Laptops - Page 4

Lenovo has jumped the gun a bit by posting specs and details for upcoming laptops that will reportedly ship with GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPUs featuring 12GB of GDDR7 memory, as opposed to the standard 8GB found on current RTX 5070 laptops. The models in question include the Legion Pro 5, with the listing (via Huang514613 on social media) detailing the new GPU and noting a Boost Clock speed of 2347 MHz and a TGP of 115W.

There are multiple Lenovo laptops on the way with the new and refreshed GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPUs, including productivity-focused Yoga devices. Although full spec details have yet to be confirmed by NVIDIA and these listings have been taken offline for the most part, the expectation is that these GPUs will feature newer 3GB GDDR7 memory modules, increasing VRAM capacity by 50%.

Huang514613, who spotted multiple listings, notes in his post that the embargo date for the new laptops is "around the end of April," so it could be a few weeks before we get any official confirmation.

In a surprise move this week, Apple announced the MacBook Neo, an affordable, lightweight 13-inch laptop with a Liquid Retina display, all-day battery life, A18 Pro processor, 8GB of memory, and storage options starting from 256GB. The surprise part comes from the $599 USD starting price, making it one of the most affordable hardware launches at a time when prices are increasing dramatically due to the current memory and storage crisis.

What makes the Apple MacBook Neo's release interesting and limiting from a hardware perspective is that it uses the A18 Pro chip, which previously powered the iPhone 16 Pro. Granted, the MacBook Neo is positioned as an affordable laptop for lightweight productivity, basic creator tasks, students, and everyday users who want something primarily for browsing, accessing emails, and streaming media.

One of the main criticisms of the device is its 8GB of RAM; however, it seems this might be the limit, or the only configuration available, based on how the A18 Pro mobile chip works. According to High Yield on social media, the TSMC InFO-PoP packaging features DRAM sitting on top of the SoC in a closed design.

Although Windows on Arm has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks to the arrival of new Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm and a real effort by Microsoft to improve compatibility and gaming performance on non-X86 hardware running the operating system, there's still a way to go.

However, with NVIDIA's upcoming Arm-based N1 and N1X chips that combine Arm-based CPU cores with GeForce RTX graphics entering the Windows on Arm space with new gaming laptops later this year, it now looks like game developers and publishers like EA are also stepping in to expand support for Windows on Arm gaming. Although the N1X gaming laptops from the likes of Lenovo and other NVIDIA partners still fall under the 'rumor' banner, a new job posting by EA does make it sound like they're coming sooner rather than later.

According to the listing, EA is looking for a new engineer to join its Security team to help "Develop a native ARM driver for EA Javelin Anticheat," which would see Battlefield 6 become playable on current and future Windows on Arm devices. And as we're talking about a fast-paced shooter, odds are this would be for a more capable gaming laptop with GeForce RTX hardware.

As was widely expected, Apple launched its new budget laptop at today's press event, and it's called the MacBook Neo as a leak suggested yesterday.

It's a 13-inch laptop which does indeed run with an iPhone chip, the A18 Pro (again as rumored), but the key bit here is that - despite my paranoia due to the MacBook Air M5 price bump - it's genuinely affordable. The MacBook Neo starts from $599, in fact ($499 with the education discount).

Okay, so as you might guess, the core spec is modest, with 8GB of system RAM and 256GB of storage for that base price.

Apple might have accidentally strayed into some serious faux pas territory by leaking the name of its budget MacBook that's rumored to be launching tomorrow.

Based on a regulatory document spotted by MacRumors, the device will be called the MacBook Neo. That's the name provided in the document, alongside a model number - A3404 - on Apple's website.

Or it was, because as soon as MacRumors published its article highlighting the MacBook Neo reference, it disappeared from the online document. Naturally, that's par for the course with any leak.

Apple has announced a new MacBook Air with the M5 chip running the show inside the laptop.

As well as the M5 here, the other notable move is that the entry-level model costs $100 more than previously - but there's a reason for that. Namely that the amount of base storage has been doubled to 512GB. You still get 16GB of unified RAM on-board.

Another upgrade that stands out is that there's Wi-Fi 7 support here, which is great to see, along with Bluetooth 6 courtesy of Apple's new N1 wireless networking chip.

In addition to the Legion Go Fold, Lenovo has another impressive concept to showcase at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona. The ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept is described as a device built for AI-powered business computing, featuring a modular design with multiple displays and a detachable keyboard.

"The concept is centered on the idea of 'carry small, use big,' enabling a single device to support productivity, collaboration, and content consumption across different scenarios," Lenovo explains. With a 14-inch ultrathin ThinkBook laptop serving as the basis for the design, the secondary display is a fully integrated "portable travel monitor" that supports horizontal and vertical orientations.

What makes the ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept unique is that with the detachable keyboard, the second display can sit in that spot, next to the laptop, or even above the main screen. With a 19-inch viewing area, it's a versatile productivity enhancer.

COLORFUL's new EVOL P15 gaming laptops have been unveiled, with two models set to launch in Q1 2026. The COLORFUL EVOL P15 Carbon Grey with 14th Gen Intel Core i7-14650HX processor and GeForce RTX 5060 graphics, and the COLORFUL EVOL P15 Cloud White with Intel Core i5-13420H processor and GeForce RTX 5050 graphics - two laptop GPUs with 8GB of VRAM.

COLORFUL is positioning both as laptops for gamers and creators, featuring 15.6-inch IPS displays with 100% sRGB color accuracy and performance built for multitasking and high-refresh-rate PC gaming. The flagship EVOL P15 Carbon Grey with a GeForce RTX 5060 GPU sports a 15.6-inch QHD IPS display, with a 2560x1440 resolution and 165Hz refresh rate, while the more affordable EVOL P15 Cloud White with a GeForce RTX 5050 GPU sports a 15.6-inch FHD IPS display, with a 1920x1080 resolution and 144Hz refresh rate.

Both laptops also feature up to 16GB of DDR5 5200MHz memory, 512GB of PCIe Gen3 M.2 SSD storage with an additional M.2 expansion slot, and COLORFUL's custom Ice Cooling System. The more powerful RTX 5060 model includes dual fans and five thermal heatpipes, while the RTX 5050 model's cooling is limited to four.

Apple's new entry-level MacBook release is right around the corner, and while the $799 laptop will only have 8GB of RAM, it'll reportedly account for 25% of all 2025 Mac sales.

In a new post from yeux1122, we're told that the new MacBook will indeed only have 8GB of RAM, with the ongoing DRAM crisis forcing Apple to launch the new low-cost MacBook in just a single memory configuration, saving costs, also the new MacBook is using the A18 Pro processor, which is an iPhone processor.

Apple is expected to sell somewhere between 5.5 million and 7.9 million units of its new entry-level MacBook, with prices of between $699 and $799, up from the $599 of the previous low-cost MacBook. Apple shipped a total of between 24.8 million and 25.6 million Macs in 2025, and while the MacBook Air is cheaper, it's not as cheap as the regular MacBook.

Apple's new entry-level MacBook isn't far away, with a new report suggesting that RAM prices skyrocketing won't affect the company's plans to launch its new cheap MacBook.

In a new post on X from analyst @Jukan, we're hearing that the new report suggests Apple's new entry-level MacBook will be priced between $699 and $799, and it'll feature just 8GB of RAM, and Apple's in-house A18 Pro processor, which is used inside of its iPhones.

Apple is reportedly preparing for annual sales of between 5-8 million units for its upcoming entry-level MacBook, but seeing a new laptop being sold in 2026 with 8GB of RAM is just... peak Apple, really. Considering that previous reports from August 2025 had the new MacBook being priced at as low as $599... the price hike from there, and the fact it only has 8GB of RAM is a really hard pill to swallow.

Lenovo is working on multiple new laptops powered by NVIDIA's new N1X and N1 Arm-based processors, representing the first Windows on Arm gaming laptops from Lenovo.

NVIDIA has been cooking up its new Arm-based N1X and N1 processors for a while now, combining power-efficient Arm-based CPU cores with Blackwell-based GPU cores onto an SoC. The new N1X and N1 processors will be capable of playing new games smoothly on gaming laptops, making them the first "true" Windows on Arm gaming laptops.

In a now-deleted post on X from dataminer @Huang514613, Lenovo has listed some of its upcoming NVIDIA N1X and N1-powered gaming laptops, which will arrive in new Ideapad Slim, Yoga Pro, and Legion 7 gaming laptops that I'm sure will be unveiled at Computex 2026 in a few months' time.

Samsung's Galaxy Book6 Pro is going to have a hefty price hike applied to the laptop, with a 25% increase on its predecessor - at least based on the South Korean market.

Although that won't be much of a surprise to anyone who follows the tech world, given that the RAM price crisis - and also costlier storage - is having a considerable impact on laptops and PCs in general.

VideoCardz spotted that Samsung's imminent laptop, which is built around Intel's new Panther Lake silicon, now has a launch web page for South Korea featuring a countdown timer, which also gives pricing details ahead of the on-sale date of January 27.

One of the key considerations for a laptop is always battery life, and there's a new high in terms of a thin-and-light notebook, as teased by Hardware Canucks.

As VideoCardz highlighted, the veteran Canadian tech site took to X in order to tease the fact that a new laptop has managed to exceed 24 hours for battery life in its web browsing test - a feat never before accomplished by a thin-and-light device.

This realm of battery life has previously only been inhabited by rugged laptops with beefy batteries designed to last forever when working in the field - not consumer notebooks, and certainly not slimline models.

A shipping manifest for a Dell 16 Premium laptop has appeared online, listing NVIDIA's mysterious upcoming Arm-powered N1X APU for consumer PCs and mobile devices. The listing also states that it's an engineering technical sample for "R&D purposes," suggesting it's a laptop powered by the unreleased NVIDIA N1X chip.

Also, the addition of the 'DVT' text, which stands for Design Validation Test, points to this notebook being a fully realized or hardware and feature complete version of a new laptop powered by NVIDIA's new Arm-based APU that is said to include an integrated GPU with up to RTX 5070 levels of performance.

However, as this particular manifest dates back to November 2025, this Dell 16 Premium laptop appears to be last year's model, which has since been superseded by the recently announced return of the Dell XPS brand in 2026. So this provides more evidence that the NVIDIA N1X chip is very real, but also suggests its launch has been delayed.

Thunderobot was something I sought out in the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center at CES 2026 today, finding the company's new ZERO Air gaming laptop powered by Intel's new Panther Lake CPU, and a super thin-and-light design.

The new Thunderobot ZERO Air gaming laptop is the next form of next-gen lightweight gaming laptops, with its new super thin-and-light design thanks to Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" CPU made in-house on its new Intel 18A process node, and the use of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Laptop series GPUs, which are powerful, yet don't chew down a ton of power.

Thunderobot's new ZERO Air gaming laptop and its new Panther Lake CPU enjoys a 50% leap in multi-core performance over its predecessor, and 30% less power usage. The new ZERO Air features the Intel Core Ultra 9 386H with 16 cores and 16 threads at up to 4.9GHz.

We checked out the OneXPlayer booth at CES 2026, spotting the company's fresh new Super V gaming tablet, which is powered by Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" CPUs. Check it out:

Late last year, OneXPlayer introduced its new Super X gaming tablet on Kickstarter, powered by AMD's powerhouse Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU, but the new model unveiled at CES 2026 features the new Intel Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" CPU.

The difference between the Super X and Super V is that the former features the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 16 cores and 32 threads of CPU, and 40 cores of Radeon 8060S "RDNA 3.5" GPU cores, while the latter features 16 cores and 16 threads, and a powerful Arc B390 integrated graphics solution with 12 cores of Xe3 GPU.

ASUS unveiled its new Zephyrus Duo laptop at CES 2026, acting as the world's first dual 16-inch screen gaming laptop, powered by Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" CPUs, and up to the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. Check it out:

The new ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo dual-screen laptop features an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H processor, and can be configured with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 memory. The Duo was built from the ground up for flagship gaming and content creation wherever you are, ready to rock and roll with dual 16-inch displays.

When you open up the Zephyrus Duo it'll look like a regular gaming laptop, but under the magnetic keyboard cover hides another full-sized 16-inch OLED display. The engineers at ASUS have performed some tech magic, hiding a complete dual-screen mobile battlestation inside of the 16-inch laptop form factor, which is pretty damn cool.

MSI introduced its new Prestige 16 Flip AI+ laptop at CES 2026, its new 2-in-1 form factor system with touch-capable displays and stylus support. Check it out:

The company unveiled its all-new Prestige 16 and Prestige 14 laptops this week, premium business and productivity laptops crafted for professionals that want high performance, mobility, and a sleek design. The new Prestige laptops are smaller than their predecessors, feature a tweaked design, and are crafted from full aluminum for a more refined, premium feel.

MSI's new Prestige 16 Flip AI+ laptop can be configured with up to Intel's new Core Ultra X9 388H "Panther Lake" processor with 16 cores, a powerful integrated Arc B390 GPU, and a faster NPU for AI workloads. There's a beautiful 1800p @ 120Hz OLED display with VRR and DisplayHDR TrueBlack 1000 certification, too.

MSI revealed its wicked new Stealth 16 AI+ laptop at CES 2026, combining portability and power with its sleek look, winning the prestigious CES Innovation Award.

MSI has always used serious performance in a sleek, portable design with its Stealth line, but the new Stealth 16 AI+ takes that formula "to the next level", says MSI.

The new Stealth 16 AI+ laptop is just 16.6mm thin, weighs under 2kg, and yet rocks out with Intel's new Core Ultra 9 386H "Panther Lake" processor... oh, and you can configure the new Stealth 16 AI+ with up to NVIDIA's uber-powerful GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 memory.

LG has debuted its new premium gaming monitor brand, UltraGear evo at CES 2026, and to kick things off with this new product lineup LG is releasing three flagship models.

The first is the 39GX950B, a 39-inch 5K OLED gaming monitor that comes equipped with an on-device AI solution that LG states enables the delivery of 5K clarity without the need for GPU upgrades. LG explained in a press release that the 39GX950B will also be coming with LG Primary RGB Tandem OLED technology, which provides improvements to brightness, color accuracy, and the longevity of the display.

Additionally, the 39GX950B is a dual mode monitor, meaning it can switch from its 5K at 165Hz refresh rate to 2K at 330Hz. Furthermore, the display has a 0.3ms (GtG) response time, a 21:9 aspect ratio, and a 1500R curvature.