What I like most about the ZenBook Duo 14 is that you really can’t tell from the outside of the laptop what you’ll see when you lift the lid. Despite opening and closing it countless times at this point, I still get a kick out of seeing its secondary 12.6-inch touchscreen rise from above the …
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Origin PC’s one of the first out of the gate in the race to ship gaming laptops with Nvidia’s latest mobile gaming graphics processor, the GeForce RTX 3080. Its slim 17-inch Evo17-S checks many of the boxes I expect from a gaming laptop, including a big screen, lots of fast SSD storage, a speedy eight-core Intel Core i7-10870H processor and the …
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I’ve relied on Apple laptops since 2004, when my older brother convinced me to give them a try. But in 2015, I stopped buying them all together. It’s not because I’m cheap, or that I’d switched away from Apple’s Mac software. I was participating in a not-so-silent protest against what I think was one of Apple’s biggest-ever design mistakes: Six …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. When we look back on the virtual CES 2021, we’ll mostly think about what didn’t happen. No memorable Las Vegas meals, no celeb sightings in the convention center, no crazy in-person demos of fantastic new prototypes. Instead, what we saw through …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Some PC gamers have a lot of historical animosity toward gaming laptops. Many gamers buy or build desktops because not only can you get more performance for your money, but they can also be upgraded. Gaming laptops, on the other hand, …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Most PC makers show up for CES with a concept device or two. Asus, on the other hand, arrives with laptops that are beyond what others are doing — and they’re ready to ship. The ZenBook Duo is a perfect example. …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a lot more gaming laptops designed for people who want something that doesn’t necessarily look like a gaming laptop. However, because they’re typically thinner and lighter, they don’t always have all the processing …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. CES being all digital is certainly weird, but the slew of luxurious and wacky products shown on Day 1 brought with them a sense of familiarity. Day 2 kept that momentum going, although here things feel far more futuristic. Literally, a flying …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. While more gaming laptops are being made with subdued designs to appeal to a broader range of users, the new ROG Strix Scar from Asus is unmistakably made for gamers. Announced for CES 2021, the new flagship Scar — available in …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The last time someone introduced a thin-and-light lightweight gaming laptop with an external GPU, I laughed. But that’s because it shed its weight by ditching a discrete graphics card, like an Nvidia GeForce GTX. In other words, to game, you needed the eGPU. …
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