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...
Acer’s Predator Helios line includes some of the best value mid-range gaming laptops on the market, with popular devices like the Helios 300 and the Helios 500, both covered in previous in-depth articles on the site. As of the spring of 2019, Acer offers...
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...
As of mid-2019, you can buy performance laptops with Intel Core i9 processors, mostly the Core i9-8950HK, part of the Intel Coffee Lake platform, but also the Core i9-9980HK (9th gen Coffee Lake-R platform) and the Core i9-9900K 9th gen desktop processor, which we’ll...
For the last years, Acer’s Nitro line of value gaming laptops stood proof that you did not have to pay a lot of money in order to get a pretty good gaming experience. It’s true they somewhat sacrificed on design, speakers and screen quality,...
Most laptop manufacturers offer some sort of series targeted at creators and graphics professionals, and as of the spring of 2019, Acer is also part of this game, with their ConceptD line-up. ConceptD notebooks are available in three different flavors, the entry-tier ConceptD 5,...
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...
The 13-inch Dell XPS has been my ultrabook of choice for a few years now. I own and have been constantly using while on the go an XPS 13 9343, and I’ve reviewed here on the site all the later updates released in the last...
This article covers gaming laptops with Nvidia Turing RTX 2060 graphics, which will be the most popular new-gen notebooks throughout 2019 and your best bet if you’re looking for an enjoyable FHD high refresh-rate gaming experience in a fair-priced package. Much like the desktop...
The GeForce MX250 is Nvidia’s entry-level dedicated graphics chip, bundled inside mostly thin-and-light ultrabooks and affordable full-size laptops. It’s designed to improve on the performance of Intel’s HD integrated chips you’ll usually find on this kind of computers with casual gaming, productivity tasks like...
While Chromebooks were initially launched as inexpensive alternatives to Windows laptops, they’ve come a long way in recent years, both in terms of the OS’s capabilities, but also in terms of the overall hardware quality. Acer have been one of the spearheads in promoting...
This article is a detailed review of the Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701 GX gaming ultraportable, in the top-specked configuration with a Core i7 processor, Nvidia RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics and 1 TB of SSD storage. Quite a few 17-inch thin-and-light gaming notebooks built...
This article covers gaming laptops with RTX 2070 and RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics chips, the mid-tier options available as part of the 2019/2020 Nvidia Turing platform. RTX 2070 devices slot right in-between the existing RTX 2060 and 2080 models, as not much pricier and...
Following the current trend of shrinking laptop bezels, Asus announced two updated ZenBook series that will be available in 2019, alongside the already existing ZenBook lines with thin bezels launched in the second half of 2018 (UX333, UX433 and UX533). One of them is...
This is our detailed review of the 2019 Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX531 GX gaming ultraportable, in the top-specked configuration with a Core i7 processor, Nvidia RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics and 1 TB of SSD storage. This actually builds on last year’s Zephyrus S...
This article explains what to expect from laptops with Nvidia MX250 and MX230 graphics chips, how these GPUs compare to the popular MX150, as well as provides a complete list of portable devices bundled with these chips. The Nvidia GeForce MX250 replaces the MX150...
Lenovo are fairly new at making gaming laptops, but their Legion lines have been some of the best-buy products in their categories in the last two years, with the Y720/Y520 and then the Y530/Y730 models. Despite that, Lenovo are not resting on their laurels...
You’ve been asking for my take on the 15-inch Asus ZenBook 15 UX533 for a while now and I finally got to spend some time with it in these last weeks, so the article down below gathers all my impressions on this product, with...
Although Gigabyte is not among the largest laptop manufacturers on the market, they’ve been building some highly praised enthusiast devices for quite a while now. In fact, their Aero 15s have been among the best ultraportable gaming laptops money could buy in the last...
We’ve spent some time with the Acer Spin 3 SP314-52, the late-2018 update of the previous Spin 3 SP314-51 generation, in the last weeks and gathered our impressions down below, with the positives and the quirks. This is an entry-level convertible laptop, with a...
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Razer Blade 15 Advanced review (2019 model – i7-8750H, RTX 2080 Max-Q)
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MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8SG review (2019 model – i7-8750H, RTX 2080 Max-Q)
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Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701GX review (i7-8750H, RTX 2080 Max-Q, FHD 144 Hz screen)
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Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX531GX review and benchmarks (i7-8750H, RTX 2080 Max-Q)
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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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