Remember when ThinkPads had seven rows of keys, sandpaper TrackPoint nubs, ThinkLights, and keyboards that transformed to become wider when you opened their hinge? The Register’s Avram Pilch caught up with David W. Hill, who ran ThinkPad design from 1995 to 2017, about all of them — and the attempts to bring some back!
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ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 review: a $3,300 CES concept you can own.
Remember the Lenovo ThinkBook Gen 6 rollable laptop from CES? After all these months, it’s now for sale. It starts at $3,299 with an Intel Lunar Lake chip, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD, and that flexible OLED that expands from 14 to 16.7 inches.
I’m expecting a review unit very soon. What do you want to know about it?
Apple has released The Parent Presentation, an 81-page slide deck available in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote format, and a (now set to private) promo video hosted by “nepo baby” / Please Don’t Destroy comedian Martin Herlihy, aimed at getting students a Mac for school next year.
I can’t decide if it’s a solid pitch (who hasn’t held a family meeting to get approval for a high-priced tech purchase?) or if it will miss its target audience because it’s 8 minutes long and not in a vertical video format. Either way, we also have some advice on which laptop is the best option.
(Update: -- The YouTube video is no longer available, but the presentation slides are still there.)
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The quirky 2-in-1 has an endearing design that could be a great fit for students. But Framework once again has to prove itself.
Acer’s online spec sheet for 2025 gaming laptops lists the unannounced Nvidia RTX 5050. There are eight RTX 5050 configs, from the mid-range Acer Nitro 18 AI down to an entry-level Nitro V 15. According to the specs, the entry-level card goes up to 100W in certain laptops and as low as 60W.
RTX 5060 laptops were recently announced, and rumors are pointing to 5050 laptops and desktops coming soon.
MSI is no stranger to putting wild designs on its laptops, but the Prestige 13 AI Plus Ukiyo-e Edition is classing things up with a an eight-layer lacquered print of Hokusai’s wave on its lid. The iconic Japanese artwork is applied by hand in eight steps, and the individually numbered laptops have piano gloss keys with golden legends to complete the sophisticated look. It’s $1,599 and limited to 1,000 units.
Dell is putting Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 chips into its high-end Pro Max Plus laptops, capable of up to 350 TOPS. That’s about nine times more TOPS than a consumer-grade Copilot Plus PC, reserved for professionals who need to run hefty AI models locally.
There’s no pricing, availability, or full configuration specs yet, but they’ll have Intel Arrow Lake CPUs, up to 256GB of RAM, and likely very lofty prices.
The MateBook Fold isn’t the first foldable laptop we’ve seen — Lenovo got there first, with plenty others since — but it might just be the thinnest, at only 7.3mm thick when unfolded. A 13-inch screen opens to 18 inches, and instead of running on Windows it’s all powered by Huawei’s own HarmonyOS 5. It’s China-only for now though, where it costs around $3,300.
HP is announcing new 14- and 16-inch OmniBook 5 laptops at Computex, starting at $799 and $849, respectively. They’re expected in June and July, with 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X and X Plus chips, Windows on Arm, and 1920 x 1200 OLED displays.
Snapdragon X processors typically offer great battery life, and HP claims the OmniBooks last 34 hours. Though, that’s based on very controlled video rundown tests while offline.
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A great GPU and an excellent screen for the money, if you can deal with the fan noise.
After playing red light, green light with Blade 16 sales, Razer is finally selling all versions of its latest gaming laptop. Those who choose to study the Blade can pick from configurations with the RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, or our $4,500 review spec with an RTX 5090 GPU.
Razer never responded to The Verge about the gap in availability, but we can all take one big guess for the reason.
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It’s a return to form for Razer, but only a modest upgrade from Nvidia.
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The modular laptop keeps getting better, for new and existing owners alike.
Acer announced four new gaming laptops for its entry-level Nitro line, each configurable with Nvidia RTX 5060 or 5070 Ti GPUs, but none of them have US pricing or availability. Likely due to tariff uncertainty, Acer’s press release says, “US availability and pricing to be announced closer to local availability.”
We don’t know when that will be, but for now Acer announced EU pricing (see image gallery).
9AM PT tomorrow, April 10th, and they’ll ship in June, just like the UK/EU/Canada ones that already went on preorder today during the Trump tariff flip-flop kerfuffle.
