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Apple is set to roll out a sweeping overhaul of its Mac lineup in 2026, with the M6-powered MacBook Pro and redesigned iMacs leading the charge.

A new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, a well-known Apple insider with a strong track record, states Apple is finalizing work on the updated 14-inch MacBook Pro, which is expected to arrive in late 2026 before it transitions to the next-gen M7 chip in 2027. According to Gurman, Apple is planning to debut two new versions of every Mac it sells, including updates for its desktop computers. The report states Apple has already finished the design for the low-end M6 MacBook Pro, which will be the first to use the new M6 chip, along with two iMacs.

What is likely the standout from the new line-up is the high-end 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro, which Gurman writes will come with a fresh new design and a touchscreen that uses OLED pixel technology. These two new laptops are pegged to release sometime between this year and early next year, and both will, interestingly, use the previous-gen M5 Pro and M5 Max chips when they release.

MSI unveiled its 40th-anniversary flagship laptop at Computex 2026, and we got to see its impressive design up close. The MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic limited edition laptop certainly lives up to its name, thanks to a physical design with impressive metal etching and art inspired by the Draco constellation, including anodized color embedded directly into the metal chassis.

It's a limited-edition design that comes in a special collector's edition bundle and packaging that includes a gaming mouse, a large mouse mat, and a commemorative coin. Yes, it's a stunning creation, but also a flagship gaming laptop packing some of the most impressive mobile hardware currently available. From a CPU and GPU perspective, it features the 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor and the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 memory.

The MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic is also on the larger side, with the 18 in the naming referring to its 18-inch 4K Mini LED display that sports a 240 Hz refresh rate and 100% DCI-P3 color accuracy, with VESA DisplayHDR 1000 Certification. The MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic is also built to unlock the full potential of its hardware, with vapor chamber cooling and a total power rating of 270W thanks to MSI's OverBoost technology.

NVIDIA's RTX Spark system-on-chip (SoC) is on track to launch this fall, powering a new wave of Windows on Arm devices with its Grace CPU and RTX Blackwell GPU architecture. Announced at Computex 2026, RTX Spark marks NVIDIA's debut in the APU space, and the first devices will arrive as powerful premium laptops and mini PCs from companies like ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and more, with support for up to 127GB of unified memory.

Although specific dates, pricing, and even in-depth performance targets are still TBC, NVIDIA has released its first RTX Spark 'Developer Preview' driver so that developers can start porting their apps to Windows on Arm.

"Developers can begin preparing their applications for Windows on Arm and RTX Spark today," NVIDIA writes in a new post on its developer forums. "You do not need RTX Spark hardware to get started; an existing Windows on Arm development system can be used to port your application, identify incompatible dependencies, and bring up an initial Arm64 build."

For those who might not be aware, NVIDIA, SEGA, and the Virtua Fighter series share a long, storied history dating back 30 years. Back in the 1990s, as 3D visuals in games began to appear, SEGA's arcade fighting game Virtua Fighter quickly became one of the hallmarks of where gaming technology was headed. And as part of bringing the game to PC, SEGA partnered with NVIDIA to leverage its NV1 chip to power this version of the game.

Today, 30 years later, SEGA Akihabara Arcade in Tokyo, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, SEGA CEO Haruki Satomi, SEGA COO Shuji Utsumi, Virtua Fighter creator Yu Suzuki, and former SEGA CEO and President Shoichiro Irimajiri came together to celebrate this partnership by announcing that the upcoming VIRTUA FIGHTER CROSSROADS is headed to RTX Spark.

RTX Spark is NVIDIA's new custom Arm-based APU built for premium laptops, debuting at Computex 2026, delivering powerful CPU performance with RTX graphics technologies and fast memory. With RTX Spark-powered Windows on Arm laptops on track for later this year, one of the highlights of these devices will be their PC gaming capabilities.

Lenovo has quietly confirmed its first ThinkPad laptops built around Intel's Wildcat Lake chips, adding new configurations to the ThinkPad E14 Gen 8 and ThinkPad E16 Gen 4 in its official product specifications database. This is the first time Intel's budget Core Series 3 platform has shown up in Lenovo's business laptop lineup.

Wildcat Lake officially launched earlier this year as Intel's Core Series 3 family, sitting a notch below the Core Ultra 300 "Panther Lake" chips that already power higher-end ThinkPad models. Both the E14 and E16 will offer buyers a choice between the two platforms, giving Lenovo a cheaper entry point without dropping the newer silicon entirely.

The listed SKUs include the Core 5 315, Core 5 320, Core 5 330, and a Core 7 360 model, each carrying two "Cougar Cove" P-cores paired with four "Darkmont" low-power E-cores, for six cores and six threads total. P-core boost clocks reportedly range from 4.4 GHz to 4.8 GHz, depending on the SKU.

UPDATE: Lenovo has reached out to clarify the below, confirming that it "does not use YMTC SSDs in products configured and shipped to the US market" and that the review in question was conducted on a German SKU (21UX005PGE) not for sale in the US.

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When it comes to consumer technology and PC hardware, specifically memory and storage, we're currently in unprecedented times. Prices are rising at an alarming rate, with manufacturers shifting focus toward the booming, insatiable AI and data center market. This is leading to scarcity and price increases for hardware that's even a generation or two old, stuff that normally drops in price as the years go on.

Gaming laptops and portability have always been an uneasy pairing. The more powerful the hardware, the heavier and bulkier the machine tends to get. ThundeRobot is looking to challenge that with the ZERO Air 16, a 16-inch gaming laptop it claims is the lightest in the world at its performance tier, weighing just 1.64 kg.

To put the weight in context, 1.64 kg is lighter than many 14-inch gaming laptops with comparable RTX 50-series graphics. The closest 16-inch competitor is the LG gram Pro 16, but that machine uses an RTX 5050, not an RTX 5070. ASUS ROG models can get lighter, but those are 14-inch designs. At 16 inches with a full RTX 5070, ThundeRobot appears to have carved out a category of one, at least for now.

On the hardware side, the ZERO Air 16 pairs an Intel Core Ultra 7 356H, a 16-core Panther Lake chip, with an RTX 5070 Laptop GPU carrying 8GB of GDDR7 memory. The chassis is built from carbon fiber, which explains how ThundeRobot managed to hit that weight figure. The laptop ships with 32GB of LPDDR5 memory and 1TB of storage. Marketing materials mention an HDD, but that is almost certainly a translation error given the form factor.

Apple is reportedly making a significant change to its Apple Silicon roadmap. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the company has canceled plans for M6 Pro and M6 Max chips, making the M6 the first Apple Silicon generation since 2020 to ship without higher-end variants. Instead of following the usual cadence, Apple is jumping straight to the M7, which is being designed primarily around on-device AI performance.

The base M6 chip is still on track for late 2026 and will appear in entry-level MacBook Pro models, the Mac mini, iMac, and potentially upcoming iPad Pro and iPad Air models. It brings meaningful improvements over the M5, including memory bandwidth up to 200GB/s compared to 153GB/s on the M5, an updated Neural Engine, a redesigned GPU with up to 12 cores, up from 10, and performance improvements across all processor cores. Prior rumors have also suggested that the M6 will be built on Apple's new 2nm process to reduce manufacturing costs.

The M7 is expected to arrive in relatively quick succession, with the base chip targeting the first half of 2027. The M7 Pro and M7 Max are slated for the end of 2027, with the M7 Ultra following in 2028. Bloomberg reports that the M7 line is designed primarily around major advancements in on-device AI processing, with the base M7 expected to support around 240 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

For on-the-go productivity, entertainment, and managing day-to-day tasks, it's hard to look past an ultra-thin and lightweight laptop. GEEKOM, a name that has become a mainstay in the Mini PC space thanks to a broad lineup of compact, powerful, quiet, and well-built rigs, has brought its expertise to the portable and lightweight laptop space with devices like the GEEKOM GeekBook X16 Pro. This is an ultra-lightweight laptop that packs serious power in its sleek, stylish build, and with Pride Day sales kicking off, you can save big on this impressive laptop right now on Amazon.

The GeekBook X16 Pro is built to last, with a full-metal, lightweight 2.8 lbs (1.27 kg) body made from aerospace-grade magnesium alloy in a precision-milled CNC unibody design that measures just 0.27 inches (6.8 mm) thick. And with a Titanium Gray finish, it's as sleek as it is compact. Lift the lid, and you've got a crisp 16-inch IPS display with a 2.5K (2560 x 1600) resolution, a fast 120 Hz refresh rate, 400 nits of peak brightness for working in bright environments, and 100% sRGB color accuracy for creative tasks and workloads.

Underneath the hood, it's powered by the flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 185H 'Meteor Lake' processor that sports an impressive 16 cores, 22 threads, clock speeds of up to 5.1 GHz, and 24MB of Smart Cache for fast and consistent performance no matter the task. The Intel Core Ultra 9 185H also features integrated Intel Arc graphics with support for the latest graphics and video technologies, AI-powered XeSS rendering technologies, and dedicated ray tracing hardware for gaming and complex graphics workloads.

Microsoft has announced the availability of its new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 processors. These Windows on Arm devices arrive as the Windows 11 x86 alternative continues to expand, with Microsoft also teasing that its premium Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by NVIDIA's new RTX Spark processor, is on track to release sometime "later this year."

Microsoft notes that the Surface Laptop Ultra is its "most powerful Surface Laptop ever, built for developers and creative professionals pushing their work further." In addition, Microsoft will release a Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, marking Surface's entry into the Mini PC realm with a powerful Windows on Arm box featuring the new RTX Spark processor.

As for the new Snapdragon X2 devices, they are definitely more affordable options (early word from all RTX Spark partners hints that those devices are "premium," which means expensive), with the Surface Pro 13-inch being a 2-in-1 tablet-and-laptop hybrid. Starting at $1,499 USD, Microsoft is touting a 53% improvement in graphics performance compared to first-gen Snapdragon X devices, up to 15.5 hours of battery life, and impressive features such as an OLED display and a 1440p Quad HD camera.

Lenovo's first RTX Spark laptop has been pictured in a new report from Windows Latest, giving us a look at the Yoga Pro 9n ahead of its fall 2026 launch. Lenovo already unveiled the laptop at the NVIDIA RTX Spark launch event, though the company had confirmed very few details about its specs.

The new images show a 15-inch machine in Thunder Gray that shares recognizable design DNA with the Intel-powered Yoga Pro 9i, but with major differences under the hood and chassis. The Yoga Pro 9n is built around NVIDIA's RTX Spark N1X platform, an ARM-based chip that combines a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU. The platform is designed to bring discrete-class RTX graphics and AI performance into a single unified package.

At 15 inches, the Yoga Pro 9n is slightly more compact than the 16-inch 9i, and the chassis leans into that with a slim aluminum build, smooth rounded edges, and a large rear exhaust area that Lenovo has designed for sustained performance rather than passive cooling. The bottom panel has a wide intake grille spanning most of the width, and the rear vents are substantial. A six-speaker setup with four woofers and two tweeters is visible in the images, alongside Dolby Vision Atmos branding.

Apple's MacBook Neo has been one of the biggest success stories of the year, with the company's budget and affordable laptop quickly becoming one of the most sought-after and recommended 'best-value' entry-level laptops for productivity, creator workloads, and more. With its vibrant 13-inch Liquid Retina display, the MacBook Neo's affordability and success stem from its A18 Pro processor, which previously powered the iPhone 16 Pro.

It's unprecedented for an Apple device to dominate or make a splash in the budget and entry-level laptop space, and it's been such a disruptor that the competition is taking note. Case in point, a new marketing push from AMD for the latest Ryzen AI-powered laptops is all about how they're, well, better than a MacBook Neo.

Especially when it comes to gaming, where AMD says that the affordable AMD Ryzen 5 240 and its integrated Radeon 760M graphics can run all 20 of the 'Top 20 PC Games,' natively, while the MacBook Neo can only run five. AMD adds 'high frame rates' and 'advanced graphics' as features of its Ryzen AI processors; however, it's worth noting that the Radeon 760M struggles with a lot of modern games.

Apple's first touchscreen MacBook is now "100% confirmed," according to Instant Digital, a Chinese leaker with a strong track record on Apple supply chain rumors. Posted on Weibo via MacRumors, this claim is the most definitive statement yet on a feature Apple has dismissed for over a decade.

Touchscreen rumors for the Mac started back in January 2023 when Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said an OLED MacBook Pro with touch support would be Apple's first touchscreen Mac, originally slated for 2025. That timeline slipped, but the rumors never really went away.

In September 2025, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro would enter mass production sometime in 2026. Gurman has since repeated that the next 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models will get touchscreens, with a launch window of late 2026 to early 2027.

The first PassMark results for Intel's Core Ultra 7 251HX have surfaced. On paper, the chip technically sits below its siblings, but the results are surprisingly on par with them. Spotted by leaker x86deadandback, the 18-core Arrow Lake-HX processor is putting up numbers that land it remarkably close to, and in some cases ahead of, the 20-core Core Ultra 7 255HX and 265HX.

PassMark currently lists the 251HX at 48,713 points in multi-thread and 4,666 points in single-thread. That single-thread score puts it 2 to 3% ahead of both the 255HX and 265HX, while the multi-thread result also edges out both 20-core chips slightly.

Now, this is based on only two submitted samples so far, and PassMark itself flags the result as having a high margin of error given the limited sample size. The 255HX and 265HX have far larger result pools behind their averages. With all that in mind, treat this as an early signal rather than a settled comparison.

Framework has confirmed that shipments of its first Laptop 13 Pro units, originally planned for late June, are now delayed by about a month. Deliveries are now expected to begin in late July, with some potentially not arriving until early August. The company notified pre-order customers directly via email, and importantly, this delay has nothing to do with the ongoing DRAM and memory shortage.

Framework says it found two issues before the mass-production ramp. One with the new haptic touchpad and another with the custom display. Framework's email says that the haptic trackpad has undergone a dozen internal firmware releases, but an electrical grounding issue was found in its circuit board design, causing the trackpad to reset after repeated clicks.

The company worked with suppliers Lite-On and Boréas to diagnose the problem and determined that a new board design is needed. Framework is now running validation testing, including a 200,000-click endurance test, and the new modules are expected to reach the final assembly factory by mid-July.

GEEKOM, a brand best known for its ultra-compact mini PCs, has launched its first high-performance business laptop. The GeekBook M16 is priced at $899 with a $100 pre-order discount, bringing it to $799, and it comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor and a battery capacity that puts many premium laptops to shame.

On the hardware side, the Core Ultra 9 branding is front and center in GEEKOM's marketing, though the actual chip is the Core Ultra 9 185H, a Series 1 Meteor Lake processor rather than the newer Arrow Lake or Panther Lake architectures. That is not a dealbreaker, as the 185H remains a capable chip with 16 cores, 22 threads, boost clocks up to 5.1GHz, and sustained power of up to 55W through GEEKOM's Dynamic Tuning Technology.

However, this does make the M16 a step back from the GeekBook X14 Pro and X16 Pro that GEEKOM showed last year. Those models were listed with Intel Core Ultra 200H "Arrow Lake-H" processors, including the Core Ultra 9 285H. The M16 features a 99.9Wh battery, which GEEKOM claims can provide up to 24 hours of Wi-Fi browsing and around 20 hours of local video playback. It also supports 100W fast charging via USB-C.

The new HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC is not your everyday laptop; it's the result of a multi-year collaboration between the Ferrari Design Studio and HP's own design team. Based on the specs and its stylish red finish, the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC is certainly a luxury item, with a bottom surface made of a carbon fiber-glass mix to showcase the hardware.

There are several impressive design touches, from a full glass palm rest to a haptic touchpad that lights up on contact. The CNC precision-milled chassis features a zirconium bead-blasted surface finished in Ferrari's Rosso Magma deep red to evoke the feel of molten lava and metallic particles. The laptop also ships with a custom Poltrona Frau leather sleeve, made from the same Italian leather used in Ferrari interiors.

Even the cooling includes airflow and a vent design that leans into Ferrari's expertise when it comes to heat management. As for the hardware, you've got an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H processor with integrated Intel Arc B390 graphics and a premium 3K Tandem OLED+ touch display.

COLORFUL unveiled a pair of new flagship gaming laptops at Computex 2026: the iGame M15 and M16 Origo. However, at first glance, the physical design of these devices definitely falls into the sleek and lifestyle category thanks to the slim 19.9mm profile and subtle use of lighting. The naming scheme covers two variants: one with a 15-inch display and one with a 16-inch display; however, both are powered by the fully unlocked 115W GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU.

In either size, both are 2.5K 16:10 displays with a 300 Hz refresh rate, 500-nit brightness, and 100% sRGB color accuracy. Outside of the display, the iGame M15 Origo is powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor, while the iGame M16 Origo is powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 386H processor. The latter is a 16-core processor from Intel's new Panther Lake family, featuring 16 cores, a 4-core Intel Xe3 integrated GPU, and an NPU for local AI.

Among Windows-based gaming laptops, one of the more interesting features of the iGame M15 and M16 Origo laptops we saw was their integration with the new COLORFUL Netsite app for Android. Basically, if you install this on your smartphone, you can set it up so the laptop automatically unlocks and locks when you're close. It's a small but nice little security feature that extends to AI-powered voice commands, remote access, and multi-device management.

NVIDIA made a big splash at Computex 2026 with RTX Spark, its new platform that combines an ARM-based Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU on a single chip. While the hardware looks seriously impressive on paper, a new Morgan Stanley report suggests it won't come cheap.

Analysts at Morgan Stanley suggest that laptops powered by the flagship N1x chip will not be priced below around $2,899, while entry-level systems running the standard N1 platform are expected to start at roughly $1,799. Those figures are for base configurations, likely meaning 16GB to 32GB of RAM and 512GB to 1TB of storage. Fully loaded models with 128GB of unified memory and multi-terabyte SSDs will cost considerably more.

At those price points, RTX Spark is not competing with mainstream Windows laptops. It is going directly after Apple's MacBook Pro, which starts at around $2,100 for the M5 Pro configuration. NVIDIA's advantage lies in graphics performance and AI compute.

ASUS has revealed two new ProArt laptops and a new ProArt Mini PC powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip. The lineup, headlined by the ProArt P16, ProArt P14, and a new ProArt Mini PC, marks the first from ASUS built around the RTX Spark platform, a chip package that sounds more like something you would expect to find in a workstation than in a laptop.

Both laptops are aimed at creators, AI developers, and users running local AI workloads. Underneath their lightweight chassis (we'll get to that) sits NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, which pairs a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU with a Blackwell-based RTX GPU connected via the high-speed NVLink-C2C interconnect.

Its fastest flavor, the P16, features up to 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores and a staggering 128GB of unified LPDDR5X RAM. That unified memory architecture is a big deal for Windows PCs, as it allows massive amounts of RAM to be shared with the GPU, which is exactly what you need to run large language models (LLMs) locally without relying on the cloud.