March 23, 2022

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[Specs and Info] ASUS Chromebook Detachable CZ1 (CZ1000) – the most rugged of Chromebooks

This is what manufacturers should focus on when thinking of what new Chromebook they need to build. Instead of making the 1000th office device with the same design, ASUS has decided to expand the reach…

March 23, 2022

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Inside HP Envy 15 (15-ep1000) – disassembly and upgrade options

As one of the most promising devices on the market, the laptop makes a good case in terms of future-proofing. You get good upgrade options, and the access to them is pretty easy, to be…

March 22, 2022

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Inside ASUS Zenbook S UX393 – disassembly and upgrade options

Expectedly, you get no memory upgrade options. On the bright side, the SSD inside can be swapped. Check out all ASUS Zenbook S UX393 prices and configurations in our Specs System or read more in…

March 22, 2022

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[Specs and Info] The Lenovo Legion 5i (15″ Intel, 2022) gets some new hardware options on the low-end

The Legion 5 gaming laptops have always been at the front in terms of being overall great gaming devices with high-powered hardware and amazing designs that spawned the new trend of low profile and incognito…

March 21, 2022

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[The Bottleneck Effect] Gaming performance with single vs dual-channel memory

In the previous two articles, we showed you how much of a bottleneck is the Core i5-11300H compared to the Core i7-11370H, when either of them is paired with the 90W…

March 21, 2022

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HP ZBook Firefly 14 G8 is the workstation with the longest battery life we’ve tested

Workstation laptops have been getting really good in the past years, especially since laptop hardware is improving at a very steady pace. This means that with every generation, we have better performance and efficiency, which…

March 21, 2022

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[Specs and Info] Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3 Chromebook (15″, ILJ7) – good looking and easy on the budget

The Chromebook space is filling up quickly with very similar laptops, which isn’t really productive. Most new Chrome OS-based devices offer the same Celeron, Pentium, or Athlon budget CPUs, which are pretty much what you…

March 21, 2022

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Inside Acer Aspire 3 (A317-53) – disassembly and upgrade options

It is very common for budget 17-inchers to have a ton of free space inside. This is not necessarily a bad thing though, since the tech needed to run a modern laptop is shrinking in…

March 18, 2022

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Acer Predator Helios 500 (PH517-52) – Top 5 Pros and Cons

While not everyone will be able to fit this device into their budgets, or their backpacks for that matter, today we have the 100% unapologetic Predator Helios 500 (PH517-52), which has the power to challenge…

March 17, 2022

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[Specs and Info] The Lenovo IdeaPad 3 family gets improved hardware with the Ryzen 5000U-series

If you want a daily driver laptop for not much money, while still offering a pleasing-looking exterior and powerful hardware, the IdeaPad 3 is right up your alley. Some configurations even offer color accurate displays,…

March 17, 2022

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Boost your gaming performance with up to 37%, just by choosing correct RAM type

What exactly do 1Rx8 and 1Rx16 mean? Well, simply said, memory is divided into ranks (the R in the aforementioned sequence of characters) of 64 bits. x8 means that 64 bits…

March 12, 2022

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[The Bottleneck Effect] There is no difference in gaming between 35W Core i5 and Core i7

Not long ago, we had the Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3i for review. It sported the 90W version of the RTX 3050, and we were expecting to see one of the best…

March 11, 2022

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HP Envy 15 (15-ep1000) – Top 5 Pros and Cons

This device is quite different from other Envy entries. The notebook does everything that it can to reach max performance, sacrificing some of the portability. To compensate, they have put in a Core i7-11800H and…

March 11, 2022

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[Specs and Info] Lenovo IdeaPad 1 (14″, 2021) and IdeaPad 1 (15″, 2021) get an increased hardware range

The IdeaPad 1-series of laptops offers the cheapest barrier to entry in Lenovo’s laptop hierarchy, except if you start looking into Chromebooks, as with them prices take even harder of a plummet. The laptops have…

March 11, 2022

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Inside Acer Predator Helios 500 (PH517-52) – disassembly and upgrade options

The Predator Helios 500 is one of few old breed devices that aim to provide the full gaming experience to their users. Thankfully, Acer has made upgrading this laptop really accessible. Check out all Acer…

March 10, 2022

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ASUS ZenBook S UX393 – Top 5 Pros and Cons

The land of super premium notebooks really hasn’t moved that much. While the rest of the pack keeps improving, bringing more expensive technologies to less expensive devices, premium notebooks get the yearly hardware upgrades, while…

March 10, 2022

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Inside Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 3 – disassembly and upgrade options

Despite the almost invisible changes on the outside, the ThinkPad E14 Gen 3 is a huge improvement on the laptop from last year. Thankfully, the upgrade options have remained pretty solid. Check out all Lenovo…

March 09, 2022

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Acer Aspire 3 (A317-53) – Top 5 Pros and Cons

When you think of Acer, you think of Aspire. The name is undoubtedly one of the more recognizable in the laptop world, offering some of the better budget notebooks. Today we have one of their…

March 09, 2022

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Apple goes all-in with its latest M1 Ultra SoC

At the most recent Apple event, named “Peek Performance”, Apple revealed a range of new tech from a new iPhone SE, to a new M1 Ultra chip, which we will focus on today, along with…

March 09, 2022

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Inside Dell Vostro 14 5410 – disassembly and upgrade options

Despite its competitive price tag, the Vostro 14 5410 offers a good amount of upgrade options. Check out all Dell Vostro 14 5410 prices and configurations in our Specs System or read more in our…