Raptor Lake

Honor's next Pro-grade 14-inch MagicBook is now tipped to come with a substantially upgraded display in a particularly thin and light chassis. The "X14 Pro 2025" might boast deceptively powerful battery life to go with its Intel Raptor Lake Refresh platform. It might also boast in-house Your Phone-like features for Android devices.

Asus' latest Expert P Series PCs are intended to appeal to budget-conscious IT departments as they top out at Intel Core i7-13620H processors in terms of performance and emphasis on durability. Nevertheless, the ExpertCenter P500 Mini Tower is rated to maximize focus with "exclusive" thermal- and noise-management features, while the ExpertBook P3 is designed to feel like an enterprise-grade splurge with a thin and light metallic unibody.

CheckMag Budget laptops are dying, because budget laptop chips - real budget chips, not just last generation's leftovers - are already dead.

Intel has listed five new Core 200H CPUs on its support website. The lack of 'Ultra' branding indicates it is a Raptor Lake refresh, meaning it doesn't come with an NPU and an Arc iGPU.

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.

Maingear has announced that it has used on-trend Fractal Design cases to make its latest series of custom workstations. They include the Pro WS, based on the popular North XL with its wooden finish. The new line has AMD Ryzen 9000- or Intel Raptor Lake-K to Arrow Lake variants and NVIDIA RTX graphics that run from the 4060 to multiple A6000 Ada cards.

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.

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.

Razer touts the 2024 version of its Blade 16 gaming laptop as the best ever thanks to its 240Hz OLED display. The brand has declared Holiday Season 2024 open with a sale on the new Raptor Lake-based PC. It also comes with gifts valued at a total of $294.90 during the event.

When the price hits €2,000, expectations are high. The Lenovo ThinkBook 16p Gen 5 IRX delivers on some of our expectations - but apart from the great performance, there are too many compromises.

Intel's upcoming Core 200 series mobile processors have leaked, revealing seven new Raptor Lake refresh chips. From the powerhouse Core 270H, which hits 5.8 GHz, to efficient U-series models running at 15W, these processors will complement Intel's Core Ultra lineup when they launch next year.

Intel's latest NPU driver update supports Arrow Lake CPUs and OpenVINO 2024.4 and addresses performance issues in AI applications. The update highlights the growing importance of NPUs in modern computing, with Intel recommending users disable them in the BIOS for potential security reasons.

A new leaked Geekbench benchmark result has seemingly exposed the upcoming Core 7 250H laptop CPU as a 14th-Gen CPU in disguise. This may be disappointing to some, but it may mean top-tier performance in a cheaper package.

The 2024 Acer Aspire 16 pairs a current-gen Raptor Lake-U Refresh processor with an ageing RTX 2050. Despite this, it still offers significantly better 3D performance than all competing multimedia laptops with the latest integrated graphics.

Three new Intel CPUs have been spotted online. The Core 5 220H, Core 7 250H and Core 7 250U are essentially Raptor Lake parts that aim to differentiate themselves from Lunar/Arrow Lake SKUs by ditching the "Ultra" tag.

The Acer Predator Helios 18 with a massive 18-inch QHD+ display featuring a 250 Hz refresh rate, a flagship RTX 4090 mobile GPU, and a Core i9-14900HX CPU has hit its historic low price once again. As evident by the hardware, the Predator Helios 18 will have no trouble running the latest games at elevated settings.

The MEGAMINI G1 is accounted the smallest PC with liquid cooling in the world by its OEM Tecno. As such, it has gained a Global Product Technology Innovation Award at the ongoing IFA event. Meanwhile, the potentially ground-breaking desktop's crowdfunding campaign has accrued well over $500,000 worth of backing.

Powering Schenker's top-of-the-line KEY 17 PRO mobile workstation is Intel's i9-14900HX processor, coupled with up to 96 GB DDR5-5600 RAM, a choice between the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 dGPUs and SSD storage on 1x PCIe 5.0 slot plus 2x PCIe 4.0 slots. The two Thunderbolt 5 connectors each offer 80 Gbps bandwidth plus a Bandwidth Boost mode with 120 Gbps speeds, and this version adds support for Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.

XPG also includes 16 GB DDR5-5600 RAM and a 1 TB LEGEND 850 PCIe 4.0 SSD both from ADATA. Port selection does not come with high-speed ports and the chassis is somewhat bulkier, which, in turn, allows for better cooling capacity with less noise.

The miniLED touchscreen is this model's most impressive spec, as it features a 3200 x 2000 panel with 1200 nit brightness, 165 Hz refresh and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut. Also worth mentioning are the 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, Thunderbolt 4 port, 5 MP webcam and full-size SD card reader.

The MSI Katana 17 B13VFK-835US is powered by the Intel Core i7-13620H and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB GPU, making it an excellent mid-range gaming powerhouse, and thanks to a limited-time sale, it's at its lowest-ever price on Amazon.

The company Nubia, which is known for its gaming smartphones, is now entering into the field of gaming laptops by releasing the RedMagic Titan 16 Pro: Core i9, a GeForce RTX 4060 and a 16-inch display (QHD+, DCI-P3, 240 Hz, G-Sync) all promise solid mid-range performance.

The Lenovo Slim 7 Gen 8 price has dropped to less than $700 at B&H Photo. The machine packs an Intel Core i7-1360P CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB of storage. Additionally, there is a 14-inch 2.8K display with touch support and 100% sRGB coverage.

CheckMag Instead of admitting the issue early on and being open about it, Intel chose to keep mum. Perhaps rather unsurprisingly, disaster followed.

Intel's microcode update 0x129 dropped in an attempt to correct the unmitigated disaster that has become of Intel's 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs. While Intel initially claimed that the microcode update wouldn't affect performance at all, some multithreaded benchmark scores show as much as a 22% performance loss. Fortunately, gaming is unaffected by the update.

This is the company's first convertible model. The Intel i5-1335U processor can be complemented with up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 RAM and up to 8 TB SSD storage. While the FHD+ touchscreen is not that impressive, the port selection is varied and includes a Thunderbolt 4 connector and microSD card reader or optional 4G SIM.

At an event held in China, Intel has reportedly issued some updates regarding the impact of the upcoming BIOS microcode patch for Raptor Lake CPUs, Arrow Lake efficiency, and the release date for Battlemage GPUs. Among other things, Intel has claimed that the microcode patch will have no effect on the turbo clock speeds of 13th and 14th-gen processors.

RedMagic has announced that its inaugural gaming laptop is about to go global. The Titan 16 Pro packs Intel Raptor Lake silicon and has NVIDIA RTX graphics in an aluminum unibody. Then again, it already seems there will be discrepancies between this upcoming international version and the one sold in China.

MINISFORUM has shared more details about the AtomMan G7 Ti, which combines an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU. In the process, it has also revealed the AtomMan G7 Ti SE for the first time, which will be available soon alongside the AtomMan G7 Ti with at least one launch discount.