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Alienware has announced that its GeForce RTX 40 Series laptops are set to debut next week, with the Alienware m18 launching in the US on February 9 with a GeForce RTX 4080 starting from USD 2899. This is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB GDDR6, 150W, 2280 MHz Boost version.

Alienware m18 with GeForce RTX 4080

The Alienware m18 features a large 18-inch display (165Hz 1440p or 480Hz 1080p) alongside the latest GeForce RTX laptop graphics, Intel's 13th-gen HX mobile CPUs, and even up to 9TB of internal storage via 2x 4TB and 2x 512GB PCIe NVMeM.2 SSDs.

With NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 40 Series laptops making their debut next month - covering everything from RTX 4090 down to RTX 4050 - prices for select models from MSI have appeared over at retailer Microcenter. With a high-end RTX 4090 powered laptop costing as much as USD 4700.

That's for the premium MSI Titan GT77HX that includes an RTX 4090 GPU, i9-13980HX CPU, 64GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 17.3" UHD Mini LED IPS 144Hz Display. And with a high-end 4K display and DDR5, no doubt the cost comes from more than the inclusion of an RTX 4090 laptop GPU.

Rumors are swirling that Apple is about to unveil the very first of its 2023 products, starting with new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBooks.

Several publications, including Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and Front Page Tech, have all published reports that claim Apple is scheduled to make a big product announcement tomorrow. Some of the publications aren't specific about what this announcement will entail, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claims that 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros are likely the product slated to be unveiled. Notably, these next-generation MacBook Pros are said to include Apple's new M2 chips.

So, what are the differences between the coming next-gen MacBooks and the latest released models? Not much. According to Gurman, Apple's new MacBook Pros will feature the same design as the company's M1 MacBooks but instead include the M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips. In particular, the M2 Max chip sport up to 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores, driving up total performance for those hungry performance users.

In addition to featuring a 13th Gen Intel Core i9 HX processor and support for up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 laptop graphics using the full 175W variant, the new Razer Blade 16 for 2023 has another high-tech feature up its sleeve. Thanks to its mini-LED display Razer has implemented a toggle that will allow it to seamlessly switch between two native resolutions - 4K 120Hz and 1080p 240Hz.

Razer Blade 16 (2023)

Of course, changing a display's resolution and refresh rate is not uncommon, but that's very different from what's happening here - as the two different modes listed above are the laptop's native resolutions. Razer calls it "the world's first dual-mode mini-LED display", and it's hard not to be impressed by what this sort of technology can bring to the gaming and creator laptop space. Effectively combining the two, in a best-of-both-worlds scenario.

MSI is preparing a monster new gaming laptop, according to the folks at Notebookcheck, with the next-gen TITAN GT77 gaming laptop rocking a delicious Mini-LED display and monster next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU.

The next-gen MSI TITAN GT77 gaming laptop will reportedly feature a huge 17.3-inch Mini-LED display with a native 3840 x 2160 resolution (4K) and a gloriously smooth 144Hz refresh rate. We're looking at MSI's new TITAN GT77 gaming laptop having DisplayHDR 1000 certification with up to 1000 nits of peak brightness, 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, and factory color calibration out of the box.

Inside, MSI's new TITAN GT77 gaming laptop will reportedly feature Intel's new 13th Gen Core-HX series CPUs with up to the 24-core model (8 Performance cores followed by 16 Efficient cores), while on the GPU side of things, we can expect NVIDIA's new monster flagship GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU which should feature 16GB of GDDR6X memory and some truly next-gen mobile GPU power inside. You'll need that to drive the 4K resolution at the huge 144Hz refresh rate.

HP is preparing some monster new gaming laptops in 2023, with their new HP Omen 17 gaming laptop teased with a monster NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 16GB Laptop GPU.

HP's next-gen Omen 17 gaming laptop + GeForce RTX 4090 16GB Laptop GPU (source: @momomo_us)

We haven't had any confirmation of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 40 series Laptop GPUs just yet, but it seems we can expect the GeForce RTX 4060 8GB Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 4070 8GB Laptop GPU, GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Laptop GPU, and finally the flagship GeForce RTX 4090 16GB Laptop GPU.

HP is preparing multiple Omen 17 gaming laptops built around NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 40 Laptop GPUs, as well as Intel's soon-to-be-released 13th Gen Core-HX series CPUs. The flagship HP Omen 17 gaming laptop will reportedly feature the Intel Core i7-13700HX processor, which will feature 16 cores (8 Performance cores joined by 8 Efficient cores) and a CPU boost clock of up to 5.0GHz.

Razer currently has its Blade 14, Blade 15, and Blade 17 gaming laptops with 14-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch displays, respectively... but it looks like there's something bigger coming on the horizon.

In a new leak on Geekbench, the purported Razer Blade 18 gaming laptop has been tested and it is shaping up to be quite the powerhouse. We should expect a larger 18-inch display (making it the largest display on any Razer laptop yet) as well as it being the first laptop from Razer that will feature an Intel HX-series CPU: a desktop-class CPU that's designed for the laptop BGA package.

Intel's upcoming Core i9-13900HX "Raptor Lake" CPU will feature 24 cores and 32 threads of CPU power, matching the desktop Core i9-13900K processor, with the Core i9-13900HX laptop CPU to boost up to 5.4GHz inside of Razer's upcoming Blade 18 gaming laptop.

Apple's next-gen MacBook Pro laptops were expected to shine brightly, with the laptops packing Apple's in-house M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs that were meant to be made on TSMC's new 3nm process node... well, that might not be happening.

The new Apple M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs were being built by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) to be used in the upcoming 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops, but according to insider Ming-Chi Kuo, the new CPUs for these MacBook Pro laptops will enter mass production in Q4 2022.

Kuo tweeted that given TSMC's guidance that the "3nm will contribute revenue starting in 1H23, processors of 14" and 16" MacBook Pro models may still adopt the 5nm advanced node". Translation: TSMC's new 3nm process node isn't shaping up so well, so they have to make Apple's new M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs on the 5nm advanced node instead.

XMG has just teased it will be launching its next-gen XMG NEO 17 (M22) gaming laptop is "coming in August" and it will be the most powerful XMG gaming laptop ever.

The new XMG NEO 17 (M22) gaming laptop will pack a 2560 x 1600 display with a 16:10 aspect ratio, and super-fast 240Hz refresh rate. Inside, XMG will provide a large 99 Wh battery that will provide battery life for all of that powerhouse performance inside of the XMG NEO 17 (M22) gaming laptop.

XMG adds that the NEO 17 gaming laptop is expandable with their innovative XMG OASIS liquid cooling system, which will ensure the CPU + GPU will be as cool as possible inside. We should expect to see the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU.

Xiaomi has just announced its new 2022 Book Pro laptops, its new line of flagship laptops that arrive with some delicious 16-inch and 14-inch OLED panels.

Inside, the new Xiaomi 2022 Book Pro laptops use an Intel Core i5-1240P "Alder Lake" CPU, which is a CPU architecture upgrade over the previous-gen Xiaomi 2021 Book Pro laptops which used the Intel 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake-H35" CPU. There's also 16GB of LPDDR5 memory and 512GB of PCie 4.0 SSD, and that goes for both the 16-inch and 14-inch Xiaomi 2022 Book Pro laptops.

The Intel Core i5-1240P "Alder Lake" CPU inside of the Xiaomi 2022 Book Pro laptop has 4 Performance cores and 8 Efficient cores for 12 cores in total. TDP wise, we're looking at 28W to 64W of power draw, which fits in line with a thin and light laptop.