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We’ve said it before: There’s one simple trick to increase the performance of your Windows laptop, and it made an enormous difference in Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2, which we reviewed today.

Nvidia did provide some caveats when handing over a Razer Blade 16 to test. It's a thinner model than previous years—likely one of the thinnest gaming laptops with an RTX 5090 at the least. Razer had ...

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Intel first discussed the mobile architecture it calls Lunar Lake way back in June, and stated at the time it would arrive in Q3. The initial reveal included some lofty performance claims, so we've ...

Laptops quietly monitor their own health, but most people never tap into the tools that can warn of trouble long before a crash or data loss. Built-in hardware diagnostics sit below the operating ...

Intel’s Core 285H chip, the first member of its Core Ultra 200 or “Arrow Lake-H” family for laptops, has a big crater to fill. Yes, crater: This processor essentially bombed on the desktop. In laptops ...

Discover why the MacBook Air outshines Windows laptops in the $750 price range. Compare design, performance, battery life, ...

In the pursuit of more gaming power, a YouTuber has modded their Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU, putting Nvidia's mobile flagship through its paces and scoring a huge performance boost in the ...