Razer Blade Stealth is a $1,700 productivity laptop for gamers.

Core V2 turns Razer Blade Stealth laptop into a desktop-class gaming machine

External graphics enclosures are a pretty cool addition to the age of ultra mobility. They let you take advantage of a desktop graphics card with your gaming laptop, giving you that extra graphics performance that allows you to play the latest games on a laptop that wasn’t meant to play them.

I tried out the Razer Core V2 External Graphics Enclosure with the Razer Blade Stealth laptop with a 13-inch screen. I loaded up Fortnite on the machine, and soon enough, I was getting killed by total strangers in Epic’s hot battle royale game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.