News, reviews and articles about laptops and accessories.
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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The best Lenovo laptops under $1,000 worth buying now, from Yoga and ThinkBook to LOQ, ThinkPad, IdeaPad, and Chromebook picks.
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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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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
HP Omen Max 16 Gaming Laptop You Either Love It or Hate It Read More
Most people who work in hybrid setups don’t actually struggle with the work itself. What breaks down is the translation layer between how your brain prefers to process information and how your tools force you to store it. Paper feels immediate and natural, right up until you need to reference something from three months ago
Analog Meets Digital: 5 Tools for the Hybrid Worker Read More
ASUS and Intel are teaming up for a quick but sweet store takeover event, and if you’ve been putting off getting a new laptop, now’s the time to stop procrastinating. From November 13 at 9AM PST through November 15 at 7PM PST, you can grab some solid deals on 16 different ASUS laptops. We’re talking
ASUS x Intel Store Takeover: Limited-Time Laptop Deals (November 13-15) Read More
REVIEW – My old laptop bag finally gave out, so when Chrome Industries offered to send me their Hawes 26L and Highline 20L backpacks to try out, I was stoked. Let’s see what the Chrome Industries Hawes 26L and Highline 20L laptop backpacks have to offer. What is it? The Hawes 26L and Highline 20L
Recently Julie and I both purchased 12″ MacBooks and while extremely light and portable, the sleek and slim laptop is lacking in ports to say the least. That is a known “design feature” and for me, really is not an issue when on the move. But there are definitely moments where going port-less is a bit of an inconvenience.
IOGEAR USB-C Ultra-Slim Dual Display Docking Station review Read More
Why another backpack review from me you ask? I may ask myself the same question. I do have several excellent backpacks that I have reviewed in the past such as the Razer Tactical Gaming backpack and the Altego 17″ Polygon Sunfire backpack to name a few. While these two backpacks are great for carrying a
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Every evening between 6 pm to 9 pm and later on the weekends, I turn from a mild-mannered Gadgeteer into a couch potato. If Jeanne and I are not watching our favorite TV shows and movies, we’re surfing on our MacBook Pros. Jeanne uses a larger version of the Lapinator laptop desk that I reviewed
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“That’s the coolest MacBook cover I have ever seen! Is that real stone?” This was the comment I received in my first meeting after setting up my new Cover-Up laptop Stone Skin. Yes, it is cool. And yes, it’s real stone. Cover-up sent me two covers for this evaluation, they are unlike anything I have
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You know the saying “if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck”… If we go by that critera, then the Azpen Hybrx A1160 Remix 2.0 laptop is probably a lightweight, low-priced Windows 10 laptop. Right? Wrong. It is a laptop, but it doesn’t run Windows, Linux, Chrome OS or
Azpen Hybrx A1160 Remix OS laptop review Read More
Hoping to stand out from the pack of Chromebook manufacturers, Samsung released information on two new advanced versions of the usually spartan Android-powered laptops. Called the Chromebook Plus and the Chromebook Pro, both merge popular features most often found in tablets, like touchscreens, styluses, and an app store.
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If you work at a company or go to school where a lot of folks have MacBooks or other pretty much identical laptops, you know the feeling: in a class or meeting, there’s no way to tell which one is yours. Rather than have the same blank laptop, folks add stickers, decals, or snap-on plastic
Toast MacBook Pro wooden cover review Read More
The new MacBooks will be available soon, so it’s time to shop for a bag to protect them when you’re going from place to place. WaterField’s newest bag for the MacBook is the Syde. The Syde MacBook Case features a sleeve for the MacBook and another leather pocket that is attached to the syde (side)
WaterField unveils Syde MacBook case Read More
The new SVALT D2 Performance Cooling Dock has been designed to keep professional laptop workstations like high-end Apple MacBooks cool when doing CPU intensive tasks like video, image editing, etc. You know what happens when you push your laptop to the max, the fans come on. The SVALT D2 Performance Cooling Dock has an external
Keep your MacBook Pro cool as a cucumber with the SVALT D2 Cooling Dock Read More
Do you take a lot of selfies, use Facetime, or make talking head style YouTube videos? Then you already know how important good lighting is when it comes to making good videos and images. The front facing cameras built into our laptops and most of our smartphones don’t have a flash to bump up the
It has been awhile since I’ve had the opportunity to review anything from Pad & Quill. They have recently released a new line of minimalistic bags engineered to carry your MacBook and a bit of EDC gear in old world style. For this review, I’ll be reviewing the Valet Luxury Laptop Bag for MacBook 12, an
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Why does it seem like the lightest and thinnest laptops always have the bulkiest chargers? Laptops are fantastic until you have to travel with them and carry all the necessary accessories that go along with them. If your laptop only weighs 2 lbs, but the charger and cable weigh 1-2 lbs, where’s the advantage to
FINsix Dart 65W laptop charger review Read More
Carrying things around has certainly changed in the last few years. Knapsacks used to be for school books or camping equipment. People in the work world carried briefcases. Then, suddenly, laptops happened, and slowly, the knapsack/backpack became ubiquitous. I’ve carried them off and on for years, for work and for pleasure. Toffee (spelled with reversed
Toffee Centennial Backpack review Read More