Tag: Laptops & portable PCs

July 5, 2016

Gigabyte’s P35W v5 gaming laptop costs a reasonable $1,877 (about £1,300, or AU$2,599), but the firm has packed an awful lot in: high-end Nvidia and Intel hardware, an M.2 SSD drive and a 4K display so that you can chew […]

October 20, 2015

Few laptops manage to turn heads like Lenovo’s Yoga 3 Pro did when it landed back in January. Once your eyes clocked its six watchband-styled hinges, literally crafted from hundreds upon hundreds of pieces of metal, you knew that Lenovo […]

April 1, 2015

Introduction and design If you don’t need the full quad-core processing performance of last year’s ThinkPad W540 workstation, you can still get workstation-class power in this year’s ThinkPad W550s. Positioned as a slimmer cousin to the ThinkPad W540 and this […]

February 26, 2015

Introduction The Gigabyte P37X is a particularly powerful 17-inch gaming laptop with a dual-SSD Raid array, fast quad-core CPU and Nvidia GTX 980M graphics card with 8GB of video memory. With a 1080p screen that delivers superb picture quality, the […]

February 24, 2015

Introduction and design If you’re looking to purchase a powerful, portable and attractive laptop, the Dell XPS 13 (starting at $799, £520, AU$980) has to be one of the top contenders. It features a sleek design, a lightweight chassis and […]

February 12, 2015

Introduction and design Thin gaming laptops, like the Origin EVO15-S and Digital Storm Triton, have made us rethink our expectations of high-performance machines. Thanks to more efficient parts, including Intel’s Haswell (and soon Broadwell-U) processors as well as Nvidia’s Maxwell […]

February 12, 2015

Introduction and design If gaming is your main driver for buying a new laptop, prepare to break the bank. The Razer Blade seems to have it all, but it’s also pushing a $2000+ price tag. What if you want to […]