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 - March 1, 2023

    This is our detailed review of the Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 series, a new lineup of premium ultrabooks built on AMD Ryzen hardware and the long consecrated ThinkPad principles. This Z13 is not like most other ThinkPads, though, as it ditches the standard black chassis...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 24, 2023

    Asus presented the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED some months ago, and in meantime, I’ve got to spend the last two weeks with a final model and I can share my thoughts and impressions with you. The laptop is not yet available in stores and...

  • Andrei Girbea - September 25, 2023

    This is our detailed review of the mid-2022 generation of the Lenovo Legion 7i, the top-tier performance and gaming laptop in the Lenovo Legion family. I’ve used this laptop for the last few weeks and gathered my thoughts and impressions down below. While not...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 1, 2023

    This is my detailed review of the LG Gram 16 series, a premium ultrabook with a full-size 16-inch display. I’ve already reviewed the 2022-generation of the LG Gram 17 in a previous article, and in this one, I’ll mostly focus on how the slightly...

  • Andrei Girbea - November 22, 2023

    This article shares my impressions of the Acer Swift Edge series, the (barely) lightest 16-inch laptop currently available on the market. This is a premium-tier daily-use computer aiming at the market share of devices such as the LG Gram 16 or the MSI Prestige...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 23, 2023

    This is our detailed review of the Lenovo Legion Slim 7i, the more compact and more portable all-purpose laptop in the Lenovo Legion family. I’ve used this laptop for the last few weeks and gathered my thoughts and impressions down below. Unlike the 2021...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 27, 2023

    This article is my full review of the Asus ZenBook 14X Space Edition, the 2022 update of the ZenBook 14X ultrabook series built on a full-power Intel 12th-gen Alder Lake hardware platform. I’ve already reviewed the 2021 ZenBook 14X in a previous article and commended...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 24, 2023

    This article is my detailed review of the Asus ROG Flow Z13 GZ301ZE series, the most powerful 13-inch gaming notebook format currently available in stores. Last year Asus launched the ROG Flow series of compact performance and gaming computers, with the ROG Flow X13...

  • Andrei Girbea - May 21, 2024

    This is a detailed guide on performance/gaming laptops built with modern AMD Radeon GPUs. While AMD processors have been a competitive choice on a multitude of modern laptops in recent years, AMD graphics cards have failed to win quality designs in the past. That,...

  • Andrei Girbea - October 6, 2022

    In this article, we’re going over the performance differences of the AMD Radeon RX 6800S and RX 6700s graphics platforms available in the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 portable gaming laptop (and hopefully other products in the future). This analysis is based on my findings...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 24, 2023

    This is my detailed review of the 2022 Asus ZenBook Pro 16X OLED premium performance notebook. You probably remember the ZenBook Pros of the past, premium-tier compact designs able to compete against the heavyweights in its niche. These past years, Asus mostly focused on...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 1, 2023

    In this article, we’re going over the mid-2022 update of the Acer Swift 3 14-inch series of affordable ultrabooks, namely the Swift 3 SF314-512 model with Intel Alder Lake hardware and Evo certification. The Swift 3 lineup needs no introduction, as over the years...

  • Andrei Girbea - December 14, 2023

    If you are in the market for a compact, thin-and-light laptop with some sort of dedicated graphics, I’m pretty sure you came upon one of the Asus ZenBook 14s available out there. This article is all about the Asus ZenBook 14 lineup of all-around...

  • Andrei Girbea - November 22, 2023

    Asus have been offering the ZenBook Duo 14 lineup for a few years now, dual-screen laptops with mid-level performance capabilities and a portable form factor. This article is all about the latest iteration in the series, the 2022 Asus ZenBook Pro 14 Duo, in...

  • Andrei Girbea - November 7, 2022

    12th gen Intel Alder Lake desktop hardware was launched in 2021, and then quickly followed by the 12th-gen laptop and ultrabook mobile platform as well. The Alder Lake mobile platform was officially unveiled at CES 2022, and in the meantime, we’ve reviewed various designs...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 27, 2023

    This is our detailed review of the Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 series, a premium full-size laptop built on AMD Ryzen hardware and designed as a multi-purpose work/play companion. This Z16 doesn’t look like the other ThinkPads of the past years, and rather merges some ThinkPad...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 5, 2023

    This article is our detailed analysis of the 2022 Asus ROG Strix Scar 17, Asus’s full-size performance/gaming 17-inch laptop of this generation. The 2022 model builds on the chassis and design lines of the previous Scar 17 from 2021, so don’t expect significant changes...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 26, 2023

    This article gathers my first impressions of the 2022-generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold, the foldable laptop that Lenovo plans to offer in stores by the end of 2022. I’ve spent about an hour with a few pre-release versions of this 2nd generation ThinkPad X1...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 16, 2024

    Last year Asus unveiled the most powerful compact laptop of its generation and the smallest member of the ROG – Republic of Gamers lineup, the ROG Flow X13. This year, the 2022 Asus ROG Flow X13 gets a hardware update to the latest AMD...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 24, 2023

    This article is my review of the 2022 Asus ROG Zephyrus DUO 16 GX650, with impressions and results gathered while using this laptop over the last two weeks. My review unit is the top configuration available at this point, built on an AMD Ryzen...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 24, 2023

    Ultrabooks are a fairly fresh breed of portable computers. As shown in this article that explains what is an ultrabook, they are slim, light, premium made, and fast, that’s why many, including their creators at Intel, say that they are meant to become more...

  • Andrei Girbea - October 30, 2023

    The AMD Radeon 680M is the much-awaited top-tier RDNA2-based integrated GPU bundled with the majority of the 2022 AMD Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt processors. In this review article, we’re taking a deep look at this iGPU’s performance in benchmarks, as well as at its overall...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 8, 2023

    The ROG Strix Scar 15 is Asus’s top-tier performance/gaming laptop, a full-size 15-inch laptop designed for an uncompromised experience in your workloads and games. I’ve spent the last few weeks with the 2022 Scar 15 update and I’ve gathered my impressions down below, going...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 24, 2023

    For the 2022 generation, Acer have significantly revamped their popular Predator Helios 300 lineup. In all honesty, this was in dire need of updates in order to regain its competitiveness in the mid-range segment of performance/gaming notebooks, which it topped at some point in...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 5, 2024

    The XPS 13 9315 is Dell’s offer in the mid-range ultrabook space as of mid-2022. Unlike the XPS 13 Plus 9320 model launched a few months ago and reviewed here, the XPS 13 9315 carries on the design lines of the iconic XPS 13...

  • Andrei Girbea - January 23, 2023

    This is my detailed review of the 2022 Lenovo Legion 5 Pro series, in the 5i Pro variant built on an Intel 12th gen platform with Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics. And AMD-based 5 Pro model is also available, and we’ll cover it in a...

  • Andrei Girbea - May 21, 2024

    This is my detailed review of the MSI Prestige 15 series of thin-and-lightweight all-purpose laptops. The Prestige 15 is a compact daily driver with a full-size 15-inch display and a total weight of just 1.7 kilos. It can handle everyday multitasking and casual use...

  • Andrei Girbea - June 29, 2023

    Last year, the Lenovo Legion 7 lineup offered some of the better full-performance and gaming laptops of the generation, and now Lenovo have updated the 2022 Legion 7 models in a couple of important ways. Let’s start with what matters. Unlike in 2021, this...

  • Andrei Girbea - April 5, 2023

    Back in the days, Asus used to offer lineups of full-size ROG laptops built on the most powerful hardware specs available at the time, but they stopped doing it in the last few years once the ROG G703 series was no longer updated. That’s...

  • Andrei Girbea - March 29, 2023

    Asus’s ROG Flow family of gaming ultraportable laptops just received a new member as of mid-2022, with the ROG Flow X16 GV601. This is not as compact as the 13-inch Flow X13 and Flow Z13 available so far, as it is a 16-inch computer,...