Razer announced the Blade 16 and Blade 18 at CES 2023, then launched both laptops in February, but they only came in Black and not in the company’s popular Mercury color. That’s changing today as Razer has just launched the Mercury Edition of both the Blade 16 and the Blade 18.
You can pick them up direct from Razer and they should also be available soon at selected retailers. Currently the Mercury Edition doesn’t appear to be available through Best Buy or Amazon though. Which means Razer might be the only place to buy them at the moment.
Also worth noting is that the Blade 16 is only available with an RTX 4080 GPU. Though you can get the Black model starting with an RTX 4060 and go all the way up to the RTX 4090 if you want. The Blade 18 is a little different. You can get it in Mercury but with the RTX 4080 GPU or the RTX 4090 GPU. The Mercury model also costs more than the Black model if you’re looking at the Blade 16. And it’s not an insignificant amount as choosing the Black color with nothing else changed gets you a $200 price drop.
The Razer Blade 16 and Blade 18 Mercury Edition laptops aren’t cheap
Then again, Razer’s gaming laptops never are. This has been the case since Razer started making gaming laptops. And the prices only really increased with the launch of the NVIDIA 30-series and 40-series models.
That being said, you’re not just paying for top quality components. You’re also paying for top-notch engineering and some real wizardry with how thin the laptops end up being while managing to still keep things fairly cool. If you’re looking at the Blade 16 or Blade but wanted to wait for the Mercury models, you can pick both up today. The Blade 16 goes for $3,799.99, and the Blade 18 starts at $3,799.99. If you go with the RTX 4090 model, you can add $700 to that price.