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...
The 2014 Razer Blade Review
In early 2014 the Razer Blade got a refresh. The significant updates over the 2013 model are the display, moving from a (rather poor) 1600x900 panel to a 3200x1800...
69 by Brett Howse on 10/10/2014Lenovo Launches Refreshes Of The Yoga Line
Today in London, Lenovo took the wraps off of a refresh of the entire Yoga series, starting with the new Yoga 3 Pro, then moving to the new Yoga...
65 by Brett Howse on 10/9/2014MSI GT72 Dominator Pro: Performance Preview
NVIDIA just launched their new GTX 980M/GTX 970M GPUs, and unfortunately we were unable to get a notebook in time for testing… which just changed a few hours ago...
53 by Jarred Walton on 10/8/2014More GeForce GTX 980M/970M Notebooks
Continuing with our GTX 980M/GTX 970M coverage, I expect we'll see press releases and website updates from all of the major notebook vendors today or very soon, as all...
9 by Jarred Walton on 10/7/2014NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M: Mobile to the Maxwell
Every year NVIDIA launches quite a few new products; some are better than others, but they're all interesting. This fall, the big news is Maxwell 2.0, aka GM204. Initially...
68 by Jarred Walton on 10/7/2014MSI Gaming Notebooks with GeForce GTX 980M and 970M
As noted in the conclusion of our GTX 980M/GTX 970M launch article, we're going to be covering some of the notebooks that are being announced today in separate Pipeline...
13 by Jarred Walton on 10/7/2014HP Splits In Half: Consumer & Enterprise Businesses To Separate
After a weekend of rumors spurred on by a Wall Street Journal report, HP has confirmed this morning that the company intends to split in half next year. The...
16 by Ryan Smith on 10/6/2014HP Announces Low Cost Stream Laptops And Tablets
Several weeks ago, Hewlet-Packard announced the HP Stream 14” Notebook. The Stream series is HP’s version of the low cost Windows laptop, meant to compete head to head with...
49 by Brett Howse on 9/29/2014DisplayPort Alternate Mode for USB Type-C Announced - Video, Power, & Data All Over Type-C
Earlier this month the USB Implementers Forum announced the new USB Power Delivery 2.0 specification. Long awaited, the Power Deliver 2.0 specification defined new standards for power delivery to...
117 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2014Hands On with USB Type C: Reversible USB Connectors
Today, the USB-IF brought me in to see the long-awaited USB Type C cables. We've written about this before, but for those that aren't familiar with this new USB...
91 by Joshua Ho on 9/11/2014Quick Look at Core M 5Y70 and Llama Mountain
Today, Intel showed off a reference design codenamed Llama Mountain, which is an incredibly thin tablet running Intel's Core M 5Y70. While we've covered Core M previously it's worth...
81 by Joshua Ho on 9/10/2014NVIDIA Files Patent Infringement Complaints Against Qualcomm & Samsung
In a surprising move this afternoon, NVIDIA has announced that they will be filing patent infringement complaints against both Qualcomm and Samsung. This complaint is centered around the alleged...
77 by Ryan Smith & Jarred Walton on 9/4/2014IFA 2014 Lenovo Launches More PCs - From Laptops To Tabletops
At the IFA convention in Berlin, Lenovo launched two PCs and a tablet yesterday, and today they are at it again with the new ThinkPad Helix 2-in-1 Ultrabook, HORIZON...
17 by Brett Howse on 9/4/2014IFA 2014 Lenovo Announcements - Android Tablet, Gaming Laptop, Gaming Desktop
The world’s largest PC maker arrived at the IFA trade show in Berlin with quite a few new products. Today Lenovo announced an 8” tablet, a 17” gaming laptop...
27 by Brett Howse on 9/3/2014ASUS EeeBook X205: The $199 Windows Alternative to Chromebooks
When ASUS introduced the first EeePC back in 2007, it became a huge hit and essentially ushered in the era of the netbook. Using Linux as the core OS...
35 by Jarred Walton on 9/3/2014ASUS' Zenbook UX305: Core M and QHD+
Today at IFA ASUS announced a couple of new laptops. The first continues the refinement of the Zenbook line with an update geared around Intel's Core M line of...
15 by Jarred Walton on 9/3/2014Toshiba announces new Chromebook 2 line
Expanding its Chromebook lineup, Toshiba is updating its original model by releasing the Chromebook 2. During my time with the device the most immediate difference on this new model...
4 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/3/2014Western Digital Launches My Passport Wireless Mobile Storage Lineup
The popularity of the mobile device market (smartphones and tablets) has opened up an allied opportunity for companies - augmenting the limited storage available in those devices with portable...
6 by Ganesh T S on 9/3/2014MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K Review
MSI has several lines of gaming notebooks catering to different types of users. At the high-end is the GT series that supports the fastest mobile CPUs and GPUs while...
47 by Jarred Walton on 8/21/2014Browser Face-Off: Chrome 37 Beta Battery Life Revisited
Last week we posted our Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014, where the battery run down times of Firefox 31, IE11 Desktop, IE11 Modern, Chrome 36, and Chrome 37...
22 by Stephen Barrett on 8/18/2014