Computex 2026 wrapped in Taipei earlier this month. The show gave us the clearest look yet at this year’s gaming laptops. NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series mobile GPUs now ship in laptops from ASUS, MSI, Acer, and smaller brands. Intel’s Arrow Lake refresh and AMD chips also push CPU speed higher. If you’re shopping for a portable […]
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Computex 2026 ran out of Taipei’s Nangang Exhibition Center from June 2 to 5, and the show was heavier on silicon than on finished gadgets. Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and MediaTek each spent the week arguing about whose chip should sit at the center of the agentic AI PC. Jensen Huang opened with RTX Spark
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ASUS used its Computex 2026 keynote to show a full ecosystem rather than a single flagship. Every category received an AI upgrade, from creator laptops down to a new tablet and a desktop tower that could pass for furniture. It was a broad presentation. Headlining the lineup are the ProArt P16 and P14, which become
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Qualcomm came to Computex with two announcements that sound like they belong to different companies. One is a chip platform for $300 Windows laptops. The other is a ready-made brain for humanoid and industrial robots. The thread connecting them is Qualcomm’s pitch that intelligence now has to run everywhere, from the cheapest laptop to a
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If you’ve been eyeing a new Chromebook this summer, hold off. Google is moving on from the Chromebook brand at the premium tier. The company unveiled Googlebook on May 12 at The Android Show: I/O Edition, a new line of Android-powered, Gemini-first laptops launching this fall with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Pricing and
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ASUS’s locked in its Computex 2026 plans, and the show floor opens in just over a week. The company’s promising a full walkthrough of its “Ubiquitous AI” ecosystem while ROG marks 20 years of gaming hardware. If you’re tracking new laptops, monitors, or AI PCs, here’s what ASUS’s already teased and why it matters before
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The best new gadgets of May 2026 don’t share a category, just a release date. There’s a pet air purifier that catches fur before it ever reaches the HEPA filter, the first Garmin built around wellness over training, a Snapdragon X2 Elite Copilot+ laptop that clears a full workday on battery, and a $599 launch
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IFA is back on the calendar for fall 2026, and the dates are locked. Berlin’s Messe halls open September 4 to 8 for IFA Berlin 2026, the biggest consumer tech trade show of fall 2026, with CES in Las Vegas as its January counterpart. If you watch the show for laptop reveals, smart home debuts,
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Google I/O 2026 was an AI keynote with a hardware coda. The keynote ran almost entirely on Gemini 3.5, Gemini Spark, a Search rebuild, and agentic tools, then Google saved the last segment for the hardware story it has been building toward for two years: smart glasses. The hardware list out of Shoreline this week
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Computex feels less like a trade show this year and more like a forced reckoning. Arm laptops, hybrid handhelds, and a heavy NVIDIA presence are about to collide in Taipei, and the silicon teased over the next two weeks could shape what your next ultrabook or gaming handheld actually looks like. The show opens Tuesday,
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Apple’s MacBook Neo, announced 4 March 2026 and on sale a week later, has now spent roughly two months on the market, long enough for the launch-week spec-sheet conversation to give way to a lineup question. The first A-series Mac in Apple’s history sits at $599 ($499 education), one tier below the MacBook Air M5,
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When the first Snapdragon X Elite arrived in mid-2024, the pitch was cleaner than the reality. Battery life held up. App compatibility didn’t. Plenty of early buyers ran into VPNs, print drivers, or specialized utilities that wouldn’t run cleanly on Windows on Arm. Eighteen months later, the Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop shows up with a
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The ThinkPad L-series sits in the part of Lenovo’s lineup that IT teams pick by the pallet and end users rarely think about. It’s been the value tier, the one priced for refresh cycles rather than headlines. The Gen 7 L14 is the one that changes that math without changing the budget, and it does
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Workstation buyers spent the last few years watching the AI conversation drift to the cloud. Studios paid for instance hours, finance teams paid for inference latency, and design shops paid for the bandwidth to ship raw assets back and forth. The ThinkStation P4 lands in a 30-liter tower that says the math has finally shifted.
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The 13-inch laptop spent the last three years quietly losing market share to 14-inch slim-bezel designs. Buyers wanted the bigger screen at the same travel weight, and 13 inches started feeling like a compromise. The ThinkPad X13 Gen 7 is the argument that you can still want the smaller machine for the right reasons, and
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The 16-inch business laptop usually shows up with a flagship price tag attached. Lenovo’s been comfortable selling it that way through T16 and P16 generations. The ThinkPad L16 Gen 3 (AMD) is the one that puts the bigger screen in the value tier. It runs up to AMD Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series processors with
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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 Series
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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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