Dell’s new XPS 13 starts at $699.99 in the U.S., or $599 for eligible students, and pairs that entry price with a 13.4-inch 2.5K display, a 2.2-pound CNC aluminum chassis, and a 512 GB SSD. Touch is part of the deal only if you pick the Sky finish, because the Storm configuration costs the same […]
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Mid-summer sits in an odd gap for laptop shopping. Back-to-school sales haven’t kicked in yet and Black Friday is still months out, but retailers are already discounting last season’s gaming notebooks to make room for new silicon. That’s where the five gaming laptop deals below come from. Prices range from $919 to $1,439, and no
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Most affordable 15-inch laptops compromise on display quality, memory, or build. This IdeaPad configuration avoids two of those tradeoffs with a 120Hz touchscreen and 16GB of RAM, while its plastic chassis and missing keyboard backlight keep expectations realistic. The exact build tested here pairs a 15.3-inch 1920×1200 panel and DDR5-5600 memory with a 512GB PCIe
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The back half of July 2026 turned into one of the more scattered stretches of product news in recent memory, and that is the point. ASUS revealed its first ROG-branded soundbar, Garmin cut the screen off a fitness band, and HP loaded a business laptop with a 50 TOPS chip, all inside the same few
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MSI marked its 40th anniversary by giving its Titan 18 HX flagship a mythology-inspired makeover, and the result is the Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic, a limited-run gaming laptop that pairs the brand’s most powerful mobile hardware with a showpiece design built around the Draco constellation. Price: $6,899 Where to Buy: MSI Add
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The hard part of buying a laptop under $300 isn’t finding one. It’s avoiding the traps. Search “cheap laptop” and you get hundreds of near-identical listings, most hiding a 4GB RAM ceiling, slow eMMC storage, or a no-name brand with no warranty. Here’s the truth nobody tells you at this price: you buy one strength,
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Business buyers keep hearing about Copilot+, and the EliteBook 8 G2a 16 finally hands them silicon that backs the label. The pitch is simple. Drop AMD’s newest Ryzen AI chip into a 16-inch frame, then let the NPU carry the on-device features IT teams keep circling. It’s a confident opening move for a workhorse line.
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Two buyers, one laptop. Razer’s 2026 Blade 18 courts gamers chasing maximum frames and developers running local large language model inference on their own hardware, all on the same machine. The hardware behind that promise runs loud: up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU,
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Business laptops have spent a decade getting thinner by getting harder to fix. Glued batteries, soldered everything, chassis panels that surrender to nobody but a heat gun. Lenovo went the other direction with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Editi
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The HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC spent nearly two years in development, with Ferrari’s design studio working the full build alongside HP’s own engineers. It was unveiled on June 4, ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, as the first physical product to come out of the two companies’ Formula 1 partnership. Every panel,
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OneXPlayer just opened pre-orders for the OneXPlayer 3, and it’s the first 3-in-1 handheld to ship with Intel’s Arc G3 Extreme chip. Pricing starts at $1,399 on Indiegogo, with an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED screen and an 85Wh battery leading the spec sheet. That combination puts it in direct range of the Legion Go 2 and
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July is when the back-to-school shopping season really kicks off, and 2026 is no exception. Between Apple’s expected education promotion, Best Buy’s student deals hub, Dell’s extra 10% off for students, and Lenovo’s back-to-school sale, there are real savings to be found if you know where to look. We have rounded up the best laptop,
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A memory shortage has quietly rewritten the laptop buying rules for 2026, and most of the advice people are still repeating hasn’t caught up. RAM and storage prices have jumped hard this year, and brands have started downgrading specs and raising prices to protect their margins. So the cheap laptop that looked fine two years
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Lenovo lightest 14-inch business laptop with AMD Gorgon Point processors 5G cellular 64 GB RAM Starting at 2129
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The best AI laptop is still a laptop first. That sounds obvious until you shop the category and see how quickly the stickers take over: Copilot+ PC, Ryzen AI, Core Ultra, Snapdragon X, TOPS, NPU, on-device assistant, creator AI. Some of those labels help, and some mostly decorate a normal spec sheet. The useful test
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Buying a Windows laptop used to be mostly an Intel versus AMD decision. In 2026, it’s also a timing decision. Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD have all already launched next-generation chips this year: Snapdragon X2 Elite, Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (“Panther Lake”), and AMD Ryzen AI 400 (“Gorgon Point”) are shipping in new laptops right
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The Gadgeteer is attending Snapdragon Summit 2026. Here is what to expect from Qualcomm’s next phone chip, XR plans, audio, wearables, PCs, and AI devices.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 Edge is now available in the U.S., and the interesting part isn’t another AI PC badge. It’s that Samsung is putting Qualcomm’s…
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Senior year runs on one laptop: the thing that survives a full day of classes, a midnight essay, and a backpack that gets dropped more than anyone admits. Prime Day 2026 ends tonight, June 26, so the prices below are the ones a student can actually grab before back-to-school demand pushes them back up. You
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The most interesting Surface Pro in Microsoft’s 2026 lineup isn’t the X2-equipped 13-inch model that grabbed the headlines last week. It’s the 12-inch Surface Pro that’s been sitting on shelves at $1,049.99, weighs 1.5 pounds, and runs the same Copilot+ feature set as its bigger siblings. Price: From $849 Where to Buy: Microsoft Store, Amazon
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