“Wisdom is acting on knowledge.” God Help me, that’s a quote from Russel Brand, I think. We live in an age of unprecedented access to information, and we’re only just beginning to understand the potential for it. Despite a few (hopefully soon to fade)...
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...
Organic Light Emitting Displays, or “OLED” for short, have been appearing in TVs and smartphones for the better part of a decade now. However, 2019 marks the year where the display technology is starting to become much more prevalent in notebook computers thanks to...
Asus’s VivoBook S series has been 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...
Update: Just over one month after release, on July 31 Dell released a new BIOS update (version 1.2.3) which seems to address the GPU throttling issue. The review score (previously 3/5) has been adjusted upwards as a result of the significantly improved performance and...
As of the second part of 2019, you can buy quite a few performance laptops with Intel Core i9 processors, mostly the Core i9-8950HK, part of the Intel Coffee Lake platform, but also the newer Core i9-9880H and i9-9980HK (9th gen Coffee Lake-R platform)...
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...
Here at Ultrabookreview.com, we’ve been reviewing gaming laptops for more than 10 years, from all the major brands. Based on this experience, I, as the Editor-in-Chief of UBR, after consulting with the entire team, will tell you which are our favorite gaming laptops as...
In this article, we’re taking a close look at the ASUS Zenbook 14 UX434FL, the mid-2019 update of the popular ZenBook 14 series of ultraportable laptops. This is based on last year’s ZenBook 14 UX433FN, with a similar design and construction, but updated hardware...
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...
Along with batteries, SSDs are one of the user-replaceable components of a laptop that you will most likely need to replace during the laptop’s lifespan. While SSDs do technically have a limited read/write lifespan per each cell, the real reason to buy one is...
Update 2 (July 12, 2019): Article updated to include comment speculation 10nm and 14nm variants of XPS 13 in traditional and convertible designs Update 1 (July 11, 2019): The original edition of this article mistook Comet Lake 14nm for Ice Lake 10nm. Both chips...
For the last few years, the Acer Predator Helios 300 have been some of the best-value mid-tier gaming laptops on the market. They offered solid performance and the right features in an affordable package, but their dated design was in dire need of a...
Those of you familiar with the site know that I own and use a Blade 15 Advanced as my everyday driver, but I’ve also spent time with and reviewed the Blade Stealth 2019 and, more recently, the updated 2019 Blade Pro 17. As I...
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...
There’s an old saying that goes “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. The question about buying the XPS 15 7590 for me is this: What do you call it when you get fooled four times? An idiot? An optimist? A laptop reviewer? I’ve said it again and again over...
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...
Chinese PC manufacturer and steward of the ThinkPad brand, Lenovo, announced updates to their flagship X-series line of ultrabooks at CES this year at CES. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 and X1 Yoga Gen 4 were both expected to have June 2019 release...
Apple today announced that chief design officer Sir Jony Ive (Knighted by Princess Anne, reportedly for his work on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod) would be leaving the Cupertino-based company later this year after more than 30 years of service. Apple’s stock (AAPL) dipped slightly...
Despite the whole controversy around the Huawei company, it’s hard to deny they still make some of the best value notebooks on the market. Thus, if you’re fine with buying a Huawei product (it’s up to you, but as long as you’re not working...
2019 Good Deals on ultrabooks and portable laptops
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the Holidays are all gone now, but this article still gathers some of the best deals I was able to find for portable laptops,...
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