Laptops Archive

HP is bringing a much welcome refresh to its Pavilion Plus line. The Pavilion Plus is a totally random assortment of features (OLED display, ultra-thin chassis, incredibly fancy webcam, an H-series processor) that really have no business being on the same device, and it is my favorite thing ever. (It’s also on our Best Budget Laptop list.)

If you’ve been trying to decide between buying a luxury car and a fancy gaming laptop, well, you can now get them both in one.

“You should be able to decapitate your MacBook and use it as a desktop,” the Mac hardware tinkerer said while taking the broken screen off of a laptop, leaving just the slab. One fantastic, e-waste-saving use case he added was pairing a broken iMac he had converted into a monitor with his headless MacBook.

The Laptop 16 promises to finally fulfill the broken dream of upgradable gaming laptops. How easy can it be? See for yourself — I don’t cut away once during this video!

It’s now been just over two years since I reviewed the original Framework Laptop. Back then, I wondered if its promise of a wide ecosystem and robust marketplace would really hold up, or whether the Framework, like so many modular PCs before it, would quickly fizzle out.

In our big hands-on with the modular gaming laptop, the laptop’s swappable GPU throttled itself due to a broken fan connector. But today, I visited Framework HQ and spent 15 minutes in Cyberpunk 2077 and Halo Infinite on high spec with no throttling at all. And yes, I swapped that GPU in and out of the laptop myself.