Laptops
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for the Windows on Arm platform. Announced is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 14 and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 both feature Qualcomm's latest 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor, ushering in a new era for Microsoft's Windows on Arm platform. Lenovo aims to target content creators and business professionals with these new models. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite processor looks set to try to change the adoption of the Windows-on-Arm devices, with a critical focus on providing AI capability on device, which promises up to 45 TOPs of performance solely from the Hexagon NPU. Powered...
Alienware's M17x R3: An Antidote to Clevo
We've had our hands on quite a few gaming notebooks here, but most of the time they're Clevo-based machines. These aren't necessarily bad notebooks; they're fast, typically have good...
84 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/20/2011
Samsung Central Station: The Future of Laptop Docking?
Back at CES 2011, Samsung showed us something that may have seemed futuristic. They showed us a monitor that connects to your laptop wirelessly and on top of that...
50 by Kristian Vättö on 6/14/2011
The AMD Llano Notebook Review: Competing in the Mobile Market
Today has been a long time in coming; we first heard about Llano way back in 2008, but even then the target date was 2011. Even so, AMD has...
177 by Jarred Walton & Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/14/2011
Acer Moves Forward in Time
Acer's popular TimelineX line of notebooks has undergone a refresh to Sandy Bridge and brought a healthy number of upgrades to the hardware with them, including a major (and...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/9/2011
Dell's Latitude Gets Rough and Ready
While a business-class notebook is often a good idea just for reliability’s sake, what if you need something tough enough to be used either as a murder weapon or...
15 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/7/2011
Toshiba Tecra R850: Business Class on a Budget
Toshiba won't mind if we say that their previous business class notebooks looked...kind of cheap. They were bulky and unattractive, largely feeling like consumer notebooks with matte instead of...
39 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/6/2011
AVADirect's Clevo X7200 Redux: AMD 6970M CF Takes the Crown
A little over seven months ago, we took at look at a Clevo X7200 courtesy of AVADirect that featured a desktop hex-core processor and a pair of NVIDIA's then-fastest...
44 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/2/2011
New Intel Marketing Terms: Smart Connect & Rapid Start Technology
In our Ultrabook article from earlier this evening I mentioned that Intel would be enabling a new technology with Ultrabooks that allows your applications that require real time updates...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
The Ultrabook: Meet the New Thin and Light Intel Notebook
It's too cliché to proclaim netbooks are dead. Perhaps the appropriate phrase is netbooks are no longer interesting to write about, but they do have a roadmap going forward...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
ASUS 2011 UX Series: Ultra Thin and Light Sandy Bridge
ASUS just unveiled its 2011 UX Series, which looks a lot like a MacBook Air: p.p1 span.s1 The new UX comes with a 6Gbps SATA SSD, although ASUS didn’t...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011
ASUS Eee PC X101: Running MeeGo, Windows Optional - Starting at $199
It wouldn't be Computex without another Eee PC announcement and today's is a big one. ASUS officially introduced the next-generation of Eee PC, the X101: The X101 weighs...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M: High-End Mobile Graphics with Optimus
Our collective wishes have been granted by the fine folks at NVIDIA: you can now buy a notebook with high-end graphics that supports Optimus and thus is capable of...
11 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/29/2011
Lenovo X1 Announced Alongside An Edge Infused All-In-One
Today Lenovo brings thin and Sandy Bridge to your desks and your laps. Leaked last month, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 will make a strong case for itself to corporate...
31 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/16/2011
CyberPower's X6-9300 and MSI's GT680R: Fighting for Your Mobile Gaming Dollar
Choosing a laptop can be a pretty confusing experience, because even if you have a good idea of what features and components you’d like, finding a laptop with them...
44 by Jarred Walton on 5/13/2011
Google I/O 2011: Chrome OS Highlights
We are at Google IO 2011 and the focus today is on the Chrome browser and new Chromebooks running the Chrome OS. Google's core focus has been the creation...
40 by Nirdhar Khazanie on 5/11/2011
HP EliteBook 8460p: Everything But The Screen
Ever since getting to visit with HP back in February, we've been anxious to get one of their refreshed enterprise-class notebooks in house. The aluminum styling is such a...
31 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/10/2011
HP Keeps The Notebooks Rolling Out
Every time I feel like I'm done posting about HP's hardware refreshes, they have another press conference and another announcement. Typically a constant stream of releases and conferences is...
29 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/9/2011
LG P430 and P530 Blade Announced: LG Slims Down
Announced today, LG joins in the race for thin with its latest P series notebooks, now dubbed the Blade series. Available in late May across Europe, South America, Asia...
24 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/6/2011
CyberPower Xplorer X6-9100: Gamers Need Not Apply
As a matter of course we tend to spend a lot of time focusing on the gaming potential of the hardware we review. Boutique desktops get a lot of...
26 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/4/2011
Toshiba Satellite M645: The Steady March of Progress
Toshiba has spent the last half a decade carving out an interesting niche as a notebook manufacturer, with many consumer-grade notebooks that are ostensibly budget offerings but often feature...
35 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/29/2011
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