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We’ve said it before: There’s one simple trick to increase the performance of your Windows laptop, and it made an enormous difference in Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2, which we reviewed today.

A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated graphics makes PC gaming viable without a GeForce or Radeon chip.

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Two near-identical Lenovo Legion 7 laptops let us do what we've always dreamed of: Pit an Intel Core and Nvidia GeForce machine against an all-AMD (Ryzen and Radeon) equivalent. Who comes out on top?

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Matt Elliott is a senior editor ...

Early performance data for Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus has quietly appeared online, offering a first glimpse at ...

CES is still raging on, and before Nvidia can even blink, there are performance leaks of the company's upcoming Nvidia RTX 5080 laptop graphics chips. Leaked benchmarks using Geekbench's OpenCL test ...