Raptor Lake

Gaming from Germany. Captiva may not have as well-known a name as Asus, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and similar but still, more and more of the German manufacturer's laptops and PCs are beginning to show up on websites. With its "Advanced Gaming", the manufacturer markets a gaming laptop series and it is high time for us to put it to the test!
Intel Core i5-13500H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU | 15.60" | 2.3 kg

Omen alternative for the price-conscious. The Victus 16 costs slightly less than an Omen 16 with comparable hardware. Read on to find out whether or which cost-saving measures come to the fore. Our test unit comes with a Core i7-13700H and a GeForce RTX 4070.
Intel Core i7-13700H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU | 16.10" | 2.4 kg

A victory for HP. The HP Victus 16 is one of the few budget laptops on the market with an Intel Core i5-13500HX processor. How does it hold up against modern-day games when paired with an entry-level graphics card? Read on to find out more.
Intel Core i5-13500HX | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU | 16.10" | 2.3 kg

Fast and Fury-ous. Not much has changed from the outside, but the Raptor Lake-HX and Nvidia RTX Ada upgrades inside are significant and well worth the time for any power users looking to upgrade in the near future.
Intel Core i9-13950HX | Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop | 16.00" | 2.6 kg

The allrounder runs out-of-round. The Acer Aspire 5 (2023) is an office laptop sold for a much higher price due to its installed RTX 2050 gaming GPU. In this detailed review, you can read about whether this recipe resulted in a worthy allrounder. You can certainly look forward to two RAM banks, Thunderbolt 4 as well as quite a few improvements over its predecessor.
Intel Core i7-1355U | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile | 15.60" | 1.8 kg

Raptor X. Lenovo upgrades its ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 with an OLED screen and 5G. With these premium features, it is much closer to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon - without giving the X13 any unique idenity.
Intel Core i7-1355U | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs | 13.30" | 1.2 kg

Tame Raptor. With the ThinkPad X13 Yoga Gen 4, Lenovo has released the newest member of its traditional business convertible series. This new model has a retooled design with much improved battery life numbers, but a puny performance.
Intel Core i5-1335U | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs | 13.30" | 1.3 kg

Precision engineering. Not much has changed from a visual standpoint, but the GPU update from last year's Precision 5470 is significant and worth considering for power users who want to maximize performance from a small 14-inch form factor.
Intel Core i9-13900H | NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop | 14.00" | 1.6 kg

Magnesium case and LTE. The EliteBook 1040 G10 is the business flagship from HP and a direct competitor to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon from Lenovo. However, the current Core i5 processor from Intel doesn't offer a lot of performance, and the display of our test unit doesn't reach the values specified by the manufacturer.
Intel Core i5-1335U | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs | 14.00" | 1.3 kg

The convertible laptop for bookworms. What if you could have both a convertible laptop and an eReader all in one? The ThinkBook Plus Twist is a dream come true for bookworms as long as you can accept some caveats.
Intel Core i7-1355U | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs | 13.30" | 1.4 kg

Freedom of choice. Alienware's gaming notebook provides an extremely flexible hardware configuration. Our test device offers lots of performance (Core i7-13700HX, GeForce RTX 4060) and a decent level of equipment. Battery runtimes, however, are unable to keep pace with the times.
Intel Core i7-13700HX | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU | 16.00" | 3 kg

Look ma, no power brick! With so many mini PCs to choose from nowadays, the IdeaCentre Mini will need something up its sleeve to really stand out from the crowd. Luckily, its integrated PSU and inexpensive price of under US$700 for the Core i7 option might just be enough.
Intel Core i7-13700H | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs | 1.8 kg

Shimmering lightweight. While hardly weighing 1 kg (~2.2 lb), the subnotebook from LG is very well equipped with the Intel Core i7-1360P, 32 GB of working memory, and OLED display. Aside from the performance, the Gram Style also offers some other qualities. What immediate strikes us, is the case surface that can shimmer in all rainbow colors. And the laptop is also able to operate completely quietly - aside from some strange exception.
Intel Core i7-1360P | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs | 14.00" | 987 g

Multimedia, gaming, and content creation all-on-one. Who needs GeForce MX anymore when you can have a GeForce RTX 4060 run at a low 60 W TGP? It may not perform as fast as dedicated gaming laptops with the exact same GPU, but it's still a significant upgrade from last year's GeForce RTX 3050 Ti.
Intel Core i7-13700H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU | 16.00" | 2.2 kg

Nano size = Nano performance? The ThinkPad X1 Nano is back for a third year in a row with the exact same chassis design as its first generation launch. It remains one of the lightest and most portable subnotebooks in the market, but the compromises to performance are still alive and well.
Intel Core i7-1360P | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs | 13.00" | 989 g

Nvidia RTX 5000 ECC VRAM debut. Dell's latest mobile workstation is one of its leanest and fastest yet mostly thanks to the new Nvidia RTX 5000 GPU. Performance-per-watt is excellent and we hope to see the 165 W USB-C AC adapter on more Dell models.
Intel Core i9-13900H | Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop | 16.00" | 2.3 kg

NUC with a new case! The release of the Intel NUC 13 Pro Desk Edition Kit aka Vivid Canyon presumably marks Intel's last mini PC of the branch. Visually, Intel has given the finishing touch to the device by correcting most of its predecessor's points of critique. In this review, you can find out about what else Intel's final NUC based on the Intel Core i7-1360P has to offer.
Intel Core i7-1360P | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs | 558 g

Intel 13th gen CPU swap. The IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 looks very attractive at first glance with its low US$574 starting price and Thunderbolt support, but the fixed 8 GB of RAM is a huge asterisk and the price to upgrade is absurdly high for what is supposed to be a budget 2-in-1.
Intel Core i5-1335U | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs | 14.00" | 1.6 kg

Distance runner. The Aorus 15 BSF - a QHD gaming laptop - offers good performance (Core i7-13700H, GeForce RTX 4070) with a great selection of features (16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 165 Hz panel, Thunderbolt 4). Amazing runtimes complete the setup.
Intel Core i7-13700H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU | 15.60" | 2.4 kg

Core i7-13705H vs. Core i9-13905H. It's not cheap at over two grand, but the Slim Pro 9i is densely packed and with an impressive 3.2K mini-LED touchscreen for wide DCI-P3 colors and over 2x the contrast ratio of IPS.
Intel Core i9-13905H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU | 16.00" | 2.2 kg

Perfect multi-talent! Nowadays, the mini PC market is very saturated. But Khadas has announced a very interesting device: The Mind is supposed to massively widen mini PCs' range of uses. At the same time, the manufacturer has relied on in-house accessories which work together with the Khadas Mind and can supposedly replace a whole range of devices. In this review, we have first taken a look at the base device so you can compare its performance to other mini PCs.
Intel Core i7-1360P | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs | 438 g