Hardware Reviews

Review The Intel Core Ultra 9 285H is the flagship in a new line of mobile chips, and it's impressive in several ways. Its approach to AI is also confusing, though.

Review The HP OMEN 35L can now be equipped with Intel Core Ultra, pairing its beautiful design with capable and reliable performance, as well as some AI smarts.

Review The Geekom A6 mini PC features an AMD Ryzen CPU, Radeon graphics, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. It's a fantastic device that costs under $500.

Review After more than 50 hours of playtime, I'm finding it easy to recommend Civilization 7 to friends and readers. Here's what I found after 50 hours of play.

Review The Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro is a Copilot+ PC that offers very good performance and can even handle a bit of gaming. Our review.

Review The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 13) is thinner and lighter than its predecessor without compromising on anything, but new Intel chips don't fix all the weaknesses.

Review NVIDIA's redesigned RTX 5080 Founders Edition is the new king of the hill for PC gamers as the sensible enthusiast GPU if you can find it at its intended price.

Review The RTX 5090 FE sees a bump of +25% MSRP for around +30% performance and a gorgeous GPU redesign, but even if you find one, does anyone really need it?

Review The Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable (Gen 2) is a durable enterprise tablet that offers a good user experience, but it feels a few years behind the competition.

Review The Acer Swift 14 AI has an indicator that lets you know when AI processes are happening locally on the laptop. Our review.