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A refreshed Lenovo Legion 7i gaming notebook has turned up on a retailer site sporting big-budget specs for an unsurprisingly high price. The 2022 Legion 7i retains its predecessor's 16-inch form while updating the CPU and GPU components, bringing in Intel’s 12th Gen Core i9-12900HX processor and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop chip.

The 15.6-inch laptop is an excellent all-rounder for multimedia, school, and even light gaming so long as you aren't looking for the most accurate colors or brightest display.

You can get the regular Surface Laptop with Intel or AMD processors, but Microsoft equips the new high-end device Surface Laptop Studio with old Tiger Lake quad-core CPUs, which are hardly competitive anymore. The manufacturer saved money in other respects as well.

A potent Intel Core i9-12900HX and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Lenovo laptop has been spotted on Geekbench producing predictably impressive results. The i9-12900HX Alder Lake part has 16 cores and 24 threads and hit a peak rate of 4,888 MHz. It’s likely that the unnamed device was a 2022 Legion 7i gaming notebook being put through its paces.

The Blade 100W is the latest power bank from Baseus. It is markedly light and thin for its category, yet is rated to charge devices such as MacBook Pros at their full rate on the go. It also drops to 65W for certain other laptops, or into a "low current mode" for smaller objects such as wireless earbuds or peripherals.

The new Spectre variant apparently has no effect on AMD's processors, yet it continues to affect Intel's processors ranging from Haswell up to Alder Lake, whereas ARM's affected products include the Cortex A15 / A57 / A72 cores plus Neoverse server-grade processors models V1, N1 and N2.

Without any formal announcement, Lenovo is introducing the new ThinkPad E14 G4 and ThinkPad E15 G4. Skipping an announcement is nothing new for the budget oriented E series, which receive rather small CPU updates this year.

Some GeForce RTX 3080 Ti laptops are faster than other laptops with the same GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. Just like with many Max-Q laptops in the past, the often overlooked TGP values shouldn't be ignored when deciding between different gaming laptops based on performance.

A mystery laptop running an AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT and an Intel Core i9-12900H has shown up in the Ashes of the Singularity database. Under the "Min 1080p" preset, the graphics card manages to output an average of 109 FPS and scores 10,800 overall, just a smidgen below the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti's score.

We all know that the Apple M1 MacBook Pro is a fantastic piece of hardware - it is fast, thin, light and efficient - but Apple's performance in the few years leading up to the M1 launch was not great. If you're using a MacBook in need of an upgrade, there are reasons to go visit Windows-land - some of them petty, others less so.

There's almost no reason to get a Pavilion x360 15 when the Envy x360 15 is now available for around the same price. Unlike on most convertible laptops, the RAM here is not soldered and can be upgraded by the end user.

MSI has confusingly given two different names for two laptop models that are essentially identical from a visual standpoint. In reality, there are notable differences between them to keep in mind especially if you plan on purchasing one.

Disney is now said to have a new, more affordable price-tier for its Plus streaming app in the works - however, there is a catch: there will be ads. The allegedly upcoming subscription option may roll out in the United States to start off with, and might cost about as much as those of its increasingly numerous counterparts from other content firms.

Updated. Lenovo has announced an upgraded ThinkPad P14s Gen 3 at MWC 2022. The company claims that the P14s Gen 3 is its lightest mobile workstation yet. Lenovo is also introducing the ThinkPad P16 i Gen 1. Both workstations are powered by Intel Alder Lake-H CPUs and the Nvidia Quadro T550 GPU.

An Intel Core i7-12650HX processor has been spotted on UserBenchmark churning out an impressive average bench of 104%. The new addition to the Alder Lake family has 14 cores and 20 threads and can rely on a Processor Base Power (PBP) of 55 W. The i7-12650H was way beyond any Tiger Lake part and even scores higher than some top-end Rocket Lake desktop chips.

The Portégé X40L-K with Intel Evo specs is Dynabook’s slimmest and lightest 14-inch business notebook to date, weighing just over 1 kg (2.31 lbs), while the 13.3-inch models weigh less than 1 kg. Processor options include the Core i5-1250P vPro, Core i7-1270P vPro, and Core i7-1280P vPro for added security.

Intel has announced the new 12th gen vPro platform with enhanced security features for the new working normal. This time, vPro is being segregated into vPro Enterprise for Windows, vPro Essentials, vPro Enterprise for Chrome, and vPro Evo Design catering to both large and small and medium businesses.

Best Buy has an exciting deal on Asus' high-end ROG Zephyrus G15 gaming laptop. It is now on sale for US$1,899, US$300 lower than its asking price of US$2,199. Although it is almost a year old, the laptop is still a powerhouse and can hold its own for quite some time.

A super-thin and sleek gaming laptop can only be as portable as the AC adapter that comes with it. With the power-hungry Intel Alder Lake-H series, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and RTX 3080 Ti now available, potential buyers will want to prepare for the accompanying bulky power bricks.

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Intel Corporation, Meta, Microsoft Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announce the formation of the UCIe industry consortium that will establish a die-to-die interconnect standard and foster an open chiplet ecosystem.

The Lenovo Flex 5 is a good all-around budget laptop. Thanks to its AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and RX Vega 7 GPU, it can handle most everyday tasks and some light gaming. It's currently on sale at Amazon for US$600, which is $250 below its MSRP of $850.

Aohi has introduced itself as a "new smart brand" that sells high-tech power bricks rated to charge different devices at advanced wattages. Its latest such product is rated for 100W with Power Delivery (PD) - however, the OEM asserts that it is "40% smaller" than the charger typically used for machines such as MacBook Pros. It is shipped with a cable that has its own little read-out to display the speed of each charge.

Costco is letting users save a couple hundred dollars on the newest 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro sporting the M1 Pro processor. As usual, the retailer is throwing in two-year warranty for free alongside a generous 90-day return window.

Qualcomm has announced that all an OEM looking to make a new 5G-capable laptop needs is a spare M.2 slot in their prototype's design. This is because the company has invented a module with the corresponding form-factor with a Snapdragon X-series modem on-board. It may thus confer high-speed standalone connectivity on the machine in which it is installed.

Qualcomm has come to the 2022 Mobile World Congress (MWC) to assert that it will be first to market with its commercially-ready FastConnect 7800 subsystem. It is rated to confer Wi-Fi 7 on a given device, delivering max speeds of nearly 6Gbps with bandwidth that might support uses from 4K video streaming to VR gaming - possibly even simultaneously.

Microsoft PowerToys is an open-source, free utility developed by Microsoft that allows users the ability to greatly alter their Windows experience and truly make the most out of their machine. Let's have a look at some of the best features that can be found in the v0.55.2 release.

Benchmarks from an Asus ROG Flow X13 featuring the AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS have leaked online. Compared to the Core i9-12900H in the ROG Flow Z13, the Ryzen 7 6800HS trails considerably. However, the 16 GB of LPDDR5-6400 RAM does help the Radeon 680M in offering a significant advantage over the GeForce MX450 bringing it closer to a GTX 1650 Max-Q.

The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i is one of three IdeaPad Flex 5 series machines that the company has released at MWC 2022. The IdeaPad Flex 5i is the most powerful of the trio though, with new Intel Alder Lake processors, a dedicated GPU option and even an OLED display. The IdeaPad Flex 5i starts at €499 but rises to €699 for the entry-level 16-inch version.

Lenovo has announced the IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook at MWC 2022, the Chrome OS version of the IdeaPad Flex 5i. The Chromebook variant still comes with Intel Alder Lake processors, but only as a 14-inch laptop. The 1.62 kg machine offers up to 10 hours of battery life and will start at €549 when it launches in June.

Lenovo has announced the IdeaPad Flex 5, a 14-inch or 16-inch Windows laptop powered by AMD Zen 3 APUs. The IdeaPad Flex 5 also has various display options, including a 2.5K panel that offers 100% sRGB colour space coverage. Lenovo will start selling the IdeaPad Flex 5 in May from €549.

Realme has launched the Book Prime globally at MWC 2022. The Realme Book Prime is largely identical to the Book (Slim) but now offers a Core i5-11320H processor and up to 16 GB RAM. Realme also announced the Buds Air 3 with support for Dolby Audio and 88 ms super-low latency for gaming.

Lenovo has refreshed the ThinkPad X1 Extreme, its flagship multimedia laptop. Now on its fifth generation, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme includes powerful Intel Alder Lake processors and a choice of four dedicated NVIDIA GPUs. Lenovo continues to equip the ThinkPad X1 Extreme with socketed RAM and storage too.

The flagship of the T series was renovated last year, and another redesign is happening this year, due to the change toe 16:10 screens. Another focus: The new Intel Alder Lake CPUs and AMD Ryzen 6000, as well as a new screen option.

The ThinkPad T series is the most well known ThinkPad series, apart from the X1 ThinkPads maybe. Lenovo describes the ThinkPad laptops of the T line as workhorses and the workhorses receive a huge upgrade at MWC 2022. This includes a new chassis design, 16:10 screens and the newest processor for ThinkPad T14 G3 and T16 G1.

Apart from a regular update to the established T series ThinkPads, Lenovo also dares to explore new territory with the ThinkPad brand at MWC. In the case of the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, this means going with Qualcomm instead of AMD and Intel, or rather Snapdragon than Core i or Ryzen. The result is the first ThinkPad laptop with an ARM CPU.

Lenovo has officially unveiled the ThinkBook 12s Gen 4 i at MWC 2022. It packs a 13.3-inch WQXGA IPS LCD panel, 32 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, 1 TB of solid-state storage, Wi-Fi 6G, and more. It will go on sale in April 2022, starting at US$849.

The Lenovo ThinkBook 14s Yoga Gen 2 i is has been officially announced at MWC 2022. It packs an Intel Alder Lake-P processor, up to 40 GB of user-replaceable RAM, a 1 TB NVMe SSD, a 14-inch FHD touch screen and a 60 Wh battery. Lenovo will start selling the laptop in April 2022, starting at US$849

Lenovo is introducing a redesigned IdeaPad Gaming series at MWC 2022. The new IdeaPad Gaming 3 and 3i laptops will be available in both Intel 12th gen and AMD Ryzen 6000H options in both 15-inch and 16-inch screen sizes. The IdeaPad Gaming 3 and 3i can be configured with up to the RTX 3060 while an Arc A370M option is also available with the IdeaPad Gaming 3i.

It's Max-Q all over again. Certain GeForce RTX 3070 Ti laptops can be up to 20 percent faster than others with the exact same GPU due to the wide TGP range between laptop models. If you're in the market for a fancy RTX 3070 Ti or RTX 3080 Ti laptop, then be sure to look at the specified TGP target whenever possible to get the most out of the GPU.

Huawei has debuted 2 of its latest Matebook-series PCs outside China during its MWC 2022 event. The E is a 2-in-1 with a 12.6-inch OLED display, whereas the X Pro 2022 has a 14-inch 90Hz 3K display. They both also have 11th-gen Intel platforms and pricing in euros.

Samsung has showcased the Galaxy Book2 Pro as MWC 2022 begins. The Galaxy Book2 Pro comes in 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch screen sizes, both with AMOLED panels and Intel Alder Lake processors. However, the larger model gains Intel Arc Graphics dedicated GPUs, plus an HDMI port. All models weigh less than 1.2 kg though, and will be available in two colours.