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Framework CEO Nirav Patel warns that the AI boom and a “winner-takes-all” scramble for chips and storage could drive up component costs and push consumers toward cloud-leased, closed devices, effectively ending personal computing as traditionally understood. While acknowledging progress in repairability across the industry, he positions Framework’s upcoming Next Gen Event as part of a renewed pledge to defend user ownership through upgradable, repairable hardware and local control over data and computation.

CheckMag 2025 may go down as a year of rather poor decisions for PC manufacturer Dell. In 2026, Dell course corrects, with new models and new designs - not just with Dell XPS, but also with their Dell Pro laptops for the enterprise.

Diablo Immortal is getting a DOOM: The Dark Ages crossover on April 16 with a Cyberdemon boss, Slayer’s Bane event, The Crucible gem, and free rewards.

The 2026 Xiaomi Book Pro 14 was recently launched in China as a premium Intel Panther Lake laptop maxing out at the Core Ultra X7 358H. Now, the company has announced the Redmi Book Pro 2026 series, expected to offer similar specs but at a more affordable price.

Apple is killing it in the laptop market, as the MacBook Air 13 M5, MacBook Neo, and MacBook Air 15 M5 currently dominate Amazon's best-selling list. The MacBook Neo's success is not surprising, as it is an excellent $599 laptop and is practically unmatched in the Windows space.

CheckMag When HP invited us to their event in New York, we naturally took a look at complete their 2026 business lineup. The expensive HP EliteBook X is the standout, but every model in this lineup is interesting.

A recent product listing on Goofish has revealed an engineering sample of a laptop motherboard housing the upcoming Nvidia N1 SoC. Laptops powered by Nvidia's N1 family of SoCs have been rumored for a long time, and are expected to arrive later this year.

Lenovo has started selling a new 13.3-inch laptop powered by one of Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 series processors. Available with up to 32 GB of RAM, the IdeaPad Slim 5x 13Q8Y11 also features a 120 Hz display and weighs in at under 1.2 kg.

Asus has released its latest 14-inch laptop globally. Weighing in at less than 1 kg, the Zenbook A14 still features a 70 Wh battery, dual fans, an OLED display and one of Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Elite chipsets.

Although the recently discovered vulnerabilities in Firefox 140.9.1 have apparently not been exploited yet, Tails 7.6.1 comes to ensure that won't happen in the future either. This emergency release includes Tor Browser 15.0.9 and Tor client 0.4.9.6, as well as some refreshed firmware packages for improved hardware support.

Asus is now selling one of its latest 16-inch laptops globally. Equipped with 48 GB of RAM and a 70 Wh battery, the Zenbook A16 also features a 1,100-nit and 120 Hz display plus one of Qualcomm's most powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite chipsets.

Opera has pushed version 130 to the stable desktop channel with a Chromium 146.0.7680.178 base, multiple crash fixes, interface cleanups, and Threads and Twitch sidebar access for Early Bird users.

Chrome Beta 148.0.7778.4 is now available on Android through Google Play, adding Web Serial API support, SharedWorker on Android, and a broader set of Chrome 148 web-platform changes.

Courtesy of an ongoing sale on Lenovo's official online store, the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 16 laptop is now available with a major $400 discount. The laptop packs 16 GB of RAM, as well as a modern 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 "Gorgon Point" APU.

Honor has announced it will be launching 2026 models of its MagicBook X14 Plus and MagicBook X16 Plus laptops. The two laptops will launch alongside new models under Honor's WIN and MagicBook Pro series on the same day.

MetaMech is a relatively unknown laptop manufacturer outside of China. While we await the Legion 7a 15ASH11 with AMD Strix Halo, MetaMech has released the MetaMech 16 2026 with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, up to 96 GB VRAM, a 99 Wh battery and even OCuLink connectivity.

The most affordable enterprise ThinkPads are the L series laptops. The new Lenovo ThinkPad L14 Gen 7 and L16 Gen 3 are coming to the market with AMD Ryzen AI 400 and Intel Panther Lake.

Lenovo Japan has announced the update of the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 line. The new Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 7 laptop is a refresh of last year's X13 Gen 6, adopting Intel Panther Lake and AMD Ryzen 400.

CheckMag Samsung is defying its record $38 billion Q1 2026 profit by hiking prices across its US lineup. The Galaxy Book5 series sees a flat $300 jump, while Galaxy Tab prices have increased by up to $100. With a $599 MacBook Neo and new Asus Zenbooks here, Samsung’s aggressive price hikes on older hardware may drive loyalists toward the competition.

Asus released five new laptops in the US on April 7. Now, the company has revealed higher pricing for all models, including the Zenbook 14. As a result, the larger Zenbook S16 is cheaper than its 14-inch counterpart. The Zenbook A14 and Zenbook A16 have received significant price increases, too.

Asus has now brought its lightweight 16-inch laptop to the US. Equipped with AMD Gorgon Point APUs and 32 GB of RAM, the new Zenbook S16 also features a larger battery than its predecessor.

Asus is now selling a new Intel Panther Lake-based laptop in the US. Equipped with a 120 Hz OLED display, the new Zenbook S14 retains the compact and lightweight 14-inch form factor of its predecessor with a larger battery capacity too.

RPCS3 developers release a simplified set of 2026 system requirements, broken into "Minimum", "Recommended", "Optimal", and "Max Performance" tiers. All told, these requirements look pretty reasonable, as they should following years of optimization efforts.

Asus has now released a new set of 14-inch laptops. Based around AMD Gorgon Point APUs, the Zenbook 14 also features a 75 Wh battery, a 1200p OLED display and up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X RAM.

Intel or AMD: The age old question of the PC market. In case of the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 6, both are available. Which one is best for you depends on your priorities.

The Zenbook A14 model features 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD and a 2K OLED screen, while the A16 model comes with the more powerful Extreme-series processor, 48 GB LPDDR5X-9600 RAM, 1 TB SSD and a 3K OLED display. HP's OmniBook Ultra 14 is also available now, but at a considerably higher price of $2,049.99

The Razer Blade 16 2026 starts at $3,500. However, even at this price, the Razer Blade 16 2026 seemingly features a disappointing webcam that fails in comparison against the MacBook Pro 16.

According to leaks, one version of the WIN laptop is expected to feature an Intel Core i7-14650HX processor paired with an RTX 5060 GPU, along with 16GB DDR5 RAM and up to 1TB SSD storage. Another higher-end variant could include an Ultra 9 290HX processor combined with an RTX 5070 GPU.

Not every Counter-Strike update is good, and not every video essay is worthy of an essay—but Counter-Strike 2's new animgraph overhaul ported and overhauled from Half-Life: Alyx may be worth revisiting the game.

Amazon has discounted the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air variants a month after Apple officially showed them off. They come with Apple’s newest M5 chip and Wi-Fi 7—something that has been notably absent from Apple laptops until last year.

The MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti laptop GPU, 16 GB of RAM, and a 20-core Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU is on sale on Woot with 90-day Woot Warranty. Based on the specifications, the MSI Vector 16 HX AI is designed for QHD and high-refresh-rate FHD gaming.

The SpectraSlideOut is an additional display that attaches to a notebook in a somewhat unusual way. That means the extra display can essentially remain attached to the notebook at all times and be carried along with it.

Microsoft says unmanaged Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro PCs will receive 25H2 automatically through Windows Update, though its release health page still shows a conflicting status date.

External, expandable batteries have not been a thing on laptops for a while now. Maybe this feature could come back though: As our recent interview with a ThinkPad product manager about the new ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 revealed, Lenovo is thinking about this feature again.

Gigabyte takes the A16, drops in a refresh CPU and swaps the RTX 5070 for an RTX 5070 Ti—then calls the result the A16 Pro. Is that justified? How much “Pro” is really in this relatively affordable gaming laptop?

It is almost time: Lenovo's next generation ThinkPads are being prepared for the market. The new Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 AMD should hit the store shelves in May. But for many customers, waiting is a bad idea: The older ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 AMD is still really good, and it will be much less expensive.

Xiaomi has just released the Book Pro 14, the company's first Panther Lake laptop, and per Digital Chat Station, a reliable leaker, it's already working on two RedmiBook laptops. These will also be powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors.

Arch-based and systemd-free distro Artix Linux is back with update 20260402, a refresh that comes with two major changes. First, it replaces Xorg Server with XLibre as the default display server. Second, it moves from PulseAudio to PipeWire when it comes to the default audio system.