Laptop

First 15-inch Yoga laptop in years. The Snapdragon Elite series just got a lot less attractive now that Lunar Lake can offer comparable battery life. For optimal gaming performance, however, a Zen 5 alternative is still recommended.
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V | Intel Arc Graphics 140V | 15.30" | 1.5 kg

Good performance. The second edition of the no-frills ThinkPad E16 now offers decent graphics performance. Apart from that, everything looks like a ThinkPad from the premium and, as you would expect, more expensive series - with a few crucial cuts.
AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS | AMD Radeon 660M | 16.00" | 1.9 kg

A mixed remake. It's not uncommon for PC gamers to have to wait a long time for ports of console games. Until Dawn, however, has almost set a new record at just under 10 years. Read our tech check to find out whether the graphics are still up to date.

Needs more time on the whetstone. The MSI Sword 16 HX has all the bells and whistles of a modern-day gaming laptop, complete with an Intel Core i7-14700HX, a 115 Watts Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, 16 GB DDR5 RAM, 1 TB SSD, and a 16-inch 144 Hz WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) screen. In this review, we determine how the Sword 16 HX fares against peers with similar hardware and look at some of its strengths and compromises.
Intel Core i7-14700HX | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU | 16.00" | 2.3 kg

Not for the faint-hearted. Almost a year after the PS5 release, Square Enix has launched the highly acclaimed Final Fantasy XVI for PC. We examined the graphics card requirements for various resolutions and configurations.

Peak mobile Zen 5. For just over a grand, the OmniBook Ultra 14 offers massive performance gains when compared to other subnotebooks in its price range. Some cut corners have been made to the display, but they're nothing that most users can't live with.
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 | AMD Radeon 890M | 14.00" | 1.5 kg

"Multimediocre" display. Priced at €899, the 2024 Aspire 16 A16-51GM-77G2 pairs the low-power, current-gen Core 7 150U with the ageing RTX 2050. The laptop is meant to be a budget all-round multimedia laptop. In this review, we’ll discuss whether Acer manages to accomplish this goal.
Intel Core 7 150U | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile | 16.00" | 1.9 kg

Goodbye hyperthreading. After the release of the Snapdragon X Elite chips as well as the AMD Zen 5 CPUs, Intel has finally launched its new Lunar Lake mobile processors. These are completely new chips with a focus on efficiency—plus, Intel has done without hyperthreading for the first time. But how efficient are the new models really and has too much performance perhaps been sacrificed? Update: Benchmarks results for Core Ultra 7 256V, Core Ultra 9 288V

The Intel Lunar Lake processors are equipped with new integrated graphics adapters featuring second-generation Xe cores. We evaluated the performance and efficiency of the new Arc Graphics 140V, which is equipped with 8 Xe cores. Update: Additional benchmarks for Adobe, gaming at 28W and for the fastest 140V as well as the 16 GB version

The fastest iGPU. Asus has presented its first laptop featuring Intel's new Lunar Lake processors, namely the Zenbook S 14. It comes with a 14-inch OLED screen, 32 GB RAM, a ceraluminum coating and the fastest iGPU currently on the market. Update: More benchmarks including Adobe, gaming & XeSS
Intel Core Ultra 7 258V | Intel Arc Graphics 140V | 14.00" | 1.2 kg

Hawk Point for professionals. The ZBook Power 15 series has grown up to a more modern 16-inch form factor. The larger and heavier size, however, has unfortunately not translated to faster graphics performance.
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS | NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU | 16.00" | 2.2 kg