Laptop

Mediocre PC version After gracing the PlayStation 5 at the start of the year, the Legacy of Thieves Collection also arrived on Windows a few months later. We have now taken a closer look at how graphically demanding this collection of remastered games is.

A well-rounded solution. The Acer Aspire 5 has a Tiger Lake processor on board, hardly gets warm and produces only minimum noise. In addition, it offers a backlit keyboard, acceptable battery life as well as a two year guarantee. The whole package is available for just under 500 euros.

Alder Lake-H and 14-inch OLED. Twelve cores inside the Intel Core i5-12500H and a high-resolution OLED panel - the specifications of the Acer Swift 3 SF314-71-56U3 sound very reasonable on paper. In this review, we will explore how well the compact laptop is able to perform in practice.

A unibody metal case with great performance and a fantastic display - that is what the Asus Vivobook Pro 16X offers. The OLED display is Pantone validated for particularly accurate colors. Thanks to its dedicated GPU, the multimedia laptop covers a wide range of use cases ranging from gaming to professional video or photo editing.

Light, 1.4 kg (3 lb) gaming hybrid. The Acer Swift X 14 is a light, 1.4 kg (~3 lb) laptop with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, a long battery life, 16:10 display, and high system performance. However, the graphics performance still crashes completely in battery operation, and even the fast SSD and crisp keyboard won't help in that case.

AMD Ryzen 9 + Radeon RX 6800S. Lenovo's thinnest gaming laptop is just 1/100th of a millimeter thicker than the Razer Blade 15 and it uses only the latest Zen 3+ and RDNA 2 parts from AMD. It holds up surprisingly well against the competition so long as you don't mind the high core temperatures.

There are still signs and wonders. Modern Warfare 2 (2022) not only brings an integrated benchmark to the Call of Duty series, but finally also introduces convenient presets. We tried out the game on several laptop and desktop GPUs.

A full tank, please. Schenker has introduced a new model featuring the latest AMD Ryzen 6000 processor, the Ryzen 9 6900HX, to its Neo 15 line-up. This time around, we are also reviewing this gaming laptop in combination with an RTX 3070 Ti. How well does the CPU with Zen architecture perform against its tried-and-tested Intel counterpart? Read on to find out!

Perhaps a bit too ambitious. The Predator Triton 300 SE joins the small but elite group of high-performance 14-inch gaming laptops consisting of the Razer Blade 14, Asus Zephyrus G14, and Alienware x14. The Acer model has its advantages, but they're not enough to stand out from the crowd.

Well-rounded. The Nitro 5 stands out with its great gaming performance and comparatively low temperatures. The notebook fits two PCIe-4 SSDs and features a USB 4 port.

Now in 16:10. The Acer Swift X 16 (2022) is a light 16-inch laptop with additional graphics performance. The bright display finally comes in the 16:10 format and offers a high resolution. Intel's Alder Lake P-Core i7 CPU helps the multimedia laptop to develop a powerful performance. But how does Intel's Arc A370M fare?

Full Intel pack. Thanks to the additional Intel Arc A370M graphics processor, Acer's notebook promises significantly better performance in image and video editing – even for games. Even beyond that, the features seem impressive and meet high expectations. Unfortunately, a few flaws in the details spoil the overall impression, which is otherwise good.

Is it still a ThinkPad? Lenovo’s new AMD ThinkPad Z13 comes with an exclusive AMD processor and the high-end version also gets an OLED screen and a leatherette lid that flaunts bronze-hued trim. It looks stylish, but is it still a 'business laptop'?

150 W TGP GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Lenovo has upgraded the CPU from AMD Zen 3 to Zen 3+ and the 140 W TGP GPU to 150 W for this latest 16-inch refresh. The new model is faster, of course, but let's find out by exactly how much.

The ARM ThinkPad. For the first time, Lenovo is introducing a ThinkPad laptop with an ARM processor to the market. The ThinkPad X13s is silent and offers a long battery life thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3. However, the concept still has some weaknesses, and particularly the performance continues to need some improvements.

Now with a 99-Wh battery. Considering the low weight, even the Tiger Lake Schenker Vision 14 with the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU was a very powerful 14-inch laptop that gets a massive boost with this generation's Alder Lake Core i7-12700H upgrade. Additionally, the battery size has been increased for significantly improved runtimes.