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The Origin 12-core Ryzen 9 EON15-X wins for Monster Ryzen Laptop of the week

The Origin PC EON15-X is a 15.6-inch laptop weighing less than 6 pounds that nevertheless packs a desktop Ryzen 9 3900 and GeForce RTX 2070. Impressive.

Acer's Predator Triton 500 gets a 300Hz panel and beastly internal upgrades

The 4.6 lb. Acer Predator Triton 500 will feature 10th-gen Intel CPUs and GPUs, topped off with a 300Hz panel and 2.5GbE Ethernet.

The Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model debuts with Nvidia GTX Super and Intel Comet Lake H

Razer's beautiful Blade 15 Advanced Model gets Intel and Nvidia's latest toys along with a 300Hz screen option

MSI's Creator 17 wins the miniLED display race, paired with Nvidia and Intel's just-revealed chips

MSI's new laptop lineup includes miniLED screens, GeForce Supers, and 300MHz panels.

Gigabyte retools Aero and Aorus laptop lines with Comet Lake H and GeForce Super GPUs

Gigabyte tunes its Aero laptops for creators and its Aorus line for gamers, offering the latest Intel 10th-gen Comet Lake H and Nvidia GeForce Super GPUs in both.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: Ryzen 4000 makes this thin, light laptop a winner

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is world's first Ryzen 4000-based laptop. It offers stupidly good performance in a stupidly light chassis at a stupidly reasonable price.

Ryzen 4000 performance benchmarks: Ryzen 9 4900HS beats Intel's Core i9 mobile chips

AMD's Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs finally break the curse that had the company losing to Intel in laptops over and over again. Our performance benchmarks prove it out.

Ryzen 4000 Review: AMD's 7nm Ryzen 9 offers game-changing performance for laptops

AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs simply crush Intel's 9th-gen CPUs and offer game-changing performance for laptops.

Should you wait for AMD Ryzen 4000 or Intel Comet Lake H laptops, or get an older model for cheap?

AMD's Ryzen 4000 and Intel's Comet Lake H chips promise a bright new generation of laptops. Some users should definitely wait for them, while others could get good deals on older models.

How to set up Zoom video for dual monitors and screen sharing with PowerPoint

If you want to set up dual monitors for sharing presentations with Zoom video, your job isn't done just yet. Here are some further tweaks you need to do.

Battery life won't be a problem for AMD's Ryzen 4000 notebooks

AMD unveiled battery numbers that it claims make its Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs competitive with Intel’s best and brightest. The company also advocated for a new way to look at testing.

AMD's new Ryzen 9 laptop CPUs aim to topple Intel's most powerful Core i9 chips

AMD's Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 9 4900HS are intended to kick Intel's 9th-gen Core i9 chips in the teeth—and maybe their 10th-gen successors, too.

Ryzen 4000 CPUs explained: How AMD optimized Zen 2 for laptops

AMD executives explain how the Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs will leap ahead of the prior generation thanks to a carefully balanced design.

How Intel's changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec

Intel's new ATX12VO spec eliminates 3.3-volt and 5-volt rails and rejiggers the balance of power in future PCs.

Ryzen 4000 mobile laptops could hit "18 hours" of battery life, AMD says

Calling AMD’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop CPUs a “watershed” moment for AMD, the company hinted that at least one model could hit “18 hours” of runtime.