He edited the entire “Mama Bear” film while the laptop was unplugged, according to a behind-the-scenes video from Microsoft that also includes the claim that the computer sees a “less than 1% drop in performance when unplugged.”
That said, a footnote in the video says that the editing was “not performed on a single battery charge.”
It’s thinner, lighter, and has an incredible OLED display, but after all this time, the touchscreen feels like an afterthought.
The new touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro’s redesigned chassis is only slightly thinner than the Mini LED model — especially comparing the 14-inchers, shown here. It’s when you pick them up that you really notice and can appreciate the lighter weight.
Your wallet will be much lighter too.
The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has a section in System Settings for Touch Display controls. Much of it is for toggling similar gestures to the trackpad: Mission Control, Show Apps, Show Desktop, etc. You can turn off touchscreen funcions entirely, but that’s buried in Accessibility settings.
Apple is finally tackling the challenge of ‘ergonomically terrible’ touchscreen laptops.
It’s time to see how Apple rethinks the Mac for touch support, years after criticizing touchscreen laptops.
The company “has discussed” that price for the 14-inch, M5 Pro-equipped laptop it’s planning to announce at its “Pro and tell” event tomorrow, according to Bloomberg. That price would be a $400 premium over the M5 Pro MBP that’s on sale now.
Ahead of the company’s “Pro and tell” event scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles, Apple’s SVP of Marketing, Greg Joswiak, teased an “exciting week” ahead on X which started with the debut of the new iPad Mini today featuring an OLED display and a thinner design. Rumors suggest Apple could also announce its first touchscreen MacBook Pro this week.
Not that I believe for a second that Apple will actually make a 2-in-1 convertible.
Our collective reviews of every Googlebook at launch: very good laptops hobbled by beta-level software.
Nvidia’s new Arm-based laptop chip is an exciting new challenger, but exclusively for the high-end.
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A beautiful laptop built for an AI future that hasn’t quite arrived.
In May, Nvidia claimed it was “the most efficient PC chip ever built,” and Nvidia now says it’s the fastest too: “it’s going to be a good 3-5x faster than any Windows SoC ever made,” the company told journalists.
Our early impressions are that it’s impressive for thin and light; in raw performance, we’re not necessarily seeing it beat Macs or laptops with discrete GPUs. Stay tuned for reviews.
When Asus briefed me on the ExpertBook A7, reps told me the $899 entry-level config will launch in January with 8GB of RAM. Turns out, Asus decided to switch that to 12GB for the same $899 price — but failed to clarify that with us.
An OLED display, haptic trackpad, and 12GB of RAM for $899? I hate getting bad info, but in today’s RAMageddon world let’s all take the W.
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Asus is announcing the ExpertBook A7: a 14-inch laptop with a 120Hz OLED display and an Intel Core 5 320 chip. It’s available today, starting at $1,299.99 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
But coming in the new year is an 8GB / 256GB version for a more affordable $899. 8GB felt workable in the XPS 13, and it didn’t have a fancy OLED, but it cost $200 less.
Update, October 14th: The entry-level ExpertBook will have 12GB of RAM for $899, not 8GB. See new post here.
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I’m testing Microsoft’s new RTX Spark-powered laptop at the moment, and I’ll have some impressions on it later this week. I’d like to hear what you’d like to know about this particular laptop, so please drop a comment below and I’ll try and include answers in my initial impressions.
It’s been a whirlwind time of coming to grips with Google’s new laptops, and we’ve got feelings about Googlebook OS.
Inside the secret lab where Microsoft tortures laptops.
Google warned some apps might have performance issues on the Intel Googlebooks, but now Android Authority reports that Google says only “96.6% of the top 10k+ most-used applications” work “flawlessly” on them. There are also new app compatibility ratings for the Googlebooks, but we haven’t found many with the “Made for desktop” tag yet.
Microsoft is holding a Windows and Surface event later today, but it looks like HP has spoiled some of the pricing surprise for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops. Notebookcheck reports that HP briefly posted a $2,999.99 price for its OmniBook X, with an 18-core CPU and 32GB of RAM. An OmniBook 16 was also priced at $4,999.99, with 64GB of memory, before HP removed both listings from its website. We’ll be covering all the announcements from Microsoft’s Windows and Surface event live this morning from 10AM PT / 1PM ET.
Asus first announced its colorful Zenbook 14 laptop back in June, and it’s now available. The new Zenbook starts at $799.99 with a Snapdragon X1-26-100 chip, 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and a 14-inch OLED display. An Intel Panther Lake version is due out before the end of the year, but that’s sure to cost way more.
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Google’s new laptop OS shows lots of promise for Android phone owners, but there’s a long road ahead.
