The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

The best laptop under $1,000 This year’s HP Envy x360 is a big deal. It’s easily the best laptop under $1,000 that you can buy right now. My $799 review unit has the Ryzen 5-4500U, along with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. AMD processors have mostly been fodder for budget and midrange laptops for the past few years.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr The PDF to podcast AI Blueprint will transform documents into audio content so users can learn on the go. Developers can even submit plug-ins to NVIDIA for review and potential inclusion. asr , Maxine Studio Voice RAG: Llama-3.2-NV-EmbedQA-1B-v2

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

mm audio, 200W barrel charge Weight 2.65 The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" inside the Z13, with the latest Ryzen 8060S GPU built into it, is not just capableit's a step up from most of the gaming laptops out there. Specs at a glance: Asus ROG Flow Z13 (XS96 model) OS Windows 11 Pro CPU AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (16 cores, 3.0

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A great gaming rig and an okay laptop If you’re looking for the absolute most powerful gaming hardware out there. You want a desktop or a laptop that weighs seven pounds, requires multiple power bricks, and is basically a desktop. These are gaming laptops. Moving on to other laptop stuff. They are just for games.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Microsoft rethinks what a creator-focused laptop should be and is mostly successful Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Studio is both familiar and unique at the same time. If you don’t peer too closely, you’ll see what appears to be a standard, clamshell laptop. The Laptop Studio starts at $1,599.99 The screen is a 14.4-inch

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I wish this looked like the Surface Pro X,” lamented Tom Warren in his otherwise positive review of the Surface Pro 7. Across the internet, reviewers begged Microsoft to find a way to put the Pro 7’s chips in the Pro X’s chassis. The screen is finally laptop-sized. And now, two years later, that’s exactly what Microsoft did.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Microsoft’s newest Surface Laptop brings better battery life and a better chip On paper, the Surface Laptop 4 is a Surface Laptop 3 with better chips. Sure, there are differences here and there: the Laptop 4 is ever-so-slightly thinner, and there’s a new “Ice Blue” color option. You can configure both the 13.5-inch

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

But if you’re looking for a large-screen laptop that’s compact, beautiful, and more affordable than the most powerful machines on the market, the XPS 15 is a no-brainer. The important thing to note if you’re considering this laptop is that it doesn’t come with anywhere near the most powerful specs you can find in a 15-incher.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

A gaming laptop that doesn’t cut too many corners The Razer Blade Pro 17 is far from an Ultrabook. Like its smaller counterparts in the Blade line, the Pro 17 is chic and professional, lacking the bells and whistles you might expect to see on a large gaming laptop. Even among gaming laptops, that’s… well, not great.)

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

The keyboard is fixed; the rest is exactly what you’d expect The most interesting — and most common — questions I’ve received about this new 13-inch MacBook Pro aren’t about the laptop itself, at least not directly. They’re about comparison shopping it up against other MacBooks and even other Windows laptops.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Sony has added what it calls “Precise Voice Pickup technology” to the 1000XM4s, which optimizes audio processing from the five built-in microphones for clearer voice capture — and the difference is apparent. You don’t need to worry about missing a call if you’re absorbed in a movie or show on Netflix on your laptop.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Dual-screen gaming doesn’t come cheap Most of the time, if you’re reading a review of a dual-screen laptop, you probably only care about one feature: the two screens. It’s the first gaming laptop Asus has attempted with the dual-screen setup. Two audio jacks gives you more room to stream with an external microphone.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

pounds — a weight unheard of for a system with both a powerful processor and a discrete GPU — but it ran even the most demanding games at much better frame rates than any gaming laptop we’d ever seen at that size. And then everything else about it — the keyboard, the touchpad, the audio, the battery life — was also great.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

A top-notch convertible with a pricey sidecar If I saw the Asus ROG Flow X13 in the wild, I would never guess it was a gaming laptop. A 13-inch gaming laptop with those proportions isn’t unheard of, but it’s certainly unusual. It’s more than any number of excellent high-end gaming laptops cost. pounds and.62 62 inches thick.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

USB-C, USB-A, audio jack on the left. I’m picky about touchpads, but this one is quite roomy, with a smooth Gorilla Glass surface — I’d choose it over plenty of touchpads I’ve used on multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops. Gen 1 Type-A, and a 3.5mm combination audio jack. My one disappointment was audio.

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The Verge

MAY 16, 2020

An OLED screen, a cutting-edge GPU, and a hefty price tag The Gigabyte Aero 15 is a laptop aimed at designers and creative professionals. It looks nothing like any laptop that comes to mind when I think of “creators” (the slim and sleek MacBook Pros, XPS 15s, Surface Books, and Zenbooks of the world). inches wide and 4.4

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The lid, which had a red MSI logo on the GP65, is all black on the GP66, and the two raised ridges in the center of the GP65 that gave the laptop a distinctively “gamer” look are gone. That doesn’t mean this is the best-made laptop around. and an audio combo jack on the left and two Type-A USB 3.2 There’s one Type-C USB 3.2

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

Dynabook is known for making mindblowingly light laptops. pounds, the X40L-K won’t quite be the lightest 14-inch laptop on the market, but it’ll likely be close. And while a number of companies are zeroing in on sub-3-pound laptops this year, they’re cutting various corners to achieve that weight.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Dell says the laptop’s screen is 5 percent larger than its predecessor’s, with a 92.9 The new XPS 15 has three USB-C ports as well as an SD-card reader, an audio jack, and a lock slot. The touchscreen, made of Corning Gorilla Glass 6, has a 3840 x 2400 resolution, one of the highest resolutions you’ll find on a consumer laptop.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The problem isn’t the sound quality; the Quest 2 has reasonable audio, although I find it a little thin. These games weren’t available for review, but the existing Quest catalog already includes some relatively recent gems. It’s that the sound is audible to anybody in the same room, and none of my headphones work well with the headset.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

A portable device with some compromises I recently surveyed a bunch of students about the most important aspects of a high school or college laptop. Because at $649 list price (it’s about $673 on Amazon at time of press), the question isn’t “Does this laptop knock your socks off?” It’s got a budget laptop look. The Swift 3 is 2.65

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The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2020

OLED panels — which made a name for themselves in high-end TVs but are growing more popular in laptops as well — can deliver a stunning picture compared to IPS LCD displays. But all those pixels suck up a heck of a lot of battery, and companies sometimes slap them on laptops that can’t fully fill their power needs. It’s just 2.65

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple’s new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade Let’s start simply: the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are incredible — the fastest laptops we’ve ever tested in some tasks, with some of the longest battery life we’ve ever seen. The MagSafe 3 connector is great, a true classic.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But try to find an AMD model The Acer Aspire 5 is a very functional laptop. Basically, it’s a $549 laptop that doesn’t completely suck. There was a time when that would’ve made this the best budget laptop you can buy. There was a time when that would’ve made this the best budget laptop you can buy. It’s not seven pounds.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

On Wednesday, through a 30-minute infomercial , Google officially announced its new product lineup : the Pixel 5 , the Pixel 4a 5G , Chromecast with Google TV , and Nest Audio. Google Chromecast (2020) review: reinvented — and now with a remote. Sonos sues Google for infringing five more wireless audio patents.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Sonos Arc Ultra is a $999 premium soundbar from the smart home audio brand, and it promises unmatched surround sound thanks to the brand's new Sound Motion technology, which works with Dolby Atmos to fill the room with realistic, perfectly realized sound. But even without extra audio firepower, I could feel the bass in my chest.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

About six years ago, I reviewed a midlevel Bluetooth headset from Plantronics (now Poly) called the Explorer 500. Barbara Krasnoff, reviews editor. AudioQuest’s Dragonfly portable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) brings higher-quality audio to your devices. Andrew Marino, audio engineer. Photo: Audio Technica.

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The Verge

JANUARY 30, 2021

A lightweight laptop that doesn’t cut too many corners If you need a laptop that’s not just light, but among the lightest of the light, you’re looking for the 14-inch Acer Swift 5. I’m not sure how many people are catching diseases from their laptops to begin with, but I suppose it can’t hurt. inches thick). You get one USB 3.2

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Remarkable tech for a steep price This laptop was a pain in the neck to review. As is often the case with premium, convertible business laptops, there are about a million different configurations with a variety of processors and other specs. pounds, I do find this laptop a bit too heavy to use as a tablet. pounds (1.5

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Good sound quality and best-in-class noise cancellation come in an awkwardly big case Bose’s original true wireless earbuds, the SoundSport Free, sounded fantastic but were foiled by connectivity problems and audio / video sync issues that the company never fully resolved. Fifteen minutes of charging can give you two hours of playback time.).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Asus’s Vivobook Pro 14 OLED, which I reviewed earlier , is another.) This is a similar idea to Asus’s Zenbook Duo , Zephyrus Duo 15 , and other various dual-screen laptops that the company’s tried. one microSD reader, one audio combo jack). one microSD reader, and one audio jack. Like, it’s literally a tiny touchscreen.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

A lightweight laptop with a sky-high price The Vaio Z is, speaking pragmatically, a proof of concept. Vaio says the Z is the first laptop to use contoured carbon fiber, though the 2012 Gigabyte X11 also claims an all-carbon fiber build.). pounds, the Vaio Z is the lightest laptop to include an Intel H-Series chip.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2022

This laptop is a big deal I recently reviewed the Gigabyte Aero 16 , a 16-inch Intel-powered workstation with a powerful GPU. The 16-inch laptop category has traditionally been dominated by those sorts of desktop replacements. This is an AMD-powered, portable laptop with a more midrange-level GPU and a 16-inch screen.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Chromebook Duet is one of the best bargains in today’s laptop market. So I opened up my review unit of Asus’ $828 Chromebook CX5 prepared to complain. While that would be a midrange price for a Windows laptop, it’s high for a Chromebook ( and most other reviewers have panned the thing for its price ).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

I assumed that this gaming laptop would be fairly middle of the road, without many standout features to set it apart from the pack. This model is delivering better performance and better battery life than I’d expect to see from all kinds of gaming laptops that are hundreds of dollars more. On the left: two USB-A, one audio jack.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

inches, it’s a typical size for a tablet, but if you’re trying to use it the way you’d use a work laptop (with dozens of tabs and Windows side by side, for example) things get cramped. I was able to write this entire review on the Duet, but going back to the 13-inch 3:2 screen on my personal computer felt like a whole new world.

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