It’s been a decade since Razer shipped its first Blade laptop, and they’ve all come with Windows. 

That isn’t quite changing but a company called Lambda is now putting Ubuntu on a souped-up version of last year’s Razer Blade 15 Advanced with Razer’s blessing, with the aim of selling it to machine learning and artificial intelligence researchers.

Razer x Lambda Tensorbook Price:

It’s called the Razer x Lambda Tensorbook, and the $3,500 machine is absolutely identical to a high-end version of last year’s laptop in most ways. 

It’s got an 11th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, Nvidia RTX 3080 Max-Q graphics and 64GB of RAM underneath a 15.6-inch 165Hz 1440p display, all powered by a 80Wh battery. 

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. 

The Tensorbook is silver instead of black, and comes preinstalled with the latest drivers and machine learning tools including PyTorch and Tensorflow. 

The recently renewed interest in Linux gaming, driven by the Steam Deck, will push Razer to consider Linux for its own core products as well.