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Back in 2018, Asus was among the first to update their mid-range gaming line with a smaller footprint and narrow bezels around the screen, while keeping all the other elements that made the ROG Strix lines competitive. As a result, the early 2019 models...
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The MSI GE75 Raider is one of the few existing 17-inch gaming laptops that offer powerful hardware inside a compact and light chassis, and thanks to the implemented cooling, is also able to deliver on the performance that hardware is capable of. The GE75s...
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This article is our detailed review of the MSI GE75 Raider series, MSI’s updated line of mid-range 17-inch gaming laptops. We’ve spent a few weeks with several different versions of the GE75, and in this article, we’re primarily talking about the GE75 Raider 8SE...
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This article is a detailed review of the Acer Predator Triton 500 PT515-51, in the top-specked configuration with a Core i7 processor, Nvidia RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics, 32 GB of RAM and two SSDs in Raid0. The Triton 500 is a brand-new design and...
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It took Nvidia a while to put the Turing GPU architecture inside laptops, but it’s happening from the second half of January 2019, so you should stay tuned for our detailed reviews of various RTX notebooks in the weeks to come. In the meantime,...
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It took Nvidia a long while to put the Turing RTX architecture inside laptops, but that has changed as of January 2019, and a plethora of gaming notebooks based on RTX graphics is available in stores these days. We’ve covered each important launch is...
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This article is about the Lenovo Yoga C930, Lenovo’s top-of-the-line consumer convertible laptop and a follow-up of the popular Yoga 920 and 910 from previous years. It’s been available on the market for a few months now, so we were able to test if...
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For years Dell’s Alienware has been the brand-name most enthusiasts associated to gaming computers, either desktop PCs or laptops. Things have changed these days, with all the other major OEMs offering gaming devices now, but even so Alienware machines stick towards the top of...
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Updates of Lenovo’s top-tier ThinkPads are expected for later this year, and they’re not just the standard hardware updates, but actually address a few of their quirks and improve on certain aspects. Both the ThinkPad X1 Carbon clamshell and the ThinkPad X1 Yoga convertible...
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Two years ago Asus launched an entry-level gaming line called TUF Gaming, a value-oriented class of gaming notebooks meant for those looking for solid performance at a lower budget. Last year they completely redesigned it. This year they further updated the configurations and made...
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This review gathers out thoughts on one of the better-value gaming laptops of the moment, the Lenovo Legion Y540. Lenovo offers the Y540 in a couple of different variants, with Core i5/i7 CPUs, GTX 1660Ti/2060 graphics chips, several screen options and in either a...
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Last year’s Gigabyte Aero 15X is our favorite high-performance gaming ultraportable, topping devices like the Razer Blade 15, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin or the Asus ROG Zephyrus M in our lists. As expected, Gigabyte are upgrading their popular line in 2019 with RTX...
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This article is about one of the most popular 17-inch gaming laptops of 2018, the MSI GE73 Raider 8RF RGB. It’s been available for many months and while by now it has started to show its age, we took the time to put it...
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Whiskey Lake is Intel’s third refinement of the 14 nm build-process and the latest Core U 15W hardware-platform you’ll find in thin-and-light ultraportables and budget full-size notebooks in the fourth quarter of 2018 and most of 2019 until the next-gen Intel Cannon Lake platform...
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Powerful hardware, a compact build and a 17-inch screen with a 16:10 aspect ratio are some of the important traits of the new Asus StudioBook S W700 series or workstation laptops. On paper, this is one of the most impressive launches of recent months...
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While we’re mostly covering thin-and-light laptops here on UltrabookReview.com, this post is going to be a little different, as it documents our experience with the full-size Lenovo ThinkPad P72 17-inch workstation notebook. This is still a big and heavy laptop designed to offer the...
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This article is our detailed review of the Asus ZenBook 13 UX333FN, the smallest modern laptop with dedicated graphics you can find in stores as of late-2018 and the beginning of 2019. However, we’ll also touch of the ZenBook UX333FA variant, which is the...
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In this article we’re going to talk about the lightest 15-inch laptop available as of the Fall of 2018, the Acer Swift 5 SF515-51. I’m highly skeptical around any device associated with the words “lightest” or “thinnest”, but this one is actually a pretty...
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme is a premium thin-and-light 15-inch notebook with a compact form-factor, modern and powerful hardware, as well as little to no compromises, at least on paper. It’s a niche product that should cater to those of you who need performance...
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Intel’s Whiskey Lake Core U hardware platform is meant to power the majority of ultra-portable laptops available in stores between Q4 2018 and Q4 2019, when the next hardware update (Cannon Lake) is expected to be released. This is Intel’s third refinement of the...
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I’ve spent a few weeks with the Asus ZenBook Flip UX362FA and gathered all my impressions in this article, with the good parts and the quirks you’ll have to be aware of if interested in buying one. As the name suggests if you’re familiar...
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We don’t often review Chromebooks here, but I’ve spent time with a handful of them over the years and witnessed how their functionality has evolved. This article is about one of the premium-tier Chromebooks of the moment, and also one of the fastest: the...
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Intel rolled out the updated Amber Lake Core Y hardware platform in early-September 2018 and this spurred a handful of modern and fanless thin-and-light laptops during the reminding of 2018 and most of 2019, up until a next-gen iteration based on the Cannon Lake...
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We’ll talk about the Acer Predator Helios 500 in this article, a full-size 17-inch gaming laptop and direct follow-up of the Predator 17 line. This is the kind of laptop you should look for if you don’t want to compromise on performance or the...
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This article explains what Chromebooks are and how they compare to regular portable laptops (ultrabooks). After comparing ultrabooks with regular laptops, netbooks, and tablets in previous articles, let’s touch on another popular gender of modern laptops: Chromebooks. On one hand, ultrabooks are compact and...
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While Lenovo are fairly new at making gaming laptops, their Legion lines include some of the best-value products in the segment. In this article we’re talking about their entry-level gaming notebook for 2018 and first part of 2019, the Legion Y530, a significant update...
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Asus offers some of the better mid-range gaming laptops available in stores with their ROG Strix lines, and for 2018 they’ve completely revamped the 15-inch models, upgrading the design, screens and internals. We’ve looked at the ROG GL504 series in a previous article, and in the...
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This article gathers all our impressions on the 17-inch Asus TUF FX705 mid-range line of gaming laptops. We’ve spent a few weeks with a high-end FX705 GM configuration (i7-8750H processor, GTX 1060 graphics, dual-storage) and we got to know its strong points and quirks....
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This article gathers all our impressions of the late-2018/early-2019 update of the Acer Swift 3 15-inch laptop. The Swift 3 is Acer’s entry-level series of standard clamshell laptops and includes entry and mid-range devices for budget-oriented shoppers. The 2017 15-inch Swift 3s are some...
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I’ve bought a Dell XPS 13 as soon as the compact refresh was initially released back in 2015, and I’ve been using it ever since as my travel laptop. You can find my initial impressions in this article, as well as my long-term experience with...
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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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