When Dell launched the Alienware X line of ultrathin gaming laptops last year the company focused more on slim profiles than light weights – the smallest available at the time was a 5 pound Alienware x15 with a 15.6 inch display. But the new Alienware x14 is a smaller, lighter laptop that doesn’t skimp on horsepower. […]
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Lilbits: More tech companies pull out of CES 2022, Krita 5.0 release, PortableApps hits 1 billion downloads
This week we learned that a number of major tech companies and news organizations were scrapping plans for in-person attendance at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Now a few more big names have piled on: Intel won’t be attending, and neither will Lenovo. I also got an email a little while ago saying that […]
LG’s first gaming laptop is a 6 pound notebook with a 17 inch, 300 Hz display and RTX 3080 graphics
The LG UltraGear 17G90Q is a gaming laptop with a 17.3 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS LCD display with a 300 Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time, an 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake-H 45-watt processor, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q graphics. It’s also LG’s first gaming laptop, and it’s set to go on sale in […]
Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey is a 4.1 pound notebook with Tiger Lake-H and NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q
The new Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey is a notebook the blurs the lines between gaming and portability machines. Weighing just 4.1 pounds and measuring just 0.7 inches thick, it’s pretty compact for a 15.6 inch notebook with discrete graphics. But the laptop packs a 45-watt Intel Core i7-11600H hexa-core processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q […]
Razer Blade 15 Base gaming laptop gets a Tiger Lake upgrade
The Razer Blade 15 line of gaming laptops comes in two versions: Base and Advanced. Earlier this year Razer released an updated Razer Blade 15 Advanced, bringing support for up to an 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake-H processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics. But at the time if you wanted to buy a less expensive […]
Tuxedo Stellaris 15 is a Linux gaming laptop with Intel or AMD processors, NVIDIA graphics
Linux PC company Tuxedo Computers is taking orders for a new gaming laptop called the Tuxedo Stellaris 15 Gen 3. It’s a 4.9 pound notebook with up to a 2560 x 1440 pixel display featuring a high refresh rate, support for up to a 150-watt NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU. It’s also available with three […]
Razer Blade 14 is a compact gaming laptop with Ryzen 9 5900HX and NVIDIA graphics
Gaming hardware company Razer says its new Razer Blade 14 is the world’s most powerful gaming laptop with a 14 inch display and, while we’ll probably need to wait for third-party reviews to confirm that, a glance at the spec sheet sure looks promising. The notebook supports up to a 100-watt NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 […]
Dell launches Alienware X line of gaming laptops with slim designs
The Alienware x15 is a high-power gaming laptop available with up to an Intel Core i9-11900H processor and up to 90-watt NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics. But it’s also a fairly compact notebook by gaming PC standards, measuring 14.2″ x 10.9″ x 0.6″ and weighing about 5 pounds. It’s part of a new Alienware X line […]
Acer Predator Triton 500 SE is a compact, but powerful gaming laptop
Acer’s new Predator Triton 500 SE (PT516-51s) is a gaming laptop with support for up to an Intel Core i9 Tiger Lake processor, up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics, and up to 64GB of RAM and 4TB of PCIe NVMe SSD storage But it’s also a compact notebook with a body that measures about 0.75 […]
HP launches Omen 16 and 17 gaming laptops, introduces Victus budget gaming notebook brand
HP is expanding its gaming laptop with new Omen 16 and Omen 17 premium notebooks as well as a new lower-cost laptop, the Victus by HP 16. All of the new laptops feature discrete graphics and HP will offer models with a choice of Intel Tiger Lake-H or AMD Ryzen 5000H series processors. HP Omen […]