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tn-emaki

Can you actually game on a Googlebook?

hp omnibook x 14 hero

HP's OmniBook X 14 trades flash for focus, and it's built for work from day one

Person using Acer Nitro V 16 to play games on desk

Early Black Friday discount knocks $750 off this Acer laptop with an Intel Core 7 240H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

The Acer Swift 16 AI held in hand at an angle above a white table with bookshelves in the background

This Intel Core Ultra X7 laptop with a 3K OLED screen is $550 off

Framework Laptop 13 home server

I pulled the mainboard out of my Framework Laptop 13 and turned it into a truly modular Proxmox server

HP Googlebook 14 (11)

The HP Googlebook 14 and Google's truly misguided OS

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A person gaming on an MSI laptop at a wooden desk next to a red MSI dragon mascot toy.
MSI Crosshair and Stealth: Desktop-replacement power for gaming, AI, and more
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This article sponsored by MSI

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The Lenovo Googlebook 15 sitting on a counter
Lenovo's Googlebook 15 is a fantastic laptop held back by an OS that isn't ready for prime time

Excellent-looking and feeling hardware can't solve Googlebook OS' shortcomings.

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By  Patrick O'Rourke
The OLED MacBook Pro's keyboard
The new MacBook Pro maxes out at $14,549: here's what else you could buy for that
Apple

That's a lot of money.

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By  Simon Batt
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RTX Spark is here but it's the chassis it comes in that counts

Capable chips need a powerhouse of a computer around them

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By  Joe Rice-Jones
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Those US-made laptops BlueChip is building might get Starlink-like antennas
Qualcomm

Anduril and Qualcomm want to get them in the hands of people who work in extreme situations.

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By  Simon Batt
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Asus Zenbook 14-13
Anduril and Qualcomm's BlueChip aim to bring laptop production onto US soil
Qualcomm

It's off to a good start.

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By  Simon Batt
Front shot of Acer Swift Go 16 (2024)
The Acer Swift Go 16 AI drops to $650, and it's a rare deal for a Copilot+ PC

A solid big-screen workhorse down to a new low

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Nvidia says RTX Spark games like an RTX 5070. I checked under emulation

They technically said a RTX 5070 mobile, but I didn't have one of those on hand

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By  Joe Rice-Jones
omp terminal open on rtx spark laptop
5 things nobody tells you before buying an Nvidia RTX Spark laptop for local AI

It’s the best Windows laptop I’ve used for local AI, once you get past the fine print

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By  Joe Rice-Jones
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Lenovo's ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 is proof that sticking to your roots is a winning formula

The ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 is a worthy successor to the venerable T480

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By  Ty Sherback
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Grab Apple's MacBook Air M5 for $149 off with 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM

Fanless design with 16GB RAM and all-day battery life

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tn4-emaki
I wanted to love this Googlebook, but I can't recommend its OS

Googlebook OS could be the start of a truly compelling third desktop ecosystem, but right now it feels very version-1.0, for early adopters only.

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By  Alex Dobie
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark passed most of my anti-cheat tests, but Valorant and Call of Duty still won’t run (yet)

Anti-cheat support from Riot Games, CoD, and EA are in the works

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By  Joe Rice-Jones
ASUS L410 lying flat
This $100 Asus Windows laptop might be just what you're looking for

We'd be quick about it

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By  Timi Cantisano
The Asus Googlebook 14 sitting on an ottoman
After a week with a Googlebook, I can't shake the feeling I'm using an Android tablet disguised as a laptop

The Asus Googlebook 14 features impressive hardware, but Googlebook OS is half-baked right now.

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By  Patrick O'Rourke
Lenovo 15.6
Just $600 for a 15.3-inch touchscreen laptop with a Ryzen 7 processor and 15-hour battery life

The steep discount makes it worth looking at

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By  Timi Cantisano
Couch work-from-home setup with an Apple MacBook Pro 14
Beastly 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro chip and 2TB storage gets a steep $600 price drop

Apple's powerhouse is now cheaper

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By  Timi Cantisano
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Google's laptop dream took 17 years. Here's why.

Looking back at the long, messy road to the Googlebook.

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By  Alex Dobie
Asus ProArt laptops with the RTX Spark
I tested DLSS 5 on a DGX Spark, and it showed me the future is bright for Nvidia's first laptop

RTX Spark is going to be a game changer.

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By  Rayan Malik
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I lost my old laptop's barrel charger, so I added USB-C charging for less than $10
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The sub-$10 USB-C-to-barrel adapter gave my laptop a second chance.

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By  Abid Ahsan Shanto
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