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...
Dell Updates Ultrabook Thin M3800 Mobile Workstation With 4K Display
Today Dell is taking the wraps off of an updated version of the M3800 mobile workstation which first launched in November 2013. This is the first thin and light...
46 by Brett Howse on 1/27/2015Interview at CES 2015: Eric Kuo and Sam Chern from MSI Notebooks
As part of a series of getting into the minds of those who run our industry, we were able to take the time at CES to interview two key...
7 by Ian Cutress on 1/23/2015Acer Chromebook 13: 1080p with Tegra K1
The Google Chromebook has a rather interesting history, starting as an always connected device with all your data stored in the cloud and slowly but steadily transforming into a...
71 by Jarred Walton on 1/23/2015Lenovo Updates ThinkPad 11e Series for Education
On the other end of the education spectrum from Acer’s new Chromebooks, today at the Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) Lenovo announced updates to their ThinkPad 11e series geared...
18 by Jarred Walton on 1/21/2015Acer Announces Enhanced Durability Education Chromebooks
This morning coinciding with the FETC (Florida Education Technology Conference), Acer announced two new Chromebooks with enhanced durability targeted at education customers, the C740 and C910. Both feature reinforced...
4 by Jarred Walton on 1/21/2015Toshiba CES 2015 Booth Tour: Encore 2 Write, Portege Z20t, and More
Much like Samsung and Sony, touring the Toshiba booth turned up plenty of devices but not too many laptops – though I’d say out of the big consumer electronics...
8 by Jarred Walton on 1/20/2015Samsung CES Booth Tour: Tablets, Phones, and Core M ATIV Book 9
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Samsung’s booth is what they weren’t showing: laptops. They had exactly one laptop on display, the new ATIV Book 9 with Core M-5Y10c...
45 by Jarred Walton on 1/19/2015Dell Latitude 12 5000 Series Review
Dell sells the Latitude line as business class notebooks, and the 5000 series that we received is the mainstream line for business. The Latitude 12 is the smallest model...
48 by Brett Howse on 1/19/2015Origin PC Shows Off High-End Notebooks and the “Not-a-Steam-Machine” Omega
CES now over, which means for a lot of the editors we can finally sit down and write about some of the stuff we saw during the week. If...
33 by Jarred Walton on 1/13/2015NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 965M
In a rather unusual turn of events, the first I officially knew of the GeForce GTX 965M was when I saw it in some of MSI’s new gaming notebooks...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015AORUS Notebooks Updated with New X5 and X3 Plus
If you think the rather subdued (some might even go so far as to say drab or boring) Gigabyte gaming notebooks aren’t for you, the company has their AORUS...
14 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015Hands On with Gigabyte Notebooks at CES
One of the notebook vendors that I’ve been really interested in visiting is Gigabyte, as their P-series offerings look quite promising. Aesthetics are of course a rather subjective topic...
8 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015AMD Demonstrates Working Carrizo Laptop Prototype
In our visit with AMD we got to see something I wasn’t really expecting: a functioning Carrizo laptop. (Note that AMD wouldn't let us take pictures, but they did...
61 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015Dell CES Hands On
We got a chance to gets some hands on time with the new Dell products yesterday. Likely the biggest announcement was the Dell XPS 13, with what Dell is...
19 by Brett Howse on 1/7/2015CES 2015 Lenovo Hands On
Lenovo launched several new devices at CES with a push to Broadwell across the lineup of PCs. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon, X250, T550, T450s, E550, E450, and L450 all...
11 by Brett Howse on 1/7/2015Lenovo Launches LaVie Series Of Ultraportable Notebooks
Lenovo has had a slew of announcements at CES already, but none of the previously announced devices can really compare to the portability of the new LaVie line of...
26 by Brett Howse on 1/5/2015Lenovo Updates The Yoga Family At CES
Lenovo launched the new Yoga 3 Pro back in October 2014, with a watch band hinge and Core-M under the hood. Today the rest of the Yoga laptop line...
10 by Brett Howse on 1/5/2015Asus Announces Transformer Book Chi Line of x86 2-in-1s
With CES press conference Monday in full swing today, Asus has announced the latest generation of the company’s ongoing Transformer line of computers. Dubbed the Transformer Book Chi, Asus’s...
24 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2015Intel Releases Broadwell-U: New SKUs, up to 48 EUs and Iris 6100
As part of the CES cavalcade of announcements, after launching Core-M back in September, Intel is formally releasing their next element of the 14 nanometer story: Broadwell-U. As the...
85 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2015