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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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This week, I’ve been focused on the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16, Lenovo’s offering for a thin studio laptop. It contains an Intel Ultra CPU with mid range Nvidia graphics and a large calibrated display and punchy speakers, making it a very nice choice...
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This is my detailed review of the AMD-powered 2024 Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UM3406HA series. This laptop is nearly identical to the Intel-based Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 tested a while ago, with the same chassis and internal design, but a different color. That allows...
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This is my detailed review of the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 series, also known as the IdeaPad Slim 5i in some markets, a compact and fairly affordable lineup of daily-use laptops. This model that I have here is the 15-inch variant, but Lenovo offer...
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This is my detailed review of the 2024 9th generation of the Lenovo Yoga 9i, Lenovo’s premium series of 2-in-1 thin-and-light laptops. The Lenovo Yoga 9i is back in my hands and this year they updated a little more than the just CPU. But...
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This is my detailed review of the 12th generation of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon premium line of business laptops, which is the 2024 model year available now with updated specs, updated cooling and an OLED display. The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon is a...
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This is my review of the 2024 MSI Titan 18 HX high-performance laptop. I was dying to get my hands on this computer, and finally got to, as this is currently the most powerful and overall best-equipped high-performance work and gaming laptop available in...
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Here at Ultrabookreview.com, we’ve reviewed hundreds of ultrabooks and portable lightweight laptops over the last 15 years, of all kinds and from all brands. In this guide, I’ll tell you which are our favorite portable notebooks right now, to help you choose the best...
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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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I’ve gathered my thoughts on the 2024 Acer Predator Helios Neo 18 laptop in this review. A friend of mine recently bought this laptop for himself and I borrowed it for a few days, as I was eager to test a new Acer Predator...
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This is my detailed review of the 2024 configuration of the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 gaming laptop, the most powerful Republic of Gamers laptop available at this point. Little has changed over the 2023 Scar 18 generation reviewed here, as the 2024 update...
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Last year, I got a good look at a the debut of the new Alienware m16 R1 model. That laptop included some very high specs with an i9 core processor and a RTX 4080 GPU along with a new chassis design that was made...
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I got my hands on the new 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 a couple weeks ago. I was very impressed with Andrei’s early preview and thought that it may be just what I was looking for this year. And that’s a portable 14” laptop...
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This article explains the specs and performance of the existing AMD Ryzen 9 mobile platforms and provides a detailed list of all the AMD Ryzen 9 laptops available in stores as of 2024 (such as the latest models powered by AMD Zen4 Ryzen 9...
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In this article, we’re going over our recommendations for the Best Chromebook and Chromebook Plus laptops available in 2025. I’m sure you already know what a Chromebook is by this point, but just in case, here’s a brief summary: Chromebooks are snappy, easy to...
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This is my review of the top-specced configuration of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16, the GU605MY variant that bundles a Core Ultra 9 processor, 32 GB of LPDDR5x RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics. I’ve covered the mid-tier Zephyrus G16 Core Ultra 7...
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This is my detailed review of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 GU605 lineup of premium performance portable laptops. In this article we’re mostly discussing a mid-tier configuration of this series, built on an Intel Core Ultra 7 platform with RTX 4070 graphics. However,...
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This is my detailed review of the 2024 Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 series. The reviewed configuration is the new Zenbook 14 UX3405MA variant, with an Intel Core Ultra processor and Intel Arc graphics, the latest Meteor Lake hardware platform available from Intel. For...
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This article serves to share my picks for some of the best SSDs as of early 2025. I will let you know which SSDs I finally purchased for myself after doing my research and why, but of course, keep in mind that these are...
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Looking for a good-value laptop and portable ultrabook and don’t plan to spend an arm and a leg for it? In this article, we’re going over the best budget laptops and ultrabooks that you can get for under 1000 USD (or EUR) these days,...
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This is our detailed review of the latest generation of the Asus ROG Flow X13 series, in the GV302XV variant built on AMD Ryzen 9 7000 and Nvidia RTX 4000 hardware. We’ve reviewed the previous variants of the Flow X13 series, and this 2023/2024...
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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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This article explains what “Intel Evo” means and lists all the important laptops with Intel Evo Edition certification that are currently available in stores, as of the first half of 2025. Plus, we’re briefly going over a selection of what we consider the best...
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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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Lenovo are updating their entire range of Legion and LOQ performance and gaming laptops for 2024, and while there are some brand new models launching this year, most of their offer still consists of hardware refreshes of the 2023 generations. Among those, the 2024...
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A while back I reviewed a handful of foldable OLED devices, namely the Asus Zenbook Fold and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 2, and greatly appreciated their versatility as travel/work computers. In the meantime, both Asus and Lenovo seem to have taken a step...
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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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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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