Notebooks
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for the Windows on Arm platform. Announced is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 14 and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 both feature Qualcomm's latest 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor, ushering in a new era for Microsoft's Windows on Arm platform. Lenovo aims to target content creators and business professionals with these new models. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite processor looks set to try to change the adoption of the Windows-on-Arm devices, with a critical focus on providing AI capability on device, which promises up to 45 TOPs of performance solely from the Hexagon NPU. Powered...
The Chromebook Pixel Review
It arrived in a white nondescript cardboard box, with just a flash of color, and one word on the lid: Google. Inside was a Chromebook. Chromebooks are dull. Chrome...
75 by Jason Inofuentes on 5/31/2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700M Series Launched
At the beginning of April, Jarred walked us through the refresh of the bottom two-thirds of NVIDIA's 700M series of GeForce GPUs, all under the GeForce GT heading. We...
37 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/30/2013
The Kabini Deal: Can AMD Improve the Quality of Mainstream PCs with Its Latest APU?
There are two non-negotiables in building a PC these days: the cost of Intel silicon and the cost of the Windows license. You can play with everything else but...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/24/2013
Best Business Laptops – May 2013
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last “best laptop” article, mostly because I had concerns about recommending anything with AMD’s Richland and Intel’s Haswell processors right around...
39 by Jarred Walton on 5/17/2013
AMD Launches Radeon HD 8970M
Earlier this week I noted that AMD’s Radeon 8970M and Richland A10-5750M are both available in MSI’s new GX70 3BE gaming notebook, but at the time I couldn't fully...
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook Review
Intel puts their best foot forward with a business class 14" Ultrabook from Lenovo, the touchscreen-equipped X1 Carbon.
91 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/15/2013
MSI GX70 3BE: Richland A10 APU and Neptune 8970M Gaming Notebook
This is one of the more interesting pieces of hardware to keep an eye on if you're looking at a reasonably priced gaming notebook. I've toyed around with MSI's...
23 by Jarred Walton on 5/13/2013
Acer Aspire V Series: New AMD APUs and Other Upgrades
The final piece of news out of Acer from today consists of updates to their Aspire V series of laptops targeted at value-conscious consumers. We’ve previously reviewed the Aspire...
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CyberPowerPC FangBook Gaming Notebook Review
We've seen this chassis before, but we haven't seen it with CyberPowerPC's touches, and we haven't seen anything about the Kepler-based NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX. That changes today.
25 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/1/2013
NVIDIA R319 Series Beta Driver 320.00 Available
NVIDIA's driver numbering can be a bit of a mystery at times, but after the R313 Series that encompasses all version 313.x and 314.x releases, NVIDIA is jumping ahead...
15 by Jarred Walton on 4/23/2013
Best Gaming Notebooks, April 2013
For this week’s update of our laptop/notebook recommendations, we turn our eye towards the mobile gaming sector—and no, we’re not including tablets in this category, even though they can...
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Best Budget Laptops, April 2013
Last week we launched a new sort of buyer’s guide for AnandTech with our Best Budget Ultrabook recommendation. We’ll be fleshing out the “best XYZ” recommendations for other components...
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HP EliteBook Folio 9470m Ultrabook Review: Ultrabooks in Enterprise
Something funny happened when a lot of us weren't really paying attention last year: Intel's nascent "ultrabook" specification and definition quietly expanded and, in the process, sort of redefined...
82 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/29/2013
Hardware Tricks: Can You Fix a Failing Mobile GPU with a Hair Dryer?
Over the years, I’ve encountered my fair share of hardware failures while writing for AnandTech. For example, nearly every SFF I reviewed back in my early days failed within...
30 by Jarred Walton on 3/19/2013
CyberPowerPC FangBook X7: An Alternative to Clevo Whitebooks
We’ve reviewed quite a few Clevo notebooks over the years from a variety of vendors: AVADirect, Eurocom, Mythlogic, Origin, and Sager, to name a few. While there are certainly...
22 by Jarred Walton on 2/11/2013
HP Chromebook Confirmed: Available Now For $329
We already covered the leak, and now we've got the confirmation we knew would come. HP has officially announced the HP Pavilion 14-c010us Chromebook. Quite the name, eh? Specs...
29 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/7/2013
3DMark for Windows Launches; We Test It with Various Laptops
After a two-year hiatus, Futuremark is back with a new version of 3DMark, and in many ways this is their most ambitious version to date. Instead of the usual...
69 by Jarred Walton on 2/5/2013
Updating AnandTech’s 2013 Mobile Benchmark Suite (RFC)
If it seems like just last year that we updated our mobile benchmark suite, that’s because it was. We’re going to be keeping some elements of the testing, but...
47 by Jarred Walton on 1/29/2013
HP Leaks Their First Chromebook
Google's venture into the desktop operating system space has been getting a lot of the right kind of attention lately. Acer's C7 Chromebook has been well received, as has...
20 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/29/2013
AVADirect’s Clevo P570WM X79 Gaming Notebook Available for Pre-Order in the US
Depending on whom you ask, desktop replacement notebooks are either a growing or a shrinking market. Most large OEMs have completely abandoned the DTR market, with high-end DTR-like notebooks...
19 by Jarred Walton on 1/25/2013
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