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...
Intel Quietly Launches Mobile Xeons: Skylake Based E3-1500M v5
In a rather understated blog post, Intel made an interesting move at the end of last week by announcing that for the first time the Xeon platform is heading...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/10/2015
Acer Announces Ultra Low Cost Cloudbooks With Windows 10 Home
Today Acer is launching a new line of low cost notebooks, which are branded as Acer Aspire One Cloudbooks. There will be an 11.6-inch model, and a 14-inch model...
45 by Brett Howse on 8/4/2015
The ASUS Republic of Gamers G751 Review: G-SYNC Comes To The Notebook Computer
At Computex 2015, NVIDIA announced what will almost certainly be one of their marquee features on gaming notebooks going forward, with NVIDIA’S G-SYNC variable display refresh rate technology coming...
52 by Brett Howse on 7/29/2015
HP Announces Windows 10 Devices And Services
With Windows 10 coming in about two weeks, the amount of news from OEMs is ramping up as they prepare for the Windows 10 rollout. HP has some new...
18 by Brett Howse on 7/14/2015
The MSI Gaming Booth Tour with dGPUs in AIOs and Notebooks plus Motherboards
It has been held as fact that for the past couple of years, gaming is helping to prop up a slowly decreasing desktop PC market. While many casual PC...
50 by Ian Cutress on 6/29/2015
The MSI GT80 Titan Review: The Broadwell Gaming Laptop Your Desktop Envies
I was lucky enough to be on-hand when MSI launched the GT80 Titan at CES. It was a big event for them, and all of the MSI people were...
103 by Brett Howse on 6/26/2015
The Acer Aspire R 13 Review: Convertible Notebook With A Twist
The world of the convertible notebook has come a long way in just a couple of years, but we seem to have settled in on two basic types of...
25 by Brett Howse on 6/15/2015
Gigabyte Updates Gaming Laptops With Broadwell And Details New Aorus Models
With today’s launch of the quad-core Broadwell laptop parts, there are going to be a lot of devices making the jump over to the new CPU. Pretty much the...
21 by Brett Howse on 6/3/2015
AMD Launches Carrizo: The Laptop Leap of Efficiency and Architecture Updates
Perform a small test for me. Close your eyes, and spend 15 seconds considering the state of the laptop market and what devices interest you, are available, or on...
144 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2015
Intel Launches Five 47W Laptop Broadwell SKUs
As part of Intel’s batch of announcements today, including Broadwell on the desktop and Thunderbolt 3, the 47W laptop/mini-PC processors that were also launched offers an interesting talking point...
39 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2015
Lenovo Launches Three Value Notebooks At Tech World
Today Lenovo is holding their Tech World conference in Beijing, and as part of the festivities they are announcing three laptops for those on a tight budget. The Lenovo...
32 by Brett Howse on 5/27/2015
The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review (2015)
The X1 Carbon has been Lenovo’s flagship ThinkPad since it was launched, and it brings the world of the ThinkPad business class notebook down into a much thinner and...
103 by Brett Howse on 5/21/2015
The Dell Chromebook 11 Touch Review
Today I'm looking at a Chromebook from Dell. It's the Dell Chromebook 11 Touch. More accurately, it may be called the New Dell Chromebook 11 Touch or the Dell...
46 by Brandon Chester on 5/7/2015
The Gigabyte P35X v3 Review: Slim GTX980M Gaming Laptop
Gigabyte has refreshed its P35 series to include the latest NVIDIA GPUs, and the P35X is the top model in their 15.6 inch lineup. Gigabyte has the lightest GTX980M...
55 by Brett Howse on 4/23/2015
The 2015 MacBook Review
I’m still not entirely sure when it actually happened, but at some point over the last couple of years the crossover between tablets and laptops stopped being an idea...
354 by Ryan Smith on 4/14/2015
Analyzing Intel Core M Performance: How 5Y10 can beat 5Y71 & the OEMs' Dilemma
A processor architect can battle between two major opposing principles. The one most of us seem to enjoy is performance, which when taken to the extreme exhibits an all-or-nothing...
110 by Brett Howse & Ian Cutress on 4/8/2015
Google Announces $149 Chromebooks and the Chromebit Chrome OS Stick
Today Google announced a number of new Chrome OS products that will be available in the future from their OEM partners. The main focus of all these devices appears...
26 by Brandon Chester on 3/31/2015
CTL Launches New Chromebook For Education
The education sector is one area where Google’s Chromebook has proved very popular. Relatively inexpensive devices, which are easier to manage, and include just a lightweight operating system, have...
13 by Brett Howse on 3/31/2015
Microsoft Announces Surface 3: 10.8-inch 2-in-1 with Atom x7 on 14nm from $499
The next element of Microsoft’s Surface line is here, and the anticipated Surface 3 throws up a couple of (nice) surprises. Starting at $499, the Surface 3 will complement...
121 by Ian Cutress on 3/31/2015
The ASUS Zenbook UX305 Review
It was way back in 2011 that ASUS launched the Zenbook series. The original UX21E and UX31E were the first of the thin and light Ultrabooks from ASUS to...
164 by Brett Howse on 3/25/2015
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