Razer has officially unveiled the 2026 Blade 18 today, and at the heart of all three configurations is an Intel Arrow Lake processor.
I’m talking about the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, which features 24 cores, up to 5.5GHz clock speed (with boost), 36MB cache, and an onboard NPU that delivers up to 13 TOPS of compute power.
Meet the next-gen Razer Blade 18, our most powerful Blade ever, bringing desktop-class performance to a portable form factor: https://t.co/BWOuEtjGf9
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The baseline variant pairs the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plust with the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti (12GB GDDR7 VRAM, up to 140W TGP) graphics card and costs $3,999.99. For the price, the gaming laptop also offers 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD.
Add $500 to that price, and you’ll get the same processor with a slightly upgraded GeForce RTX 5080 (16GB GDDR7 VRAM, up to 175W TGP) graphics processor. Other specifications, such as the total memory and storage, remain the same, though.
Stepping up to the top-tier RTX 5090 variant (24GB GDDR7 VRAM, up to 175W TGP), with 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, sets you back $5,130. Maxing out the memory to 128GB increases the asking price to $6,999.99, which, to be honest, sounds like a fortune to me.
Take a look at the full specs sheet below:
All the models share the same excellent 18-inch dual-mode display, which manages UHD+ resolution at 240Hz or FHD+ at 440Hz. The screen has a peak brightness of 600 nits, covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color space, and has a 3ms response time.
Connectivity is quite excellent as well. You’re getting Thunderbolt 5, Thunderbolt 4, HDMI 2.1, 2.5Gb Ethernet, UHS-II SD card reader, and Wi-Fi 7 with Bluetooth v5.4. Whether it’s high-speed memory cards, pro-grade flash drives, or ultra-fast wireless networks, the Blade 18 can handle them all.
Then there’s the 99WHr battery, which charges to 50% in 30 minutes, though the company hasn’t specified how long it is expected to last. Everything sits inside a CNC-milled aluminum unibody that weighs 3.20 kilograms.
Razer is also offering a 400W AC adapter in the box, which, if you ask me, is a testament to how far gaming laptops have stretched as a category.
While the spec sheet looks impressive in isolation, zoom out a bit, and you’ll realize that Razer is asking more for the same GPU tier than most of its rivals.
The Asus ROG Strix Scar 16, with an RTX 5080, comes in around $3,300, while the MSI Titan 18 HX, which is the Blade 18’s most direct competitor with an 18-inch screen, runs significantly higher. The Alienware Area-51 16 brings an OLED display to the fight, if that’s what you’re looking for.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.