Andrei Girbea, author at Ultrabookreview.com

Andrei Girbea

Andrei Girbea is a Writer and Editor-in-Chief here at Ultrabookreview.com. I write about mobile technology, laptops and computers in general. I've been doing it for more than 15 years now. I'm a techie with a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering. I mostly write reviews and thorough guides here on the site, with some occasional columns and first-impression articles.

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    We’re discussing the 2025 Asus ROG Strix G16 G615 series of high-performance 16-inch gaming laptops in this review. This is the mainstream full-size full-performance notebook offered by Asus today, a step back from the top-tier Strix Scar 16 lineup discussed in this previous article....

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    Time to discuss the 2025 refresh of the Asus Vivobook S14 M5406KA series, this time in the more affordable variant running on AMD Krackan Ryzen AI 7 hardware. We’ve covered this lineup in the past in the previous AMD variant, but in the meantime...

  • Andrei Girbea - May 6, 2026

    The Asus ProArt PX13 is an oddity, as the last remaining powerful 13-inch ultrabook. And not just any powerful ultrabook in a proper laptop format, but one that bundles a powerful mobile processor with capable dedicated graphics, plus good inputs, an OLED display and...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    Time to go over the 2025 generation of the MSI Titan 18 HX AI lineup in this review, one of the most, if not the most, powerful 18-inch notebooks available in stores today. The 2025 iteration is a hardware refresh of the 2024 Titan...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 16, 2026

    We’re discussing the Asus Zenbook 14 UX3405CA series in this review article, the Intel-based 2025 refresh of the popular Zenbook 14 series of mid-range thin-and-light laptops. Asus offers both an AMD and an Intel variant for the 2025 Zenbook 14 lineup. We’ve covered the...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 16, 2026

    In this review, we’re discussing the 2025 Asus Zenbook 14 UM3406KA refresh with AMD Krackan specs (Ryzen AI 7 350). We’ve covered most, if not all, Zenbook lineups and models over the years. This 2025 model is a hardware refresh of the 2024 Zenbook...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    This is my longer-term review of the 2025 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the 13th gen Aura Edition built on Intel Lunar Lake hardware. This revision of the X1 Carbon series was launched late in 2024, but I got to use it around mid-2025, with...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 11, 2026

    Most laptop manufacturers offer at least one full-performance gaming/work laptop with an 18-inch display as of 2025. In this article, I’m explaining what to expect in terms of size, screen quality, and performance from these 18-inch laptops, and how they compare to the 17-inch...

  • Andrei Girbea - July 25, 2025

    We’re discussing the Asus V16 V3607 notebook series in this review article. This is a budget-friendly all-purpose laptop, a potential jack of all trades with an affordable price tag. A Vivobook, more or less, but without the Vivobook name. Of course, that means you’ll...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    We’re discussing the Acer Predator Helios 16 AI in this laptop, Acer’s most powerful 16-inch gaming laptop of this generation (2025, PH16-73 model), with specs that include an Intel Core Ultra 9 and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. Just to be clear,...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    We’re discussing the Razer Blade 16 2025 generation in this review. This laptop was the partner launch series for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile chip earlier in 2025, and was sent by Nvidia to many reviewers around February/March, and that’s why it was...

  • Andrei Girbea - May 26, 2026

    Time to discuss the 2025 update of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 series, a powerful and yet still compact and lightweight series of all-purpose laptops. More specifically, we’re talking about the Intel-based Zephyrus G16 GU605, which is now powered by a Core Ultra 9...

  • Andrei Girbea - December 16, 2025

    We’re dicussing the Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition in this article, also known as the Lenovo Yoga 9 2-in-1 over here on Europe, Lenovo’s premium lineup of convertible ultrabooks in its latest iteration as of 2025. This laptop was released earlier in the...

  • Andrei Girbea - February 17, 2026

    We’ve seen Thunderbolt ports on enthusiast computers for many years now, but these days Thunderbolt is becoming the port everyone wants on a new laptop, regardless of size, form-factor, or budget. While the original article discussed Thunderbolt 3 and 4 standards and notebooks, the...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    Time to review the 2025 update of the Asus ProArt P16 lineup, a portable 16-inch laptop for creators and workloads. This series is, in fact, derived from the ROG Zephyrus G16 series, with a slightly thinner and lighter chassis, clean all-black aesthetics, and a...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    This is my detailed review of the 2025 10th-generation of the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i series, Lenovo’s most powerful 16-inch laptop meant for sustained workloads and gaming. This series is sold as the Legion Pro 7 in some markets, including here in Europe, and...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    This is my detailed review of the 2025 generation of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. The Zephyrus G14 is a highly popular series of thin-and-light laptops with serious performance capabilities, and we’ve discussed and tested all variants launched over the years. This most recent...

  • Andrei Girbea - May 6, 2026

    Table of ContentsThe Best portable 13-inch gaming laptops and ultrabooksAsus ROG Flow Z13, ProArt PX13, ROG Flow X13- most powerful 13-inch gaming computersUltrabooks with integrated graphicsThe best 14-inch gaming laptops – the sweetspot, lightweight and well-balancedAsus ROG Zephyrus G14 – the sweet spotRazer Blade...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 17, 2025

    In this brief article we’re discussing gaming at 4K display resolution on the latest Intel Core Ultra 9 HX + Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 configurations tested in the Asus ROG Scar 18 and ROG Scar 16 notebooks, with later updates for...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 17, 2025

    As mentioned throughout my reviews, while most gaming laptops available today offer some sort of power profile optimized for silent use around 35 dBA, these modes are usually aggressively power-capped. Thus, especially for full-size laptops, these profiles don’t maximize the performance potential possible on...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    This article is my detailed review of the 2025 Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 series, the highest-tier 16-inch performance laptop offered by Asus this generation, meant for serious workloads and gaming. This is the more compact version of the ROG Scar 18 discussed above,...

  • Andrei Girbea - November 4, 2025

    In this article, we’re discussing laptops built on the Intel Lunar Lake (Intel Core Ultra 200V) hardware. We’re going through the main characteristics and particularities of the Lunar Lake platforms, which are primarily designed for lightweight and portable devices, and then we’ll curate a...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    Just a few weeks ago I wrote a final review article of the gen9 Lenovo Legion Pro 7i series, stating that a successor was due at the beginning of 2025, and now it’s time to discuss this successor. The early-2025 10th generation of the...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 16, 2026

    Let’s discuss the Intel Arrow Lake H hardware platform, with Core Ultra 200H processors. This hardware combines a complex processor with Intel’s latest cores and technologies and a competent Arc iGPU, arguably the fastest iGPU available today aside from the Radeon graphics in the...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    This is our detailed review of the 2025 generation of the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 laptop, Asus’s largest and most powerful notebook available as of 2025. As the naming might suggest to those already familiar with Asus’s weird naming schemes, the Scar 18...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 16, 2026

    I’ve gathered my thoughts on the Asus ROG Flow Z13 in this article, the hyped 2025 GZ302-series update with AMD Ryzen AI Max hardware. I didn’t get a review unit in time for the embargo last month, so I decided not to rush out...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    I’ve been using the 2025 Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 and Scar 16 over the last weeks, the latest 2025 configurations with Core Ultra 9 and RTX 5080/5090 hardware, reviewed in depth here (Scar 18) and here (Scar 16). They’re both full-size high-performance notebooks...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 9, 2026

    This article discusses the 2025 update of the Asus Zenbook Duo series, a dual-display portable laptop with Intel Arrow Lake H hardware and a slightly revised keyboard folio in this generation. This Zenbook Duo is one of the few dual-display laptops available in stores,...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 20, 2026

    This article covers the Intel mobile hardware available in modern laptops in 2026/2025, both the platforms released (or scheduled for release) this year and those released last year, which are still relevant today in competitive devices. I already covered the AMD mobile platforms (Gorgon,...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 2, 2026

    This is my detailed review of the Asus Zenbook A14 series, the early-2025 addition to the Zenbook lineup, a brand new chassis design for a computer built on Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware. The hardware specs mainly set this Zenbook A14 apart from the other Asus...