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You can find sleeker and fancier 15.6-inch gaming laptops, but good luck finding a faster one (at least for now) than MSI's Vector GP66.

Acer's Predator Helios 300 remains a good value among 15.6-inch gaming notebooks, but doesn't stand out in a fiercely competitive field.

The 2022 edition of Acer's Nitro 5 economy gaming laptop remains a worthy competitor, but its GeForce RTX 3050 Ti can't keep pace with RTX 3060 GPUs.

HP's new Victus 16 is a good budget gaming laptop, but commits the sin that the best in its class avoid—its cost-cutting design pokes through in several minor but annoying ways.

Priced just above $1,000 in our test model, Lenovo's 14-inch ThinkBook Yoga competes with convertible laptops costing hundreds more.

Gaming Tests: Strange Brigade Conclusion: The War of Attrition The march on performance with desktop platforms has unique challenges compared to other platforms. Peak single thread throughput is often considered the Holy Grail, with a fast follow up of good multi-core and all-core performance given the nature of how desktop platforms are used with background processes and multiple concurrent applications. In order to bring its best single core performance to the desktop market, Intel had to red...

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...