Razer's 12.5-inch Blade Stealth set out to reimagine thin and Playboy: Wet & Wild 1 (1989)light Ultrabooks earlier this year, and it did.

The company's now refreshing the Windows 10 machine with a seventh-generation Intel Core i7 processor and longer battery life.

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The Blade Stealth still starts at $999 in the U.S. and is available immediately from Razer's online store, and on Amazon and Microsoft stores from later this month.

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Performance upgrades

As the smallest and lightest Blade laptop in Razer's lineup, the Blade Stealth is not designed specifically for performance gaming and comes without the $399 Razer Core external graphics accelerator (and graphics cards sold separately), but the new internal upgrades should make it a little more powerful if you want to game at lower settings.

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The screen's still the same 12.5-inch touchscreen available in QHD resolution (2,560 x 1,440 pixels) and UHD 4K (3,840 x 2,160 pixels), with 100 percent Adobe RGB color saturation on the latter.

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And, of course, the Chroma keyboard still glows in an insane 16.8 million configurable colors.

Here's all the new stuff you get: Seventh-generation Intel Core i7-7500U Dual-Core Processor (2.7GHz/3.5GHz), Intel HD Graphics 620 graphics, 128GB/256GB/512GB PCIe SSD (QHD screen model) or 512GB/1TB PCIe SSD (UHD 4K screen model), up to 16GB of LPDDR3-1866MHz RAM and a larger 53.6 Wh battery that will provide up to 9 hours of battery life (about 15 percent longer than the original Blade Stealth).

For ports, it's still got a Thunderbolt 3 USB-C port, two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI and headphone jack.

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