Updates: September 21, 2019 — Added Cinebench R15 loop chart and DPC latencymon results (see “benchmarks” section) August 29, 2019 — Added notes about bottom chassis and sound quality (see end of article) I’ve been eagerly awaiting my ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 about...
As a reviewer who places high importance on the actual experience of using a machine over an algorithmic score of its various benchmark results, I’ve been wanting to write about the forgotten importance of user experience for quite some time. I recently happened upon...
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...
Background of this ThrottleStop Guide I initially wrote the first edition of this ThrottleStop guide for UltrabookReview here as part of a short undervolting/tweaking guide several years ago. I published a more comprehensive guide for Notebookcheck back in 2017, but I felt it was...
For some of our readers, external batteries might be a distant memory from 2005. For others (notably ThinkPad users and fans), an external battery is a much more recent memory. That’s because up through the Tx80 of the venerable T-series (I won’t make a...
Update: September 9, 12:48PM HKT — original pricing from SnazzyLabs’ video was misleading ($279 was for Hackintosh-incompatible AMD version. $339 seems to be the cheapest price for Intel I3 model). Additional buying links for the Core i3 330s are here. Apple & Tech YouTuber...
The refresh rate revolution is in full swing, with Acer and Asus both announcing on the same day that their laptops were the first designed with 300 Hz screens. The Acer Predator Triton 500 and Asus Zephyrus S GX701 look to usher in even...
On September 5th 2019, Lenovo has just announced a host of updates to their ThinkBook and Yoga laptops, Smart-home devices, and monitor product lines. The most interesting new devices for me are the new Yoga S740 and Yoga C940, as direct competitors for the...
Earlier this year Asus announced the StudioBook S W700 series, a 17-inch laptop with workstation-grade features and hardware. Several months later, that early unit has matured into a complete lineup of notebooks made for creators, called Proart StudioBook, with no less than 5 different...
Acer offers some of the best-value ultraportable gaming laptops on the market with their Predator Triton lineup. We’ve reviewed the competitive Triton 500 earlier this year, and that’s been updated for Q4 2019 with a brand-new 300 Hz display. However, the important novelty for...
Razer’s 13-inch Blade Stealth from late 2018/early 2019 marketed itself as one of the most powerful “true” ultrabooks, as it packed Intel’s 8th generation Whisky Lake quad-core CPUs and modest dedicated Nvidia MX150 into a 0.58″ x 12″ x 8.3″ and 2.82 lb design....
“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...
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 vs. P1 Gen 1 and XPS 15 (updated benchmarks and long-term review)
Updates: September 21, 2019 — Added Cinebench R15 loop chart and DPC latencymon results (see “benchmarks” section) August 29, 2019 — Added notes about bottom chassis and sound quality...
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