Among gaming laptops, the MSI Raider series has been historically known for its excellent performance and thermals in the mid-range segment. For the last few weeks we’ve spent time with a retail version of the latest member in this lineup, the MSI GE65 Raider,...
The Legion series is Lenovo’s lineup of gaming notebooks, and the Y740 is their highest-tier offer as of the first part of 2019. Unlike other manufacturers, Lenovo doesn’t focus on making the best gaming ultraportable on the market, but rather at making the best...
Microsoft’s Surface Laptops have been some of the more popular ultrabooks of the last few years. With the 3rd generation, Microsoft added a full-size 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 alongside the traditional 13.5-inch variant, and I wanted to discuss its overall value in today’s market,...
While laptops based on Nvidia RTX graphics chips have been available in stores for a while, the mobile versions of the lower-tier and more affordable GTX 1650 and 1660Ti Turing chips will only make their way inside notebooks from the second part of April...
This article covers gaming laptops with Nvidia Turing RTX 2060 graphics, which will be the most popular new-gen notebooks throughout 2019 and your best bet if you’re looking for an enjoyable FHD high refresh-rate gaming experience in a fair-priced package. Much like the desktop...
Throughout the last decade, Asus came up with new designs and prototypes like the Taichi, the PhonePad or the water-cooled ROG, among others. None of them stuck, though, in this game of throwing mud at the wall, and yet Asus didn’t give up. The...
Since we’ve recently tested both the RTX 2060 and the GTX 1660Ti configurations of the budget-friendly Asus TUF Gaming FX505 gaming laptop, in this article we’re going to compare the small differences between the two variants, to help you easier choose between them. Configurations...
Workstations – powerful, sturdy, reliable computers you buy to get work done. Serious work, the kind that requires massive processing power and latest-generation technologies. For the last decades, the Lenovo ThinkPads have been one of the norms in this class of computers, next to...
The ProArt StudioBook Pro X W730 is Asus’s first attempt in the professional workstation notebook segment, one dominated by the Lenovo ThinkPads, ZP Zbooks and the Dell Precision series. We’ve spent the last few weeks with an early sample of the Pro X and...
Asus is coming strong at the professional workstation segment this year, and after spending time with their top-tier StudioBook Pro X a few weeks ago, we’re also going to talk about the more portable Asus ProArt StudioBook Pro 17 in this article. Try to...
The Surface Pro X is Microsoft’s take at a pro-level computer meant to provide the full Windows experience on an ARM (Qualcomm Snapdragon) platform. Why is this important? Well, mostly because an ARM product is going to be slimmer, lighter, longer-lasting on a charge...
After a few years of making the highly-appreciated Surface and Surface Pro tablet-like computers, Microsoft eventually launched a regular laptop back in 2017: the Surface laptop. It quickly became appreciated by media and regular buyers as one of the better ultrabooks on the market,...
The ConceptD series is Acer’s lineup of performance computers for professional users, based on a few critical verticals: a clean design, modern hardware and the performance to match, as well as an excellent quality display with wide-gamut color coverage and preloaded factory-calibration. We’ve covered...
Dell’s refreshed XPS 13 7390 is one of the better thin-and-lights ultrabooks available in stores these days, and like most other Core U devices on the market, has been recently updated to Intel’s latest hardware: 10th gen Comet Lake. However, aside from the standard...
This article gathers impressions and the overall feedback from reviewers and regular buyers on the Asus ChromeBook C425. The C425 is a mid-range 14-inch ChromeBook that sells for roughly $400 at the time of this post (follow this link for updated pricing at the...
We’ve talked about the mid-2019 lineup of Asus ROG Zephyrus gaming ultraportables in several previous articles, and in this one, we’ll further take an in-depth look at the Zephyrus M GU502 subseries. The Zephyrus M sits just beneath the top-tier Zephyrus S versions and...
Derek’s normally the go-to guy for MSI laptops around here, but this time around I’ve spent a few days with the 2019 update of the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin gaming ultraportable, the higher specked 8SG version based on RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics, and gathered...
In this article, we’re taking a closer look at the mid-range Acer ConceptD 5 Pro mobile workstation, in its 17-inch variant (code name CN517-71P). We’ve covered the 15-inch Acer ConceptD 5 Pro in an earlier article as well, but this 17-inch model comes with...
Earlier this year Asus announced the StudioBook S W700 series, a 17-inch laptop with workstation-grade features and hardware. Several months later, that early unit has matured into a complete lineup of notebooks made for creators, called Proart StudioBook, with no less than 5 different...
Acer offers some of the best-value ultraportable gaming laptops on the market with their Predator Triton lineup. We’ve reviewed the competitive Triton 500 earlier this year, and that’s been updated for Q4 2019 with a brand-new 300 Hz display. However, the important novelty for...
The Asus VivoBook S15 series is one of the most popular lines of mid-range laptops in the last few years, as these were among the first compact and lightweight full-size computers without major compromises and with a competitive price. In this article, we’re talking...
We’ve talked about the mid-2019 lineup of Asus ROG Zephyrus gaming ultraportables in several previous articles, and in this one, we’ll further take an in-depth look at the Zephyrus G GA502 subseries. The Zephyrus G GA502 sits at the bottom of the line, beneath the...
This article gathers our impressions on the Asus ZenBook S13 UX392FN, Asus’s top-of-the-line ultrabook for the most of 2019. The UX392 follows up on one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2018, the ZenBook S13 UX391 series, and competes at the high end of its...
The TUF FX Gaming series is Asus’s entry-line for gaming notebooks, and in this article, we’re taking a deep look at the TUF FX705DU model, the updated 2019 variant based on AMD Ryzen CPUs and Nvidia Turing GPUs. This is a fairly new combo...
Despite the whole controversy around the Huawei company, it’s hard to deny they still make some of the best value notebooks on the market. Thus, if you’re fine with buying a Huawei product (it’s up to you, but as long as you’re not working...
Nitros are Acer’s entry-level gaming laptops, devices meant to offer excellent specs and value for not a lot of money. In this article, we’re covering the 2019-edition of the Nitro 5 series, the 17-inch AN517-51 version. There’s also a 15-inch Nitro 5 AN515-54 model, which...
This is our detailed review of the mid-2019 MSI GL63 gaming laptop, in a mid-tier configuration with a Core i7 processor, Nvidia GTX 1660Ti graphics and dual-storage. The GL63 is not a new model by any means, it’s merely a hardware refresh with some...
There’s no doubt you considered getting an Acer’s Predator Helios 300 if shopping for a good value mid-tier gaming laptop in the last years, something with excellent performance, latest generation hardware and a good price. As of 2019, Acer has completely revamped the Helios...
As of late-May 2019, Asus announced its updated mainstream ZenBook line, laptops you’ll find in stores in the second part of 2019 and the first part of 2020. The update affects the entire lineup of 13 (ZenBook UX334), 14-inch (ZenBook UX434) and 15-inch (ZenBook...
Microsoft’s Surface Pro lineup of tablets has been around for many years now, and received fairly well by customers across the world for primarily its ultra-portable form factor. However, the Surface Pro models of the past years were in a dire need of a...