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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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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...
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Asus are updating their ROG Flow Z13 series for 2025 and the new model is their first take at the AMD Strix Halo hardware platform, an approach that pairs up to 16 Zen5 Cores with a massive iGPU with up to 40 RDNA3.5 Compute...
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Dell are updating their lineups of Alienware 16-inch and 18-inch laptops for 2025, with Intel Arrow Lake-HX hardware and Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 graphics, as well as a slightly revised chassis design. These new devices are called the Alienware 16 Area 51 and Alienware...
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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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In this article, we’re going over a list of all the available Copilot+ laptops built on AMD Strix Point Ryzen AI 300 hardware, particularly the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, and Ryzen AI 9 365 platforms available as...
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Among the multitude of new laptops unveiled at CES this year, Asus are updating their popular lineups of performance thin-and-light computers, the ROG Zephyrus G14 and the ROG Zephyrus G16. These aren’t new designs for 2025, but rather hardware updates and slight refinements of...
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Let’s discuss the new 14-inch Asus Zenbook thin-and-light models available for 2025, alongside the impressive Zenbook S 14 OLED launched last year. Asus are releasing a Zenbook A14 UX3407 Copilot+ PC built on Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware, an ultraportable premium chassis that weighs less than...
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Alongside the Legion Pro 7i series, Lenovo are also updating their midrange Legion Pro 5 lineups for 2025. Much like the Pro 7s, these 10th generation 2025 Legion Pro 5 models are brand new chassis designs, but only with mid-tier GPU specs and without...
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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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Lenovo are updating their premium lineups of Yoga thin-and-light ultrabooks for 2025, and in this article, we’re discussing their top-tier Yoga 9i 10th-generation refreshes. These are all 14-inch Copilot+ laptops, and are available as a clamshell Yoga Slim 9i, a 2-in-1 convertible Yoga 9i...
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Alongside their ROG Scar lineups, Asus are also updating their more mainstream ROG Strix G models for 2025. These Strix Gs G615/G815 are a brand-new designs for the year and share many characteristics with the higher-tier 2025 Scars G635/G835. In fact, both the 16-inch...
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In this article, we’re briefly going over the AMD-based version of the 2025 Asus ROG Strix G16/G18 series. It’s a weird lineup that doesn’t make much sense to me. These AMD-based Strix G16 and Strix G18 are not the new 2025 chassis designs offered...
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Asus stick to their two-year update schedule of their major ROG lineups, and that means early 2025 brings brand-new iterations of their full-size ROG Strix Scar and ROG Strix models. In this article, we’re discussing their top lineups of performance and gaming notebooks, the...
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While a few years ago the word “ultrabook” had not been even invented, today, ultrabooks are widespread and the kinds of portable thin-and-light computers many desire to get. But what is an ultrabook in 2025? How do you define this term and what sets...
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Here at Ultrabookreview.com, we’ve been testing and reviewing thin-and-light gaming laptops for more than 15 years now, of all kinds and from all major brands. Our experience allows us to help you choose the best portable gaming laptop (or gaming ultrabook) for your needs...
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Author’s Note: I wrote the first edition of this ThrottleStop guide for UltrabookReview as part of a short undervolting/tweaking guide several years ago. I previously published a ThrottleStop guide for Notebookcheck back in 2017, but wanted to update the guide here to cover the...
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Let’s go over the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition in this review, a 15-inch thin-and-light chassis paired with a beautiful IPS touchscreen, Intel Lunar Lake hardware and a big battery. This is designed as a versatile daily use laptop and tackles a very...
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The Legion Pro 7i from Lenovo has been available in stores for one a half years now and is most likely due for a refresh in 2025, but before that happens, I wanted to discuss it once more, as this is arguably one of...
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This is our review of the Asus Zenbook S 14 OLED UX5406S series, the mid-2024 addition to the Zenbook lineup of thin-and-light ultrabooks. This follows up on the impressions article published a few weeks ago, and touches on the particularities of this series and...
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This is my detailed review of the AMD-powered 2024 Asus Zenbook S 16 OLED UM5606WA series. It’s been a while since Asus offered a large-sized Zenbook S model, as their efforts mostly aimed at 14-inch models over the last years. Not anymore, though, as...
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This is our detailed review of the late-2024 version of the Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 series, a compact and powerful 14-inch laptop in an AMD Strix Point Ryzen AI configuration. The Yoga Pro lineup has been around for many years now, and it’s Lenovo’s...
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In this article, we’ll go over my favorite student ultrabooks and lightweight laptops for school/college use, devices that can handle both work and play at the same time, without breaking your back or the bank for you. When I was in school, I lugged...
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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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This is our detailed review of the AMD powered Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 GA605W series of all-purpose portable laptops. We already reviewed this lineup in the Intel Core Ultra variants released earlier in 2024, and now we’ve spent a few weeks with the configurations...
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This is our review of the Asus ExpertBook P5 P5404 series, a mid-range thin and light Copilot+ laptop designed for all-purpose use and business environments. We’ve discussed ExpertBook laptops in the past, but this one is a little different. It’s not a premium model...
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In this review article I’m gathering my thoughts on the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403 series, the third major iteration of the Zephyrus G14 lineup, arguably the best gaming laptop series in the portable niche over the last years. Over the years, I’ve...
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If time has taught us anything, it should be that newer isn’t necessarily better. In the world of computing, it often means paying a significant premium to be a hardware beta tester. By buying an older used laptop (second-hand or refurbished/refreshed), you’re not just...
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This article explains the specs and performance of the existing Intel Core i9 laptop platforms and provides a detailed list of all the portable, high-performance, and gaming Core i9 laptops available in stores as of early 2025 and late 2024. We’re discussing latest-gen Intel...
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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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Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 vs. Razer Blade 16, Asus ProArt P16 comparison
I’ve used and reviewed the 2025 Razer Blade 16, the 2025 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16, and the 2025 Asus ProArt P16 over the last weeks, and I’ve gathered my...
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