This article originally covered the mid-2020 launch of the Lenovo Legion Slim 7, which eventually never arrived in stores. In the meantime, though, as of early-2021, Lenovo announced the updated Legion Slim 7, similar to the 2020 model in many ways, but with some...
Aside from the ROG Zephyrus Duo, Asus are also updating their full-size series of gaming laptops as of early 2021, the ROG Strix SCAR and Strix G lineups. We’re talking about the new SCARs in this article, and we’ll come back on those Strix...
Value for money is where the Acer Nitro 5 series stood up in all the recent years in comparison to the competition, and is what helped it top the best-selling lists in the mid-range performance and gaming notebook segments in many regions. That’s not...
Acer are launching a brand new compact 14-inch Predator Triton 300 SE – Special Edition gaming laptop built on Intel Tiger Lake H35 hardware and mid-range RTX 3000 graphics as of the beginning of 2021, as well as updating their popular mainstream Predator Helios...
Last year’s top-tier Lenovo Legion 7 gaming laptop was an Intel exclusive, but that’s changing with the 2021 update. This time around Lenovo will offer both Intel and AMD models, paired with RTX 3000 graphics. The Intel model is coming later, once Tiger Lake...
Many consider the 2020 Lenovo Legion 5 the best-value gaming laptop of its generation, especially in the AMD Ryzen variants with higher-tier graphics. However, those configurations were not available worldwide, and only topped at Geforce 60 mid-level graphics, which did not suffice for some...
Lenovo are back at the detachable game with the 2021 Thinkpad X12 Gen 1, a Surface-Pro-style tablet with a keyboard folio accessory, following up on their now-defunct X1 Tablet from a couple of years ago. I’m sure you’re already familiar with the Microsoft Surface...
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga could be the most interesting ThinkPad in years, and I’m glad, but also somewhat surprised, that Lenovo even have this now as part of their conservative ThinkPad series. Over the years, I’ve seen countless pleas on Reddit and various...
Samsung has launched the new Galaxy Chromebook 2, the first Chromebook on the market with a QLED screen. This will be available in stores in the US by the end of March, for a base price of $550. The new model follows up on...
Several months ago I bought the Lenovo IdeaPad 5 knowing it was one of the better-value mid-range ultrabooks of the year, and while I ended up returning it because of the rather poor screen option available over here, I still consider it the almost-perfect...
Lenovo are updating the IdeaPad 5 series of mainstream laptops with a couple of new entries as of early 2021, with 14 or 16-inch displays and 2021-level Intel/AMD + Nvidia hardware. We’ve already covered the Intel Tiger Lake variants in this other article, and...
Over the years, I’ve greatly appreciated those ultrabooks that could run silently with daily use, with video streaming and text-editing and even browsing. Very few can, though, and most that can are actually fanless and passively-cooled implementations. However, passively cooling current mid-range ultrabook hardware...
We’ve reviewed a couple of different laptops built on Intel’s Tiger Lake Core hardware in the last weeks, but most of those were high-tier products with matching price-tags. This article is, however, about a budget Tiger Lake laptop from Acer, the Aspire 5 late-2020...
The LarkBook is Chuwi’s latest ultraportable, scheduled for online availability on December 15th, 2020. We’ve covered Chuwi products here on the site before, most of them computers and tablets meant for those of you shopping on limited budgets, but without compromising on most features...
Huawei offer a couple of compelling portable laptops these days, and the MateBook 14 that we’re discussing here greatly sparked my interest when announced, as one of the very few compact 14-inch laptops built on a full-power AMD Ryzen H 4000 hardware platform. We’ve...
Tiger Lake is Intel’s 11th-gen Core hardware designed for ultrabooks and portable laptops, and their most recent platform at the time of this article, available in stores from Q4-2020. Higher-power Tiger Lake H35 and H45 series have also been released after the initial low-power...
I’ve had several Zephyrus G14 models on my desk during these last two months, and have been using them both as daily drivers and while running our various tests. I’ve also used both pre-production and retail models in several different configurations: both the White...
This is one of the most anticipated affordable gaming laptops of the moment, the AMD Ryzen 4000 version of the Lenovo Legion 5. I’ve bought this locally about two weeks ago and have been using it since, and you’ll find my thoughts and impressions...
For years, Asus ROG laptops have been a standard for full-size performance and gaming computers with beefy specs and cooling solutions to match. However, with the technology progressing and people looking into more portable options, the big-boy ROG laptops have recently got into a...
The ZenBook S is Asus’s premium lineup of ultrabooks, and has been updated as of late-2020 with a brand-new product, code name ZenBook S UX393EA. This is a major revamp of the previous ZenBook S UX392 from 2019, now including a 3:2 wide-gamut touchscreen,...
For the last years, Acer’s Predator Helios 300s have been among the best selling and most recommended performance/gaming/all-purpose laptops on the market, and for good reason. We’ve reviewed all the available Helios 300s over time, and this article gathers our thoughts on the most...
This article is a detailed list of all the important laptops with small bezels available in stores these days. We’re constantly updating it and adding new units are they’re released. By reducing the size of the bezels around the screens, manufacturers are able to...
The 14-inch Acer Swift 3 series includes some of the best-value affordable ultrabooks on the market, and I’ve recently spent time with their latest update as of late-2020, the Swift 3 14 SF314-59 model with Intel Tiger Lake hardware. Update: Acer also offer an...
After spending more than a month with the Razer Blade Stealth, I was eager to return to my daily driver, the Razer Blade 15, and see how much I missed it. But then Razer was kind enough to lend me one of their newer...
In case you wondered what happened to Razer’s pure ultrabook, which used to be the Razer Blade Stealth, Razer has just announced the new Razer Book 13, which will be focused more on productivity and less on gaming. This laptop refills in the gap...
Among the multitude of ASUS ZenBooks available in stores these days, the ZenBook 14 Ultralight UX435 series steps-out of the crowd with its sub-one-kilo lightweight magnesium construction, good-quality matte screen, uncompromised IO, and long battery life. Most lightweight ultrabooks sacrifice on some of those...
The ZenBook S Flip UX371 is the premium 2-in-1 convertible offered by ASUS in stores as of late-2020, and their first ultrabook certified as an Intel Evo platform. Only the highest-tier of portable laptops built on Intel Tiger Lake hardware get the Evo badge,...
I finally got to use the Lenovo Ideapad Slim 7 for a while, and gathered my thoughts on it in this article. Lenovo also sell this as the Yoga Slim 7 in some markets, but it’s the same product, so I’ll refer it as...
Earlier in the year, MSI announced their updated GE66 Raider 15-inch performance laptop, and I’ve been impatiently waiting to get my hands on it for many months now. This GE66 Raider had big shoes to fill-up, following on the competent GE65 Raider model from...
Asus have recently revamped their entire lineups of ZenBook ultrabooks, and while I’ve tested most of their clamshell models in recent months, I was yet to touch their updated 2-in-1 convertible models till now. Not anymore, though, this article is our detailed review of...