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Update: September 9, 12:48PM HKT — original pricing from SnazzyLabs’ video was misleading ($279 was for Hackintosh-incompatible AMD version. $339 seems to be the cheapest price for Intel I3 model). Additional buying links for the Core i3 330s are here. Apple & Tech YouTuber...
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Earlier this year Asus announced the StudioBook S W700 series, a 17-inch laptop with workstation-grade features and hardware. Several months later, that early unit has matured into a complete lineup of notebooks made for creators, called Proart StudioBook, with no less than 5 different...
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Acer offers some of the best-value ultraportable gaming laptops on the market with their Predator Triton lineup. We’ve reviewed the competitive Triton 500 earlier this year, and that’s been updated for Q4 2019 with a brand-new 300 Hz display. However, the important novelty for...
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Organic Light Emitting Displays, or “OLED” for short, have been appearing in TVs and smartphones for the better part of a decade now. However, 2019 marks the year where the display technology is starting to become much more prevalent in notebook computers thanks to...
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The Asus VivoBook S15 series is one of the most popular lines of mid-range laptops in the last few years, as these were among the first compact and lightweight full-size computers without major compromises and with a competitive price. In this article, we’re talking...
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We’ve talked about the mid-2019 lineup of Asus ROG Zephyrus gaming ultraportables in several previous articles, and in this one, we’ll further take an in-depth look at the Zephyrus G GA502 subseries. The Zephyrus G GA502 sits at the bottom of the line, beneath the...
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This article gathers our impressions on the Asus ZenBook S13 UX392FN, Asus’s top-of-the-line ultrabook for the most of 2019. The UX392 follows up on one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2018, the ZenBook S13 UX391 series, and competes at the high end of its...
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Those of you familiar with the site know that I own and use a Blade 15 Advanced as my everyday driver, but I’ve also spent time with and reviewed the Blade Stealth and, more recently, the updated Blade Pro 17. As I stated at...
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The TUF FX Gaming series is Asus’s entry-line for gaming notebooks, and in this article, we’re taking a deep look at the TUF FX705DU model, the updated 2019 variant based on AMD Ryzen CPUs and Nvidia Turing GPUs. This is a fairly new combo...
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Despite the whole controversy around the Huawei company, it’s hard to deny they still make some of the best value notebooks on the market. Thus, if you’re fine with buying a Huawei product (it’s up to you, but as long as you’re not working...
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Subcontracting is not unique to the computing industry, but its effects are particularly profound in this sector due to price of goods and importance of continued support. Calling tech support and speaking to someone in another country is likely something we’ve all become familiar...
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Nitros are Acer’s entry-level gaming laptops, devices meant to offer excellent specs and value for not a lot of money. In this article, we’re covering the 2019-edition of the Nitro 5 series, the 17-inch AN517-51 version. There’s also a 15-inch Nitro 5 AN515-54 model, which...
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This is our detailed review of the mid-2019 MSI GL63 gaming laptop, in a mid-tier configuration with a Core i7 processor, Nvidia GTX 1660Ti graphics and dual-storage. The GL63 is not a new model by any means, it’s merely a hardware refresh with some...
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Razer was kind enough to send me a sample of their 2019 Razer Blade Stealth – a pink one in fact! I’ve seen other reviews on this one already, but I figured I’d put my two cents in as well. Overall, I found it...
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There’s no doubt you considered getting an Acer’s Predator Helios 300 if shopping for a good value mid-tier gaming laptop in the last years, something with excellent performance, latest generation hardware and a good price. As of 2019, Acer has completely revamped the Helios...
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As of late-May 2019, Asus announced its updated mainstream ZenBook line, laptops you’ll find in stores in the second part of 2019 and the first part of 2020. The update affects the entire lineup of 13 (ZenBook UX334), 14-inch (ZenBook UX434) and 15-inch (ZenBook...
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro lineup of tablets has been around for many years now, and received fairly well by customers across the world for primarily its ultra-portable form factor. However, the Surface Pro models of the past years were in a dire need of a...
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This is our detailed review of the mid-2019 update of the Asus ROG G703GX gaming and performance notebook, in a higher specced configuration with a 9th gen Intel Core i9-9980HK unlocked processor, a 200W implementation of the Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics chip and 64...
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I previously wrote in my long-term review for the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 (essentially the same laptop as the X1 Extreme except with Nvidia Quadro GPUs instead of GeForce) that it was my favourite laptop of 2019, and one of the best all-around laptops I’ve...
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If you’re looking for a modern gaming or high-performance laptop in the second part of 2019 and first half of 2020, that’s most likely running on an Intel 9th gen Coffee Lake-Refresh hardware platform with the Intel Core i7-9750H processor. This replaces last year’s...
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The Sony Xperia 10 was released in February 2019 to little fanfare. Initial excitement for the device’s design was mostly quashed by the confirmation of more of its details — mainly the small 2870 mAh battery, two-year old Snapdragon 630 chipset, and $350 USD...
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The MateBook D is Huawei’s line of affordable laptops, and in this article, we’ve gathered out impressions on a slightly older model, yet one that’s still popular in some regions, the MateBook D 15 MRC-W10. This offers a compact and light all-metal construction, a...
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The Nitro series is Acer’s entry-level lineup of gaming notebooks, and the Nitro 7 is their newest model as of the first part of 2019. Unlike the Nitros of the past, this new addition is a little different, with a more compact and much...
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For the last few years, the ROG Zephyrus has been Asus’s top-tier line of thin and light gaming laptops. While in the beginning there was a single ROG Zephyrus series, the GX501, later on, Asus added the Zephyrus M (GM501), a slightly larger variant...
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This article gathers our impressions on the updated Acer Aspire 7 2019 line, a computer designed to offer performance in a compact and light 15-inch envelope. Unlike the previous Aspire 7 lineups, I feel that the A715-73G models target a completely different audience and...
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For the last years, Acer’s Nitro line of value gaming laptops stood proof that you did not have to pay a lot of money in order to get a pretty good gaming experience. It’s true they somewhat sacrificed on design, speakers and screen quality,...
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The Dell XPS 13 has been my ultrabook of choice for a few years now. I own and have been constantly using while on the go an XPS 13 9343, and I’ve reviewed here on the site all the later updates released in the last...
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The GeForce MX250 is Nvidia’s entry-level dedicated graphics chip, bundled inside mostly thin-and-light ultrabooks and affordable full-size laptops. It’s designed to improve on the performance of Intel’s HD integrated chips you’ll usually find on this kind of computers with casual gaming, productivity tasks like...
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While Chromebooks were initially launched as inexpensive alternatives to Windows laptops, they’ve come a long way in recent years, both in terms of the OS’s capabilities, but also in terms of the overall hardware quality. Acer have been one of the spearheads in promoting...
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I’ve got my hands on the ZenBook 14 UX431 series several weeks ago, the most affordable model in the current ZenBook 14 lineup as of mid-2019. I haven’t written about it at that time, but since this is not yet available here in Europe...
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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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