This Asus laptop gets almost everything right
…The 14-inch $1,479 Asus ExpertBook P3 adds an award-winning AMD Ryzen AI 300 chip to the mix, while the $899 15-inch Lenovo IdeaPad 5a 2-in-1 adds…
Before I explore where this all could go, let me run down what we know so far. First and foremost, while we don’t know for sure if we’ll see an N1 chip at Computex, we do know they exist – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang already confirmed the company has been working on something called the N1 chip for some time. We first got wind of it back in 2024 with reports that MediaTek was considering partnering with Nvidia to make Arm-based chips. At CES the following year Nvidia revealed a new AI-focused DGX Spark mini PC powered by its new GB10 Superchip (basically an Nvidia GPU sandwiched together with a 2
Nvidia’s N1X could be the jolt Windows laptops need — with one big catch…The 14-inch $1,479 Asus ExpertBook P3 adds an award-winning AMD Ryzen AI 300 chip to the mix, while the $899 15-inch Lenovo IdeaPad 5a 2-in-1 adds…
…Kompanio chips. There are downsides. The Chromebook Plus 516’s design is boring, it offers just 128GB of flash storage, and its display could be more vivid. However, many competitors share these…
…It cuts the core count back to 12 CPU cores (the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has 16), but retains other chip features including the integrated AMD Radeon 8060S GPU and the XDNA…
…an unfortunate low point in the memory supply pipeline post-COVID, a sudden boom in data center construction planning for "AI," and chip makers suddenly shifting production output to far more profitable…
…The chip does not have its own AI unit. This is missing from the platform, unlike in more recent HS models featuring Ryzen AI. Christoph Hoffmann The first limitation of the test…
…the threat of tariffs in 2025, and then AI sucking all the air from the room during this year's event. Uncertainty breeds competition, though – and the PC kept its foot on…
…Many best-selling Chromebooks listed on Amazon have older Intel chips with as few as two cores or MediaTek Kompanio chips with similar core counts but slower per-core performance. And there…
…However, I think the real boat anchor dragging down the laptop’s battery life is the AMD Ryzen AI 9 chip. AMD’s Ryzen 300 and 400 series chips have generally failed…
…That’s mostly because it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon X chip. Qualcomm has since launched the Snapdragon X2, so introducing a new laptop with a Snapdragon X isn’t exactly exciting. CPU…
…But I don't think it makes sense for gamers after it debuted at an inflated price. (Thanks, "AI," for making everything so expensive even companies like Valve and Microsoft can't…