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Razer's little Blade has been my ride-or-die throughout the year and is my absolute favourite gaming laptop of 2025

Razer Blade 14 gaming laptop with a personal pick 2025 badge overlaid on the image
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Gear of the Year

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I'm lucky enough to have played with a ton of exciting hardware this year, from the latest graphics cards to interesting new handhelds, PCs, and laptops. And while that's meant I've been able to regularly game on an RTX 5090 Founders Ed. (still a really lovely looking pixel pusher) and play AI overlord with the endlessly endearing Framework Desktop, there really is only one piece of hardware that's captured my heart this year, and it's Razer's new-for-2025 Blade 14.

I have no business body-shaming anything, but Blade 14s of 2023 and 2024 were rather portly gents, and far too thick to be a genuinely pleasing compact gaming laptop.

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