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In this article, we’re discussing the Lenovo Legion Pro 5i series, the Intel-based variation of the mid-range Pro 5i lineup (there’s also an AMD version we’ll refer to where needed). Over the years, the Pro 5 mid-range series has been an excellent mid-range laptop...
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In this article, we’re discussing the lightest laptops and ultrabooks currently available in stores. A laptop’s overall weight is one of my main concerns when shopping for a highly portable computer, the kind I’ll constantly grab along to work or school or during my...
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In this article, we’re discussing the 2025 Lenovo Legion 9i, Lenovo’s full-size, full-power 18-inch laptop. Before we start, a heads-up: this series is sold as the Legion 9 in Europe and as the Legion 9i in the US market, and we’ll refer to it...
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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 thoughts on these three in this article, a comparison to help you choose between these...
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In this article, we’re discussing the Nvidia RTX 5000 Blackwell mobile platform that you will find in a multitude of all-around, worksation and gaming laptops over the next 2-3 years, and particularly focus on the top-tier GPU options, the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX...
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We’re discussing the 2025 Asus ROG Strix G16 G615 series of high-performance 16-inch gaming laptops in this review. This is the mainstream full-size full-performance notebook offered by Asus today, a step back from the top-tier Strix Scar 16 lineup discussed in this previous article....
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Time to discuss the 2025 refresh of the Asus Vivobook S14 M5406KA series, this time in the more affordable variant running on AMD Krackan Ryzen AI 7 hardware. We’ve covered this lineup in the past in the previous AMD variant, but in the meantime...
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The Asus ProArt PX13 is an oddity, as the last remaining powerful 13-inch ultrabook. And not just any powerful ultrabook in a proper laptop format, but one that bundles a powerful mobile processor with capable dedicated graphics, plus good inputs, an OLED display and...
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Time to go over the MSI Titan 18 HX AI lineup in this review, one of the most, if not the most, powerful 18-inch notebooks available in stores today. The 2025 iteration is a hardware refresh of the 2024 Titan 18, built on the...
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In this review, we’re discussing the 2025 Asus Zenbook 14 UM3406KA refresh with AMD Krackan specs (Ryzen AI 7 350). We’ve covered most, if not all, Zenbook lineups and models over the years. This 2025 model is a hardware refresh of the 2024 Zenbook...
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This is my longer-term review of the 2025 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the 13th gen Aura Edition built on Intel Lunar Lake hardware. This revision of the X1 Carbon series was launched late in 2024, but I got to use it around mid-2025, with...
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We’re discussing the Asus V16 V3607 notebook series in this review article. This is a budget-friendly all-purpose laptop, a potential jack of all trades with an affordable price tag. A Vivobook, more or less, but without the Vivobook name. Of course, that means you’ll...
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We’re discussing the Acer Predator Helios 16 AI in this laptop, Acer’s most powerful 16-inch gaming laptop of this generation (2025, PH16-73 model), with specs that include an Intel Core Ultra 9 and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. Just to be clear,...
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Time to discuss the 2025 update of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 series, a powerful and yet still compact and lightweight series of all-purpose laptops. More specifically, we’re talking about the Intel-based Zephyrus G16 GU605, which is now powered by a Core Ultra 9...
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We’re dicussing the Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition in this article, also known as the Lenovo Yoga 9 2-in-1 over here on Europe, Lenovo’s premium lineup of convertible ultrabooks in its latest iteration as of 2025. This laptop was released earlier in the...
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Time to review the 2025 update of the Asus ProArt P16 lineup, a portable 16-inch laptop for creators and workloads. This series is, in fact, derived from the ROG Zephyrus G16 series, with a slightly thinner and lighter chassis, clean all-black aesthetics, and a...
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This is my detailed review of the 2025 generation of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. The Zephyrus G14 is a highly popular series of thin-and-light laptops with serious performance capabilities, and we’ve discussed and tested all variants launched over the years. This most recent...
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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 in the Asus ROG Scar 18 and ROG Scar 16 notebooks, with later updates for...
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This article is my detailed review of the 2025 Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 series, the highest-tier 16-inch performance laptop offered by Asus this generation, meant for serious workloads and gaming. This is the more compact version of the ROG Scar 18 discussed above,...
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In this article, we’re discussing laptops built on the Intel Lunar Lake (Intel Core Ultra 200V) hardware. We’re going through the main characteristics and particularities of the Lunar Lake platforms, which are primarily designed for lightweight and portable devices, and then we’ll curate a...
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Just a few weeks ago I wrote a final review article of the gen9 Lenovo Legion Pro 7i series, stating that a successor was due at the beginning of 2025, and now it’s time to discuss this successor. The early-2025 10th generation of the...
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Like Andrei, I too got a chance to review the 2025 Asus ROG Flow Z13. I’ve had it for about a month and have been using it as my daily driver this whole time. It was a pretty easy transition for me too, since...
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Let’s discuss the Intel Arrow Lake H hardware platform, with Core Ultra 200H processors. This hardware combines a complex processor with Intel’s latest cores and technologies and a competent Arc iGPU, arguably the fastest iGPU available today aside from the Radeon graphics in the...
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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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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 2026/2025, both the platforms released (or scheduled for release) this year and those released last year, which are still relevant today in competitive devices. I already covered the AMD mobile platforms (Gorgon,...
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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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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon vs. MacBook Air, ThinkPad T14 and T14s, Yoga 9i 2-in-1, Zenbook S14
I got these laptops around my office the other day and decided to put together this article that discusses the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon against a few other popular...
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