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This article discusses the 2025 Intel Arrow Lake HX mobile microarchitecture, meant for high-performance workstations and gaming laptops. This follows up on the Intel 13th-gen and 14th-gen Raptor Lake hardware, introducing Core Ultra 9 200HX (and lower) processors as successors for the Core i9...
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In this article, we’re discussing the AMD Krackan Point hardware platform, the mid-segment iteration of AMD’s Strix Point hardware, with Ryzen AI 7 and Ryzen AI 5 processors. Before the announcement, this platform was also known as AMD Kraken Point. This hardware is meant...
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In this article, we’re discussing the 2025 AMD Fire Range HX hardware platform meant for high-performance and gaming laptops. This follows up on AMD’s Dragon Range HX platform from 2023/2024, and integrates updated Zen5 cores, but in a die design that’s otherwise fairly similar...
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With all the mobile hardware platforms released at the beginning of this year, I’m sure many of you are wondering what’s what, so I’m putting together a few articles explaining the latest AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm hardware available in laptops this year. This first...
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Alongside their premium lineups of thin-and-light Yoga 9i ultraportables, Lenovo are also updating their more mainstream Yoga 7i 2025 gen 10 models for the year. We’ll discuss in this article the Yoga Slim 7i 14-inch Aura Edition, a more compact and lightweight iteration of...
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In this article we’re going to discuss the particularities and the performance of the best iGPU currently available on the market, the RDNA3-based AMD Radeon 780M. This integrated GPU is bundled with the majority of the top-tier 2023 AMD Ryzen 7000 Phoenix processors. We’re...
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Table of Contents1. How to Buy a Used/Older LaptopPrice, Performance, Reputation, and Display2. Best Used Ultraportable LaptopsDell XPS 13 9360 (Affiliate link)Dell XPS 13 9370 or later 16:9 models (9305) (Affiliate link)3. Best Used Business/Work LaptopsLenovo ThinkPad T480 (Affiliate Link)Dell Latitude E7480 (Affiliate Link)4....
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This article gathers my thoughts on the Asus Zenbook S 14 OLED UX5406S series, the mid-2024 addition to the Zenbook lineup of ultrabooks. This is not a review, just a series of impressions of this new model based on my experience with existing Zenbooks....
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This is my detailed review of the 2024 generation of the Razer Blade 14 creator/gaming laptop. The Razer Blade 14 comes in at a very good time for me, as I’ve had a few months now to evaluate the Asus Zephyrus G14 and use...
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There are a bunch of devices built on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite hardware coming to stores over the next weeks, and in this article we’re going to briefly discuss the two offered by Asus, the Vivobook S 15 S5507QAD and the...
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So there’s a new AMD ROG Zephyrus G16 GA605W model coming later in 2024, this time built on the latest AMD Ryzen AI hardware, part of the AMD Strix Point platform. This will be offered alongside the existing Zephyrus G16 GU605M models built on...
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The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403 is an excellent laptop within the 14-inch segment of performance devices, plenty powerful for its size, and more refined than the previous Zephyrus G14 generations, as explained in my detailed review of this 2024 Zephyrus G14 GA403 series,...
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As you’re probably aware, Asus offer a handful of power profiles for their ROG gaming laptops, with one of them being called Silent and emphasizing on keeping the fans quiet at sub 35 dBA at head-level. Thing is, this Silent profile is hit and...
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As mentioned in my detailed review of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403 series, we’ve been using a couple of different configurations and units of these laptops between myself, Derek and Doug, and that’s why I’m also going to put up together a...
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Among other, Asus are updating their Zenbook 14 and Zenbook S 13 lineups of thin-and-light laptops for 2024, and we’re going to discuss the important changes in this article. I have reviewed all the previous Zenbook generations over the years, as well as already...
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In this article we’re discussing the 2024 refresh of the Dell XPS series, specifically the new Dell XPS 16 9640 model that replaces the previous XPS 15 and XPS 17 lineups. For 2024, Dell introduce this XPS 16 as their new all purpose 16-inch...
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In this article we’re going over the 2024 updates of the Asus ROG Strix Scar and ROG Strix G lineups of full-size performance and gaming laptops. We’ve already reviewed all these models in their 2023 generations, and since these were at the time brand...
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In this article we’re discussing the latest generation of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 series, the 2024 GU605 lineup. This Zephyrus G16 is pretty much and oversized Zephyrus G14, as the two share an unified design this year. At the same time, Asus are...
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Among the novelties for this year, Lenovo are updating their premium tiers of Yoga ultraportables for 2024, and in this article we’re discussing the new Yoga Pro 9i and Yoga 9i 2-in-1. The Yoga Pro 9i gen 9 is a creator-aimed 16-inch thin-and-light performance...
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In this article we go over the 2024 updates in the Lenovo Yoga/Slim lineups of ultraportable laptops, including the Yoga/Slim Pro 7i and Pro 7, the Yoga Slim 7i and the IdeaPad Slim 5i. There’s also a Slim Pro 9i 2024 update, which we’ve...
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Acer are updating their popular lineups of Swift Go and Swift X portable laptops for 2024, and down below we’ll discuss the specs and important particularities and updates of these generations. The 2024 Acer Swift Gos are available as the Swift Go 14 (SFG14-73)...
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In this article we’re discussing the mid-sized 2024 Dell XPS series, the Dell XPS 14 9440. Dell decided to bring back the 14-inch XPS after many years of not offering an option in this class, and this replaces the XPS 13 Plus model and...
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In this article we’re discussing the compact 2024 Dell XPS 13 9340 model, the smallest XPS laptop available as part of the early-2024 XPS lineup. Unlike the XPS 14 and XPS 16, which are brand new devices for this year, the 2024 XPS 13...
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This is an early review of the Lenovo Legion Go handheld. Although I’ve only had it a couple weeks, I wanted to get something up for anyone interested in it, in time for the holidays. As far as the latest handhelds go, I’ve reviewed...
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It was a pleasant surprise to get the Lenovo Slim Pro 9i last month. Not only did I forget it existed (mostly because the name blends into the background with all the other Lenovo names out there), but I also discovered that this is...
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4K gaming on Nvidia RTX 5090, RTX 5080 Laptops (vs. RTX 4090)
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...
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