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This is the Asus ExpertBook B9 B9450. It’s marketed as the world’s lightest 14-inch business laptop as of early 2020, and yes, it weighs less than a kilo even in its bigger battery version, or under 900 grams if you opt for the smaller...
TravelMate is Acer’s lineup of business laptops, and the P6 P614 is their thin-and-light 14-inch ultrabook. This is not a new design, so it’s not as compact as the newer options. It is nonetheless a well built and lightweight product with proper IO and...
Acer have updated their Spin line-ups of convertible ultrabooks for the first half of 2020, and in this article, we’re taking a detailed look at the more budget-friendly Spin 3 SP314-54N model. It’s a 14-inch 2-in-1 notebook with a 360-degree convertible touchscreen, Intel IceLake...
The ZenBook Pro Duo UX581 has been around for a few months now, and while I’ve used it sporadically during this time, I wanted to spend a bit longer with it than I do with most of our review units, in order to figure...
Hey guys – it’s been some time since I’ve written a review. Truth is, life’s been pretty busy for me lately and I’ve also thoroughly enjoyed my GS65, which I’ve had for about a year now. But now with the addition of RTX powered...
In this article we’re taking a look at the 14-inch variant of the Lenovo IdeaPad S540, in it’s competitively priced AMD Ryzen variant. We’ll go over all its features and traits, to help you figure out if this is the portable laptop for you...
Acer’s Swift 3 lineup includes a multitude of competitively priced ultraportable notebooks with slim designs, matte screens, and updated hardware specs. For 2020, Acer offers no less than 3 compact Swift 3 models, two 14-inch variants based on either Intel or AMD hardware, as...
Update: 10/10/2019 — added more bugs/instability notes As an ultraportable 15-inch notebook with Intel’s 9th generation Coffee Lake hexa-core CPUs and Nvidia’s GTX 1650 graphics, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 1 review here, P1 Review here) is one of the most in-demand premium...
The Asus ROG Strix Scar III G531 has been available in stores for a few months now, and we’ve finally got to spend time with it and gather our full impressions below, with the strong points and the quirks. This follows up on the...
The new Dell XPS 15 7590 makes a case for itself by sporting an optional OLED panel, Intel’s latest 9th generation 6 and 8-core CPUs, Nvidia’s GTX 1650 GPU, and, finally, an above-display webcam. As I wrote in an earlier editorial, however, whether or...
This is our detailed review of the mid-2019 Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX502GW gaming ultraportable, in a higher specced configuration with a 9th gen Core i7 processor, Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics and 512 GB of SSD storage. Unlike the previous Zephyrus S models, this...
Much like its predecessor, the ZenBook 15 UX534 slots in a niche without much competition, as a nicely crafted, compact and light 15-inch laptop with solid everyday performance, some gaming abilities, decent battery life, and competitive pricing. It’s not as capable in demanding loads...
Among gaming laptops, the MSI Raider series has been historically known for its excellent performance and thermals in the mid-range segment. For the last few weeks we’ve spent time with a retail version of the latest member in this lineup, the MSI GE65 Raider,...
It’s been a long time since I had a Lenovo product and even longer since I’ve owned a ThinkPad. But when Lenovo offered to lend me their 2019 ThinkPad Carbon X1, I couldn’t help but be excited. Truth is, I always loved my old...
The Legion series is Lenovo’s lineup of gaming notebooks, and the Y740 is their highest-tier offer as of the first part of 2019. Unlike other manufacturers, Lenovo doesn’t focus on making the best gaming ultraportable on the market, but rather at making the best...
Throughout the last decade, Asus came up with new designs and prototypes like the Taichi, the PhonePad or the water-cooled ROG, among others. None of them stuck, though, in this game of throwing mud at the wall, and yet Asus didn’t give up. The...
Workstations – powerful, sturdy, reliable computers you buy to get work done. Serious work, the kind that requires massive processing power and latest-generation technologies. For the last decades, the Lenovo ThinkPads have been one of the norms in this class of computers, next to...
Now that’s I’ve reviewed both the Razer Blade 15 and the Stealth, I figured I’d complete the spectrum and try out the updated Razer Blade Pro 17. Razer was generous enough to lend me a 2060 version of the Blade Pro 2019, so I...
The MSI GS75 is definitely one of the more intriguing laptops that have been on my shortlist for the past year or so. To me, I always looked at it as a 17” powerhouse inside a 15” “GS60-like” package. I had the GS73VR for...
The ProArt StudioBook Pro X W730 is Asus’s first attempt in the professional workstation notebook segment, one dominated by the Lenovo ThinkPads, ZP Zbooks and the Dell Precision series. We’ve spent the last few weeks with an early sample of the Pro X and...
Asus is coming strong at the professional workstation segment this year, and after spending time with their top-tier StudioBook Pro X a few weeks ago, we’re also going to talk about the more portable Asus ProArt StudioBook Pro 17 in this article. Try to...
The ConceptD series is Acer’s lineup of performance computers for professional users, based on a few critical verticals: a clean design, modern hardware and the performance to match, as well as an excellent quality display with wide-gamut color coverage and preloaded factory-calibration. We’ve covered...
We’ve talked about the mid-2019 lineup of Asus ROG Zephyrus gaming ultraportables in several previous articles, and in this one, we’ll further take an in-depth look at the Zephyrus M GU502 subseries. The Zephyrus M sits just beneath the top-tier Zephyrus S versions and...
You may have read the review of the MSI GE75 that Andrei wrote a few months back. He gave it some good marks, praising its performance, screen and speakers. But it was pretty short with battery life and the keyboard felt a little off...
Derek’s normally the go-to guy for MSI laptops around here, but this time around I’ve spent a few days with the 2019 update of the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin gaming ultraportable, the higher specked 8SG version based on RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics, and gathered...
In this article, we’re taking a closer look at the mid-range Acer ConceptD 5 Pro mobile workstation, in its 17-inch variant (code name CN517-71P). We’ve covered the 15-inch Acer ConceptD 5 Pro in an earlier article as well, but this 17-inch model comes with...
The Asus VivoBook S15 series is one of the most popular lines of mid-range laptops in the last few years, as these were among the first compact and lightweight full-size computers without major compromises and with a competitive price. In this article, we’re talking...
We’ve talked about the mid-2019 lineup of Asus ROG Zephyrus gaming ultraportables in several previous articles, and in this one, we’ll further take an in-depth look at the Zephyrus G GA502 subseries. The Zephyrus G GA502 sits at the bottom of the line, beneath the...
This article gathers our impressions on the Asus ZenBook S13 UX392FN, Asus’s top-of-the-line ultrabook for the most of 2019. The UX392 follows up on one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2018, the ZenBook S13 UX391 series, and competes at the high end of its...
The TUF FX Gaming series is Asus’s entry-line for gaming notebooks, and in this article, we’re taking a deep look at the TUF FX705DU model, the updated 2019 variant based on AMD Ryzen CPUs and Nvidia Turing GPUs. This is a fairly new combo...