We were rightly skeptical of AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 “Strix Point” laptop chips in 2024. Now they’re in some of the very best laptops you can buy, arguably hitting the sweet spot of price, performance, and battery life. Today at CES, AMD is announcing its successor, the Ryzen AI 400 line – but there’s nothing […]
Dell-owned Alienware is looking to reach a wider swath of gamers, announcing at CES 2026 that it’s working on two new laptops: one with a lower, entry-level price and one with an ultra-slim chassis. There aren’t many details right now, as Alienware is only sharing some basic renders, and the behind-glass nonworking prototypes I saw […]
Alienware announced that it will be expanding its gaming laptop portfolio in 2026 with two new classes of product: an ultraslim ‘covert’ gaming laptop line, and a budget-oriented gaming laptop.
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AMD’s next-gen gaming CPU looks powerful, but it might play second fiddle to the new round of Ryzen AI 400 chips in the long run.
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The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo is back, but for CES 2026 both its screens are going full edge-to-edge – like a Zenbook Duo built for gaming. The original Zephyrus Duo was a quirky keyboard-in-the-front-club member, with a 15.6-inch main display and a 14.1-inch-wide, skinny touchscreen crammed between the hinge and side-by-side keyboard and trackpad. The […]
MSI is updating the design languages for its Stealth and Raider laptops, with the former going for a more “professional” look.
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Acer’s new Predator and Nitro gaming laptops are getting bumps up to Intel’s 3rd Gen Core Ultra Series processors, but we don’t know how much they’ll cost.
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Acer is refreshing its Swift, Swift Edge, and Swift Go laptops at CES 2026 with the latest Intel processors, but we still don’t know how much they’ll cost.
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HP has put HyperX front and center as its gaming system brand, combining it with Omen as it updates systems to Panther Lake and Gorgon Point.
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Intel Panther Lake leaves its cage starting this week.