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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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The 15-inch Lenovo Yoga 730 is not like most other laptops in today’s market: a 15-inch computer with a 360-degrees convertible touchscreen and Intel Core U hardware with dedicated Nvidia GTX 1050 graphics (the full-power version, not the Max-Q variant), all tucked inside a...
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If you’re shopping for an all-day laptop with an affordable price, there’s a good chance you already came upon one of the existing Acer Swift 3s. The original Swift 3 was an excellent notebook at its time, the follow-up was a solid performer as...
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Lenovo updated some of their premium lines of notebooks for the second part of 2018 and first half of 2019, and in this article we’re going to tell you what to expect from these news lines and how they fare against the competition. Aside...
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The ThinkPad X1 Extreme is the consumer version of the ThinkPad P1 workstation announced several weeks ago, and a serious contender for the Dell XPS 15, Asus Zenbook Pro and HP EliteBook 1050 lines. Just like those three, the X1 Extreme is a 15-inch...
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Asus revamped their entire lines of Zenbook (all-round thin-and-lights), Zenbook S (ultraportables) and Zenbook Flip (convertibles) laptops for the second part of 2018 and first half of 2019, and these are not just some minor updates. The updated models are thinner, lighter and more...
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Whiskey Lake is Intel’s 3rd refinement of the 14 nm process and includes a set of Core U i3, i5 and i7 processors that will make it inside most ultraportable laptops in the second half of 2018 and most of 2019. This is by...
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The Zephyrus S GX531 is the mid-2018 update of the original Asus Zephyrus line, with a more compact and thinner build, an updated 144 Hz IPS screen and modern specs (8th gen processors and either GTX 1060 or 1070 Max-Q graphics). Asus advertises it...
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The Nitro 5 is Acer’s entry-level series of gaming notebooks, built mostly on Intel Core H hardware and Nvidia dedicated graphics, with few exceptions of AMD Ryzen variants. As of April 2018 Acer offers an updated line of Nitro 5s, code-name AN515-53, built on...
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In this article we’re having a look at a rather unique laptop as of August 2018, one that merges an AMD Ryzen APU platform with dedicated Nvidia GTX 1050 graphics: the Asus VivoBook X570ZD (also known as the K570Zd in some regions). This is...
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The Acer Predator Helios 300 has been one of the most popular mid-range gaming laptops in the last couple of months, mostly due to its excellent pricing, as it comes with a Core H Intel processor, Nvidia GTX 1060 6 GB graphics and an...
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This article is about one of the better ultraportable laptops available in stores in Mid 2018, the Lenovo ThinkPad T480s. If you’ve read our article about the Dell XPS 13 and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, think of this one as an X1 Carbon...
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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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