Laptop

Qualcomm triples Windows on Arm OEM design wins since May

Snapdragon X Plus 8-core platform gains traction with 58 laptop designs ... but will Windows users care?

Systems07 Nov 2024 | 11

Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest

Lightweight 'FMV Zero' is only sold online in Japan, dammit

Personal Tech25 Oct 2024 | 40

Qualcomm 'pausing' X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds

Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg

Systems17 Oct 2024 | 5

Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed

And all it took was some good old fashioned outsourcing to TSMC

AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 13

'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos

The wild world of wrecking our tech

Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 91

The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard

Impressively home-made, this is the sort of laptop we wish we could buy new

Personal Tech22 Jul 2024 | 69

China's Honor debuts laptop with bonkers removable camera that lives in a little slot

Privacy preserved, with potential to lose the camera in your pocket or beyond

Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 16

Microsoft's latest Surface devices almost as easy to fix as they are to break

iFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind

Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 14

World's first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip

Might be more of a paper tiger given it runs at 2 GHz and has just 2 TOPS

Personal Tech13 Jun 2024 | 31

PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in

Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill

Personal Tech11 Jun 2024 | 15

HP BIOS update renders some ProBook laptops expensive paperweights

Customers not amused

Personal Tech10 Jun 2024 | 41

ASUS creates a substance: Ceraluminum, which fuses aluminum and a ceramic

Computex Not unobtanium or vaporwareum, as it's coming soon to a 16-inch Zenbook lappie

Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 51

Latest user-repairable Framework laptop includes Core Ultra, 2.8K display

Customize and replace it all with one tool

Personal Tech30 May 2024 | 10

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'

So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market

Storage08 May 2024 | 23

Intel fuels Huawei's AI PC ambitions with Meteor Lake CPUs in MateBook X Pro

But for how much longer?

Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 1

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3

The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU

Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 4

Microsoft's first AI PCs Surface with Intel cores and a Copilot key

Upgraded fondleslab and laptops limited to business buyers only, for now

Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 28

Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so

Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession

Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 79

Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs

Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease

Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 27

Nvidia talks up local AI with RTX 500, 1000 Ada mobile GPUs

As always, the lack of memory could prove limiting

Systems26 Feb 2024 | 1

Apple and Samsung tussle over whose gizmos are hardest to fix

Chromebooks earn 'Least Likely to Survive a Screwdriver' award

Personal Tech08 Feb 2024 | 11

AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least

Comment 16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too

Personal Tech23 Jan 2024 | 40

Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook processor was made in Taiwan, not China

Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock!

Personal Tech05 Jan 2024 | 25

23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms

Security in brief Also: 'well-known Bay Area tech' firm's laptops stolen and check out some critical vulns

Security11 Dec 2023 | 15

How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators

Opinion Better than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case

Personal Tech11 Dec 2023 | 129

The 15-inch MacBook Air just nails it

Desktop Tourism Vast battery life, zippy performance, and rich speakers make an impressive package

Personal Tech11 Dec 2023 | 63

Enterprise wallets to sustain European IT growth as devices lag

Software and services set to save continent's tech growth into 2024, says Gartner

CxO09 Nov 2023 |

Lenovo’s phantom ThinkPad X1 foldable laptop finally materializes

The day after Halloween, at a slightly less scary price than LG, HPE, and ASUS charge for their folding laptops

Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 17

Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

Canalys EMEA Forum And the repair parts will be repairable too. Batteries, SSDs and more will no longer be sealed into casing

Personal Tech05 Oct 2023 | 52

Google doubles minimum RAM and disk in 'Chromebook Plus' spec

Some may be made in India, where the Big G has teamed to make kit with HP

Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 24

ASUS's Zenbook S 13 is light, fast, and immediately impressive

Desktop Tourism Taiwanese brand is a portability and productivity contender

Personal Tech02 Oct 2023 | 12

LG has its own folding PC now, but good luck getting your hands on one

The 'Gram Fold' looks limited to LG's home of Korea

Personal Tech27 Sep 2023 | 6

Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech

Opinion A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you

OSes22 Sep 2023 | 98

HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop

There’s a weird one-and-a-half screen laptop mode, too

Personal Tech15 Sep 2023 | 27

CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display

Elecrow's dual-screen peripheral is more versatile and cheaper than the old Lenovo version

Personal Tech05 Sep 2023 | 17

Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop

Coming soon and looking very promising – if you like your models skinny, anyway

Personal Tech21 Jul 2023 | 44

After decades contributing to science, John Goodenough powers down

Obit The American lithium-ion battery inventor has died aged 100

Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 21

Lenovo's Yoga 9 is flexible at home, but stretches the friendship at work

Desktop Tourism Rotating sound bar sounds better in theory than in practice

Personal Tech20 Jun 2023 | 24

Microsoft dabbles in self-repair with Surface devices now DIY-friendlier

Replacement components available in US, Canada, France only for now

Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 14

Chromebook expiration date, repair issues 'bad for people and planet'

Updated US PIRG slams Google for selling schools short-lived, repair-resistant kit

Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 110

Fresh models of Framework modular laptops in the works

What to expect? 16 inch model, a desktop case, and both Intel and AMD variants

Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 20

Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment

Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery

Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 45

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop

Hands-on Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing?

Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 155

Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone

If a phone is as mighty as a laptop, why not make it convertible and use it as one

Personal Tech22 Feb 2023 | 20

The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V Free Hardware computer

FOSDEM Plus new developments in the world of the MNT Reform

Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 55

200MP smartphone and first premium PC spearhead Samsung's pro push

Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory

Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 32

Intel: Please buy these new 13th-Gen CPUs, now with 24 cores

CES Look folks, we need the business - there's a recession on

Systems03 Jan 2023 | 39

A dip in Alder Lake with an HP Elitebook is spoiled by avoidable mistakes

Desktop Tourism It does most things well, some things right, and a few things bafflingly badly

Personal Tech08 Dec 2022 | 34

Heavy, man: Tuxedo puts out 2.2kg Stellaris AMD Gen 4

Review Apparently, you can still get laptops with good keyboard feel

Personal Tech08 Nov 2022 | 23

Lenovo revenues drop due to falling demand for PCs

But overall profits are up thanks to cost cutting and success in other divisions

On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 2

Why I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop

Column We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner

OSes28 Oct 2022 | 152

Lenovo reveals rollable laptop and smartphone screens

Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts

Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 15

Warning: That new AMD Ryzen 7000 laptop may not be as fresh as you think

The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores

Personal Tech20 Sep 2022 | 14

AMD admits its Ryzen mobile naming scheme is a mess, promises to clean it up

Finding Zen just got a little easier

Personal Tech07 Sep 2022 | 9

Meet the CrowPi-L – a clever, slightly rustic, Raspberry Pi laptop chassis

Desktop Tourism Mobilises the Pi nicely but also frustrates in a few ways

Personal Tech25 Aug 2022 | 61

Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops

Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000

Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61