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...
AMD Reveals First Mobile Radeon M200 Parts & Rebadges
While CES is generally not a big show for the GPU divisions of the major chip makers – those firms preferring to make major GPU announcements at their own...
25 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2014
AMD/TI's DockPort Adopted As Official Extension to DisplayPort Standard
Shortly after the launch of Intel’s Thunderbolt interface in 2011, there was a great deal of discussion to be had in several camps over what the future of data...
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Gigabyte’s New AORUS SLI Gaming Notebook
Gigabyte had all of their current generation notebooks on display, which you can see in the images below, but while many of them are interesting in their own right...
24 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2014
Toshiba's 15.6 inch 4K Laptops
Another quick bit of news from CES: Toshiba is aiming to release two 4K (UHD, 3840x2160) 15.6" laptops in mid-2014. The first is a workstation design based on...
15 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014
Imagination Technologies Announces PowerVR Series6XT Architecture & GPUs
With CES taking place this week a number of mobile announcements are in the pipeline. And in what has become something of a tradition for Imagination Technologies, they are...
22 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2014
Imagination Technologies Announces Entry-Level PowerVR Series6XE GPU Family
Going hand-in-hand with Imagination’s announcement of their new PowerVR Series6XT architecture and GPUs, Imagination is also announcing a new family of entry-level GPUs to further complement the Series6 family...
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MSI: Updated Notebooks at CES 2014
MSI had all of their latest notebooks on display, along with some upcoming models that feature new designs and hardware. Most of the hardware and design elements remain the...
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iBuyPower Battalion M1771 (MSI GS70) Gaming Notebook Review
MSI is taking a page out of Razer's design playbook (in turn cribbing liberally from Apple's), but as it turns out, they may have beaten Razer at their own...
37 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/30/2013
Best Gaming Laptops and Notebooks - Holiday 2013
We're in the midst of updating all of our "best of" guides for the holiday season, and we've already covered what is likely the most popular category: Budget Laptops...
67 by Jarred Walton on 11/29/2013
Best Budget Laptops - Holiday 2013
Introduction Over the past decade, we've seen a dramatic slowing in the rate of performance increases on PCs and laptops. Where it was typical to see a doubling in performance...
30 by Jarred Walton on 11/28/2013
Acer Aspire R7-572: Haswell and an Active Digitizer
Earlier this year, we looked at Acer’s R7 laptop – an interesting hybrid device that moves the keyboard forward and the touchpad back, with the idea being that you’ll...
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Windows 8.1 Battery Life Investigation: 1080p Video Playback
A couple weeks back, I posted a short article on battery life with Windows 8.1 looking at whether or not it had changed compared to Windows 8. The short...
67 by Jarred Walton on 11/6/2013
Motorola's Project Ara: Phonebloks from an OEM
Phonebloks was a campaign that focused upon attracting the interest of OEMs by showing that there was an incredible amount of interest for a modular phone. This was mostly...
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Sony VAIO Pro 13 Battery Life with Windows 8.1: Largely Unchanged
Last week I finished up the review of the Sony VAIO Pro 13, which delivers excellent battery life compared to most other laptops that we’ve tested – granted, it’s...
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Sony VAIO Pro 13: Exceptionally Portable
As our first non-Apple Haswell Ultrabook, the Sony VAIO Pro 13 has a high bar to clear. We’ve seen a few Haswell systems that have delivered on the promise...
106 by Jarred Walton on 10/16/2013
HP Chromebook 11 Review
We’re in the midst of a netbook renaissance. Armed with lighter weight OSes, faster hardware and a better appreciation for what matters in a consumer device, OEMs are giving...
90 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/15/2013
Acer Launches C720 Chromebook with Haswell CPU
Last year, one of the hottest selling laptops was Acer’s C710 Chromebook. Part of that of course was the fact that it was one of the least expensive laptops...
30 by Jarred Walton on 10/10/2013
Some Thoughts on Smartphone Region Locking
Recently, reports of Samsung region locking the Note 3 came out via Clove UK, which posted on its blog that the Note 3 would be completely unable to use...
60 by Joshua Ho on 10/7/2013
Dell Updates 2013 Line of XPS Laptops with Ultra-High Resolution Displays
Going along with the updates to their Venue tablets, which we just posted about, yesterday Dell also announced updates to their XPS line of laptops. There are three new...
81 by Jarred Walton on 10/3/2013
Dell Updates Venue Line of Tablets
Yesterday Dell announced their latest mobile products, with major updates to their tablet and laptop offerings. Starting with the Venue tablets, Dell has three new models available on October...
51 by Jarred Walton on 10/3/2013
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