This Gaming Laptop With a Mechanical Keyboard Is So Gleefully Insane
Convertibles? Whatever. Ultrabooks? Idgaf. A damn huge laptop with a mechanical keyboard built right in? Now we're getting somewhere.
The Best Way To Recycle Your Old Gadgets
'Tis the season to get gadgets but what are you going to do with the one you've got? Folks will pay good money (or at least good karma) for your second-hand electronics. Here's how to hawk your legacy hardware online—or just give it away responsibly—and get an early start on next years Nice list.
Someone's Finally Making A Gaming Laptop With A Mechanical Keyboard
There are a few key things that keep PC gamers tethered to their desks, one of them being the awesomeness of having the "click clack" of a quality mechanical keyboard punctuate their gameplay. Impressive as they may be, laptops haven't been able to replicate that experience...yet. MSI to the rescue!
This Laptop Can Voltron with Its Dock For an Extra Graphics Boost
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If you want a laptop that can play graphically intensive games, you're in a tough spot. Generally you can opt for something crazy expensive but portable, or something hulking and a little but cheaper. MSI's new GS30 Gaming Shadow notebook offers a middle ground: Take a slim laptop on the go, and plug into a…
Razer Blade 2014 Review: Great For Games, Overkill Otherwise
Razer's badass Blade gaming laptop is back with a screen that's insane, and the power to push some serious pixels. But that doesn't do you much good when getting by day-to-day is a little bit of a struggle.
Razer's Righteous New Blade Might Be the Best Windows Laptop Yet
The 2013 Razer Blade was fantastic. A finally great execution on a concept that's been appealing as hell from the very start, a Windows gaming laptop with the premium feel of a MacBook. Now it's back again, and yes, it is even better.
The Best Black Friday Deals of 2013
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Update: Looking for 2014's best Black Friday Deals? Head over to this year's post.
The Laptops Worth Your Money
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Alienware's Hefty New Light-Up Laptops Are Available Right Now
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It's E3, and along with the new consoles, we're also getting treated to a new line of Alienware laptops. The new trio of machines boast fresh 700M series Nvidia graphics and Intel's new 4th generation Haswell chips, along with a new look that's more like that X51 tower (which is getting its own guts update) but…
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Origin Teams With Virtu MVP to Make Laptop Gaming Gorgeous
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LucidLogix responsiveness-boosting Lucid Virtu MVP GPU virtualization software has been surprising and delighting desktop PC gamers for months now, utilizing software-based technology to boost the performance of their graphics hardware. Now gaming laptop makers Origin have teamed with LucidLogix as the exclusive…
The Portable Laptop That Might Make PC Gaming On-The-Go Work
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This is the Razer Switchblade, currently an "innovative concept design" for a portable laptop computer with a customizable keyboard and touchscreen interface, a device that promises a "full desktop experience in a netbook sized solution." World of Warcraft on-the-go, anyone?
The Best Notebooks of 2010
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To find out the best laptops of 2010, we checked in with Mark Spoonauer who, as editor-in-chief of Laptop Magazine and Laptopmag.com, oversaw 140+ notebook and netbook reviews this year. If you're buying, buy one of these.
Your Guide To 2010's Gaming, Business and Portable Laptops
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When shopping for a new laptop it's important to know beforehand how you plan to use it.
New XPS Laptops From Dell Have Core i5 Processors, HD Webcams and JBL…
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They may look extra-unwieldy next to yesterday's Airs, but the XPS line has returned—much to its fans' delight, I'm sure. There are 14, 15 and 17-inch options available, each with backlit keyboards and brushed aluminum outers.
Alienware's TGS Lineup Is So Very Pretty
Gaming computer experts Alienware took the occasion of the Tokyo Game Show to unveil four new desktops and one new laptop for those of us who could never afford one to drool over.