Notebooks
AMD is looking to drive the AI PC market with options across multiple product lines, which aren't limited to consumer processors. While primarily designed for the commercial sector, AMD has announced the Ryzen Pro 8000 'Phoenix' series of APUs for desktops, which AMD claims is the first professional-grade CPU to include an NPU designed to provide on-chip AI neural processing capabilities. AMD has also announced the Ryzen Pro 8040 'Hawk Point' series of mobile processors designed for commercial laptops and notebooks. AMD's Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 series processors come with support from AMD's Pro Manageability and AMD Pro Business Ready suites and are built with AMD's current generation Zen 4 cores. The Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 series processors are...
Lenovo Reveals Yoga 910 Convertible: Intel’s Kaby Lake Meets 4K Display and Ultra-Thin Form-Factor
Lenovo this week took the wraps of its new Yoga 910 convertible, an aluminium 2-in-1 equipped with a 4K UHD display and is based on Intel’s upcoming 7th generation...
39 by Anton Shilov on 9/2/2016Lenovo’s Yoga Book Convertible Scraps Physical Keyboard in Favor of Touch-Sensitive Surface
At IFA trade show in Berlin, Lenovo announced its latest addition to the Yoga product line, the Yoga Book convertible laptop that replaces physical keyboard with a large touchpad...
33 by Anton Shilov on 9/1/2016Acer Predator 21 X: Notebook with Curved Display, Kaby Lake and GeForce GTX 1080 SLI
As part of the IFA event this week in Berlin, Acer is announcing its Predator 21 X, the industry’s first desktop replacement notebook with a curved display. The laptop...
29 by Anton Shilov on 8/31/2016Acer Announces new Swift brand of Ultrathin Notebooks with Kaby Lake SoCs
As we reported on the Kaby Lake launch last week as Intel’s newest generation of processors focusing on thin and light notebooks as well as convertables, tablets and mini-PCs...
21 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2016HP Announces EliteBook Laptops with On/Off Sure View Privacy Screens
On Thursday, HP introduced adjustable privacy screens for the EliteBook 840 as well as the EliteBook 1040 notebooks. These are aimed at business users concerned about visual hacking and...
43 by Anton Shilov on 8/26/2016Eurocom Sky E9E2 Laptop: Intel Core i7, Two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/1070 GPUs in SLI, Optional 120 Hz Display Panel
Eurocom has released one of the world’s first laptops featuring two NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080/1070 GPUs, along with one of Intel’s latest Core i7 CPUs for good measure. The...
80 by Anton Shilov on 8/26/2016NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 10-Series for Notebooks Unveiled, Launching Today
Although no two GPU launches are ever exactly alike, I think this year’s launch of the FinFET generation GPUs really drives that point home. Over the last 3 months...
46 by Ryan Smith & Brett Howse on 8/16/2016Xiaomi Unveils Mi Notebook Air, from $525
Today Xiaomi has introduced its first pair of notebooks and unvieled the Mi Notebook Air family. As the name suggests, these are aimed head first into Apple's Air line...
49 by Anton Shilov on 7/27/2016ASUS Unveils ZenBook Flip UX360CA: Ultra-Thin Convertible Laptop for $699
This week ASUS has introduced its ZenBook Flip UX360CA convertible notebooks, the company’s first ZenBook with 360° hinge based on the Skylake-based Intel Core M processor. The system sports...
29 by Anton Shilov on 7/8/2016AMD Announces the 7th Generation APU: Excavator mk2 in Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge for Notebooks
The Carrizo SoC, using Excavator cores, was touted in the press as being the biggest upgrade to the base Bulldozer design since the introduction of Bulldozer itself. This was...
69 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016ASUS Readies ROG Laptops with Optional 120 Hz AHVA Display Panels
In the recent years, ASUS became one of the world’s largest supplier of gaming notebooks and gaming displays. Having obtained a lot of expertise in building monitors and laptops...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016GIGABYTE Aero 14: Thin Gaming Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and 10-Hour Battery Life
GIGABYTE has introduced its new Aero 14 gaming laptop, which weds a relatively thin form-factor with high-performance components such as an Intel Skylake-H CPU, and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
33 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016ASUS Announces Transformer 3 Pro: 2-in-1 with Core i5/i7
Not to be outdone on the subject of 2-in-1s today, ASUS has announced a second 2-in-1 to complement the newly announced Transformer 3. Dubbed the Transformer 3 Pro, this...
22 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2016Acer Unveils Switch V10 and Switch One 10: 2-in-1s for $199 - $249
Acer has introduced two new affordable 2-in-1 hybrid PCs ahead of Computex trade show. Both systems are based on Intel’s quad-core Atom processors, feature 10” multi-touch IPS displays and...
13 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016ASUS Announces the Transformer 3: Here’s a Kaby-Lake 2-in-1
One of the surprises of ASUS’ Zen press event today, aside from the surreal nature of the anthropomorphic Zenbo, was the first announcement of a Kaby Lake-based 2-in-1 device...
7 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016ASUS Announces the Zenbook 3: A Macbook Competitor with Core i7, 16GB DRAM and 1TB SSD
Computex is already a whirlwind of announcements even for day zero. At the ASUS Zenvolution press event today, the lid was lifted on the next generation of premium ASUS...
34 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016Computex 2016: ASUS Zenvolution Press Conference Live Blog
Another hour, another Computex Press Event! Billy and I are here, and we're expecting a lot of new Zen devices.
24 by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on 5/29/2016AMD Quietly Unveils Radeon M400 Series: Starting With Rebadges
As our long-time readers are keenly aware, the product cycles followed by PC OEMs and ODMs for their laptops and desktops are rarely perfectly in sync with the development...
49 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2016Apple Refreshes MacBook with Skylake-based Core M and New Rose Gold Color
Today Apple has introduced its new generation of its MacBook laptops. On the specification sheets, this generation introduces Intel Skylake based Core m processors, updated integrated graphics, a faster...
106 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 4/19/2016