Charlene R Gaona

The latest generation of laptops using ARM processors hasn’t been selling as well as Microsoft and others had hoped. I believe consumers were anticipating better prices with those new AI-ready CPUs, even if they were lightweight, had a very long battery life, and had (largely) fixed those compatibility issues. This Lenovo convertible OLED laptop with Snapdragon X internals is available for just $429.99. Thanks to its OLED touchscreen and strong specifications, the IdeaPad 5X—one of the few new Snapdragon Copilot+…

Microsoft has secretly increased the prices of its older Surface devices to make up for the lower-priced, smaller Surface devices that were introduced this week. A new 13-inch Surface laptop and a 12-inch Surface Pro were introduced by Microsoft, with prices starting at $899.99 and $799.99, respectively. Both the Surface Pro 11th Edition and the current, older Surface Laptop 7th Edition have starting costs of $999, making them somewhat less expensive and slightly smaller than the current Surface Laptop and…

On Wednesday, Intel said that it is integrating its XeSS 2 technology into even more games, including high-end titles like Assassin’s Creed: Shadows and Diablo IV, putting them in the “definitely playable” category by boosting framerates by an astounding four times. During the announcement, Intel also disclosed that more than 200 PC games currently support XeSS in some way. At the end of 2024, XeSS 2 was introduced alongside the $250 Intel Arc B580 (“Battlemage”) architecture, a “budget” graphics card…