What do you get when you cross a mobile workstation with a gaming laptop? The HP ZBook Studio G8 (starts at $1,894; $4,488 as tested) is often ordered with one of Nvidia’s formerly-known-as-Quadro professional GPUs, but is also available with Nvidia gaming graphics like our test unit’s GeForce RTX 3070, and its keyboard has RGB…
XPG gaming products have been hit or miss in our experience so far, as the fledgling offshoot of Taiwanese component maker ADATA ramps up its portfolio. From the able-bodied XPG Xenia 14 laptop to the good-enough XPG Mage keyboard, the products we’ve seen are increasingly solid efforts from an emerging, rising brand. The XPG Xenia…
The 13-inch Lenovo Yoga 6 (starts at $649. 99; $949. 99 as tested) looks unassuming, but it represents a strong overall package. Our configuration of this convertible laptop is reasonably priced for a Ryzen 7 CPU with 16GB of memory, delivering good all-around performance, especially for less than $1,000.…Read more
At both the packaging and product levels, sustainability and environmental awareness are more prominent than ever in the tech world: ocean plastics, recyclable boxes, metals on their second life. Acer is the latest company to embrace eco-friendly design in its laptops with the Aspire Vero (starts at $699, $899 as tested), a 15-inch laptop partly…
How long a laptop lasts on its internal battery is one of the most important considerations for PC shoppers. Business travelers and students are often at the mercy of their computer’s remaining juice, since so many conference rooms, aircraft, and lecture halls are woefully short on accessible power outlets. Just a few years ago, it was necessary…
