There's one spec that unifies most laptop users: soldered RAM. Hate it or love it, it's present in many laptops, sometimes making them impossible to upgrade in any meaningful way.
Not every laptop purchase is about chasing premium specs. Sometimes you just want something reliable for work, school, and everyday life, without overspending. This HP 15.6-inch Full HD touch-screen laptop is priced at $299.99, saving you $300 off the $599.99 compared value. For a modern machine with a big screen and a 512GB SSD, thatβs [β¦]
Most laptop deals are on entry-level configs that look good on paper and then slow you down the moment your workload grows. This one is aimed at people who actually push their machines. The 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro chip is down to $2,599.00, saving you $300 off the $2,899.00 compared value. The [β¦]
From Samsung's Galaxy Book 6 Pro to LG's Gram Pro AI and Lenovo's mid-range laptops, rising RAM and storage costs are pushing notebook prices sharply higher in 2026.
Laptop deals are usually small discounts on underpowered configs, or big discounts on models that already feel dated. This one is different because it cuts the price on a modern, everyday premium machine in a way that actually changes the decision. The Microsoft Surface Laptop (Copilot+ PC, 13.8-inch touchscreen, Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB RAM, 512GB [β¦]
Letβs get the hard truth out of the way immediately: The RTX 5090 in a laptop is not the same silicon beast as the brick-sized card you shove into a desktop tower. The laws of thermodynamics still apply, and you canβt push 500 watts through a 16-inch chassis without melting the keyboard. But looking at [β¦]
The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16 Gen 10 Aura Edition is a powerful laptop capable of doing most anything you'd ever ask of it. Unfortunately, there is one minor quirk that makes it difficult to recommend.
Slimbook has sold PCs with desktop Linux for a while now, and today the company announced a premium Linux-powered laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor and up to 128GB RAM. Say hello to the Slimbook Executive.
In an announcement today, Ben Yeh, principal analyst at technology research firm Omdia, said that in 2025, βmainstream PC memory and storage costs rose by 40 percent to 70 percent, resulting in cost increases being passed through to customers.β
After making the obviously poor decision to kill its XPS laptops and desktops in January 2025, Dell started selling 16- and 14-inch XPS laptops again today.
βIt was obvious we needed to change,β Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and COO at Dell Technologies, said at a press event in New York City previewing Dell's CES 2026 announcements.
A year ago, Dell abandoned XPS branding, as well as its Latitude, Inspiron, and Precision PC lineups. The company replaced the reputable brands with Dell Premium, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max. Each series included a base model, as well as βPlusβ and βPremium.β Dell isnβt resurrecting its Latitude, Inspiron, or Precision series, and it will still sell βDell Proβ models.
If youβre an executive at Intel or AMD and in charge of sales forecasts, you likely projected some big numbers for the end of 2022. Both companies had unveiled their new platforms, promising next-gen performance and features. Since many people could not upgrade their PCs during the pandemic, all the ingredients of a booming holiday sales period were present. Added to the mixture were all-new, high-powered GPUs as well. Overall, it seemed like the perfect time to build or buy a new PC. Oddly, that did not come to pass. Instead, Q4 ended up being the worst period for CPU sales in 30 years, according to Mercury Research.
The market analysis companyβs president, Dean McCarron, discussed the somber news with our colleagues at PCMag this week. CPU sales declined year-over-year by 34% and quarter-over-quarter by 19%. Those are the biggest declines for both metrics Mercury has ever tabulated in its 30 years of existence.
The reasons for the decline include excess inventory and low demand for CPUs. Intangible factors may also be at play, such as global economic uncertainty. The numbers mirror those from IDC, which also posted a gloomy Q4 report recently for PC shipments. IDCβs numbers from 90 countries showed a 28.1% decline year-over-year. That drop-off was twice as high as in Q3, making Q4 a particularly bloody quarter for the PC industry.
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In response to the turbulence, Intel and AMD are now under-shipping CPUs. Both companiesβ CEOs admitted to this in their recent earnings calls. AMDβs CEO said it would do less of it in Q1, though. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said his companyβs βQ4 under shipping [was] meaningfully higher than full year.β Despite this strategy, CPU shipments for both laptops and desktops suffered dramatic declines in what is normally a robust quarter. Intel also suffered from its decision to announce price increases in Q3. That caused some of its partners to buy stock before the price went up in Q4.
Despite the dour report, itβs not all bad for the PC market. In 2022 overall, CPU shipments and revenue were down 21 and 19%, respectively, from previous years. However, that was the pandemic era, a magical time of record profits for all semiconductor companies. Despite the decline, the numbers in 2022 were still better than the pre-pandemic years. Although the red ink is projected to continue to flow for another quarter or two, a turnaround is expected later this year.
One unexpected result from this volatility is itβs allowed AMD to claw market share away from Intel. According to IDCβs report via HotHardware, AMD now has over 30% of the x86 market. While Intel still has more than twice that market share, it lost 5.6% over the past year.
I started from desktop machines, like everyone who was born in 1980βs. I was tired of desktop computers and Windows operating system, wanted to have small notebook with Linux. After many years my first laptop was, used Dell Vostro V131 with Intel Core i3,