Category: author_name|Devindra Hardawar
ASUS ZenBook 14 OLED review (2023): A compelling AI PC stuck in a familiar design
The latest ZenBook 14 OLED from ASUS has most of the hardware we’d want in a modern ultraportable: Intel’s new Core Ultra chips, a gorgeous OLED screen and a decent number of ports. But after testing ASUS’s laptops for years, and seeing how much progress it’s made with the Zephyrus…
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Microsoft bet big on AI in 2023, but its AI future is still unclear
Every time Microsoft launched a major AI feature this year, I couldn't help but feel more skeptical about the company's new direction. Here's Microsoft, a notoriously conservative and slow-moving giant, reshaping its products around artificial intelligence not long after most people learned generative AI existed. The last time it made…
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The best gaming laptops for 2024
Gaming laptops have been some of the most intriguing portable PCs for the past few years. As with most of the best laptops available now, they’ve gotten thinner and lighter, but they’ve also become vastly more powerful and efficient thanks to advanced CPUs and GPUs. They’ve also adopted some bold…
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Intel unveils Core Ultra, its first chips with NPUs for AI work
Intel today is entering the "AI PC" era with the launch of its new Core Ultra notebook chips. Originally codenamed "Meteor Lake," these are Intel's first processors to include an NPU, or neural processing unit, for accelerating AI tasks. The launch comes a week after AMD revealed its upcoming Ryzen…
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AMD’s Ryzen 8040 chips remind Intel it’s falling behind in AI PCs
Last January, AMD beat out Intel by launching its Ryzen 7040 chips, the first x86 processors to integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) for AI workloads. Intel's long-delayed Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" chips, its first to integrate an NPU, are set to arrive on December 14th. But it seems AMD…
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PlayStation Portal review: A baffling handheld for no one but Sony diehards
Sony has apparently learned nothing from the success of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck. Or from its own portable systems like the Vita and PSP, for that matter. The PlayStation Portal (yes, technically it’s another PSP) is a $200 handheld system that can only stream games from your PlayStation…
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