Laptops - Page 5

Apple's about to launch its new MacBook Pro with M5 chip this week, alongside an iPad Pro refresh with the same chip, and a pepped up Vision Pro.

This is according to one of the most prolific Apple rumor peddlers out there, Mark Gurman, in his most recent Power On newsletter (for Bloomberg - hat tip to TechRadar).

We're told that the devices will be launched without the fanfare of a big press event - of course, as if it's this week, invites would need to be out already - with Apple using online announcements instead.

Apple's next MacBook Pro packing an M5 chip could be about to arrive according to the most recent chatter on the grapevine.

This comes from renowned Apple leaker Mark Gurman who posted on X (hat tip to TechRadar) observing that the supply of the MacBook Pro 14-inch entry-level M4 models (the vanilla CPU, not Pro or Max) are seeing 'constrained' supply levels at Apple's retail outlets.

Gurman noticed that custom configurations of the base MacBook Pro 14-inch models on Apple's online store are "constrained till the end of October".

ASUS's new ProArt P16 laptop is the company's latest premium flagship device for creators. ASUS is promising a 'best-in-class visual experience' with this, thanks to it being the first laptop to feature the company's new Lumina Pro OLED display. When paired with the GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU, it can handle 10-bit 4:2:2 video workflows with a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut and Delta E < 1 color accuracy.

Not only that, but this new OLED display is also a touchscreen, featuring a 4K (3840 x 2400) resolution, a 120 Hz refresh rate with VRR support, a 0.2ms response time, and a remarkable 1,600 nits of HDR peak brightness that is VESA DisplayHDR 1000 True Black 1000 and Dolby Vision certified. ASUS has also applied an 'advanced anti-reflection coating' to the display to enhance eye comfort while also enhancing the ambient contrast ratio. Yes, as far as displays go, the new Lumina Pro OLED sounds incredibly impressive.

Rounding out the specs, you've also got the powerful AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, 64GB of fast LPDDR5X RAM, 2TB of internal PCIe Gen4 SSD storage, and the aforementioned NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

The new COLORFUL Rimbook S1 is the latest addition to the company's lineup of portable and lightweight laptops. With a launch MSRP of $439 USD, it's an affordable notebook to take, well, note of. Described as an everyday laptop for students, home users, and professionals, the Rimbook S1 has been designed to strike a balance between performance and efficiency while maintaining its attractive price.

The COLORFUL Rimbook S1 is a 14-inch laptop that sports a lightweight 1.48kg build, a 16:10 1920x1200 60 Hz display, and is powered by an Intel Core i5-13420H processor. It also ships with 16GB of DDR4 memory, a 512GB SSD, and an expandable M.2 slot, as well as multiple ports including USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, and audio. Naturally, there's also Wi-Fi 6; however, the specs don't seem to mention Bluetooth support.

However, there is one feature that we'd love to see become standard in the laptop space - a physical on and off button for the camera and microphone. Battery-wise, the COLORFUL Rimbook S1 also features a 60Wh battery with 65W fast charging, enabling all-day use.

Lenovo has teased its new concept ThinkBook VertiFlex laptop with a rotatable 14-inch display, and a powerful, feature-packed Thunderbolt 5 smart dock.

The new Lenovo ThinkBook VertiFlex laptop has a 14-inch display inside of an ultra-slim 17.9mm body that weighs only 1.39kg, with the display rotating around depending on how you want to use it. This provides users with the ability to tweak between Portrait and Landscape viewing modes, without having to move the laptop around.

This is great for someone who uses split-screen multitasking, reviewing code, document viewing and writing, and more. Lenovo's new ThinkBook VertiFlex can also tether to your smartphone using Lenovo Smart Connect, so that you get a huge display as a phone mirror (in portrait and all). This is just a concept for now, with Lenovo not clear on whether the VertiFlex laptop would make it to the market.

MAINGEAR has just unveiled its new high-performance 16-inch gaming laptop co-developed with CLEVO, designed inside of a slim chassis with up to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU. Check it out:

The new MAINGEAR Super 16 gaming laptop features up to the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, the RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU (140W) with Max-Q technology, inside of a 16-inch display with a native 2560 x 1600 (16:10 aspect) resolution, a huge 300Hz refresh rate, NVIDIA G-SYNC support, and a sub-8ms response time.

MAINGEAR CEO Wallace Santos explains: "Super 16 delivers the performance and quality MAINGEAR is known for, now in a more accessible and portable form. Despite its thin chassis, it's packed with high-performance specs, delivering a fantastic gaming and entertainment experience in today's most popular gaming laptop size".

Acer has announced a bunch of new Predator gaming hardware at IFA 2025 this week, including the new Predator Helios 18P AI laptop and new Predator Orion 7000 Desktop Gaming PC. Check them out:

The new Predator Helios 18P AI laptop has been purpose-built upon the fantastic foundation of the Predator Helios 18 AI gaming laptop that I just finished reviewing, with the new Predator Helios 18P AI taking it up another notch. Acer's new Predator Helios 18P AI supports desktop-level AI computing, inferencing, and productivity... as well as content creators and gamers who are looking for a beast new laptop to own.

Inside, the new Acer Predator Helios 18P AI laptop features up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX with Intel vPro, which allows for hardware-level security and business-grade stability. It supports up to 192GB of ECC memory, up to the flagship NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 memory, and up to a huge 6TB of Gen5 SSD storage.

Acer has just unveiled its new Swift 16 AI laptop which is powered by Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU, with a 16-inch 3K OLED display to boot.

The company unveiled its new Acer Swift 16 AI laptop during IFA 2025 this week, with a slim 16-inch form factor, 3K OLED display, the world's largest haptic touchpad, a bunch of AI functionality, and it all weighs under 1kg. Intel said that its new Panther Lake CPUs will be making a full cycle launch in 2026, with new core IPs, faster graphics and gaming capabilities, longer battery life, and power next-gen AI.

In previous leaks, we've discovered that Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPUs will feature up to 16 cores using Cougar Cove P-Cores and Darkmont E/LP-E cores. We will see next-gen Xe3 LPG integrated GPU cores on a graphics tile, and a faster NPU with up to 3x more AI performance than Arrow Lake.

I'm always keen to see laptop innovations and here's an interesting one: a notebook which has a pair of extra displays that fold out from the main screen - albeit it comes with some hefty caveats that I'll return to.

This is a triple-screen laptop called the Max16 and it's a Chinese invention toting a 16-inch main display, and a pair of 10.5-inch displays that fold out to either side.

As Liliputing, which spotted the device (via VideoCardz), notes, it looks rather like a laptop which has a pair of dual-screen monitors attached, but these are fully built into the notebook in this case (they don't clip on). The two smaller screens fold in when you close the laptop (obviously making it thicker - it's 28mm when closed, and weighs 2.6kg).

Apple is rumored to be baking in a new in-house Wi-Fi chip onto its new M5-based MacBook Air laptops in both 13-inch and 15-inch MBA laptops in the future.

The big plan of Apple transitioning to its own in-house wireless solution started in 2023, where Apple would combine Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular (4G/5G) into a single package. This move would free up valuable space on the logic board, as well as boost power efficiency (leading to longer battery life).

The way it works now is that these components are separately soldered onto the logic board, increasing production costs and removing the benefits of using less space + less energy than using in-house solutions. The first important step for Apple will start with the upcoming iPhone 17, while the next phase would see the same in-house Wi-Fi chips on the M5 MacBook Air series refresh.

Apple is reportedly working on a low-cost MacBook that would be priced as low as $599, which is $400 cheaper than its MacBook Air that retails for $999.

The biggest difference between the purported new $599 MacBook and the $999 MacBook Air will be in the size of the laptop, with the new $599 MacBook said to sport a 12.9-inch display, compared to the 13.6-inch panel on the MacBook Air. Apple is reportedly looking at $599 to $699 pricing, with the new MacBook said to feature the A18 Pro chip, the same SoC that's inside of the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max smartphones.

Apple is reportedly looking at launching its new low-cost MacBook sometime in Q4 2025 or Q1 2026, and it could make quite the splash if and when it does arrive. The $599 pricing will be a huge deal for students and Apple fans that don't want to shell out close to, or over $1000 on a new laptop.

PELADN has just launched its new Link S-3, a new Thunderbolt 5 dock that supports external graphics cards with support for NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090, but the new Link S-3 also features more functionality with networking and storage on the TB5 dock.

PELADN's new Link-S3 Thunderbolt 5 dock has 80Gbps of bi-directional bandwidth over the Thunderbolt 5 port, with a reserved M.2 SSD slot and also a reserved 2.5GbE ethernet port, finished with a 140W Super-Fast charging design, delivering stronger power delivery while you're working or gaming.

There are two Thunderbolt 5 ports with the upstream port supporting up to 140W PD charging, and the downstream port offering 30W + DisplayPort 2.1 video output.

COLORFUL has introduced a new notebook and laptop that offers solid productivity performance and battery life in an affordable, lightweight package. The COLORFUL Rimbook L1 is part of the company's new Rimbook series, inspired by the "rim of a wheel" that will keep you "moving forward with purpose."

Marketing-speak aside, the COLORFUL Rimbook L1 is a lightweight and thin laptop powered by an Intel Core i5-12450H, which also features 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage for $399. The Intel Core i5-12450H might not be the most powerful mobile processor on the market, but for $400, it makes the COLORFUL Rimbook L1 stand out from other affordable notebooks that ship with lower specs.

The COLORFUL Rimbook L1 also includes a 15.6-inch 1080p display with a 60Hz refresh rate and 300-nit brightness rating, with support for a multi-display setup thanks to the USB-C port and HDMI port on the left side of the device. There's also a 2.5 Gbps LAN port in addition to Wi-Fi 6 for added versatility, and multiple USB ports for external devices.

In one of the more bizarre moves we've ever seen in the computing world, Microsoft has released a themed take on its Surface Laptop, and the theme is the Smurfs.

Yes, there's another Smurfs movie (a live-action musical reboot) which recently hit the theaters in the US, and that has inspired the 'Smurface Edition' notebook - that and clearly Microsoft couldn't resist the terrible pun.

This laptop is being sold on Amazon in the US and as The Verge reports, apparently there are only 100 units available. Should you want one, the Smurface Edition is still in stock, at least at the time of writing, and it'll set you back $999.99.

SIXUNITED might be a brand you've never heard of before, but the company has just revealed its new XN77 laptop that features AMD's powerful Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU. Check it out:

The new SIXUNITED XN77 laptop features the flagship AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU with an 85W and 120W TDP mode, sporting a dual-fan cooling system to keep the chip cool. The flagship Strix Halo APU packs 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, and a powerful 40-core RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU.

Inside we've got support for LPDDR5X memory at 8000MT/s with no options for upgrades, with the Strix Halo APU supporting up to 128GB of RAM, we should see somewhere between 64GB and 128GB of RAM inside of the SIXUNITED XN77 laptop. There's also support for up to dual Gen4 SSDs in M.2 2280 form factor.

Lenovo has just unveiled its first-ever ThinkPad laptop in white, with the introduction of its new ThinkPad X9 Aura AI Edition. Check it out:

The new Lenovo ThinkPad X9 Aura AI Edition is dubbed the "White Moonlight" edition, and it's exclusive to the Chinese market, powered by Intel's new Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" CPU. The company is offering its new laptop in both Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 9 processors, with up to 32GB of RAM, and integrated Intel Arc Xe2 GPU.

Lenovo has designed its new ThinkPad X9 Aura AI Edition laptop for business users and content creators who want the power ready for AI workloads, with an integrated NPU on the Lunar Lake CPU offering up to 48 TOPS of AI workload performance.

Apple was originally slated to release its new M5-powered MacBook Pro laptops later this year, but new information suggests the company has delayed the launch of its new MacBook Pros until 2026.

In his latest Power On newsletter on Bloomberg, Mark Gurman writes that according to "people with knowledge of the matter", Apple is working on upgraded MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, and that these new M5-powered laptops were to be released later this year, but Apple is "considering pushing them back to 2026".

The delay of the new M5-powered MacBook Pros and Airs is because Apple wants to get back to more consistent revenue growth following this fall's iPhone launch. Gurman explains: "After a pandemic-fueled sales surge in the early part of the decade, Apple has suffered from spottier demand the past two years. A slower rollout of new models - including iPads - contributed to the slump".

Apple might decide to hold back its next-gen MacBook Pro and Air models with the M5 chip until 2026, a fresh rumor suggests.

This is from a regular contributor of Apple-related rumors, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, who cites the usual anonymous sources providing some new details on the next Macs.

We're told that the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air M5 were originally due for a 2025 release, as has been the chatter on the grapevine so far, but that Apple is now 'considering' delaying the release of those notebooks to 2026. No reason is given for why this might be happening.

Chinese display manufacturer BOE is expected to capture 51% of Apple's MacBook display panel orders this year, up from 39% in 2024, according to new reports.

In a new story from MacRumors, BOE is expected to ship around 11.5 million units to Apple in 2025, which represents the first time that the Chinese display manufacturer will supply over half of the display panels used throughout Apple's MacBook family of laptops.

In a new report from market research firm Omdia, Apple's growing demand for display panels for its MacBook Air was instrumental in the change, benefiting BOE in a big way, but it won't last forever. Apple is forecast to buy 22.5 million display panels for its MacBook laptops this year, representing a 1% year-over-year increase.

Apple's fleet of next-generation MacBook laptops has been leaked, as well as details on its new iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro systems.

AppleInsider has reported a list of purported identifiers that tease future-gen systems from Apple, including a mysterious A18 Pro-powered MacBook Pro. We have the new M5-powered MacBook Pro laptops that will be unveiled later this year, as well as the previously reported M5 iPad Pro refresh.

The first to be released will be the 14-inch and 16-inch variants of the M5, M5 Pro, and M5 Max-powered MacBook Pro laptops, expected to drop in October or November 2025. We should also be introduced to a new M5 Mac mini and M5 iMac at the reveal event for the new M5-based MacBook Pro laptops.