THE TUF LINEUP from Asus is often seen as a budget-focused alternative to its ROG range. Unfortunately, this casts a negative judgment on TUF models before they’ve had a chance to show off what they can do. The TUF F15 has some interesting specs at a reasonable price, so does it deserve to be in … Read more
More than any other time, we’ve all realized that the old laptop that we’ve been running for half a decade just won’t do anymore. Read our Huawei Matebook 14 Review. We need more, and we’ve needed it for a while. More connectivity, more apps, and more of everything means we now need hardware that can keep up … Read more
DOES ANYBODY do laptop innovation like Asus? We sure can’t think of another brand that will sell you a laptop with two screens, one of which is a 120Hz OLED panel, all crammed into a relatively compact 14-inch footprint. Read our Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED Review. –JEREMY LAIRD Welcome, then, to Asus’s latest … Read more
We awarded the original Microsoft Surface Laptop Go four stars and a Recommended award back in Issue 596. Two years and one pandemic later and Microsoft has now launched its sequel, predictably named the Surface Laptop Go 2. For anyone not familiar with the original, this is Microsoft’s most affordable Windows laptop, which starts at … Read more
This is the latest model in a long line of Lenovo Android tablets, following on from a former Buy It! favourite of ours, the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro. However, this new tablet will be judged against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8, which – as you’ll see on page 30 – has been our favourite Android tablet … Read more
The latest addition to Samsung’s Galaxy Book range of laptops is this second-generation model. It’s an attractive laptop-tablet, with a touchscreen that can open like a laptop with the keyboard in front, be folded further back into a tent position for watching movies and TV, or flipped right back on to itself to work in … Read more
System76 Galago Pro Review – Like its namesake, it’s a lightweight laptop that is making great leaps among its reseller peers [wpsm_toplist] [sc name=”ad 2″] System76 Galago Pro Review: Specs CPU: Intel Core i7-7500U, 3.5GHz Display: 13.3-inch 3,200×1,800 HiDPI Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 620 RAM: 8GB DDR4 2400MHz Storage: 250GB M.2 SSD Ports: USB 3.1 with … Read more
First available in the latest MacBook Air, Apple’s M1 chip has come out swinging. Can Samsung hit back with its Intel-powered Galaxy Book Pro and reclaim the ultrabook crown? SAMSUNG GALAXY BOOK PRO Review Samsung takes ‘thin and light’ to a whole new level with a smartphone-thick laptop light enough to hold in one hand … Read more
If you’re keen on lighting up your PC, you probably have a few sets of LED strips or cold cathodes in a drawer somewhere. The trouble is that as soon as you change PC cases or hardware, these lights invariably end up clashing with your new parts’ colours. Similarly, standalone kits usually have limited lighting … Read more
Kobo is selling the Libra 2 for a mere £ more than the original Libra, but don’t be fooled: this is a huge upgrade. It brings a better E Ink Carta screen, 32GB of storage and Bluetooth connectivity for listening to audiobooks via wireless headphones. That puts the Libra 2 in direct competition with the … Read more
It’s been a long time coming, but Intel has finally deployed its first 10nm desktop CPUs, and Scan’s 3XS Vengeance Ti is the first system we’ve seen with the barnstorming Core i9-12900K. Intel’s new Alder Lake processors have two types of cores – P-Cores for performance and more power-efficient E-Cores, which take an intelligent approach … Read more
Good computer, great monitor Yes, it’s expensive, and only gets you 8GB of memory and a 1TB Fusion Drive – boosted by a 32GB SSD – which is unlikely to satisfy users spending this kind of money. Doubling either of those adds a frankly outrageous. Just as well you can still pop in your own … Read more