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A Bit Of MSI At CES 2025

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 03:38:52 +0000

MSI released a number of new products at CES 2025, including the MSI MPG 272URX QD-OLED gaming monitor, which is a CES 2025 Innovation Awards Honoree. The disappointingly short model name is…

The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Power ASUS Vivobook S15

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:05:53 +0000

If you are curious about how the new Snapdragon X based laptops work you will need to be fairly serious about that desire, as the ASUS Vivobook S15 starts at $1000 and…

Got A Foldable Phone? Why Not Try The Acemagic X1 Dual-Screen Laptop Too

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:30:31 +0000

The Acemagic X1 is not the only dual screen laptop on the market but it is probably the only one where the second screen has 360 degrees of travel along one axis. …

Update Your iPhone, iOS 18 Has Arrived

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:32:06 +0000

iOS 18 is focused on your Home screen, though for those that care they are far more interested in the addition of Apple Intelligence; to defend its implementation or to mock the…

MSI Raider GE78HX, Portable Intel i9 14900HX And RTX 4090

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:30:36 +0000

If you have $3700 and a strong desire for a laptop more powerful than the majority of desktops on the market then MSI's Raider GE78HX is for you. In addition to the…

MSI Vector GP68HX Has Just About Everything Except A Decent Webcam

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:59:04 +0000

The MSI Vector GP68HX which was sent to TweakTown for review uses Intel's i9-13950HX and might be the last new model with that generation of chip. It ships with a somewhat…

Framework’s Laptop 16, A Compartmentalized Gaming Laptop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:49:31 +0000

Ars Technica had a chance to check out the new Framework Laptop 16, a gaming version of their modular Laptop 13. It keeps the same ability to swap around inputs and outputs…

Lenovo Legion Pro 5 A Ryzen And RTX Powered Gaming Laptop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:54:45 +0000

Lenovo isn't generally a go to company for gaming laptops, though they are certainly not new to it. The Lenovo Legion Pro 5 model which TweakTown recently reviewed does pack a fair…

PNY Elite-X Type-C USB 3.2 128GB Flash Drive

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:01:37 +0000

Spoiler alert! The 128GB PNY Elite-X Type-C flash drive is $15, the 256GB is an even more respectable $26. The days of charging a USB-C tax are drawing to an…

The Watercooled XMG NEO 17 Gaming Laptop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:50:11 +0000

Laptops with watercooling, either internal or external, are rather rare for obvious reasons. The cooling will add a fair amount to the price, the external coolers reduce mobility and you don't really…

HP’s Spectre Foldable PC Sports A Bendy OLED And A High Price

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:38:09 +0000

The HP Spectre Foldable PC comes with a $5000 price tag, making it the most expensive foldable laptop that has been released to market. HP justifies this cost with several features, such…

The Razer Blade 14 2023 Gaming Laptop Has Ryzen Inside

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:51:29 +0000

After a long break by most laptop makers, AMD is back on the menu for a few select models. One such is this year's Razer Blade 14, which is powered by an…

The Modular Framework Laptop Gets Another Update

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:35:39 +0000

The new Framework Laptop can be ordered as an entire product or as an upgrade kit, with a variety of processors and other components coming separate to allow you to upgrade your…

Can CAMM Can SO-DIMMs For Mobile Memory?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:56:35 +0000

We first learned about CAMM, aka Compression Attached Memory Modules, last year when Dell announced that everyone should jump onboard their proposed new mobile memory design. It was a bold move…

Corsair’s AMD Powered Voyager a1600 Gaming Laptop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:17:49 +0000

Corsair have released the Voyager a1600 gaming laptop with a 5.0GHz Ryzen 9 6900HS and it's integrated Radeon 6800M GPU with 12GB GDDR6. The laptop comes with not one, but two Thunderbolt…

The MSI Titan GT77, A Fully Overclockable Mobile Workstation

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:39:22 +0000

The MSI Titan GT77 is well named, as it contains a 16GB RTX 3080Ti laptop GPU, DDR5-4800 dual channel and an Intel Core i9-12900HX, the HX series which lets you overclock the…

Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, A Rather Impressive Gaming Laptop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:36:55 +0000

Lenovo is far more famous for business laptops, however their Legion series is specifically designed for gamers. The new Lenovo Legion 5 Pro is powered by a 4.7GHz i7-12700H, the aforementioned RTX…

AMD’s New Model Numbers for 2023 and Later Mobile Processors

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:20:04 +0000

AMD, in a move that reminds this editor of Intel's mobile naming scheme, has decided to adopt a new naming system to make identifying the processor easier. It may look complicated…

Ryzen Pro Powered Lenovo! ThinkPad Z13

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:49:36 +0000

If you dump the top cover, in part because almost all leather is made from vegans anyways, you drop about $1000 off the price. That is still an indiscreet charge for a…

Meet The Second Generation Upgradeable Framework Laptop

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:15:02 +0000

We first met the Framework Laptop last year, with a follow up earlier this year that confirmed that the laptop is indeed upgradeable, as Ars Technica swapped out the original hardware…