The HP Omen 15 claims to be the “smallest 15-inch gamingâ€� laptop that costs less than $1,000. Even more interesting is what’s inside: your choice of AMD and Intel CPUs.Announced Tuesday and available immediately at HP.com and Best Buy, the Ome…
The HP Omen 15 claims to be the “smallest 15-inch gamingâ€� laptop that costs less than $1,000. Even more interesting is what’s inside: your choice of AMD and Intel CPUs.Announced Tuesday and available immediately at HP.com and Best Buy, the Ome…
The HP Pavilion Gaming 16 knows that sometimes a 15-inch laptop is a little too small, and a 17-inch laptop can be a lot too big. As its name suggests, the Pavilion Gaming 16 splits the difference, building itself around the uncommon 16.1-inch diag…
You’ve set your sights on a Dell XPS 13. The only problem: Which one do you buy? The XPS 13 7390 clamshell or its 2-in-1 version, or the “newâ€� XPS 13 9300? All three are great laptops—ignore the model numbers, which are confusingly non-seque…
The Razer Blade Studio Edition is Razer’s workstation laptop for those who need pro graphics without a “proâ€� CPU.Announced Thursday and based on the same chassis as the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Edition that hit the streets early in April, the S…
The race to be the world’s next high-performance memory card standard took it up a notch this week when the SD Association said it will adopt PCIe 4.0 for SD Express cards.Yes, you heard that right: PCIe 4.0 in a postage stamp-sized memory card, a…
The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shiftâ€� technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.First, AMD formally shed a little more light on the first laptop to use the Smart Shift feature, Dell’s G5 15 SE. C…
The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shiftâ€� technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.First, AMD formally shed a little more light on the first laptop to use the Smart Shift feature, Dell’s G5 15 SE. C…
The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shiftâ€� technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.First, AMD formally shed a little more light on the first laptop to use the Smart Shift feature, Dell’s G5 15 SE. C…
Intel’s 10th gen Core i9-10900K is—without a doubt—exactly as Intel has described it: “the world’s fastest gaming CPU.â€�Intel’s problem has been weaknesses outside of gaming, and its overall performance value compared to AMD’s Ryzen 3…
The Quest for the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features—upgradable internal graphics—ended in a horrible, ignominious death on Wednesday, with the release of Alienware’s Area-51m R2.And by death, we mean permanent death—not Marvel comics deat…
With the debut of the Dell XPS 17, the company will bring its popular XPS brand to a 17-inch laptop this summer, with a bezel-less design, H-class 10th-gen CPU, and up to RTX 2060 graphics. There’s an updated XPS 15, too. While the laptops were …
The Dell XPS 15 is long overdue for an upgrade, and on Wednesday it’s finally, officially getting one.Dell said the new XPS 15 9500 will be available for order starting Wednesday, with prices starting at $1,300. We’d guess that’s for a base ve…
Apple’s MacBook Pro 13 just came out, and it already has a tough adversary. That foe is not the usual high-end, high-priced Windows workhorse like the Dell XPS 13 we just tested, as great as it is. No, the reason Apple should worry is because based …
AMD has hit two home runs with its mobile Ryzen 4000 line, and now it’s hoping for a third by moving into corporate laptops.On Thursday, AMD released three new Ryzen Pro 4000 mobile CPUs with corporate-leaning features such as full memory encryption…
The latest Acer Swift 3 has a surprise for you. Concealed within its unassuming and borderline generic aluminum body is Ryzen 7 4700U, an 8-core CPU based on AMD’s new 7nm Ryzen 4000 with Radeon graphics.As a budget box, you don’t get Symmetrica…
When released, Apple’s updated MacBook Pro 13 will get the most powerful 10th-gen Intel Ice Lake CPU available. But otherwise Apple’s late to the game—again. We can think of a bunch of Windows laptops that already outstrip it in features, and we…
Our first taste of the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U came in the form of the affordable Acer Swift 3 laptop. After AMD launched its 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPU family at CES and dealt a first, crushing blow with the Ryzen 9 4900HS chip in high-end notebook PCs, the R…
The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U arrives at a key moment for laptop CPUs. After AMD launched its 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPU family at CES and dealt a first, crushing blow with the Ryzen 9 4900HS chip in high-end notebook PCs, the company has its eyes on the real p…
With Dell’s XPS 13 9300, you can mark a momentous date in laptop history: the death of the laptop bezel. Previous models killed the top and sides, but that last useless part has stuck around until now.Dell’s XPS 13 9300, however, kills that bott…