Asus, MSI, Alienware, Lenovo (?). The company that inherited the ThinkPad brand from IBM has produced countless reliable, if boring, business machines, but it hasn't made a name for itself in entertainment laptops for the masses.It's not like they haven't tried--the IdeaPad lineup has been ...

The latest updates to HP's 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch high performance laptops, the dv6t and dv7t Quad Edition have not been particularly well covered by the media, with most of the attention being directed to the new ultrabooks and 'sleekbooks' from HP.However, the changes made in the quad-core ...

One of AMD's new Trinity chips have been thoroughly tested and it looks like a modest improvement for integrated graphics.There has been much talk about how Intel's integrated HD 4000 graphics in the new Ivy Bridge CPUs would be the "death of dedicated graphics". However, only so-called financial ...

Samsung is mostly making news about its new Series 7 Gamer, which is clearly a powerful machine, but for those looking for a less bulky desktop replacement / gaming laptop, the new Ivy Bridge and Kepler-equipped Series 7 Chronos is also interesting. While not as powerful as its gaming counterpart, ...

In an unusual show of customer appreciation, gamers who bought a new EON 15-S, EON 17-S or other select Origin system just prior to the Ivy Bridge update are being given free updates to the latest generation Intel processors. The same goes for Dell customers who ordered one of the new M14x R2, M18x ...

We've just unpacked a brand new ASUS Republic of Gamers G55VW and run some Futuremark benchmarks on it, comparing it to its predecessor, the G53SX. The results weren't revolutionary but clearly a step forward. Even more impressive was that the G55VW barely made a sound while running Futuremark's ...

The news of an upcoming gaming laptop from Samsung came as something of a surprise, coming from a company that hasn't focused on gaming products at all in the past (or focused on laptops, for that matter).That doesn't change the fact that the new Series 7 Gamer looks like a very competent piece ...

Some were undoubtedly disappointed when the news came that Alienware is discontinuing its 'gaming netbook', the M11x. Luckily there is still hope for anyone looking for a really small gaming laptop, thanks to the brand new Clevo W110ER. It basically delivers desktop performance in an 11.6-inch form ...

A good cooling stand is probably the most important accessory for gaming laptops--even if you don't dabble in overclocking, a high-end machine gets really hot when you play games on it. There are plenty of laptop coolers on the market and some of them are quite useless. I'm personally using a ...

The wireless card is something where a lot of manufacturers make cutbacks, which is really unfortunate considering the comparatively small price premium to get a 'Killer' card instead of one of the usual dime-a-dozen Intel modules (not counting Intel's rather uncommon Ultimate-N).The difference ...

Dell released the new Alienware lineup a bit earlier than expected, and so we learned that the M17x came with an option for a still rather mysterious AMD Radeon HD 7970M. Now that the specs for the 7000M series are official it looks like--at least according to AMD-- that the 7970M is vastly ...

Intel only releases five mobile processors in the initial batch of new 22nm Ivy Bridge processors. Conveniently enough, though, all of them are quad-core varieties that should drip feed into the latest gaming laptops real soon.As usual with the launch of a new processor lineup from Intel or ...