Sean Hollister
I finally touched the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus.
The Intel Lunar Lake handheld, on sale now, looks and feels SO much better than the original, and I hear it performs far better, too.
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A look inside the Lenovo Legion Go S.
Lenovo sent Dave2D an entire pre-production unit of the soon-to-be Steam-ified Legion Go S, complete with its Lenovo-exclusive AMD Z2 Go chip, so he’s got the best look yet. You can see its full-length SSD slot here (with spacer for smaller drives) for easy upgrades.
He also ran early benchmarks that suggest it’ll surely have more performance than the Steam Deck. We both agree it won’t be a battery life champ.
Image: Dave2D
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How many fingers does it take to lift “the lightest Copilot Plus PC”? Three.
This is the Asus Zenbook A14, it weighs just 2.18 pounds, and while that doesn’t make it the lightest laptop ever, this 14-inch machine is lighter than the old 11-inch MacBook Air! More in Antonio’s full story. Both of us agree three fingers is the right quantity.
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
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I still can’t get over the fact that Nvidia fit the 5090 into a two-slot graphics card.
As a journalist, I don’t cheer or clap from my seat at keynotes, and I’m skeptical that each of Nvidia’s four new cards can truly feel twice as fast as the previous gen. But when this happened, my heart went out to all my fellow Small Form Factor (SFF) enthusiasts. Hope we see more two-slots in future!
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Lenovo’s real, actually-going-on-sale rollable laptop is delightful in person.
A real expanding screen straight out of science fiction! Antonio, Andrew and I couldn’t stop grinning, particularly as Lenovo encouraged us to just use the $3500 ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 instead of treating it like some fragile prototype.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a tad awkward because Windows doesn’t officially support expanding screens, but an invisible multimonitor hack seems to work. Get on it, Microsoft!
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Up close with the SteamOS-powered Lenovo Legion Go S.
Physically, and on paper, I would pick this one over the original Legion Go in a heartbeat. It feels so much better — and it’s the first third-party handheld with SteamOS, which vastly improves that feel.
Sorry I couldn’t provide any performance or battery impressions, though: this unit has an old Z1 Extreme chip inside, no intensive games on display, not even a Portal 2 savegame.
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Lenovo’s officially making a Legion Go 2, too.
The Legion Go S is the immediate successor to the Legion Go handheld, minus the detachable gamepads / mouse / kickstand and plus a SteamOS option. But a Legion Go 2 is coming sometime in 2025, Lenovo has announced.
Specs include Ryzen Z2 Extreme, an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED screen with VRR (!), and a big 74Wh battery. This one didn’t turn on, but the grips are definitely comfier!
1/5Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
