Lenovo are aiming for a slight rebranding of their thin-and-light series of consumer laptops in the first part of 2020, starting with a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 lineup. They’re still not making it easy for us to tell between their different lines, consumers, though,...
ThinkBooks are a newer series in Lenovo’s notebook lineup, a crossbreed of IdeaPads with some ThinkPad DNA, in a modern design and with an affordable price. We’ve reviewed the 13-inch ThinkBook a few months ago, and while not without quirks, we still consider it...
Asus make some of the best-buy Chromebooks on the market, and they’ve just announced a brand new Chromebook Flip C436 FA model for 2020. This is a direct follow-up of the highly appreciated Chromebook C434TA, which topped most recommendations lists throughout 2019 alongside the...
VivoBooks are Asus’s affordable range of thin-and-light notebooks, budget alternatives to their higher-tier ZenBook lineup. We’ve reviewed many VivoBooks along the years and have documented their evolution, up to the 2020 variants we’ll quickly touch on in this article, available in 13″ (S13 S33),...
Dual-screen and foldable notebooks are expected to blossom in the next years, and Lenovo is among the first to announce a foldable ultrabook with the ThinkPad X1 Fold, a follow-up of the folding X1 prototype they briefly presented in 2019. Update: As of 2022,...
2020 finally brings up that long-awaited new generation of Qualcomm powered notebooks built on the most recent Snapdragon 8cx platform. We’ve first heard about these at Computex in June 2019, with Lenovo’s Project Limitless that showcased the Snapdragon 8cx platform and Snapdragon’s X55 5G...
Unlike most other OEMs, Lenovo haven’t offered a Creator-focused lineup of laptops in 2019, and that’s about to change in 2020. In the past, the ThinkPad P series offered the kind of features professionals and creators expected from a work laptop: powerful specs and...
For the last year, NEC and Lenovo have been working together on a handful of interesting ultraportable notebooks mostly available in Japan, as part of the LAVIE lineup. As of 2020, several of the latest LAVIE notebooks will also be available in the US,...
You’ll find a bunch of 49″ ultrawide 32:9 monitors on the market, but none like Samsung’s brand new Odyssey CTG9 2020. That’s because this gets a 5K QLED VA panel with 240 Hz refresh rate and 1 ms response time, HDR1000 and an unusual...
As stated in our preview of the Alienware 25 monitor, the beginning of 2020 marks the launch of several 25-inch 240 Hz IPS monitors from multiple OEMs, and Lenovo joins in with their Legion Y25-25 gaming screen. Lenovo is not as popular as Asus,...
Back in October 2019, Samsung announced they’re working on a lineup of QLED ultrabooks that included clamshell (Galaxy Book Ion) and 2-in-1 (Galaxy Book Flex) models, with both 13 and 15-inch screens. They were dubbed for availability in 2020. While those are still not...
While Dell’s Latitude laptops are primarily targeted at companies, their new 2020 Latitude 9510 has a bunch of interesting features that should also put it on the map for regular buyers in search of a premium, portable, fast and long-lasting 15-inch notebook. In fact,...
As of late 2019, there are no 24/25-inch 240 Hz monitors with IPS panels on the market. You can get several good-quality TN 240 Hz screens at this size, but if you’re looking for IPS you have to jump over to one of the...
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...
In this article, we’re taking a look at the Intel Core i5-1035G1 processor, the mid-range CPU in Intel’s IceLake platform designed to power most mid to high-tier ultrabooks throughout 2020. IceLake is Intel’s first 10 nm low-voltage platform for thin-and-light multipurpose notebooks. However, Ice...
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...
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...
MSI just announced the Alpha 15 gaming notebook, an entry-level series built entirely on an AMD hardware, with the already existing Ryzen 7 3750H processor and a brand new Radeon RX 5500M graphics chip based on the Navi 7-nm architecture. This Alpha 15 is...
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,...
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...
Microsoft’s Surface Laptops have been some of the more popular ultrabooks of the last few years. With the 3rd generation, Microsoft added a full-size 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 alongside the traditional 13.5-inch variant, and I wanted to discuss its overall value in today’s market,...
While laptops based on Nvidia RTX graphics chips have been available in stores for a while, the mobile versions of the lower-tier and more affordable GTX 1650 and 1660Ti Turing chips will only make their way inside notebooks from the second part of April...
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...
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...
Since we’ve recently tested both the RTX 2060 and the GTX 1660Ti configurations of the budget-friendly Asus TUF Gaming FX505 gaming laptop, in this article we’re going to compare the small differences between the two variants, to help you easier choose between them. Configurations...
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...
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...