The 14-inch gaming laptop space basically has two products in it. The Blade 14 is Razer’s fastest 14-inch laptop to date. It has one of AMD’s most powerful mobile CPUs inside, the Ryzen 9 7940HS – and it’s a monster of a chip, with eight cores, a 5.2GHz boost frequency, and 54W TDP. It is, in a vacuum, a great device. But the pricing relative to its closest competitor makes very little sense. The Blade 14 model has a 16:10 / QHD+ / 240Hz screen, 1TB of storage, 16GB of memory, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 inside is for $2,699. An Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with the exact same resolution, storage, memory, processor, and GPU is currently available for $1,849.99 – with the only difference being a slightly lower-refresh-rate screen. To justify that $850 price increase, the Blade 14 would need to be an exceptional, brilliant, out-of-this-world performer. It isn’t. It’s just good. Since last year, the Blade 14 has gained a 16:10 screen, a slightly bigger touchpad, and some new battery optimiser thing (plus you can upgrade both RAM slots now, which is handy), but gaming on it does not feel broadly different from gaming on its predecessors.