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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.

CheckMag The impending end of Windows 10 support (October 2025) means that many users may have to switch to a different OS. Alternative operating systems such as Linux and ChromeOS Flex can be tested on your own PC without affecting the existing Windows installation.

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition has recorded a considerable price drop at Best Buy and is now retailing for the lowest price ever. The laptop packs a Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake APU, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of storage, and a 15.3-inch 2.8K IPS touch display.

Walmart is now selling the Asus Vivobook S 14 (S5406SA) laptop at a massive discount of $400. The laptop comes with a Core Ultra 7 258V APU, 32 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of replaceable storage. Additionally, the Vivobook S 14 carries a 14-inch OLED panel around the front.

The innovative Sharge Pouch series of power banks is back with a new Mini variant. The accessory lacks the official OnePlus tie-in of its forebear, yet retains the same general color scheme for its in-built USB-C cable. Sharge asserts that it packs its 10,000mAh rated capacity in a battery-themed chassis of about the same size as a modern car key.

Sharge has brought its latest type of fashionable power brick to the global market. The Retractable 65 packs its own pull-out cable as well as the "advanced" gallium nitride (GaN) rated to keep it cool while charging at up to 65W. The accessory is compatible with a range of devices, smartphones and portable consoles included.

The svelte 2.18-pound LG Gram SuperSlim 15.6" OLED is powered by an Intel Ultra 7 AI 16-core CPU, 16 GB RAM, and 512 GB SSD, allowing students to power through homework with ease.

Honor has announced that its CEO Zhao Ming (also known as George Zhao) will relinquish that role today (January 17, 2025). The long-serving executive will be replaced by one with a work history that includes roles at former company parent Huawei. Meanwhile, the OEM has announced a special New Year's version of the Android skin for its smartphones in China.

Lenovo is currently selling its expensive flagship business laptop, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13, with very limited options. That is about to change: WUXGA IPS displays, Ultra 5 CPUs and 5G/4G enabled models of the premium ThinkPad laptop are on the way.

Asus has introduced two new AMD-based Vivobook models at CES 2025. Called the "Vivobook S 14 (M5406WA) and the "Vivobook S 16 (M5406KA)", the laptops are meant to be multimedia/productivity machines that boast good battery life and beautiful screens.

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.

Asus has added a new entrant to the 2025 Vivobook S lineup. Called the "Asus Vivobook S 16 (S5606CA)", the laptop is a 16-incher powered by the latest Intel Arrow Lake-H mobile CPUs. The machine also rocks an Asus Lumina OLED display and two Thunderbolt 4 ports.

Asus has taken the wraps off two new Zenbook 14 models, the Zenbook 14 UX3405CA and the Zenbook 14 UM3406KA. The former Zenbook 14 model is based on the Intel Core Ultra 200H mobile CPUs, while the latter utilizes the Ryzen AI 7 350 APU from AMD. Both version start at jut $999.99.

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.