15.6 inch or larger laptops - reviews, news and more
This section includes our guides and reviews on the available full-size laptops with 15.6-inch screens, or the larger 16-inch and 17-inch models. Most of the units covered in here are still fairly compact and portable, but more powerful than the standard ultrabooks. We also cover the available high-tier multimedia notebooks, the available full-size laptops with convertible screens and a large selection of gaming notebooks with powerful hardware, dedicated graphics, excellent screens, and specific designs and particularities.
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This is our detailed review of the 2020 Gigabyte Aorus 17G XB. As the name suggests, the Aorus 17G is a full-size 17-inch laptop, a device meant to offer solid specs, performance, connectivity, and battery life, without primarily prioritizing on a slim form-factor. And...
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This is the 15-inch Asus ProArt StudioBook Pro W500G5T. That’s a mouthful for sure, for what is otherwise a premium and compact 15-inch mobile workstation with some of the best specs money can buy right now. A lot of money, for that matter, as...
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In this article, we’re comparing two of the top-tier Asus gaming ultraportables available right now in the 15-inch segment, the ROG Zephyrus M15, and the Zephyrus S15. Sure, the S15 is the higher-tier product with a few extra features and more powerful hardware specs,...
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I was excited at first when I saw that Microsoft had announced their new round of Surface line of computers — until I saw the details. The updated Surface Go is indeed a nice bump, as the form-factor of the Surface 3 made it...
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It’s been a while since we’ve seen a proper small-form performance laptop on the market, back when Dell still made the Alienware 13. Razer and MSI tried recently by sticking a GTX 1650 GPU inside 13 and 14-inch chassis with the Stealth 13 and...
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Hey everyone. In this article we’re comparing a few of the Asus gaming ultraportable notebooks available right now: two 15-inch models, the Zephyrus M15 and Zephyrus G15, and the more compact Zephyrus G14. Pricing and configurations vary between regions, but the lower-tier M15 models...
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The ThinkPad name has long stood for excellence, and with good reason. Despite some controversial decisions over the years, the ThinkPad brand continues to represent the best in the market. The ThinkPad P5X and P7X devices are Lenovo’s modern workstation lines, and both machines...
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In these past few weeks we’ve reviewed the entire range of AMD Ryzen laptops from Asus available in stores at this point, but if you’re still confused between them, this article should help make up your mind. We’re not going to talk about the...
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We’ve spent time with several different AMD Ryzen 4000 laptops lately and this right here, the ROG Zephyrus G15 from Asus, is one of the more balanced products available right now with this new AMD hardware. It’s not as well made or as compact...
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Acer and Lenovo are looking for their own share of the pie called “budget gaming-notebooks” in 2020, and are working on both Intel 10th gen and AMD Ryzen 4000 configurations of their Nitro 5 and Legion 5 lineups. We’ve already covered the Intel models...
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This is our detailed review of the Asus TUF Gaming A17 FA706II, the base-tier model of the 2020 TUF Gaming A17 series based on AMD Ryzen 4000 H and Nvidia GTX hardware. The FA706 is the slightly larger 17-inch version of the more compact...
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With 10th gen Intel Core H hardware now available, everyone is updating their notebook lineups, including Lenovo. Among others, they have some brand new Legion gaming models in the works, called Legion 5 and Legion 7, scheduled as follow-ups for the popular Legion Y540...
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We’ve spent the last two weeks reviewing a couple of AMD 4000-series powered laptops, and in this article, we’ll look at how the Asus TUF Gaming A15, currently the best value offer in this AMD lineup, compares with one of the best Intel-based models,...
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This article is a quick comparison between the 15 and the 17-inch versions of the new Asus TUF Gaming notebooks based on AMD 4000 hardware and Nvidia GPUs. We’re going to look at the main differences and similarities between them, as well as explain...
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Lenovo makes some of the most competitive gaming laptops of the moment as part of their Legion line, with devices like the high-tier Legion Y740 and the mid-range Legion Y540. What they don’t make is a gaming ultrabook, a thin-and-light performance laptop that can...
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This article is a quick comparison between two configurations of the Asus TUF Gaming A15 mid-tier gaming series based on AMD Ryzen 4000 and Nvidia hardware. The two versions that we’re looking at are the FA506IV with a Ryzen 7 4800H processor and Nvidia...
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MSI are refining most of their gaming notebooks lineup for 2020, with revamped editions of the ultraportable GS Stealth series, the performance GE Raider and the budget-friendly GF65 Thin lines. The MSI GS66 Stealth follows up the popular GS65 Stealth Thin from 2018/2019, which...
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This is our second review of a 2020 Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506 notebook, this time in a lower-tier FA506IU configuration, after carefully analyzing the top-tier FA506IV model in a previous article. This FA506IU variant is more affordable than the IV model, as it’s...
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Shyly, Acer also announced some of their updated plans for 2020, with new versions of the Predator Triton 500 ultraportable and the mainstream Nitro 5 gaming notebook in the works, and scheduled in stores for around April/May. Surprisingly, no word on the highly-popular Predator...
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A few years ago Asus launched the TUF Gaming notebook series, as a more budget-friendly alternative of their premium ROG Gaming lineup. This article is a detailed review of their latest TUF Gaming A15 FA506 update, based on an AMD Ryzen 4000 platform and...
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Along with the release of Intel’s 10th Gen laptop CPUs, Razer has updated their Razer Blade 15 options. It’s not just a CPU upgrade either – Razer has made some significant improvements on their premium ultraportable that I’m confident everyone will like. First let’s...
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ASUS are not just updating their ultraportable Zephyrus lineups with Intel 10gen hardware and Nvidia Super graphics, but in fact their entire series of performance notebooks, including the mainstream ROG G and the high-performance ROG Strix Scar models. In this article, we’re taking a...
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Asus make some of the better performance/gaming ultraportables money can buy with their ROG Zephyrus lineups. But the main reasons they’ve earned my appreciation over the years is the fact that they’re not resting on their laurels, instead, they’re constantly working on pushing the...
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Last year’s Zephyrus M GU502 was potentially my favorite model in the entire 2019 Zephyrus lineup, due to its simpler and lightweight construction, alongside the mid-range configuration that eventually made it more accessible for the average user than the higher-tier Zephyrus SGX502. This year,...
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MSI’s are on fire at CES 2020, unveiling not just a brand new ultraportable GS66 series, but also a completely revamped version of their Raider performance 15-inch series, the GE66 Raider. As expected, the GE66 Raider follows-up on the GE65 Raider from 2019, which...
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For the last few years, the Acer Predator Helios 300s have been some of the best-value mid-tier gaming laptops on the market. They offered solid performance and the right features in an affordable package, but their dated design was in dire need of a...
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In this article, we’re taking a close look at the ASUS Zenbook 14 UX434FLC, the early-2020 update of the popular ZenBook 14 series of ultraportable laptops. This is based on last year’s ZenBook 14 UX434FL and UX433FN, with a similar design and construction, but...
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StudioBooks are a newer lineup of mobile workstation notebooks from Asus, and we’ve already covered some of the available options here on the site, such as the StudioBook Pro 17 and the beastly StudioBook Pro X. However, aside from the top and mid-range models...
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The ZenBook Pro Duo UX581 has been around for a few months now, and while I’ve used it sporadically during this time, I wanted to spend a bit longer with it than I do with most of our review units, in order to figure...
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Hey guys – it’s been some time since I’ve written a review. Truth is, life’s been pretty busy for me lately and I’ve also thoroughly enjoyed my GS65, which I’ve had for about a year now. But now with the addition of RTX powered...
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Fanless laptops (completely silent) in 2024 – the best options
In this article, we’re discussing fanless laptops and silent Windows ultrabooks and Chromebooks, or in other words, laptops with passive cooling solutions, without a fan that spins and makes...
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