holographic ballsThank you that ' s all I needed to know <| sep |> I was agonizing over this very dilemma . Even before the sale it was a hard choice . I was sure I was going with the Razer . In the end , when this sale kicked in a few weeks ago , I went with the Asus for the 1070 as the main purpose was portable station for VR demos . If you need something slick professional , and extremely portable . Go with the Razer Blade if you can afford it . Microsoft store with their $ 99 extended warranty so you don ' t need to deal with Razer Support . Seriously , some horror stories about razer support . Get the Microsoft Stores protection plan . I really , really wanted it . It just didn ' t have the performance numbers I was after . If the 1060 in it had been lightly overclocked instead of underclocked and locked , I would could gone that route . But the benchmarks people were turning in on the underclocked 1060 , and the lack of success people were having overclocking it , I had to go for the ASUS . As for build quality . The Asus is solidly build and very nice looking 15 . 4 plastic shelled laptop . The screen backing is metal , but everything else is plastic . It ' s very solid and doesn ' t flex like the really cheapo laptops , but this isn ' t in the same ballpark as premium devices like the Apple Laptops , Microsoft Surface Book , Surface Pro Tablets , or Dell XPS 1315 . For that premium all metal build quality , you need to go for the lower priceperformance Razer . In the end I ' m very happy with the ASUS . It has the performance I was after in a reasonable chassis that ' s thinner and lighter that most highend gaming laptops . While also being reasonably priced . I do lust for that premium metal casing though . So , I might still end up grabbing the Razer Blade Pro and selling the Asus while it ' s still newish and worth something substantial . But I ' m not going to grab the Razer Blade Pro unless the Microsoft Store carries it early next year .