When evaluating productivity laptops, two key features that I begin with are office performance and battery life: How well can I work, and how long can I work for? PCWorld’s list of…
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Intel’s playing favorites with its new Core Ultra 200HX shipments
If you want to buy a gaming laptop with the latest Intel Core Ultra 200HX processor, choose carefully. Intel is supplying its Core Ultra 200HX processors to manufacturers in waves, according to…
Why Microsoft should be worried about M5 MacBooks
Apple’s Mac Minis have become the darlings for running local AI. Apple’s latest MacBook Pros with its new Apple M5 Pro and Apple M5 Max chips could bewitch developers even further. Apple…
Netflix is my new no-lie laptop battery test
If you were to take a laptop on a plane or away for a ski weekend, how long would it last streaming Netflix before it ran out of battery? It’s a good…
Intel’s Panther Lake points to a future where integrated graphics doesn’t suck
Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 platform, Panther Lake, and its champion, the Core Ultra X9 388H microprocessor, offer something unique: powerful, gaming-class 3D performance with battery life that’s almost unheard of in…
Panther Lake unveiled: A deep dive into Intel’s next-gen laptop CPU
Intel’s next-generation mobile processor, “Panther Lake,” builds incrementally on the excellent “Lunar Lake” chip populating laptops right now. But there’s something odd afoot: a “16-core, 12 Xe graphics cores” version that could…
Intel says blockbuster Nvidia deal doesn’t change its own roadmap
If you’re wondering what effect Intel’s blockbuster deal with Nvidia will have on its existing product roadmaps, Intel has one message for you: it won’t. “We’re not discussing specific roadmaps at this…
Does Intel’s Lunar Lake hold up? Our impressions, six months later
It’s been a few months since Intel’s latest play for high-end thin-and-light laptops came out. PCWorld’s Adam and Will have been trying a few: the Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro 360, the…
Intel’s new laptops CPUs last forever. But I didn’t expect the performance leap
Intel’s Core 285H chip, the first member of its Core Ultra 200 or “Arrow Lake-H” family for laptops, has a big crater to fill. Yes, crater: This processor essentially bombed on the…
AMD builds out its foundation with Ryzen AI 300, Ryzen 200 chips
AMD has typically pushed the envelope in performance, but at CES 2025, the company is also expanding in another direction, with cheaper, lower-performance Ryzen AI 300 and even a Ryzen 200 family…