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I’m still shopping for a new laptop and next on my list is the Legion 5 Pro. I’ve been anticipating this one for a while as it has been released for a few months in other parts of the world and just finally came...
It took some time to get here, but I have finally got my hands on the all-AMD Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage, which is one of the best-value gaming and performance laptops available in stores today. This goes for around $1600 to $1700 in...
The Acer Predator Helios 300 series scored high in our reviews and in the worldwide best-selling charts for the last years, and for good reason, as this has been and still is one of the better-balanced performance/gaming/all-purpose laptop series on the market. We’ve reviewed...
Well, it wasn’t too long after I reviewed the Alienware M15 R4 that they announced and released the Alienware m15 R5 model. And crazily enough, there’s already an R6 model as well! I don’t have that one yet – this article is about the...
Asus keeps pushing their dual-screen laptops, and alongside the Zephyrus Duo 15 released earlier this year, it’s now time for the ZenBook Pro Duo 15 to be available in stores finally. This has been announced at the beginning of 2021 at CES, but hasn’t...
Earlier this year MSI announced the GE76 Raider, their updated 17-inch full-performance laptop, and the larger kin of the GE66 Raider we’ve reviewed last year, this time available with a 17-inch display, a full-keyboard, and more powerful hardware. This is one of the few...
Like retro gaming? If you’re an enthusiast, chances are you already have a device that you use to play retro games. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t also consider this new device from a company called Anbernic: maker of the RG351V. If you’re like...
Earlier this year Asus launched a controversial product, the TUF Dash F15 series, which is a slim and compact 15-inch laptop built on Intel H35 and Nvidia RTX 3000 hardware. This series tries to make its way somewhere in between the regular Asus TUF...
Acer announced their updated 2021 Predator Triton 500 a few months ago, and I got to spend the last few weeks with a pre-release sample and I can share some thoughts about it with you here. At this point, this is not one of...
I’ve already covered the 2021 Asus ZenBook 13 UM325 in a previous review, the smallest member of the ZenBook family that’s available with an OLED screen, Ryzen 5000 U hardware from AMD, and a very competitive price tag for what it is. However, this...
I bought the 2021-update of the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14 locally about two weeks ago, used it throughout this time, and gathered my thoughts on it in this review article. This is the 2021 version of the Flex 5 14-inch, code name 14ALC05,...
HP’s ZBook series of laptops have been on my radar for many years. Frustrated with the shortcomings of Dell’s XPS 15, I have long been on the lookout for other laptops that combine similar horsepower with a comparably professional look and compact chassis. I...
While shopping for a new laptop, I decided to give the Alienware m15 a try. It’s been a few years since I owned one and boy have they changed. I’ve gone from both extremes too, having owned an M11x in 2009 and then an...
This here is the 2021 update of the Nitro 5, in pretty much the beefiest configuration ever available on a Nitro so far (code name AN515-45): a Ryzen 7 5800 processor and an Nvidia RTX 3080 Laptop dGPU. Most of this article applies to...
After spending time with many Ryzen 5000 H laptops in the last weeks, it’s about time for a change of pace. We’re still keeping with AMD laptops, though, this time around with their Ryzen 5000 U Lucienne and Cezanne platforms. The ZenBook 13 UM325...
After spending time with the full-size Scar 17 in the last weeks, I was eager to give the smaller 2021 ROG Scar 15 G533 a try as well, and see how Asus managed to implement the same kind of powerful hardware (a Ryzen 9...
If a dual-screen productivity-focused laptop is what you’re after, Asus have you covered with their updated 2021 ZenBook Duo lineup, which includes a full-performance 15-inch model, as well as a more affordable and more compact 14-incher. This article is all about the latter, the...
Chuwi is a smaller Chinese laptop maker that offers a couple of different budget laptops and ultrabooks, mostly in the $250 to $400 price segments. We’ve partnered with them to announce their new products when available, but I wanted to properly review their laptops...
Intel delayed their main-stream 11th gen Core H performance 6C/8C processors for the Spring of 2021, and merely launched a new sub-series of mid-range quad-core processors at the beginning of the year, marketed as options for lightweight and affordable gaming laptops. The platform is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...