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Lenovo expands its ThinkPad portfolio with a new series: The Lenovo ThinkPad X9 leaves the typical ThinkPad design behind to attack the Apple MacBook Air. For this, Lenovo trusts on the efficiency of Intel Lunar Lake, a big haptic trackpad and OLED screen.

After months of leaks, Lenovo has finally unveiled its ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 with a rollable OLED display. The new form factor crams 16.7 inches of screen real-estate into a 14-inch laptop chassis and features Intel's new Core Ultra 7 200 series CPUs. The only catch is the price.

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

When Lenovo did not announce a ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 4 this year, people wondered what would happen with the most compact and lightweight ThinkPad laptop. With the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 on the market now, it is clear that the slightly larger X1 Carbon takes over the position of the X1 Nano, as it weighs less than 1 kg as well.

Intel laptops of the last few years had bad battery life. At long last though, it seems there is a light at the end of the tunnel: Intel Lunar Lake improves the power efficiency and thus battery life. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the perfect laptop to exemplify Intel's effiency development throughout the last years.

Jsaux touts its FlipGo-series monitors as one of the best ways to extend your laptop screen by up to 2x on the go thanks to its high-end aluminum alloy housing and up to 2.5K resolution. The accessories are now on sale for a limited time, with coupons for some of the higher-end 13.5- and 16-inch variants.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The latest Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake APU, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of Gen 4 storage is on sale for a big 23% discount over the MSRP. The laptop packs a 15.3-inch IPS display that comes equipped for both media watching and content creation right out of the box.

CheckMag Laptop designs started to feel stale in recent years, with most laptops adopting similar design attributes - most following the example of Apple MacBooks. For this reason: The market needs an Elon Musk disruption!

The latest Asus Zenbook S 16 laptop with a Ryzen AI 9 365 APU, 24 GB of memory, and 1 TB of storage has been priced down by a cool 18% at Best Buy. The laptop demonstrates the capabilities of AMD's new APUs rather well with good performance and a healthy battery life.

The European Commission (EC) suspects Corning of supressing competition in the market for glass tough enough to protect the screen of your smartphone, tablet or wearable. The New York firm is now being investigated for these "antitrust" practices by the authority, which might impose fines if its hunches are correct.

Up until now, you had to choose when buying a laptop with an Intel processor - either the screen was a low resolution panel, or the battery life was bad. This changes with Intel Lunar Lake, as the Asus ExpertBook P5 achieved strong 16 hours with a high res 2.5K screen.

Baseus' latest Nomos series of chargers are rated for up-to-date Qi2 wireless charging across the board, and also contains thoughtful features such as the retractable cable of the flagship 140W Desktop Charger. They have now been released with a limited-time early-bird deal

The Core Ultra 7 155H-powered Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (Q425) with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage is now on sale for 33% off the list price at Best Buy. The discount brings the thin and light notebook to less than its usual $750 price, making the Zenbook 14 a worthy deal for folks on the hunt for a super portable OLED laptop with excellent battery life.

Lenovo's newest premium ThinkPad is almost here: The featherweight Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition is pre-orderable now. Customers have to pay a premium, though, as only high-end configurations are available.

Ugreen's latest Uno Charger is the first 100W power brick with a status display that switches boring old numbers for emojis. The adorable accessory packs MacBook-worthy speeds into a relatively compact form-factor using GaNInfinity Chip Technology - or power four other devices at once with its multi-port design. It has now been released with a time-sensitive -20% discount.

The first-ever AI agent for PCs such as the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 has just been introduced at TechWorld 2024 in the form of Lenovo AI Now. Based on an up-to-date form of Meta's Llama LLM, it is rated to help automate PC management as well as act as a local or cloud-based personal chatbot. It has debuted alongside the OEM's new equally AI-powered educational platform.

This configuration features 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage, 32 GB LPDDR5X-8533 RAM, as well as the Arc Graphics 140 iGPU and a fast NPU. Other highlights include a 75 Wh battery, 13.3-inch OLED with 2.8K resolution, 2x Thunderbolt 4 connectors, 5MP webcam, Wi-Fi 7, microSD card reader and fingerprint sensor.

Tecno asserts that consumers will be able to "See Bigger" and "Sound Louder" on their laptop for less with the latest addition to the MegaBook series. The K16S is powered by the Ryzen 5 7430U, and is touted to have ultrabook portability with an all-metal chassis. It is rated to handle generative AI tasks powered by Windows and OneLeap for wireless links to other Tecno devices.

UGREEN has graced its Revodok line of accessories with its first-ever Thunderbolt 5-capable product during its latest trade showcase. The new Docking Station has a form-factor best suited to the desktop, and features a range of additional I/O options that includes Ethernet, DisplayPort and full-sized SD cards. Its main feature is also rated for a Bandwidth Boost mode for what might be even faster data transfers.

Sharge has now announced pricing and availability for its new Disk Plus, touted to debut as the "world's thinnest" external SSD. It is rated for up to 10 gigabit per second (Gb/s) data transfers and for pass-through USB-C charging. The Disk Plus is compatible with multiple types of M.2 SSDs of up to 4TB in capacity.

Sharge has announced that the Shargeek 140's second colorway is now available on the international market. It has the same 20,000mAh rated capacity and up-to-100W USB-C port as before, but is the only version of the accessory to be finished in white. Its internals and inbuilt Smart Display are also still visible through a clear window.

The Energy Star certification offers some details on the CPU, including core count and RAM, plus some power efficiency specs. This model is expected to launch sometime in September.

The Sharge Storm2 Slim, also known as the Shargeek 130, is officially being discontinued. The quintessential transparent 20,000mAh power bank is going out with a bang, however, with a final sale cutting its price to a "historical" low. It comes with up-to-100W USB-C port still powerful enough to charge most ultrabooks at extra-fast speeds.

Sharge touts its next-gen Disk Plus as the thinnest SSD enclosure about to go on a crowdfunding campaign to date. It is also designed to go anywhere else thanks to the ability to stay on to the back of the user's iPhone, laptop or handheld console in a MagSafe-style manner. It connects via USB-C and is compatible with multiple NVMe form-factors.

The next addition to the Infinix INBook series of laptops are to take overt aim at machines such as the MacBook Air, based on its name and alleged lightweight nature alone. It is tipped to have 2 premium variants and to have an on-trend display type powered by Raptor Lake silicon from Intel.

Topton offers RAM options between 8 - 32 GB DDR4 and storage options between 256 GB and 2 TB. This model is equipped with an Intel i3-1215U processor as well as two 10.96-inch IPS touchscreens with 1920 x 1200 resolution each.

Volta asserts that its latest accessory is Kickstarter's first 6-in-1 charging cable with the up-to-date 240W power delivery spec. The Max is rated to be used with some USB type-A devices as well as those with Lightning, USB-C and microUSB ports. It has now exceeded its crowdfunding goal by over 2000% with 29 days to go.