5
Verge Score
This Snapdragon-powered laptop is a productivity machine, but unless work foots the bill, you can do better.
I wasn’t expecting the Acemagic X1 to be affordable, but it makes sense — like we discussed a month ago, its other specs are pretty mid.
ALSO like we discussed a month ago, the laptop will indeed have Stewart Brand’s iconic Whole Earth Catalog quote engraved into a decorative gold rectangle above the keyboard because reasons!
7
Verge Score
The closest the company’s come to merging the power of a laptop with the battery life and flexibility of a tablet.
Look, I know unsightly stickers on Windows laptops have been with us since long ago when “Intel Inside” was something people actually wanted boast about. But come on, HP.
IDC and Canalys disagree whether this is the second or third consecutive quarter of growth, but either way, the slump is definitively behind us — and we haven’t even seen the impact of this year’s Qualcomm, AMD and Intel chip launches yet.
We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.
NotebookCheck writes that the first Asus laptops with Ryzen AI 300 chips, codename Strix Point, will launch July 17th at an event originally scheduled for July 8th. Best Buy has changed its ship dates to July 28th, from July 15th originally.
Two weeks till launch, four weeks till availability.
LG used double-stacked OLED technology for in-car screens even before it popped up in Apple’s new iPad Pros. Next up are laptops like Dell’s new XPS 13 AI PC.
Here’s what LG claims tandem OLED does for laptops:
It can deliver double the lifespan and triple the brightness of a conventional single-layer OLED display, while reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent...LG Display has been able to make it around 40 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter than existing OLED laptop screens
The first wave of Copilot Plus PCs has landed, and iFixit has already posted a Surface Pro and Surface Laptop teardown.
There’s no magic AI dust to fix the Recall mess, but they are notably repairable, with icons and QR codes to ease the process if that affects your buying decision. Expect more from us soon about how these match up with Microsoft’s promises.
The new 14-inch XPS has the redesigned chassis, touchbar, and invisible trackpad of the XPS 13 Plus, but better thermals and twice the battery life. And yet.
Refurbished models start at $929 for the base 13-inch one. That’s cheaper than most retailers’ deals on new MacBook Airs, and Apple’s refurbished models tend to feel every bit as new as an unused one, as MacRumors noted.
Read our March review for Joanna Nelius’ thoughts on its key upgrades, two external display support (versus one in older Apple silicon Airs), and faster base storage.
Here’s the full spec rundown for GPD’s folding Duo:
• AMD Ryzen 7 8840U
• Up to 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM
• Two M.2 ports supporting PCIe 4.0 drives
• 80 Wh battery
• 2,880 x 1,800 OLED displays (60Hz primary)
• 1 x USB4, 2 x USB-C, 2 x USB-A, 1 x HDMI, 1 x Ethernet, 1 x SD 4.0, and 1 x Oculink port
GPD looks like it has created one of the most interesting dual-screen laptops we’ve seen to date. The secondary display sits on top or folds over the regular one to then close flat into a tablet. It looks impressive in the GIF below, but the key will be weight and balance. We’re expecting to hear more about the GPU Duo at Computex next week.
