The latest ultrabook comparisons and hot ultra-portables going head to head. If you’re looking at several different laptops and you’re still undecided, the posts in this category might help, as you’ll find here close parallels between most of the popular ultrabooks and portable laptops of the moment.
This article is going to help you decide between the two mainstream hardware platforms available for performance/gaming laptops in 2022 and later into 2023, the AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (Rembrandt platform) on one side, and the Intel Core i7-12700H (12th-gen Alder Lake platform) on...
This article gathers the best deals I was able to find online for the 2023 holiday season, past the Black Friday and Cyber Monday days, mostly for ultrabooks, portable laptops, and a few other types of accessories and electronics. I’m constantly updating the list,...
Having reviewed the entire range of 2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus laptops in the past months, I wanted to put up together a comparison of some of the most popular models in this lineup, something to help you easily navigate between them and make a...
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...
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...
In this article, I’m sharing with you my experience in searching for the best wireless keyboard for my use and budget, going through a couple of Logitech models that I’ve tried out, and explaining which I’ve eventually stuck with and why. There’s no denying...
Over the years, I’ve reviewed multiple variants of the popular Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 series of portable performance laptops, and I wanted to put up together a comparison of the generations available so far, so you’ll better understand the main differences between them. So,...
Disclaimer: All laptops (The ThinkPad X1 Carbon and both the black and white Dell XPS 13 SKUs) were purchased with my own funds for this review. Going by most accounts, the best ultrabook is either the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (which we at NBC...
These days there are quite a few different mid-range all-around laptops in the sub $1000 price range to choose from, and many are available with either Intel Core H35 (Core i7-11370H or lower) or AMD Ryzen H45 (Ryzen 7 5800H or lower) hardware. Opting...
This article is going to help you pick up a high-end performance and gaming laptop in this second part of 2021 and later into 2022, by pitching the Intel Tiger Lake Core i9-11980HK processor against the AMD Cezanne Ryzen 9 5900HX. These are the...
Asus have recently released their Zenbook 14X series of ultrabooks, which are now available in stores alongside the existing ZenBook 14 models already selling for the last few years. And since we’ve reviewed both the 14X and the regular 14 models here on the...
This article should help many of you looking for a mid-range gaming and work laptop, as it takes an in-depth look at the two mainstream processors available right now (as of mid-2021 and later) from Intel and AMD, in the same chassis and same...
The Lenovo Legion 7, Asus ROG Zephyrus S17, and the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 that we’ll discuss here are some of the more powerful performance/gaming notebooks available in stores as of the middle of 2021, and also products that we’ve already covered in-depth...
In this article, we’re going to compare two of the more recent Asus ROG Zephyrus laptops, the Zephyrus M16 and the Zephyrus S17, which we’ve already reviewed in-depth here on the site. They’re both based on 11th gen Intel Tiger Lake hardware and Nvidia...
As promised in the reviews, I wanted to give you a side-by-side comparison of the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro and the Dell Alienware m15 that I’ve been dealing with lately. BTW, you’ll find the detailed reviews via these links above. I figured these laptops might...
We’ve already reviewed both the 13 and the 14-inch ZenBooks here on the site, and in this short article and video I’m just going to quickly summarize how they fare against each other and which is the one I’d pick. The all-metal construction, the...
We’re reviewed a couple of AMD laptops in these last few weeks and I think it should be interesting to see how the Vega 7 and 8 graphics integrated with the Ryzen processors fare in benchmarks and games, as well as how they compare...
These two here are both 2020 ZenBook 14 ultrabooks from Asus. The silver one on the left is the ZenBook 14 UM433IQ based on an AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile platform, with an 8Core processor and Nvidia MX350 graphics, while the blue one of the...
In these past few weeks we’ve reviewed the entire range of AMD Ryzen laptops from Asus available in stores at this point, but if you’re still confused between them, this article should help make up your mind. We’re not going to talk about the...
We’ve spent the last two weeks reviewing a couple of AMD 4000-series powered laptops, and in this article, we’ll look at how the Asus TUF Gaming A15, currently the best value offer in this AMD lineup, compares with one of the best Intel-based models,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
This article briefly explains how a modern MacBook Air compares to the multiple Windows ultrabooks and portable laptops competing in the thin-and-light ultraportable space. A while ago Intel decided to revolutionize the market and set some high standards for a new breed of laptops:...