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ASUS has unveiled the Vivobook Pro 14 OLED (K6400), a 14-inch laptop that weighs in at 1.4 kg. Still, ASUS has included a 45 W processor and a dedicated GPU, plus a 63 Wh battery.

Lenovo's new Yoga 9i 14 offers the most modern features you can get right now. The high-end convertible impressed with an excellent picture quality during our review and the Yoga 9i 14 can even beat the business flagship ThinkPad X1 Yoga G7 in some regards.

How well can the new AMD Radeon 680M run Cyberpunk 2077 or Crysis Remastered? Pretty darn well for an integrated GPU. Performance can be over 2x faster than the Intel Iris Xe 96 EUs in some cases to be nearly on par with the discrete Nvidia GeForce 1650 series at times.

Asus has launched the Zenbook S 13 Flip OLED notebook powered by 12th gen Intel Core processors and up to 32 GB of LPDDR5 memory. The laptop will come in four colors and be ready to buy in Q3 2022.

Asus has taken the wraps off the Vivobook Pro 14X OLED notebook. The laptop is powered by up to a 12th gen Intel Core i9-12900H, 32 GB of LPDDR5 memory, up to 1 TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage, and can be configured with a discreet RTX 3050 Ti. It will be available in Q3 2022.

Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED is official and can be configured with up to a powerful Ryzen 7 6800U, 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 6400 MHz, and 1 TB of PCIe Gen 4 SSD. The notebook will hit store shelves in Q3 2022.

The Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502) is a 1.8 kg convertible laptop with a 45 W Intel Alder Lake processor, a 96 Wh battery and even a dedicated GPU. The Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED (UP6502) has a 2.8K OLED display too and will start at €1,399.

ASUS has announced the Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED (UX8402), a 14-inch laptop that also has a 12.7-inch ScreenPad Plus secondary display. At launch, the Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED will be available with a choice of Intel Alder Lake processors and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU, all powered by a 76 Wh battery. The Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED (UX8402) will start at €1,899 when it launches in Q3 2022.

ASUS has unveiled the Zenbook Pro 16X OLED (UX7602), its most powerful Zenbook yet. The Zenbook Pro 16X OLED features up to the Core i9-12900H, a 14-core processor, plus an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. The Zenbook Pro 16X OLED will be available by the end of June, starting at €2,999 in the Eurozone.

ASUS has unveiled the Vivobook Pro 15X OLED with AMD Ryzen 6000 and Intel 12th Gen Core processors. The 15.6-inch laptop also has the pick of NVIDIA GPU options, up to the RTX 3070 Ti with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM.

Asus introduced the Vivobook S 16X in both Intel Alder Lake-H up to the Core i7-12700H and AMD Rembrandt-H options up to the Ryzen 7 6800H and Ryzen 9 6900HX. The Vivobook S 16X claims to be the world's slimmest 16-inch 4K laptop with a PANTONE-validated OLED NanoEdge display that is VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500-certified.

Asus has officially unveiled the Vivobook S 14X OLED with some impressive specs, including an Intel Core i5-12500/Corei7-12700, 2.8K OLED screen, 70 Wh battery, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB storage, and more. It will be available for purchase in Q2, 2022.

At its Pinnacle of Performance event, Asus introduced the first 17-inch Zenbook Pro SKU powered by the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and Nvidia RTX 3050. The ZenBook Pro 17 features a 2.5K NanoEdge touch 165 Hz IPS panel with Dolby Vision support and is expected to go on sale from Q3 2022.

Asus has upgraded the Vivobook Pro 16X OLED with the latest Intel Alder Lake-H and Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt-H options. The Vivobook Pro 16X OLED now offers up to Core i9-12900H or Ryzen 9 6900HX options along with up to 32 GB DDR5 RAM and RTX 3070 Ti GPU. Aimed at content creators, the Vivobook Pro 16X also comes with several ProArt features including a Virtual DialPad and the ProArt Creator Hub app.

Asus has announced two new laptops with Intel Alder Lake and AMD Ryzen 6000 series processors. The Vivobook S 15 and S 14 OLED feature 2.8K panels clocked at 120 Hz and 90 Hz, respectively. They will hit shelves in Q2, 2022.

Windows 11 has been officially available for half a year now. Many PC users worldwide do not need to do much to acquire this upgrade; however, for those somehow in more difficulty, physical copies have recently been spotted as another options. Therefore, anyone who has ever wanted the latest stable version of Microsoft's omnipresent OS in a box can spend their money on one now.

NiceHash recently announced that its QuickMiner software was now capable of fully unlocking the hashrate on most Ampere LHR cards, barring the RTX 3080 12GB and the RTX 3050. This means that LHR-limited Ampere cards like the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti can reach their full mining potential.

Our first benchmarks with the Ryzen 9 6900HX are in and while they're pretty good on their own, they're not really all that different from the competing Intel Core i7-12800H or even the older Ryzen 9 5900HX.

New supposed iGPU performance capabilities for AMD’s Ryzen 7000 Zen 4-based “Phoenix” APUs have pitted the upcoming chips at around the same level as a GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU. These “Phoenix” 5-nm processors are destined for use in thin and light laptops thanks to their low power requirements.

Mark Zuckerberg has officially introduced one of WhatsApp's most anticipated pending features of some time: reactions. Users can thus append emojis to a given message under the service's latest update. The latest version also contains other potentially valuable features such as an increased attachment file-size limit.

The Zenbook series is supposed to be a high-end prosumer series with some of the best display options and features designed for content creators and editing applications. And yet, it has some of the slowest SD card readers of any prosumer laptop in the market.

Asus' VivoBook 17 is a quiet multimedia laptop with a good system performance, clear FHD display, and acceptable sound. Our full test shows how the case, keyboard, and small battery fare in the maintenance friendly device.

Smart Access Storage would first be featured on select laptops like Corsair's upcoming Voyager lineup. The technology may later on be introduced to desktop PCs with the launch of the Zen 4 AM5 platform. More details should be provided at Computex this June.

The upcoming AMD Zen 3+ U-series is going to have some tough competition. Intel's P-core and E-core approach seems to be paying off particularly when it comes to multi-thread performance.

Canalys' latest report on the PC market concludes that its shipments dropped during the first quarter of 2021 (1Q2021), albeit only by about 3%. When broken down by type, the research suggests that Chromebooks were responsible for this contraction. Then again, there were some positive signs, such as tablet sales that took off in Asia-Pacific during the quarter.

The new AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS laptop processor has just appeared on PassMark where it produced a sterling result that left it over 23% ahead of its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 5800HS. In terms of the competition, the Ryzen 7 6800HS performed at a level that landed in-between the Intel Core i5-12500H and i7-12700H but with greater efficiency.

Despite Intel's latest reports on the steady advancements with the proprietary 7 nm production nodes, industry sources close to DigiTimes claim that Intel might change the Meteor Lake blueprints to be produced exclusively on the TSMC N5 nodes in order to avoid delays and ensure competitive performance in the battle against Apple's upcoming M processors.

Qualcomm touts its latest additions to the Networking Pro series of components as the go-to solutions to complete the next generation of routers, gateways, access points and so on. This is because they are the first of their line to support Wi-Fi 7. They are available in tri- and quad-band variants, and are pitched at OEMs planning their next premium consumer- to enterprise-grade wireless equipment.

XPG pitches its latest Atom 50 M.2 2280 SSDs at those planning PC builds for their creative or professional output; then again, the ADATA brand also hints one might be ideal as new backups for their PlayStation 5 (PS5) storage. The drives are rated for NVMe 1.4 and PCIe Gen4 x4 for potentially blazing maximum read and write speeds, and come with a 5-year warranty in their new markets.

Improvements over the previous generation include the latest Ryzen 6000U APUs from AMD, LPDDR5 RAM, FHD webcam, USB4 connector and a 16:10 OLED touchscreen option with 2.8K resolution and 90 Hz refresh rate. The new Yoga 7 convertibles will be available in select regions excluding the U.S.

Lenovo has unveiled a new version of the Yoga Slim 9i, a 14-inch laptop that will be available with Intel Core i5-1240P or Core i7-1280P processors. Also, Lenovo will only offer the Yoga Slim 9i 14IAP7 with OLED displays, plus Intel's new Arc A350M dedicated GPU and up to 32 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM.

Lenovo has upgraded the Yoga Slim 7i Carbon as part of its Yoga 2022 refresh. The Yoga Slim 7i Carbon will be orderable from this summer with up to a Core i7-1260P processor and a 2.5K display with a 90 Hz refresh rate.

Lenovo has unveiled an Intel Alder Lake-powered version of the Yoga Slim 7i Pro X, a 14.5-inch laptop that will also be available with three display options and a choice between two dedicated GPUs. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro X will begin shipping in July 2022 and will start at €1,199.

Lenovo has announced the Yoga Slim 7i Pro 14IAH7, a 14-inch laptop available with Core i5-1240P to Core i7-12700H processors. The new Yoga Slim 7i Pro comes with dedicated GPU options too, as well as a 2.8K OLED display that has a 90 Hz refresh rate.

Lenovo has lifted the lid on the Yoga Slim 7 Pro X, an AMD counterpart to the Intel-powered Yoga Slim 7i Pro X. The Yoga Slim 7 Pro X comes with a choice of new AMD Creator Edition APUs, up to the Ryzen 9 6900HS Creator Edition. Lenovo includes a 70 Whr battery too, along with three display options and a choice between the GeForce GTX 1650 or GeForce RTX 3050.

Lenovo has announced a 16-inch version of the Yoga Slim 7i Pro. To be available with the Core i5-12500H or the Core i7-12700H, the Yoga Slim 7i Pro 16IAH7 will start €1,499 when it becomes orderable in July. Also, the Yoga Slim 7i Pro 16IAH7 will offer the Intel Arc A370M, one of the company's first laptop GPUs.

The new Yoga Slim 7 Pro has been upgraded to AMD's latest Ryzen 6000HS Creator Editions APUs. Also, the 14-inch laptop has a choice of three displays, up to a 2.8K OLED panel with a 90 Hz refresh rate. The Yoga Slim 7 Pro 14ARH7 will be available from August 2022, starting at €999 in the Eurozone.

Lenovo has unveiled the Yoga Slim 7 Pro 16ARH7, a 16-inch laptop powered by either the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition or the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. The system also comes with an RTX 3050 or an RTX 3050 Ti, plus a 165 Hz display that resolves at 2.5K.

Hybrid architecture at 28W. After Intel already launched the H45 Alder Lake CPUs a couple of weeks ago, we now get the first laptops with the 28W P-series CPUs. We had the chance to test the new Core i7-1260P in Lenovo's Yoga 9i 14 and the performance is very good, but at the cost of the power consumption.

As expected, the Ryzen 7000X desktop processors will launch in Q3-Q4 this year with a 65+ W TDP and support for DDR5 / PCIe 5.0. However, it looks like the mobile sector is in for a big shake-up. AMD mentions the launch of 55+ W TDP Dragon Range models for extreme gaming laptops with the most cores on the market, plus the Phoenix models with 35-45 W TDPs for thin and light laptops, both scheduled for an early 2023 release.

Razer has revealed a new version of the Blade 15, which retains a powerful Alder Lake processor and an RTX 30 series GPU. However, the Blade 15 will also be available with a 240 Hz OLED display, which also operates at a UHD resolution.

Intel and AMD are each just a few steps away from making the GeForce MX series obsolete. While the GeForce MX450 is still faster than any integrated solution currently available on laptops, the performance gaps between it and Iris Xe or Radeon are closing in to make the discrete Nvidia GPU much less desirable.