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,...
It’s been a while since the release of the Nvidia Pascal architecture that’s used in the vast majority of notebooks and desktop builds available in stores today, but a new generation based on the Volta architecture is scheduled for release this summer. We’ve seen rumors...
The Precision 5530 workstation that Dell revealed last month is now available for purchase. If it looks familiar, that’s because it is almost identical to the Dell XPS 15 9570, although the Nvidia GeForce graphics have been replaced with Nvidia Quadro, and a Xeon...
The PC industry is expected to contract by 2.1% this year, and that’s a good thing, says research firm Canalys. The 2.1% contraction suggests a soft landing for the PC market, which has seen years of negative growth due to a number of factors,...
A few weeks ago I co-wrote an editorial on Notebookcheck about the disappointing debut of Windows 10 on ARM (WoA). In short, my chief complaints about Windows 10 on ARM were as follows: Performance is nowhere near as was advertised. OpenGL and 64-bit x86...
The Huawei MateBook X Pro caused quite a splash when it debuted at Mobile World Congress three months ago. The unconventional 13.9-inch display came courtesy of the 3:2 3000 x 2000 resolution aspect ratio. The screen can also display 100 percent of the sRGB...
Acer has a bit of recent history with creating products that are the most something, seemingly for the sake of the title. The Swift 7 was the thinnest laptop in the world, with its current iteration’s waistline measuring just under 9mm. The Swift 5 was...
Since the 12.5-inch Razer Blade Stealth received its makeover in late 2017, Razer fans have been anxiously waiting for two things: a reply to their support ticket (rimshot) and a refreshed, modernized Razer Blade 14. It looks like one of those has finally happened,...
HP recently unveiled a number of new products in this year’s line-up, but one of the more intruiging laptops has been the first of a new generation of premium business/multimedia laptops dubbed the EliteBook 1050 G1 (in HP’s nonmenclature, the “G” is for generation)....
By now it is very well documented that the XPS 15 9550 (review) and 9560 (review) have issues with thermal and VRM throttling. As I outline in the aforementioned page linked, there are actually two types of throttling that plague the XPS 15 series:...
Best Ultrabooks of 2018: Lenovo X1 Carbon vs. Dell XPS 13
Disclaimer: All laptops (including both black and white XPS 13 SKUs) were purchased with my own funds for this review. Going by most accounts, the best ultrabook of 2018...
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