Ubuntu has unveiled a souped-up version of last year’s Razer blade 15 advanced. It’s been a decade since Razer shipped its first blade laptop. The aim of selling it to machine learning and artificial intelligence researchers.

The $ 3,500 machine is absolutely identical to a high-end version of last year’s laptop in most ways. It’s also got the same speedy I/O, including two Thunderbolt 4 ports, three USB 3.2 gen 2 Type-A ports, a uhs-iii SD card reader and both Wi-Fi 6e and Bluetooth 5.2.

Lex says it provides hardware to thousands of research groups already. It says it sells GPUs, servers, and desktop workstations.

Razer’s thin machines run quite hot in our reviews. The blade was no exception even with a quarter of the memory and a less powerful rtx 3060 GPU.

The company touts a 4x SpeedUp over Apple’s M1 Max in a 16-inch MacBook Pro when running blurflow. The retail giant touts the 4x SpeedUp in a MacBook Pro I do n’t just say that because of the silver tones.