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4 days ago | 
laptopmag.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
Not all laptop chips are created equal, and that's as true of AMD's innovative Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" APU as any. AMD unveiled the , debuting three consumer chipset variants and four variants made for workstation-class machines. While we normally expect a large performance gap in between, say, a Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 9. But, with a name like Ryzen AI Max, you may not be expecting such a performance gap between the three APUs in the AI Max series.
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1 week ago | 
laptopmag.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
(Image credit: Laptop Mag / Claire Tabari)The gaming industry is notoriously volatile. And that's true of more than just software. This week, we have a new entry for the graveyard of delayed or discontinued gaming hardware, and Microsoft is at the heart of it all. Microsoft's rumored first-party Xbox handheld may take longer to arrive than initially expected.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
Microsoft wants to win the handheld gaming war by no longer making oneThe gaming industry is notoriously volatile. And that's true of more than just software. This week, we have a new entry for the graveyard of delayed …
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1 week ago | 
laptopmag.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
1 day agoNvidia’s 120W APU leak could mark the beginning of the end for laptop GPUsA new, credible leak suggests Nvidia is cooking up something that could transform gaming laptops as we know them: A 120W Arm-based APU that combines …1 hour agoNVIDIA's leaked APU could change gaming laptop design forever. Here's why. It's rumored that NVIDIA has been working on a new APU for Windows laptops since 2023, and a new leak provides a look at the design.
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1 week ago | 
laptopmag.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
(Image credit: Future | Madeline Ricchiuto)Intel's Arc GPU platform has finally taken off on desktop, at least in the budget and mid-range markets. With the launch of the Arc Pro B50 and B60 workstation graphics cards at Computex last week, Intel's second generation of Arc GPUs is has officially arrived. But there's one massive market that still isn't served by the Arc platform. And that's laptops.
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1 week ago | 
laptopmag.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
(Image credit: Laptop Mag/Sean Riley)If you asked me on January 1, 2025, to guess how many eGPUs we'd see this year, I'd have probably said "none" because eGPUs seemed to be a thing of the past. We still have an old Razer Core X kicking around the Laptop Mag office, and we still have a list of the best eGPUs, but those haven't been updated in quite some time, as there just hasn't been anything new in the eGPU space.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
Is 2025 the Year of the eGPU revival? If you asked me on January 1, 2025, to guess how many eGPUs we'd see this year, I'd have probably said "none" because eGPUs seemed to be a thing of …
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1 week ago | 
laptopmag.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
(Image credit: Future | Madeline Ricchiuto)I'm a sucker for a good MMO mouse. The hours of my life that I've spent plugged in to Final Fantasy XIV can be measured in months rather than hours or days. At this point, the fact that I will run Final Fantasy as my test game on just about any computing device is a meme in the Laptop Mag office. So imagine my surprise when I saw Corsair demoing the new Scimitar Elite Wireless SE MMO mouse at Computex, using Final Fantasy XIV as one of the test games.
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1 week ago | 
laptopmag.com | Madeline Ricchiuto
(Image credit: Future | Madeline Ricchiuto)I may be in the minority among gaming laptop enthusiasts, but I'd take an ultra-portable 14-inch gaming laptop with decent performance and good battery life over a massive 18-inch desktop replacement. Most of my favorite laptops of the last year were in the 14-inch class, so that isn't exactly a surprise. But my preference for portable gaming power is why I was so psyched to see all the new gaming laptops last week at Computex.
