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For a brief, shining moment, it looked like 16-inch laptops were going to be a thing. For the longest time, traditional 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch laptop screens dominated. Then 14-inch screen grabbed some market share about five years ago, and is now a solid, established choice. At the same time, 11-inch and 12-inch laptops are …

Light, powerful or affordable: Pick two. Given the state of technology today, you can’t get all three. Nvidia’s MX line of mobile graphics processors (GPUs) is designed as a compromise between Intel’s lackluster integrated graphics and more power- and space-hungry discrete graphics like Nvidia’s GTX mobile chips to deliver on weight and power without punishing creators and gamers who need …

A four-day sale at Best Buy started on Wednesday and runs through Saturday. (Fine print: It ends Saturday, April 28 at 11:59 p.m. CT — that’s 9:59 p.m. PT or the wee hours on Sunday in the East.) A large swath of products are included in the sale, from TVs and tablets to laptops and hard drives. Best Buy constantly …

Nvidia has now squished its budget-friendly GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card into the latest laptops, along with the lower-end GTX 1650, which debuted Tuesday in both desktop and mobile incarnations. While the desktop GTX 1650 will cost you in the pleasant neighborhood of $150, it’s also a replacement for the GTX 1050 in spirit (though should be about the same …

Intel launched its ninth-generation (aka Coffee Lake refresh) desktop CPUs in October 2018 with its most powerful offerings, and true to form now hits us with its mobile analogs, the H series Core i9, i7 and i5 processors, as well as the stragglers — all 18 of them — of the desktop versions. The eighth-generation Coffee Lake rollout was more …

Of all the manufacturers gearing up for today’s launches of the ninth-gen Intel mobile Core processors and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 and 1660 Ti, none seemed busier than Asus.  In addition to the usual revving of its gaming notebooks, the company introduced some new designs in conjunction with a new affordable G series, added some AMD Ryzen-based options and even busted out a …

Lenovo finally launches its own everyday-gamer laptop line with the IdeaPad L340 Gaming, a variant of its budget thinnish-and-lightish 300 series with discrete graphics. It joins Acer Nitro, Dell G series, HP Pavilion Gaming, Asus X series and more in the ever-lengthening line of companies to expand beyond their traditional gaming lines. In this case, it means a slim black slab with blue …

Years ago, one could make a legitimate argument that real high-end PC gaming required an actual desktop PC, because so-called gaming laptops just weren’t up to the task. Back then, you often paid a significant premium for much slower performance, and your laptop graphics hardware wouldn’t age well at all. Over time, however, the difference has narrowed significantly. So much …

Sitting in the audience watching Acer proudly announce its new Concept D line of “premium high-end desktops, notebook PCs and monitors designed for professional and amateur creators,” my heart beat a little faster. Xeons and Quadros and ECC memory, oh my!   Acer talked about needing “to reach out to emotions” with the hardware design. Quiet operation of less than …

Acer on Thursday morning held its annual showcase for new laptops, PCs and accessories, known as Next @ Acer. From the stage at New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard, CEO Jason Chen said the company chose the location for being “up-and-coming,” which is likely how the company would like to see itself. The company announced a dizzying array of products including a new …