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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...
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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...
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In this article, we’re discussing laptops and devices built on the AMD Strix Halo laptop hardware launched in early 2025, or the so-called AMD Ryzen AI Max platform. Ryzen AI Max hardware is unique among the mobile platforms available today, as it pairs a...
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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...
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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,...
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This article covers the Intel mobile hardware available in modern laptops in 2025, both the platforms released this year and those released last year which are still relevant today in competitive devices. I already covered the AMD mobile platforms (Strix, Strix Halo, Krackan, etc)...
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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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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...
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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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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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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’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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Asus ProArt P16 vs. Razer Blade 16, Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 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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