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Lenovo are updating their lineups of Slim and Yoga thin-and-light ultrabook notebooks for 2022. Among the novelties, we’re looking at a hardware bump to current Intel Core 12th-gen Alder Lake and AMD Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt hardware platforms with DDR5 memory and PCIe gen4 SSD...
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The Microsoft Surface Go series has been one of our go-to recommendations for a tiny Windows computer in the last few years, and Microsoft have recently unveiled its latest iteration, the Surface Go 3. Unlike the latest Surface Pro 8, though, the upgraded Go...
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For the last years, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme series included some of the best professional multi-purpose laptops on the market, and we’ve covered all generations in our articles and reviews. As of early-2022, Lenovo has updated the X1 Extreme to the latest 5th gen...
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This article is a follow-up of our 2022 ROG Zephyrus G14 review, where we’re going to check out the laptop’s performance and overall behavior on USB-C power and when connected to an external monitor, with or without the lid closed. USB-C power performance is...
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Laptops used to come with an array of ports, and only in the rarest of occasions would we be caught with an accessory or peripheral that we couldn’t interface with out of the box. Now, with Type-C connectors edging out legacy ports more and...
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This article gathers my impressions of the 2022 Predator Triton 500 SE series, Acer’s portable premium laptop meant for professionals, creatives, and gamers. Unlike most other Predator computers, the Triton 500 SE is a sleeper design, a clean and refined device that doesn’t scream...
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Back in early 2020, Asus launched what ended up being one of the most popular compact laptops of recent years, the ROG Zephyrus G14 series. Two years later, it’s time for a major overhaul of this lineup, with the 2022 ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402....
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A few months ago, I got to review the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, which is one of Lenovo’s lightest laptops available and arguably the lightest 14” notebook that’s worth buying. Overall I liked it a lot – great portability without compromising the build quality...
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This article explains why a high refresh-rate screen should be a must on your gaming laptop in this day and age, and also compiles for you a complete list of all the available notebooks equipped with 144Hz or the newer 240Hz, 360Hz, and 480Hz...
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This is my detailed review of the 14-inch Asus VivoBook Pro 14X OLED, an all-purpose competitively-priced compact laptop meant for everyday use. With this generation of their laptops, Asus brought back to life a subfamily that has been neglected for the last years: the...
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Earlier this year, Lenovo announced their first iteration of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano, an ultra-lightweight laptop with a 16:10 screen, modern specs, and the uncompromised Thinkpad build quality and ergonomics. As a past ThinkPad aficionado myself, I’ve been looking to spend some time...
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Several weeks ago I published my detailed review of the 2022 Asus ROG Flow Z13, a device that is the most powerful ultrabook design available in stores today. This article follows up on that review, and goes over two side topics that potential buyers...
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Microsoft has been dropping prices on its Surface lineup over the last few months, with the cheapest Surface Pro 7 tablet + keyboard bundle now available for just $599 (which also means prices are dropping elsewhere). Even with the Surface Pro 8 and 9...
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Disclaimer: All laptops (The ThinkPad X1 Carbon and both the black and white Dell XPS 13 SKUs) were purchased with my own funds for this review. Going by most accounts, the best ultrabook is either the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (which we at NBC...
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This article is a brief first look at the 2022 ROG Zephyrus G15 and Zephyrus M16 updates. These two have been some of the most popular Asus laptops in 2021, and excellent options overall in the niche of premium full-size computers with a portable/lightweight...
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If you’re shopping for a performance/gaming laptop on a tighter budget, you’ve most likely come across the Asus TUF Gaming series in recent years. This is Asus’s budget-friendly alternative to the ROG – Republic of Gamers notebooks, available in 15 and 17-inch variants, and...
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I’ve already covered the Asus Zenbook 14X in several different articles such as this one on the 14X UX5401 Intel-based series and this one on the 14X UM5401 model built on AMD hardware, concluding that this chassis is one of the better balanced ZenBook...
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A new year, a new round of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga business ultraportables. Time sure flies, as the 2022 X1 Carbon is now the 10th iteration in the series. Last year, I was very excited about the 2021 models which introduced...
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Dell are updating most of their notebook lineups at the beginning of 2022 with the latest hardware specs available from Intel, AMD and Nvidia, including their top-tier Alienware X series. For 2022 generation, we’ll be getting the updated Alienware X15 R2 and X17 R2,...
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The Strix SCAR is Asus’s top series of full-size performance/gaming laptops with uncompromised specs, features, and cooling. However, their 2021 generations lacked a few important details that prevented them from competing against the heavyweights, and from what I can tell right now, Asus were...
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Best Chromebooks of 2022 – comparisons, reviews, buying guide
Chromebooks are snappy, easy to use, and inexpensive computers designed for everyday use and Internet-based activities such as browsing, email, text-editing, Youtube, Netflix, light gaming, and the likes. Many...
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