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Dell XPS 17 (2020) review: heavy hitter

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The 16:10 aspect ratio gives you an extra bit of vertical space, in addition to space on the sides. percent screen-to-body ratio, which Dell says is higher than any competitors. That’s much better than I got running the same test on the XPS 15 (which has a smaller battery), and it’s comparable to results we saw from the MacBook Pro 16.

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HP’s Spectre x360 14 review: the best 2-in-1 you can buy

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as tested) the Spectre x360 is easily my new favorite 2-in-1 laptop. It’s kept the same 90 percent screen-to-body ratio.). Microsoft’s Surface devices have been using the 3:2 aspect ratio for years, and I’m glad that the Spectre line is finally making the switch. In my testing, it more than surpassed those standards.

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MSI Summit B15 review: average business

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I tested the more expensive configuration, which costs $1,249 and has a Core i7-1165G7 (one of Intel’s top 11th Gen processors), 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. MSI claims the B15 has “military-grade durability,” and while that’s a difficult claim to test, there’s very little flex in the B15’s lid and keyboard. pounds and 0.67

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HP Envy x360 (2020) review: AMD wins again

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I attempted to run our routine video test (which involves exporting a five-minute, 33-second 4K video) multiple times using hardware acceleration, and Adobe Premiere Pro consistently crashed during the export. A big part of that is the display: the 2020 Envy has an 88 percent screen-to-body ratio, compared to 79 percent on last year’s model.

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Samsung’s Odyssey Neo G9 is a high-end TV disguised as a 49-inch curved gaming monitor

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I recently had the enviable opportunity to test out the Odyssey Neo G9 with Doom Eternal and Cyberpunk 2077 , and the thing that stood out to me the most — aside from practically being enveloped in its 1000R curve — was the intense brightness of the display. Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge.

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Acer’s Swift 3X includes Intel’s new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU

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My test configuration includes a quad-core Core i7-1165G7, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage, and costs $1,199 — that’s getting into premium territory. Acer claims an 84 percent screen-to-body ratio, a slight improvement from the Swift 3 I reviewed earlier this year (82.73 Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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Dell XPS 13 OLED review: more pixels, more money

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The test unit I was sent has a Core i7-1185G7, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. Nothing else about this XPS is new: it has the same thin and light build, the same tiny bezels and webcam, the same glass-fiber palm rests, and the same 16:10 aspect ratio as the past couple Dell XPS 13s I’ve reviewed. The display itself is great.

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