Laptop Mag

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.

6 days ago | laptopmag.com | Nick Lucchesi

(Image credit: Rael Hornby)Since its debut in late 2022, ChatGPT - the generative AI model created by OpenAI - has redefined information gathering on the web. ChatGPT has come to replace Google searches for vast swaths of the population, but an internal document released this week shows that's only the beginning. A "highly confidential" document titled "ChatGPT: H1 2025 Strategy" was made public as part of the discovery process in the Justice Department's case against Google.

6 days ago | laptopmag.com | Rami Tabari

(Image credit: Laptop Mag/Rami Tabari)There's no excuse anymore; gaming laptops need to step up their game if they want to land in my shopping cart. The best gaming laptops offer excellent gaming performance and displays, but I'm adding one more thing to my must-have list: a mechanical keyboard. I recently reviewed the Alienware 16 Area-51, and it reinforced the idea that no gaming laptop should be without a mechanical keyboard, especially a premium one.

6 days ago | laptopmag.com | Luke James

(Image credit: xMEMS Labs / YouTube)A fan so small and silent that it fits inside your laptop's SSD. It's an idea that might sound somewhat farfetched, but xMEMS Labs, known for making solid-state speakers for earbuds, has managed to pull it off with its µCooling chip. This isn't your typical thermal management solution. Originally built for data center applications, xMEMS has now expanded the technology to support active thermal management for laptops.

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.