Some weeks the gadget cycle is all incremental upgrades and color refreshes. This wasn’t one of them. The past few days brought a wide-foldable phone that breaks a six-year design pattern, Dyson’s first product cheap enough to call an impulse buy, a pool robot that empties its own filter, and a retro handheld that looks […]
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ASUS just dropped a $5,500 gaming laptop with two full 16-inch OLED screens, and pre-orders are live today. The 2026 ROG Zephyrus Duo ditches the old half-height secondary panel for a pair of matched 3K ROG Nebula HDR OLED touchscreens, which ROG is calling the world’s first 16-inch dual-screen OLED gaming laptop. We’ve already argued
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Framework just gave its smallest laptop a major upgrade — and a week after launch, the new Framework 13 laptop is already sold out through Batch 8. The Laptop 13 Pro is built around repair-friendly design, and it takes aim at Apple’s MacBook Pro. It comes with a redesigned aluminum body, Intel’s new Core Ultra
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Spring travel season starts messy. Airports are busier, timetables slip, hotel Wi-Fi is still the same lobby-bar nightmare it was last year, and that 5W wall charger you’ve been dragging around since 2019 can’t keep up with a modern phone, let alone a phone and a laptop and a pair of earbuds. The good news
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A gaming laptop that pumps out 300W of combined processor and graphics power shouldn’t fit in a normal backpack. But MSI says its new Raider 16 Max does exactly that. The company rebuilt its 16-inch gaming laptops from scratch for 2026, shrinking the motherboard and redesigning the cooling system so it could pack more power
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ASUS recently launched five new Zenbook laptops across its A-series, S-series, and standard Zenbook lines. They come in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes with processors from Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD. All five are Copilot+ PCs, and all use some form of ASUS’s Ceraluminum material, a ceramic-aluminum hybrid the company spent four years developing. Prices start at
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The past month on The Gadgeteer covered a lot of ground, and some of it got weird in the best way. Smart rings that control AR glasses, a wine fridge with its own AI sommelier, headphones running a real vacuum tube, and a digital camera that won’t let you see your own photos. That’s the
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The sub-$200 laptop market has quietly gotten more interesting than it has any right to be. A few years ago, spending less than two hundred dollars on a laptop meant settling for something that could barely keep a browser tab alive without wheezing. That calculus has shifted. Between older but capable budget processors hitting lower
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LG doesn’t usually split its ultrabook lineup across two competing chip platforms at the same time. That’s exactly what’s happening with the Gram 14 in 2026, and it raises real questions about where the company sees its portable lineup heading. The Intel Panther Lake version just went live through LG Japan, arriving more than a
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The 2026 Razer Blade 16 brings Intel Core Ultra 9 and RTX 50 Series graphics into a 14.9mm chassis with up to 13 hours of battery life. Every year, gaming laptop makers promise real power inside a thin chassis that won’t die before your workday ends. Every year, you pick two out of three. Razer
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The last premium Xiaomi laptop landed in 2022. Since then, the company focused on phones, smart home gear, and even electric cars, letting competitors fill the gap in the notebook market. That silence ended this week with the Xiaomi Book Pro 14 2026, a machine that doesn’t just mark a return to laptops but announces
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Alienware didn’t settle for a spec bump to mark its 30th birthday. The company overhauled the entire gaming laptop architecture for 2026, introducing three new machines that pair Intel’s latest Arrow Lake HX Plus processors with Nvidia’s full RTX 50-series GPU lineup inside a completely redesigned chassis. The Alienware 16X Aurora, Alienware 16 Area-51, and
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Most gaming laptops treat internal access like a chore. You shouldn’t need a screwdriver set and a YouTube walkthrough to swap your RAM. ASUS seems to agree, and the 2026 ROG Strix G16 and G18 are built around that exact frustration. It’s a quiet shift in hardware design that changes how the machine feels the
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Most people stopped expecting Samsung to make an interesting laptop years ago. The Galaxy Book line has always been competent but forgettable, overshadowed by phones and tablets at every launch event. That assumption cracked at CES 2026 when Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book6 series. Samsung launched the Galaxy Book6 on March 11, 2026 alongside the
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Every gaming handheld on the market asks the same question: how big should the screen be? Lenovo’s answer at MWC 2026 is to stop choosing. The Legion Go Fold is a concept device that folds a POLED display from 7.7 inches up to 11.6 inches, then pairs it with detachable controllers and a wireless keyboard
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Every dual screen gaming laptop before this one existed to prove a point, not solve a problem. Manufacturers showed they could fit two screens in one chassis, then left users to figure out why they’d want that. Chassis ran hot to the touch. The weight made the whole thing feel like carrying a small desktop
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ARTICLE – A 290-reply Reddit thread titled “PSA, Don’t Buy HP Omen MAX 16” sits near the top of r/GamingLaptops right now. Directly below it, another post calls the same machine “amazing” with one condition: stick with Intel. Two active threads, same laptop, completely opposite conclusions. That kind of public split doesn’t happen often with
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ARTICLE – The Alienware 18 Area-51 with an RTX 5070 just dropped to $2,349.99 on Amazon, a clean 20% off the $2,949.99 list price. Dell’s storefront lists the 18-inch line at the same number, but here’s the catch: that base config swaps in a Core Ultra 7 255HX and an RTX 5060. The RTX 5070
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Gaming laptop collaborations have trained people to expect a sticker job. Print a character on an existing lid, swap one accent color, and call it a special edition. Buyers have seen that formula so many times that most don’t look twice anymore. The Asus ROG Flow Z13-KJP, built with Kojima Productions, skips it entirely. Price:
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Laptop launches happen in waves at CES, and most of what gets announced is noise. Processor bumps that look impressive on spec sheets but vanish in real use. Display brightness claims that sound dramatic until you realize the difference between 800 and 900 nits doesn’t register to human eyes in typical lighting. Battery estimates that
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