Author Archives: Gordon Mah Ung

The HP Omen 15 claims to be the “smallest 15-inch gamingâ€� laptop that costs less than $1,000. Even more interesting is what’s inside: your choice of AMD and Intel CPUs.Announced Tuesday and available immediately at HP.com and Best Buy, the Ome… Continue reading →

You’ve set your sights on a Dell XPS 13. The only problem: Which one do you buy? The XPS 13 7390 clamshell or its 2-in-1 version, or the “newâ€� XPS 13 9300? All three are great laptops—ignore the model numbers, which are confusingly non-seque… Continue reading →

The Razer Blade Studio Edition is Razer’s workstation laptop for those who need pro graphics without a “proâ€� CPU.Announced Thursday and based on the same chassis as the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Edition that hit the streets early in April, the S… Continue reading →

The race to be the world’s next high-performance memory card standard took it up a notch this week when the SD Association said it will adopt PCIe 4.0 for SD Express cards.Yes, you heard that right: PCIe 4.0 in a postage stamp-sized memory card, a… Continue reading →

The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shiftâ€� technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.First, AMD formally shed a little more light on the first laptop to use the Smart Shift feature, Dell’s G5 15 SE. C… Continue reading →

The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shiftâ€� technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.First, AMD formally shed a little more light on the first laptop to use the Smart Shift feature, Dell’s G5 15 SE. C… Continue reading →

The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shiftâ€� technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.First, AMD formally shed a little more light on the first laptop to use the Smart Shift feature, Dell’s G5 15 SE. C… Continue reading →

Intel’s 10th gen Core i9-10900K is—without a doubt—exactly as Intel has described it: “the world’s fastest gaming CPU.â€�Intel’s problem has been weaknesses outside of gaming, and its overall performance value compared to AMD’s Ryzen 3… Continue reading →

The Quest for the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features—upgradable internal graphics—ended in a horrible, ignominious death on Wednesday, with the release of Alienware’s Area-51m R2.And by death, we mean permanent death—not Marvel comics deat… Continue reading →

The Dell XPS 15 is long overdue for an upgrade, and on Wednesday it’s finally, officially getting one.Dell said the new XPS 15 9500 will be available for order starting Wednesday, with prices starting at $1,300. We’d guess that’s for a base ve… Continue reading →