laptops
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The Surface Laptop Can’t Be Repaired Without ‘Destroying It’, iFixit Finds
7While Microsoft’s Surface Laptop might look the goods, once you get inside the thing, well, it reveals its uglier, less repairable side. As iFixit recently discovered, if something inside the portable PC goes bang, you’ll almost certainly have to get a complete new one.
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Metabox Alpha’s N850HK: Plenty Of Bang, Not Much Buck
A few years ago, I made the prediction that 2015 would be the year of the gaming laptop. Turns out, I was a bit early… but not by much. With the release of NVIDIA’s GeForce 10 series, the company’s mobile GPUs flaunt near-desktop levels of performance. Which makes buying a notebook in 2017 an exciting…
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Dell’s Inspiron 15 7000: 15-Inch Gaming For $2000
If you’re trying to spend less than $2000 on a computer you plan to use daily, then you will find yourself making compromises. In the case of the Dell Inspiron 7000, you get a beefy gaming computer that can take whatever game designers throw at it. Unfortunately, its physical design is rife with trade-offs. Indeed,…
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Razer’s Updated Blade Stealth Is A Fine Macbook Air Replacement
Last year, the unthinkable happened. I was in Taipei for Computex. I’d just walked into a group press conference ready to take notes and transcribe. I opened up my Macbook Air and … half the screen was blank. In between interviews, my screen died. So like many people, I waited most of 2016 hoping Apple…
