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Razer’s smallest gaming laptop gains 4K display, discrete GPU options

The Razer Blade Stealth is the smallest notebook from gaming equipment maker Razer — and in the past the company has sacrificed a bit of power to make a thin and light laptop. Up until now, the Razer Blade Stealth has been the only Razer laptop to ship without discrete graphics. Instead the idea was […]

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The new Razer Blade 15 is a 4.5 pound gaming laptop for $1,599 and up

Razer is updating its gaming laptop lineup with a new version of the Razer Blade 15. There are two key changes: the new models feature Gigabit Ethernet jacks, and there’s a new “base model” with a $1,599 starting price. That might not sound that exciting, but it’s $300 less than the previous starting price for this […]

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Dell’s Alienware 13 gaming laptop reaches end of the line (for now)

The Alienware 13 is currently the smallest laptop from Dell’s gaming PC brand. The latest model features a 13 inch display, a 7th-gen Intel Core HQ-series 45 watt processor, and NVIDIA GeForce 10 series graphics and it sells for $1400 and up. If you were hoping to pick up a model with an 8th-gen Intel […]

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Asus updates its ROG Zephyrus S gaming laptop with slimmer design, faster CPU

The Asus ROG Zephyrus S laptop was one of the most compact gaming laptops with a 15.6 inch display when it launched last year. Now Asus is making it smaller… and more powerful. The new 2018 ROG Zephyrus S features an Intel Core i7-8750H hexa-core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or GTX 1070 Max-Q graphics, […]

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Maingear’s newest Pulse 15 is a 4.4 pound gaming laptop with hexa-core CPU, NVIDIA graphics, $1399 starting price

Maingear is updating its Pulse 15 gaming laptop with a new model that features an Intel Core i7-8750H hexa-core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 8TB of storage. The new Maingear Pulse 15 has a backlit keyboard with RGB lighting, a 1080p display, and a whole bunch […]

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Lenovo unveils new Legion Cube portable gaming desktops (and other Legion gaming PCs)

Lenovo is updating its Legion line of gaming computers with a few new 15 and 17 inch laptops, a couple of new desktop towers, and two compact gaming desktops in its “Cube” series. The laptops pack a lot of power into relatively compact designs, but gaming laptops are a dime a dozen these days, and […]

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MSI’s GF63 gaming laptop weighs 3.9 pounds, is priced at $999 and up

MSI’s latest gaming laptop features a 15.6 inch display, a reasonably compact design, a hexa-core Intel processor, and NVIDIA graphics. It’s also priced at $999 and up, which makes it relatively inexpensive by gaming laptop standards… especially for a model that weighs just 3.9 pounds. The folks at Laptop Magazine got a sneak peek at […]

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Razer Blade thin & light gaming laptop gets a 2018 refresh

Gaming hardware company Razer makes pretty good laptops, as I discovered when I reviewed the Razer Blade Stealth last month. But that model is a bit of an anomaly for the company: it’s got everything you want in a gaming laptop… except for a discrete graphics card that lets you play the latest games at […]

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Deals of the Day (4-30-2018)

Best Buy and Amazon are both running PC gaming hardware sales, with an emphasis on gaming laptops. That means you can pick up a notebook computer with a quad-core processor and discrete graphics for as little as $600… although there are higher-priced models with better specs and fancier design features. Here are some of the […]