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Dim display Too much travel in touchpad The MSI Prestige 14 (starts at $1,099.99; $1,149.99 as tested) gets an Intel Evo update, bringing increased responsiveness and better battery life (along with Wi-Fi 6 and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity) to the company’s 14-inch ultraportable laptop. The design remains largely unchanged from last years model, which came in a bold pink. Available in white or dark gray this time around, the all-aluminum chassis is incredibly thin and compact. When opened, the ...

Long battery life Cons 15-inch convertibles are simply unwieldy as tablets We recently reviewed the 14-inch Lenovo Yoga 9i, a compact convertible laptop with plenty of upside, but maybe you’re in the market for something a little larger. Its big brother, the 15.6-inch Lenovo Yoga 9i ($1,799.99 as tested), brings the same high-quality hybrid form factor to a roomier display. Of course, the increased size makes the larger Yoga a little unwieldy as a tablet, but it also delivers more power. (The...

ExtremeTech Mobile RTX 3070 Reviews Show Performance Variations in Gaming By Joel Hruska on January 27, 2021 at 9:02 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you’re shopping for a gaming laptop, it’s important to check reviews before you buy. We’ve discussed this issue before in a CPU context, but it’s just as important in GPUs. A recent set of reviews from our sister site PCMag offer an illustrative example of why. PCMa...

Comments Nvidia recently revealed their brand new range of RTX 30 mobile graphics cards that will be part of the next generation of gaming laptops. Previously, laptop GPUs have always been slightly behind their desktop cousins, but in the recent years the gap has been closing and could this new generation be the closest they’ve gotten before? Well, some benchmarks have been leaked already so let’s take a look… At their CES 2021 keynote, Nvidia unveiled the RTX 3060 Mobile, RTX 3...

  AMD RDNA 2 architecture While it might have lagged in terms of PC market share, AMDs graphics division has dominated the high-end gaming console space for years now. The current and previous generations of Sonys PlayStation and Microsofts Xbox consoles have all usedsome form of Radeon GPU, which does give AMD some advantages and insight into what capabilities gamers and game developers will be using over the next several years. Last years Radeon RX 5700 XT, based on the RDNA 1 architecture, ...

The arrival of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs on laptops, following their smashing success on desktops, promises big performance gains and attainable ray tracing on mobile machines. Based on the same “Ampere” architecture that delivers incredible performance at a fair price in full-size desktop graphics cards, the RTX 30 Series laptops GPUs have come zooming in this week to high expectations. Having just completed our first round of real-world testing of RTX 30 Series laptops, though...

8:45 All Specs Last April, we awarded the Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB an Editors Choice laurel as a top laptop for creative professionals. The Aero 15 OLED XC is a modest refresh with Nvidias new GeForce RTX 30 Series ("Ampere") graphics silicon, which nets you an extra 5 or 10 frames per second (fps) when playing games after work. Its also $500 cheaper ($2,199 in our test configuration), which makes it a screaming bargain—the last time we raved about a high-end creative notebook with a 4K OLE...

7:19 All Specs As powerful as it is compact, the Asus ROG Flow X13 (starts at $2,999; $3,299 as tested) is a 2-in-1 convertible gaming laptop that stands just 0.62 inch tall, weighs 2.9 pounds, and still manages to deliver a reasonably comfortable gaming experience at a 1080p resolution on many titles. This is an impressive (if not wholly groundbreaking) achievement, thanks mostly to the efficiency inside of the AMD Ryzen 9 CPU (one of AMDs new Ryzen 5000 series "Zen 3" chips) and Nvidias GeF...

No webcam or biometric features Screen could tilt back more Asus new TUF Dash F15 has 2021 off to a good start for watchers of mobile gaming hardware. For $1,699 as tested (models start at $1,099), this 15.6-inch gaming laptop performs on par with systems from last year that were much higher-priced. Its pairing of Intel Core i7 "Tiger Lake-H" silicon—the companys newest mobile CPUs for power laptops—and a brand-new 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 mobile GPU produced triple-digit frame rates in ...

6:46 All Specs The Alienware m15 R3 was one of our favorite gaming laptops of 2020, standing out with unique styling and the muscle to back it up. The m15 R4 (starts at $2,149.99; $2,499 as tested) is a component-level revamp that uses the same chassis but adds Nvidias GeForce RTX 30 Series "Ampere" GPUs, newly announced for laptops at CES 2021 earlier this month. Our test unit packs an RTX 3070, which delivers demonstrable frame-rate gains over its previous-generation counterparts, especiall...