All or nothing.
Do yourself a favor, buy a laptop you can atleast get parts for if needed. These things are so expensive as it is, and the life/upgrade path for a laptop is minimal as it is.
It's your money, but I'd rather give my money to a company that isn't out to screw it's customers.
Fair Enough! I am looking at the Core, but I do know competitors such as MSI are working on a similar product. Personally I'm going to wait it out, I feel this is a market we will see ample competition from various high-end manufacturers. Particularly ASUS.
Drider
every time I have seen razor laptops the comments are plagued with people whom have had bad experiences. Even the IT guy at my work uses one but said after 3 months he had to send it in for a new motherboard.
Thanks for taking the time to look at this drop and read these comments.
Razer is very hush on pricing of CORE, they will tell me that their margins on Stealth is...marginal. They need to sell a ton, a metric ton.
It is the opinion of this drop that $999 is very reasonable. Initial members of this drop will happily pay $999 for the Stealth but we are confident if we can save even $100 on the Stealth via massdrop then buying a CORE will be that much easier.
•If CORE is $499 it will be out of reach for most gamers that would give Stealth+Core a chance(we're pretty sure CORE won't be here, if it is we would seriously reconsider due to having to put our own GPU in there, which won't be cheap; think Titan).
•If CORE is $399 we will do it without hesitation. Stealth+$399 CORE makes sense to us (think $1,400 plus GPU which is what you'll pay for a 'real' gaming laptop but you won't have the Razer usage scheme that we believe is the future. If CORE isn't too expensive all manaufactures will move this way). If we can get $100 off CORE at $399 this is a major win.
•If CORE ends up being $299 and the massdrop still gets $100 off this drop will make Reddit FP FTW
If you've read down this far you know you're interested so please vote so that massdrop will take our poll seriously and push our request to Razer.
Razer is very hush on pricing of CORE, they will tell me that their margins on Stealth is...marginal. They need to sell a ton, a metric ton.
It is the opinion of this drop that $999 is very reasonable. Initial members of this drop will happily pay $999 for the Stealth but we are confident if we can save even $100 on the Stealth via massdrop then buying a CORE will be that much easier.
•If CORE is $499 it will be out of reach for most gamers that would give Stealth+Core a chance(we're pretty sure CORE won't be here, if it is we would seriously reconsider due to having to put our own GPU in there, which won't be cheap; think Titan).
•If CORE is $399 we will do it without hesitation. Stealth+$399 CORE makes sense to us (think $1,400 plus GPU which is what you'll pay for a 'real' gaming laptop but you won't have the Razer usage scheme that we believe is the future. If CORE isn't too expensive all manaufactures will move this way). If we can get $100 off CORE at $399 this is a major win.
•If CORE ends up being $299 and the massdrop still gets $100 off this drop will make Reddit FP FTW
If you've read down this far you know you're interested so please vote so that massdrop will take our poll seriously and push our request to Razer.
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