Asus’s TUF Gaming series is a bit of a conundrum. One one side, TUFs are the best selling mid-range gaming laptops in many markets, thanks to their solid specs and excellent prices, but on the other, most reviewers are complaining about their sub-par thermal...
While highly controversial for a couple of reasons, Asus’s TUF A15/A17 entry-level gaming laptops caught a lot of interest in the last year, due to their competitive price/features ratio in most regions. Aside from the AMD based TUF models, Asus also offered some Intel...
MSI are updating their notebook lineup for 2021 with up-to-date hardware for some of their existing models, as well as three brand-new products: a top-performance 17-inch GE76 Raider and two mainstream GP66/GP76 Leopard models. We’re touching on the Raiders and the portable GS66 Stealth...
MSI make some of the better performance laptops on the market, but their top tiers such as the GE66/76 Raiders and GS Stealths are expensive and not something the average user can normally reach for. That’s why most end up with one of their...
The ROG Flow X13 is Asus’s first ROG – Republic of Gamers ultrabook and a unique product on today’s market. On a first look, this is a compact 13-inch ultraportable laptop with a convertible 16:10 touchscreen, weighing a little under 3 lbs. Nothing special...
For the first time in recent years, I’m truly excited about the updated 2021 ThinkPad X1 Carbon (gen 9) and X1 Yoga (gen 6), as these greatly improve on the previous generations across a couple of different important fields. Lenovo kept to mostly updating...
HP launched a handful of products at CES 2021, from laptops to monitors and peripherals. Among them, the updated version of the Envy 14 sparked our attention, as a 14-inch ultrabook with a 16:10 display and dedicated GTX graphics. Traditionally, Envies are an HP...
Last year Asus launched the ROG Zephyrus Duo, a premium performance laptop with the highest-tier hardware available at the time and dual screens. You’ll find our in-depth impressions on that notebook in the dedicated review available over here. This year, the Duo gets an...
This article originally covered the mid-2020 launch of the Lenovo Legion Slim 7, which eventually never arrived in stores. In the meantime, though, as of early-2021, Lenovo announced the updated Legion Slim 7, similar to the 2020 model in many ways, but with some...
Aside from the ROG Zephyrus Duo, Asus are also updating their full-size series of gaming laptops as of early 2021, the ROG Strix SCAR and Strix G lineups. We’re talking about the new SCARs in this article, and we’ll come back on those Strix...
Following the overwhelming success of the Zephyrus G14 last year, Asus are updating the full-size 15-inch 2021 Zephyrus G15 on the same design and construction lines. That means the updated 2021 Zephyrus G15 now gets a magnesium-alloy exterior with improved IO, updated inputs, updated...
Value for money is where the Acer Nitro 5 series stood up in all the recent years in comparison to the competition, and is what helped it top the best-selling lists in the mid-range performance and gaming notebook segments in many regions. That’s not...
Acer are launching a brand new compact 14-inch Predator Triton 300 SE – Special Edition gaming laptop built on Intel Tiger Lake H35 hardware and mid-range RTX 3000 graphics as of the beginning of 2021, as well as updating their popular mainstream Predator Helios...
Last year’s top-tier Lenovo Legion 7 gaming laptop was an Intel exclusive, but that’s changing with the 2021 update. This time around Lenovo will offer both Intel and AMD models, paired with RTX 3000 graphics. The Intel model is coming later, once Tiger Lake...
Many consider the 2020 Lenovo Legion 5 the best-value gaming laptop of its generation, especially in the AMD Ryzen variants with higher-tier graphics. However, those configurations were not available worldwide, and only topped at Geforce 60 mid-level graphics, which did not suffice for some...
Lenovo are back at the detachable game with the 2021 Thinkpad X12 Gen 1, a Surface-Pro-style tablet with a keyboard folio accessory, following up on their now-defunct X1 Tablet from a couple of years ago. I’m sure you’re already familiar with the Microsoft Surface...
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga could be the most interesting ThinkPad in years, and I’m glad, but also somewhat surprised, that Lenovo even have this now as part of their conservative ThinkPad series. Over the years, I’ve seen countless pleas on Reddit and various...
Samsung has launched the new Galaxy Chromebook 2, the first Chromebook on the market with a QLED screen. This will be available in stores in the US by the end of March, for a base price of $550. The new model follows up on...
Several months ago I bought the Lenovo IdeaPad 5 knowing it was one of the better-value mid-range ultrabooks of the year, and while I ended up returning it because of the rather poor screen option available over here, I still consider it the almost-perfect...
Lenovo are updating the IdeaPad 5 series of mainstream laptops with a couple of new entries as of early 2021, with 14 or 16-inch displays and 2021-level Intel/AMD + Nvidia hardware. We’ve already covered the Intel Tiger Lake variants in this other article, and...