Earlier this week I read with great interest two articles (1, 2) — both were published July 26, both were about defects the owners found in their X1 Carbon(s), and both were negative. As it happens, I have no disagreement at all with either...
The issue I’ve been coming across recently seems to be mostly with Dell’s XPS line of laptops, though it can certainly affect others: My new XPS 13 9370, XPS 15 9575, and XPS 15 9570 showed 8, 14.5, and 10% battery wear out-of-the-box, respectively...
The Core i7-8750H is the new mainstream processor for gaming and other types of performance laptops released on April 3rd 2018, as part of the Intel Coffee Lake platform. It’s one of the first 6-core mobile processors from Intel and it’s meant to replace...
I used to play a lot of games in a previous life, and back then I was much into titles like World of Warcraft, Age of Empires, Starcraft, Red Alert, Diablo and many others. These days I rarely launch a Civ 6 session and...
Last week I wrote about the supposed 40% speed boost seen in an always-connected PC powered by an overclocked Snapdragon 845. While the Snapdragon 835 has delivered tepid performance (at best) in the current crop of Windows-on-Arm (WoA) PCs such as the Asus NovaGo,...
I have long been a fan of Lon Seidman’s consumer-friendly reviews and the humble, honest approach he has always taken in executing them on his channel. Lon’s channel is one of the few that I greatly respect due to his stance on full disclosure,...
A few years ago gaming laptops were bulky, heavy, expensive and couldn’t even get close to the performance of a regular PC, but a lot has changed in the meantime. These days the market offers not only powerful desktop replacements, but also a very...
Laptops used to come with an array of ports, and only in the rarest of occasions would we be caught with an accessory or peripheral that we couldn’t interface with out of the box. Now, with Type-C connectors edging out legacy ports more and...
As of April 3rd 2018 Intel unveiled the revised Coffee Lake hardware platform and in this article we’ll talk about what this means for the world on notebooks for the rest of 2018 and the first part of 2019. You should know that this launch...
As of April 3rd 2018 there’s a new series of Performance Mobile Processors meant for multimedia, gaming and workstation laptops, part of the Intel Coffee Lake line. This includes a multitude of SKUs, with the most important ones being the Core i5-8300H (quad-core), Core...
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Acer Swift 5 SF515-51T impressions (i7-8565U, UHD 620) – the lightest 15-inch laptop
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme review (Core i7-8850H, GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q, UHD screen)
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Asus Zenbook Flip UX362 review (UX362FA – i7-8565U, UHD 620)
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Dell XPS 15 9570 review (i7-8750H, GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q, FHD screen) — completed
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2018 Holiday Deals on ultrabooks and portable laptops
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all gone now, but this article still gathers some of the best deals I was able to find for portable laptops, tablets, gaming...
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