LAS VEGAS — Razer's meteoric rise from being a PC peripheral maker to also being one of the most envied laptop makers in the world has been nothing short of insane.

The company's not slowing down with the lust-worthy laptops. The new Razer Blade Stealth is its lightest and thinnest laptop yet. Its $999 starting price also undercuts competitors like the Dell XPS 13 and 13-inch MacBook Air by a couple of hundred bucks while offering more power and a higher-resolution touchscreen.

The base model Blade Stealth has a 12.5-inch QuadHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution IGZO touchscreen with really wide viewing angles, and a Chroma-lit keyboard. Yep, that's the same wild lighting system in its mechanical keyboards configurable in 16.8 million individual colors. A model with a 4K touchscreen is also available (its IGZO display can display can display 100% Adobe RGB color gamut).

At 0.52-inches thick and weighing 2.75 pounds, the Blade Stealth is quite the svelte Ultrabook. The thinness doesn't come at the expense of ports like some other laptops; it has two USB 3.0 ports and the new USB-C Thunderbolt 3 port.

Inside, you'll find a sixth-generation Intel Core i7-6500U dual-core processor, 8GB of RAM and 128GB/256GB (QuadHD display model) or 256GB/512GB (Ultra HD display model) of ultra-fast PCIe storage, and Intel HD Graphics 520.

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The integrated graphics won't cut it for gamers, which is why Razer is also selling the Razer Core, an external graphics card dock that connects to the Blade Stealth via a single Thunderbolt 3 cable, and essentially turns it into a jacked up desktop gaming PC within seconds. Razer says the Core's chassis can support virtually every popular AMD or NVIDIA graphics card.

No word on pricing for the Core, but Razer says it'll be released in the first half of the year.

Both the Blade Stealth and Core will be available exclusively at official Razer retail stores and from its online store and start shipping later this month.