The best gaming laptops we saw at CES 2024

CES is always flooded with new gaming laptops, but this year felt a bit different. Like the best laptops of CES as a whole, the updates to gaming laptops this year focused more on improved displays and new designs than just updated internals. Here are the four gaming laptops I saw this year that really … Read more

How gaming laptops grew up in 2023

Raw power. High refresh rates. RGB. These are some of the defining factors of the best gaming laptops, and they have been for years. But for as much portable power as you could buy, most gaming laptops have skipped a critical element of a great gaming experience: the screen. In years past, you could find … Read more

This was the most exciting gaming laptop I reviewed in 2023

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I’ve never used a laptop quite like the Lenovo Legion 9i. It’s the only laptop I’ve given a perfect score, which you can read about in my Lenovo Legion 9i review, and it puts many of the best gaming laptops to shame. It’s out of reach for most people — … Read more

The best 17-inch laptops | Digital Trends

A 17-inch laptop gives you a larger screen and keyboard, plus additional space for more powerful components. That makes this size a great choice for designers, gamers, and professionals who want a mobile laptop that provides impressive specs or excellent versatility. However, 17-inch laptops are increasingly hard to find with laptops having moved toward either … Read more

AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 CPUs aren’t all that new

AMD AMD new Ryzen 8040 CPUs aren’t as new as they seem. During its Advancing AI event, AMD announced that Ryzen 8040 chips are coming to laptops, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a new generation of processors. AMD doesn’t call them next-gen CPUs, rather referring to them as “the next step in … Read more