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The Lunar Lake-powered Acer Swift 16 AI laptop features an excellent 3K OLED display, impressive battery life, and decent enough performance for the majority of use cases. Thanks to an ongoing offer at Best Buy, the laptop can now be bought for its lowest-ever price.

In addition to the well-performing Ryzen 7 Pro 6850H, the Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 Gen 1 features a pretty good Full-HD touchscreen with full sRGB colors and up to 400 nits. Thanks to the enormous price cut, the 16-inch laptop is still worth considering for multimedia users.

The Snapdragon X Elite-powered version of Honor's MagicBook Art 14 laptop has become available in Germany, with freebies that include a whole Android tablet for a limited time. The 3.1K 120Hz OLED PC is touted as an ultra-thin and light source of "smooth" on-board AI, and comes with a detachable magnetic webcam for convenient, secure conferencing.

2024 saw the introduction of quite a few new Surface products. The second half of the year in particular was packed with new CoPilot+ PCs and convertibles with the Snapdragon X Elite chip. In addition to a Surface Laptop with Intel Lunar Lake that has already appeared in leaks, Microsoft has a lot of new things planned for 2025, according to a well-known leaker.

In addition to day-one support for several titles launching this month, including Delta Force, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Path of Exile 2, Nvidia's driver package with version number 566.36 also packs one-click optimal settings for three games, several fixes, and more.

Lenovo has launched the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition has in China. It's the first to feature a PCIe 5.0 slot, but it's worth noting that the laptop is already available in the global market.

Devices such as next-gen iPhones, Macs and iPad Pros are believed to be powered by processors supplied by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) as it has mastered the production of the bleeding-edge 2 nanometer production process. Now, the firm is said to be even closer to its target of producing this kind of silicon on schedule than expected.

Community-developed ultralight Linux distro Alpine is back with version 3.21.0. The first release in the 3.21 stable series comes with loongarch64 CPU support, as well as multiple updated packages, including GNOME 47, GCC 14, PHP 8.4, and more. It also sports version 6.12 of the Linux kernel.

A new roadmap from Omdia highlights when different Apple products will get the highly anticipated OLED upgrade. The iPad Mini and MacBook Pros will get it first, followed by the iPad and lastly, the MacBook Air. Apple even has a giant 18-inch foldable in the works.

HP asserts that its latest education-friendly PCs have the stamina students need to get through the school day in terms of both performance and battery life while remaining as light and thin as possible. The series consists of new Chromebooks powered by either MediaTek or Intel platforms, some of which also have Windows and/or Flip variants.

Strix Point is finally arriving in more devices and flavors. For example, the new Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 with the AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360. This slender business laptop is ideally suited for the 8 core version of Zen 5.

The 14-inch Acer Predator Helios Neo is a sleek yet well-equipped 3K gaming laptop with an RTX 4070, 16GB RAM and an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H. Thanks to a 30% discount, the portable gaming machine is now just $1,229.

While remaining an experimental distribution, EasyOS 6.5 is also considered a rather mature piece of code. Its highlights include several fixes, the 6.6.61 Linux kernel, as well as Chromium 130.0.6723.91 compiled in OpenEmbedded. This milestone refresh targets both releases, namely Scarthgap and Daedalus.

The 2024 Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 9 gaming laptop is back on sale at an enticing discount of $500. The laptop features an upper-midrange configuration of a flagship Core i9-14900HX CPU, an RTX 4070 laptop GPU, 32 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of storage alongside a 16-inch QHD+ display.

The Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 9 gaming laptop that launched in early 2024 is now on sale at Walmart at a substantial discount of more than $400. The notebook features a 16-inch IPS panel powered by an RTX 4060 laptop GPU alongside a Core i7-13650HX CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of storage.

One of the next laptops with a foldable display might be one with no need for an external physical keyboard, according to a new leak. It might have an up-to-date build with a processor designed in-house by its OEM. The device may or may not come as a follow-up to the world's first tri-folding smartphone.

Honor has updated its mid-range laptop series with a new pair of 14-inch and 16-inch models. In the process, it has revealed a new Intel Core 200H processor based on the chip manufacturer's Raptor Lake Refresh architecture.

Codenamed "db" and using the version number 3.8.0, the latest Nitrux release comes with updated apps such as Firefox 133.0, MESA 24.2.8, some fixes to the system installer, as well as OpenRC reorganization that improves the service script. The Calamares configuration tool and the offline documentation have been updated as well.

FreeBSD's third release of the stable/14 branch, labeled 14.2 and dedicated to the memory of Mike Karels, arrives with OpenZFS 2.2.6, OpenSSL 3.0.15, and support in the installer for downloading and installing the needed firmware packages after deploying the base system. OCI container images are now also available.

The HP Victus 16 rocks an RTX 4070 Laptop GPU and a Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU for an affordable price - now lower than ever thanks to Best Buy's ongoing Cyber Sale. The laptop performs admirably well, making it a solid mid-range gaming machine.

The ASUS TUF A16 is a respectable mid-range gaming laptop boasting a Ryzen 9 7945HX CPU and an RTX 4070 Laptop GPU. Thanks to Amazon's ongoing Cyber Monday sale, the TUF A16 can now be purchased with a hefty $500 discount.

Lenovo's excellent Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition has attained a new historic-low price after a massive 32% discount. As a result, the laptop can now be had for less than $950 straight from Lenovo. The new Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition price presents a good opportunity to buy one of the best Intel Lunar Lake laptops currently on the market.

The Asus TUF A15 is a very decent mid-range gaming laptop that is currently on sale on Amazon US for its lowest price of the year so far. Powered by the RTX 4070 Laptop GPU and Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU, the A15 promises excellent gaming performance at an affordable price.

The Dell XPS 13 9350 laptop with a 13-inch FHD+ display, an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake APU, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage is now on sale at up to a 35% discount over the list price. The laptop is not only portable, but also carries a capable iGPU and superb battery life.

B&H is currently offering a $600 discount on the ROG Strix G17 equipped with a whopping 16-core Ryzen 9 7940HX, an RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, in addition to a 240 Hz 1,440p display, making it an attractive deal for users looking to game on the go.

The Alienware m16 R2 that launched earlier this year is now enjoying a considerable discount on Dell's official online store. The laptop carries a 16-inch QHD+ display with a quick 240 Hz refresh rate, a Core Ultra 7 155H CPU, and an RTX 4070 laptop GPU.

Powered by an Ubuntu core and sporting a macOS-inspired design, elementary OS has just moved up to version 8. After 13 years of history, this Linux distro has received a new dock optimized for better multitasking and window management, as well as a new Wayland-powered Secure Session feature.

The latest high-end workstation laptop from Schenker impresses with extensive connectivity that includes two Thunderbolt 5 connectors and Wi-Fi 7, while the i9-14900HX and RTX 4090 offer top performance. On the other hand, the cooling system and battery runtime are lacking.

The recently announced GPD Pocket 4 is now available on Indiegogo. All three configurations are enjoying pre-sale discounts, with the top-end variant featuring the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 priced at $1,335.

Honor's next laptop will be Intel-powered, according to a new leak. It is thought to herald a new, significantly upgraded wave of 2025 PCs from the company, and is also backed to launch with a particularly prolonged battery life. The supposed next-gen MagicBook is thought to debut alongside the OEM's next Android smartphones.

60% market share by 2027. This was Qualcomm's ambitious goal for the Snapdragon X series on the laptop market. However, in the third quarter of 2024, in which numerous laptops with Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus were available, Qualcomm only achieved moderate sales figures.

The Lenovo LOQ 15 (2024) gaming laptop with an RTX 4070 laptop GPU, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB of storage, and a 15.6-inch FHD+ display is now on sale at an excellent price of less than $900. This low price makes the Lenovo LOQ 15 an easy recommendation for folks who want superlative FHD gaming performance without spending north of $1,000.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T16 Gen 3 has a user-replaceable keyboard - just two screws loosened, and the keyboard comes right out. Why is this feature so rare nowadays, even among laptops for work?

The MacBook Pro recently received an upgrade to the Apple M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max. In addition to the new chips, Apple is also advertising a brighter display with optional nano-textured glass, Thunderbolt 5 and an improved webcam. A teardown video now reveals what has changed inside the professional notebook.

Applied Materials has introduced its MAX OLED technology, a groundbreaking maskless manufacturing solution that promises to revolutionize OLED display production. This innovation enhances brightness, resolution, and energy efficiency, while significantly reducing production costs and complexity. Major industry players, including Samsung Display, Visionox, and Japan Display, are set to adopt the technology, potentially transforming the OLED market for devices ranging from smartphones to large TVs.

An almost maxed-out AMD configuration of the ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 is back on sale at Lenovo, which is selling certified-refurbished units of the 14-inch business laptop for just $905 including a one-year warranty.

Apple's MacBook Pro lineup will likely boast OLED screens by 2026, and the same has been hinted at by multiple analysts in the past. A recent report adds weight to these claims, while reiterating the speculated timeline.

The Asus TUF Gaming A16 is discounted by $400 in Best Buy's Black Friday sale, making it a screaming deal for a budget gaming laptop, at just $699.99. The TUF A16 features a 165 Hz display, AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS, and an AMD Radeon RX 7700S GPU, which trades blows with the Nvidia RTX 4060 in most games.

The GPD Pocket 4 now has an official release date. Arriving before December rolls around, the compact laptop combines modern AMD Ryzen APUs with an 8.8-inch and 144 Hz convertible display, plus a whole heap of ports.