In the 17-inch monster laptop market, there’s often little focus on polish. All that matters is desktop specs in a theoretically “portable” form factor and you’re good to go. Razer went another direction with its 17.3-inch Blade Pro laptop, offering a unique mechanical keyboard design, a tiny power brick, and an astonishing four hours of battery in a sub-inch-thick form factor. The 4K G-Sync touchscreen display is another premium part in an already premium laptop.

Now Razer is upgrading last year’s model with an overclockable quad-core Kaby Lake processor, faster memory (2667MHz), and THX certification for both the screen and the audio jack. Razer also “upgraded” the price: the laptop now has a $3,999 starting price, compared to $3,699…

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