Andrei Girbea, author at Ultrabookreview.com

Andrei Girbea

Andrei Girbea is a Writer and Editor-in-Chief here at Ultrabookreview.com. I write about mobile technology, laptops and computers in general. I've been doing it for more than 15 years now. I'm a techie with a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering. I mostly write reviews and thorough guides here on the site, with some occasional columns and first-impression articles.

  • Andrei Girbea - December 6, 2024

    This is our detailed review of the late-2024 version of the Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 series, a compact and powerful 14-inch laptop in an AMD Strix Point Ryzen AI configuration. The Yoga Pro lineup has been around for many years now, and it’s Lenovo’s...

  • Andrei Girbea - December 10, 2024

    This is our detailed review of the AMD powered Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 GA605W series of all-purpose portable laptops. We already reviewed this lineup in the Intel Core Ultra variants released earlier in 2024, and now we’ve spent a few weeks with the configurations...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is our review of the Asus ExpertBook P5 P5404 series, a mid-range thin and light Copilot+ laptop designed for all-purpose use and business environments. We’ve discussed ExpertBook laptops in the past, but this one is a little different. It’s not a premium model...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    In this review article I’m gathering my thoughts on the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403 series, the third major iteration of the Zephyrus G14 lineup, arguably the best gaming laptop series in the portable niche over the last years. Over the years, I’ve...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 21, 2025

    This article explains the specs and performance of the existing Intel Core i9 laptop platforms and provides a detailed list of all the portable, high-performance, and gaming Core i9 laptops available in stores as of early 2025 and late 2024. We’re discussing latest-gen Intel...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This article gathers my thoughts on the Asus Zenbook S 14 OLED UX5406S series, the mid-2024 addition to the Zenbook lineup of ultrabooks. This is not a review, just a series of impressions of this new model based on my experience with existing Zenbooks....

  • Andrei Girbea - September 2, 2024

    In this article we’re going over the mid-specced configuration of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 in the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 variant with 32 GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 dGPU. I already discussed this lineup in our review...

  • Andrei Girbea - February 25, 2025

    In this article, we’re discussing the laptops available in stores with mini LED displays. There’s a good chance you’re already familiar with mini LED panels from televisions, where they’ve been available for several years. These mini LED displays are a more recent addition to...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the AMD-powered Acer Swift Go 14 series. I bought this laptop a month or so ago, as a potential daily driver for my father, due to its enticing mix of capabilities and functionality in a compact sub-3lbs device....

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the AMD-powered Asus Vivobook S 14 OLED M5406UA series. I’ve been using this laptop for the last few months and I’m late with this article, so late that in fact Asus has a newer generation announced in the...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the 2024 Asus ProArt P16 H7606 lineup of workstation portable laptops. In just a few words, this ProArt P16 is a slightly refined version of the 2024 Asus Zephyrus G16 chassis, in an all-black and cleaner design, and...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 17, 2025

    More and more OLED laptops are available in stores these days, of all sizes and kinds. In this article, I’m going to explain the particularities of the OLED displays available on modern laptops, with their main selling points such as their beautiful image quality...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This article is my review of the Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED S5507 series, Asus’s first Copilot+ laptop built on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite hardware. This platform is brand new at this point, as of June 20th 2024, and the corresponding software still needs...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    There are a bunch of devices built on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite hardware coming to stores over the next weeks, and in this article we’re going to briefly discuss the two offered by Asus, the Vivobook S 15 S5507QAD and the...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    So there’s a new AMD ROG Zephyrus G16 GA605W model coming later in 2024, this time built on the latest AMD Ryzen AI hardware, part of the AMD Strix Point platform. This will be offered alongside the existing Zephyrus G16 GU605M models built on...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 14, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the AMD-powered 2024 Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UM3406HA series. This laptop is nearly identical to the Intel-based Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 tested a while ago, with the same chassis and internal design, but a different color. That allows...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 series, also known as the IdeaPad Slim 5i in some markets, a compact and fairly affordable lineup of daily-use laptops. This model that I have here is the 15-inch variant, but Lenovo offer...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 30, 2024

    This is my review of the 2024 MSI Titan 18 HX high-performance laptop. I was dying to get my hands on this computer, and finally got to, as this is currently the most powerful and overall best-equipped high-performance work and gaming laptop available in...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 13, 2025

    Table of ContentsTable of contents – the best ultrabooks in 2025The best premium thin-and-light laptopApple MacBooks – unmatched daily driversAsus Zenbooks – the best-value optionsLenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, ThinkPad X13 – the best business ultrabooksFramework Laptop 13 and Framework 12 – configurable, upgradable, repairableAsus...

  • Andrei Girbea - May 2, 2024

    The 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is an excellent laptop within the 14-inch segment of performance devices, plenty powerful for its size, and more refined than the previous Zephyrus G14 generations, as explained in my detailed review of this Zephyrus G14 GA403 series. However,...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    As you’re probably aware, Asus offer a handful of power profiles for their ROG gaming laptops, with one of them being called Silent and emphasizing on keeping the fans quiet at sub 35 dBA at head-level. Thing is, this Silent profile is hit and...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 26, 2024

    As mentioned in my detailed review of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403 series, we’ve been using a couple of different configurations and units of these laptops between myself, Derek and Doug, and that’s why I’m also going to put up together a...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    I’ve gathered my thoughts on the 2024 Acer Predator Helios Neo 18 laptop in this review. A friend of mine recently bought this laptop for himself and I borrowed it for a few days, as I was eager to test a new Acer Predator...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the 2024 configuration of the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 gaming laptop, the most powerful Republic of Gamers laptop available at this point. Little has changed over the 2023 Scar 18 generation reviewed here, as the 2024 update...

  • Andrei Girbea - August 2, 2024

    This article explains the specs and performance of the existing AMD Ryzen 9 mobile platforms and provides a detailed list of all the AMD Ryzen 9 laptops available in stores as of 2024 (such as the latest models powered by AMD Zen4 Ryzen 9...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 30, 2024

    This is my review of the top-specced configuration of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16, the GU605MY variant that bundles a Core Ultra 9 processor, 32 GB of LPDDR5x RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics. I’ve covered the mid-tier Zephyrus G16 Core Ultra 7...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 GU605 lineup of premium performance portable laptops. In this article we’re mostly discussing a mid-tier configuration of this series, built on an Intel Core Ultra 7 platform with RTX 4070 graphics. However,...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is my detailed review of the 2024 Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 series. The reviewed configuration is the new Zenbook 14 UX3405MA variant, with an Intel Core Ultra processor and Intel Arc graphics, the latest Meteor Lake hardware platform available from Intel. For...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 10, 2025

    This is our detailed review of the latest generation of the Asus ROG Flow X13 series, in the GV302XV variant built on AMD Ryzen 9 7000 and Nvidia RTX 4000 hardware. We’ve reviewed the previous variants of the Flow X13 series, and this 2023/2024...

  • Andrei Girbea - May 27, 2024

    Among other, Asus are updating their Zenbook 14 and Zenbook S 13 lineups of thin-and-light laptops for 2024, and we’re going to discuss the important changes in this article. I have reviewed all the previous Zenbook generations over the years, as well as already...