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The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H's CPU and iGPU performance has leaked and it appears that the CPU will bring a noticeable efficiency advantage over the Raptor Lake chips. Additionally, the chip also features a much more powerful Xe-LPG iGPU than previously rumored, as it reportedly beats the AMD Radeon 780M.

With its longer battery life, LTE modem, and low noise and heat output, the Lenovo business notebook is an excellent choice. There is plenty of processing power available with a Ryzen 7 APU. The dual RAM slot configuration is a noteworthy plus. The starting price is around $700.

Sold for as high as $2,198.99 in early August, the Asus ROG Strix G16 (2023) with Intel Core i9-13980HX processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 graphics is now available for $1,699.99. This price is $50 higher than the all-time low, but quite attractive given the $1,826.44 average Amazon price (according to Camelcamelcamel).

The CAMM2 standard has finally been finalized by JEDEC, offering laptop manufacturers a much more compact alternative to SO-DIMMs, which makes it more attractive not to solder RAM directly to the mainboard, but to allow users to upgrade it later.

The LG Gram Style 14 price has dropped back to the lowest level on Amazon. The laptop features a portable chassis with a beautiful design, a great display, solid input devices, and good performance. Additionally, the Gram Style 14 has all-day battery life making the machine an excellent travel companion.

CheckMag Asus stands out in the laptop industry for its innovation and diverse offerings, from high-performance gaming to creative workstations and ultra-portable devices. Below are 5 recommendations, including the standout overall laptop, top picks for gaming, and options with exceptional displays, helping you find the ideal Asus laptop to match your specific needs.

The Szbox DS135D is a new notebook with two touchscreens and comes in different memory variants.

Earlier this week, Ubisoft unveiled a rich set of command line parameter options available for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The hidden quality level Unobtainium barely works with today's high-end GPUs and was designed to deliver a video quality level in line with the capabilities expected from future video cards.

BestBuy is clearing out stock of the original Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio now that the SLS2 has arrived. The notebook can switch between laptop and tablet modes by pulling the screen forward over the keyboard. Prices are discounted up to $594 off MSRP.

Unlike other budget models that sacrifice build and screen quality, the Nitro 16 offers a good display plus features that are rarely seen at such low prices, such as a USB4 connector and a microSD card reader. The RTX 4070 is also maxed out at 140 W.

ASUS has all but confirmed that a new Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop is near. Arriving at CES 2024, the next ASUS Zephyrus G14 appears to have a revised display with an updated overall design.

The 16-inch gaming laptop from Dell's subsidiary Alienware is currently on sale for its lowest price yet as the powerful RTX 4080 configuration of the QHD-capable m16 R1 falls below the $1,800 mark for the very first time and becomes an attractive deal for affluent gamers.

It appears that Acer is preparing to refresh the Swift Go 14 series. Soon to be available with the model number SFG14-72, the Acer Swift Go 14 will feature modern Intel Meteor Lake processors, Intel Arc graphics and a larger battery than its predecessor, among other changes.

This small mini-ITX motherboard comes with support for 96 GB DDR5-5220 RAM, 2x M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD slots and even a PCIe 5.0 X16 slot for full-size GPUs. It also packs a compact cooling system for the i9-13900HX processor and the NVMe devices.

Acer has officially announced the Nitro V 16, the first Ryzen 8040 series gaming laptop. To be specific, it can be configured with up to Ryzen 7 8845HS and Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU, bringing plenty of oomph for heavy applications. It will be available from March 2024 with a starting price of $999.

Acer claims to be introducing a particularly sustainable notebook to the market in the form of the Acer Aspire Vero 16 (AV16-51P), which not only makes use of recycled materials, but also particularly energy-efficient Intel Core Ultra processors.

AMD has unveiled nine new APUs as a part of its Ryzen 8000 series of laptop chips. They're classified into HS and U categories, each with varying TDP ranges. Laptops powered by the said processors will launch in Q1 2024.

On top of the Meteor Lake performance problems signaled by laptop OEMs a few weeks ago, Moore's Law Is Dead now cites Intel insiders that claim only up to 1.9x iGPU performance increase over the original Xe model launched 3 years ago. These figures might not be enough to beat the AMD Radeon 780M integrated in the upcoming Hawk Point APUs.

While the CPU and dGPU offer excellent value for this price, do not expect too much from the build quality and the display, as this is still a budget-oriented system after all. Also worth mentioning are the DDR5-5200 speeds on the 16 GB RAM and the 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.

With Copilot's first anniversary, Microsoft unveils exciting plans for the future of the AI assistant. Soon, Copilot will answer with the help of GPT-4 Turbo and an updated Dall-E 3 model, Edge users will get a rewrite menu, and the new Code Interpreter will run data analysis and visualization tasks, perform calculations, write code, and more.

Huawei has shown off yet another Kirin SoC with the Huawei Qingyun L540. This time, it is called the Kirin 9006C, which seems to be little more than a rebadged Kirin 9000E.

The 14-inch configuration of the RTX 4060-powered Legion Slim 5 has been marked down by 22 percent, which turns Lenovo's well-equipped gaming laptop into a very compelling option for mobile gamers who are in the market for a mid-range machine that weighs less than 4 lbs and sports one of the latest Zen 4 processors from AMD.

The ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition with an all-AMD CPU and GPU combo is currently going for a whopping 34% discount. The price cut brings the Ryzen 7 7735HS and RX 7600S-powered laptop to less than US$750. At the final rate, the ASUS TUF A16 is a pretty great value thanks to its strong build, good performance, and great endurance.

When it comes to low-cost laptops, customers naturally want to know what compromises and savings the manufacturer has made in order to reach the low price. During our test, we performed the same thing. We'll summarize the results for you.

The Acer Swift Edge 16 can now be purchased at Best Buy for less than US$1,000. It features a 16-inch 16:10 OLED screen clocked at 120 Hz, an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U, 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD.

Lenovo has officially announced the Xiaoxin Pro AI Ultrabook 2024 in China. It will be among the first batch of laptops to come with the new Intel Meteor Lake CPUs. The launch date is unknown, but Intel said that the new Core Ultra processors will be released in China on December 15th.

Two Amazon listings shed light on the upcoming Acer Predator Helios 18 and Acer Predator Helios 16. The former is listed for £3,200 (US$4,057) and the latter £2,800 (US$3,550). Both laptops could be unveiled at CES 2024 next year.

Intel's top-spec Meteor Lake processor has once again failed to perform as expected on Geekbench. It fails to keep up with its Core Ultra 7 equivalent and performs worse than its predecessor.

The base Galaxy Book4 Ultra model will feature an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU, 32 GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD and a GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card. It will likely go on sale before its Core Ultra 9 sibling.

A listing of the Asus Zephyrus M16 GU605MY powered by the Intel Meteor Lake Core Ultra 9 185H has leaked online. While some of the specs such as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU and 16-inch WQXGA are similar to the currently available M16, the new upgrade seems limited to 16 GB LPDDR5X RAM as a result of Meteor Lake's on-package memory unlike the expandable memory in the current iteration.

German retailers have started listing the upcoming Acer laptops powered by the latest Intel Meteor Lake CPUs. Specifically, they come with the “Core Ultra” processors, the first laptop CPUs built on the Intel 4 architecture. As for the pricing, the variant with Core Ultra 5 125H is listed at EUR999 (US$1088), while the laptop with Core Ultra 7 155H has a listing price of EUR1249 (US$1360).

This attractive AMD configuration of the ThinkPad P16s Gen 2 not only features a powerful Zen 4 processor, the 16-inch laptop also sports a vibrant OLED display with 4K resolution, HDR support and a respectable peak brightness of 500 nits. Thanks to two combinable coupon codes, Lenovo's mobile workstation has become quite affordable.

The Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 14 features a 2.8K AMOLED screen with a 120 Hz refresh rate, as well as an Intel Core i7-1360P processor paired with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. It can now be picked up at Amazon for under US$1,000 thanks to a recent price reduction.

The appealing AMD configuration of the latest 2023 ThinkPad X13 has been put on sale for one of its lowest prices thus far as Lenovo currently grants a substantial US$800 discount on the compact 13-inch business laptop.

Xiaomi has refreshed the Redmi Book 14, a 14-inch laptop that mysteriously resembles an Apple MacBook Pro 14 in official shots. Arriving six months after its predecessor, the Redmi Book 14 2024 combines a 2.8K and 120 Hz display with a 56 Wh battery and a modern Intel processor, among other features.

Amazon and BestBuy have discounted the Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 and Surface Pro 9 tablet by US$500 this Christmas season. All models come with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and a 10-core i7-1255U Intel CPU.

Best Buy is running a sale on M2 MacBook Airs and the M3 MacBook Pro 14, cutting the price on these notebooks by up to 18%. This drops the M2 MacBook Airs top an all-time low price of under US$900.

It appears that Dell is planning to upgrade at least three Alienware gaming laptops early next year. According to a new report, second-generation refreshes of the Alienware m16, Alienware m18 and Alienware x18 are due, but not all with Intel Meteor Lake processors.

According to a new report, Dell will overhaul its XPS laptop series at CES 2024 in January. While the company plans to renew the XPS 13 and XPS 13 Plus, it will discard the XPS 15 and XPS 17. Instead, new XPS 14 and XPS 16 models are in the works, all with Intel Meteor Lake processors.

The attractive mid-range SKU of the 2023 Legion Slim 7 Gen 8 features AMD's powerful Zen 4-based processor as well as a beautiful QHD display with 240Hz, up to 400 nits as well as 100% sRGB coverage. Thanks to a steep discount, the 16-inch Lenovo gaming laptop is now more affordable than ever.

Xiaomi has presented the Redmi Book 16 2024, a 16-inch laptop that debuts a day after the Huawei MateBook D 16 2024. Available with just an Intel Core i5-13500H processor, the Redmi Book 16 2024 also has a 120 Hz display and a 72 Wh battery that supports 100 W fast charging.

Other specs include 16 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, 512 GB PCIe 4.0 SSD storage, 15.6-inch 1080p 144 Hz IPS display and a full-size SD card reader. Walmart also throws in a free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

Two stackable coupon codes push a well-equipped OLED configuration of the current ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 to its lowest sale price yet. Since this version of Lenovo's 14-inch workstation laptop is also powered by a dedicated Nvidia RTX graphics card, it turns into a solid option for multimedia users.