Razer Blade Stealth gets Kaby Lake, more RAM, and improved battery

Razer isn’t hesitating to embrace the newest chips from Intel.

The hardware company revealed this morning that it is stuffing a 7th-generation Intel Core i7 processor into its Razer Blade Stealth ultrabook. This product refresh will keep the same chassis, but Razer engineers are using this opportunity to also cram more battery and memory into the system. The Blade Stealth comes with a battery that is 15-percent larger than its predecessor, and four of the five available models will have 16 GB of RAM. The idea is to make the system even faster while it is also more efficient without changing anything that made the Stealth a system that impressed us so much the first time around. It still starts at $999, and it is still less than 3 pounds at only 0.52 inches.