Items tagged with Laptops
It's important to dream big, and to that end, Acer's new and affordable Chromebook Plus 514 laptop has aspirations being an AI PC, though not necessarily through specialized hardware. Instead, the heavy marketing pitch towards AI is geared towards the "AI-powered capabilities of ChromeOS" and the Chromebook Plus...
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If you find yourself in need of a new laptop, we have good news—there are a whole bunch of models on sale right now (as is usually the case as of late), including an all-time low price for Apple's M2 MacBook Air. Yes, it's officially a last-gen product with the M3 roll out, but it's still a powerful and efficient...
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Alienware m16 R2 Gaming Laptop: Starts at $1,499, as tested $1,849 Dell has reimagined its new mid-sized Alienware m16 R2 gaming laptop, and the result is a more efficient yet still potent, Intel Meteor Lake-powered beauty. Clean Understated Design Solid, Balanced Performance Quality Keyboard...
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Acer today is introducing a handful of new and upgraded gaming laptops sporting the latest generation CPU hardware from AMD and Intel, all of which come paired with discrete graphics from NVIDIA's mobile GeForce RTX 40 series. There are four main laptop lines in all, which notably includes all-new 14-inch models...
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Before I even get started discussing the specs of Razer's upgraded Blade 18 gaming laptop, I implore everyone to clench their fingers and offer a fist-bump to Razer for helping to keep big and bad notebooks in style. Now take that same fist and punch your wallet or purse so it can get used to the pummeling that will...
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CyberPowerPC is refreshing its Tracer gaming laptop line with its upgraded Tracer VIII series, and once again buyers can optionally choose to pick up a detachable liquid cooling setup to keep temps at bay. It won't set you back a ton of cash, either, though buyers will have to decide if the added cooling is worth the...
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Gone are the days of having a family PC in the basement that you’d file taxes on, and the kids would play 3D Pinball. Nowadays, everyone should have a laptop that allows them to pay bills, handle assignments, communicate with friends and family, or play some games wherever they are. Thankfully, Walmart and Amazon have...
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You might be tempted to leave your laptop plugged in while not in use to ensure that the battery will always be topped off. After all, battery life is paramount to the laptop form factor, otherwise it's a glorified desktop replacement. However, despite your good intentions and the seeming logic of keeping a laptop's...
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It was right around six months ago when Colorful introduced its new Colorfire Meow series, with the first products consisting of an Intel B760M motherboard, GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and 4060 graphics cards, and a micro-ATX chassis. Today sees the Colorfire Meow series expand with a couple of AMD Ryzen gaming laptops with...
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After making a debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last month, LG is using this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) event as a launchpad for its LG Gram Pro laptops in the United States, with pricing and availability revealed. Additionally, those who place a preorder on LG's website will get a free RAM and...
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When you think of prison, you probably do not think of technology, and in fact, you may think of the lack thereof. However, a plethora of correctional facilities and inmates utilize technology, and not just that which is smuggled in. Laptops are great for educational, leisure, and other purposes, but they also must be safe for the correctional
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers may have heard whispers that work had begun on a machine at Iowa State College called the Atanasoff-Berry computer (ABC), a very early and rudimentary electronic digital computer with hundreds of vacuum tubes. Without support for real-time ray tracing and DLSS, however, they...
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Nothing says “I love you” quite like a MacBook. We jest, of course, but nevertheless there are some incredible deals going on right now if you'd like to surprise that special someone for Valentine’s Day.
Apple MacBook Air 15-inch M2 Chip
While Apple has already introduced its latest M3 silicon based MacBook Pros...
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The folks at Woot are hosting a blowout sale on nearly a dozen gaming laptop models, including both brand new and factory reconditioned systems. Most of the big names are part of the sale, such as Alienware, ASUS, and MSI, to name a few. Most of these are deeply discounted laptops, with Woot slashing up to half off...
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Our collective desire for increasingly thinner, lighter, and more premium-designed laptops has, in many cases, come at the expense of do-it-yourself (DIY) repair and replacement options. Does it really have to be that way, though? Framework argues otherwise and its modular laptops are proof that we can indeed have our...
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Here's a secret you are free to share with the world, or whoever will listen—when it comes to certain items, including laptops, you don't have to wait for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Amazon Prime Day, or any other major event to score a bargain. Laptops are one of those products (like audio gear, especially speakers)...
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When we reviewed the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 last summer, we came away impressed with the premium laptop's combination of a sleek design and powerful hardware options, which for our test unit consisted of a Ryzen 9 6900HS processor, Radeon RX 6800S GPU, and 32GB of DDR5 memory. For 2024, however, ASUS has "completed...
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In addition to launching a range of updated productivity laptops at CES, Acer’s also introducing some reconfigured gaming laptops, including the Nitro 17, Predator Helios Neo 16, and all-new Predator Helios Neo 18 (not to be confused with the non-Neo model). All of these laptops pair Intel’s 14th Gen Raptor Lake...
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Lenovo is expanding its lineup of Legion and LOQ gaming laptops and desktop PCs with some swank new updates at a wide range of prices—the new systems start as little as $749 and scale all the way up to $4,399. In doing so, Lenovo’s refreshed Legion gaming systems introduced at CES 2024 offer up something for...
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We've long been enamored with the overall design language of Dell's premium XPS laptops, which are generally understated with super-clean lines, and highly capable systems with powerful hardware options. Going forward, Dell is unifying the design that it introduced with its XPS 13 Plus that we reviewed last year, and...
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Meteor Lake is the newest chip architecture off the ol' Intel block and in the coming weeks, we anticipate a barrage of laptop reviews. A few have already found their way to the web, including our own Core Ultra review from a pre-production MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo machine. We were generally pleased with the overall...
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MSI is preparing a big treat for fans of large and beastly gaming laptops. In the lead up to next month's Consumer Electronics Show, MSI is offering some preliminary info on its upcoming Titan 18 HX, which as the model name suggests is an 18-inch gaming laptop. What the model designation doesn't overtly reveal...
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