Laptops
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for the Windows on Arm platform. Announced is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 14 and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 both feature Qualcomm's latest 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor, ushering in a new era for Microsoft's Windows on Arm platform. Lenovo aims to target content creators and business professionals with these new models. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite processor looks set to try to change the adoption of the Windows-on-Arm devices, with a critical focus on providing AI capability on device, which promises up to 45 TOPs of performance solely from the Hexagon NPU. Powered...
Lenovo ThinkPad Broadwell Updates for T550, T450s, E550, E450, and L450
Wrapping up the ThinkPad updates for now, Lenovo also announced the T550, T450s, E550, E450, and L450 today. As with the X1 Carbon and X250, these replace the previous...
30 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
Lenovo ThinkPad X250
There’s a theme with the Lenovo updates being announced today: in most cases, the new models are similar to the previous generation, only now with Intel’s Broadwell-U processors in...
20 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon: Broadwell Version
Lenovo has a whole slew of announcements coming out over the next few days, but let’s start at the top with the updated X1 Carbon. The latest iteration upgrades...
25 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI WS60 and WT70 Mobile Workstations
Wrapping up the MSI Notebooks coverage, also on display at MSI’s suite were a couple of their latest mobile workstations. These are lower volume parts and basically take their...
0 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI GT80 Titan: Full Specs Revealed
Last year, MSI teased us with some images of their upcoming GT80 Titan notebook, an 18.4” gaming behemoth with support for SLI GPUs and a full Cherry MX mechanical...
23 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI Announces GS30 Shadow Laptop and GPU Expansion Dock
One of the very interesting looking laptops from MSI is their upcoming GS30, which carries on the thin and light theme of the GS series but extends that down...
41 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
MSI Unveils GE62 and GE72 Apache Notebooks
After reviewing the GT72 Dominator Pro last year, I wondered how long it would take to see some of the updated industrial design elements make their way into other...
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Acer Announces First 15” Chromebook, with a Broadwell Processor
CES officially starts this week, which means announcements are going to start pouring out. Every year it seems the pre-CES stuff starts earlier, and for 2015 Acer is kicking...
23 by Jarred Walton on 1/4/2015
Best High-End Laptops: Holiday 2014
High-End Laptop Recommendations Our holiday guides have covered a lot of products so far, and just on the laptop side of things we've looked at budget laptops, Chromebooks, and mainstream...
85 by Jarred Walton on 12/18/2014
HP Stream 11 Review: A New Take On Low Cost Computing
The low cost Windows laptop world has been a rather frustrating experience over the last several years. Manufacturers created big, bulky designs packed with low resolution TN displays and...
59 by Brett Howse on 12/17/2014
Best $1000 Laptops: Holiday 2014
Mainstream Laptop Recommendations So far we've covered the budget laptop sector as well as Chromebooks in our Holiday 2014 Guides, but if you want a good quality laptop that can...
80 by Jarred Walton on 12/5/2014
Best $500 Laptops: Holiday 2014
[Note: prices are changing a lot right now; there are sales that come and go, and some of the prices we quote will inevitably change. Please view these recommendations...
59 by Jarred Walton on 12/1/2014
Chromebook Buyer's Guide: Holiday 2014
If you want something more than a tablet, the cheapest options are undoubtedly Chromebooks. These are basically the least expensive laptops you can find, and while we're working on...
64 by Jarred Walton on 11/26/2014
MSI GT72 Dominator Pro Review: GTX 980M Reigns Supreme
When it comes to high-end gaming notebooks, there are only a few real competitors: Alienware, ASUS, Clevo (under various brand names), and MSI are the main options, with a...
57 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014
HP Launches Omen: A Thin Gaming Laptop
HP today announced the availability of their new Omen laptop, a name that hearkens to their acquisition of Voodoo PC clear back in 2006. It's been a while since...
32 by Jarred Walton on 11/4/2014
Acer Announces UHD V Nitro Black Edition Laptop
Back in late September, Acer announced a new line of laptops, the V Nitro Black Edition of their popular V series. The V series in many ways is the...
20 by Jarred Walton on 11/3/2014
MSI GT80 Titan: A Beastly Notebook with a Cherry MX Keyboard
Yesterday MSI announced their latest notebook addition, the GT80 Titan. I'm a bit unsure what to think of the notebook, but it's obviously unique in that it offers a...
34 by Jarred Walton on 10/31/2014
Alienware's Graphics Amplifier Announced - An External Video Card Chassis Shipping Soon
The idea of an external PCI-Express chassis for video cards is practically as old as PCI-Express itself. However over the years the idea has failed to reach the consumer...
80 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2014
Alienware Launches The Alienware 13 Gaming Laptop With A Twist
Alienware teased the new, smaller version of their gaming laptop in August. Available today, the Alienware 13 is the 4.5 pound little brother to the Alienware 14, but this...
21 by Brett Howse on 10/28/2014
Investigating NVIDIA's BatteryBoost with MSI GT72
BatteryBoost initially launched with the GTX 800M series earlier this year, and our first look at the technology came with the MSI GT70 with GTX 880M. That may not...
26 by Jarred Walton on 10/23/2014
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