Category - Notebooks

Temporary stop for Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 on Intel’s Tiger Lake? What the new chip shortage really means | Exclusive

Sometimes it’s the really small things that fail and even such a small, quite unknown cog in the gearbox can stop a whole machine in its tracks. The chip shortage is not a new topic, but now the whole notebook manufacturers are threatened by new trouble from a quite unexpected corner. Intel had not only launched a new notebook CPU with Tiger [...]


Computex 2021: AMD Keynote with Dr. Lisa Su (Recording)

"Hope you enjoyed all the new technologies we announced at #computex 2021. We are so proud of our @AMD Ryzen desktop APUs, @Radeon mobile GPUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution, and our brand new 3D chiplet technology – the best in high-performance computing!!!" (Dr. Lisa Su on Twitter)


Schenker XMG Ultra 17 Review: Benchmarks and Efficiency (part 2 of 2)

In the first part of my review, I took a look at the XMG Ultra 17 barebone inside, the whole thing powered by an Intel Core i9-11900K. assembled and really stressed out. Today we have the missing gaming benchmarks, a few applications and the efficiency review of the GeForce 3080 laptop, which has a (positive) surprise in store. Considering all the [...]


Working and content creation with a notebook? In terms of Max-Q design, the GeForce RTX 3080 clearly beats the RTX 2080 Super!

Again Notebook Weeks at Igor’s Lab? Well, sort of yes and no, but I’ve now had the chance to at least take a longer inventory in direct comparison of two very similar notebooks, the one tested today containing the successor to the RTX 2080 Super Max-Q tested at the time. A notebook isn’t a desktop PC with a beast of a CPU and is [...]


AMD with Navi23 and Navi24 back in the mobile sector? First leaks and exclusive data on AMD’s possible return to the notebook segment

It appears that AMD and its major partners are already internally testing several RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6000M mobile GPUs, so that initial information about a discrete Navi23 and Navi24 chip for the laptop segment has been leaked. After first reports from Twitter insider and leaker Patrick Schur, AMD is working on several mobile SKUs based on the [...]


When important components become scarce: CPUs, GPUs, console chips and other components as complex trading objects

2020 was actually a first-class year for technological innovation, but it will probably also go down in history as the year of the ultimate frustration of discouraged consumers, when the target group will end up not being able to buy what has been on their wish list for a long time: graphics cards and processors, power supplies and last but not [...]


Using a Frame Limiter to de-noise your gaming laptop without losing performance and easier to do than ever before | XMG guest review

Hi everyone, in our forums, questions such as “why is my graphics card getting so hot” are often answered with a hint towards FPS limiters. But it happened only recently that NVIDIA has finally packed this function into their own driver. Time for dedicated article on this topic from a gaming laptop brand’s point of view. But [...]


Intel launches the 11. Generation Tiger Lake 10nm core CPUs with Xe graphics – Is the empire beating back against AMD? Benchmarks inside

Yesterday Intel officially launched its new Tiger Lake processors of the 11th generation. Generation with a brand new CPU and GPU architecture. The new Intel Tiger Lake CPUs are based on the company’s current 10nm++ node, which offers improved performance efficiency over Ice Lake processors. The Intel Tiger Lake CPUs will be marketed under [...]


Notebook self-assembly kit: an XMG Apex 15 from Schenker as a barebone with my own CPUs from Ryzen 3 3300X to Ryzen 9 3950X in a test | Part 1 – Assembly

The German notebook manufacturer Schenker had already presented the XMG Apex 15 some time ago, so I am not presenting a world first here, of course. Since one can fall back on socketed CPUs from AMD with the Apex 15, because a B450 board with socket AM4 is used, this notebook makes it quite interesting for me. Except for the built-in graphic unit [...]


Gaming notebooks in a tight spot: Ryzen 4000 APUs in bandwidth limit, Tiger Lake will probably come with only 4 cores in 2020 for the time being, and Ampere need more speed

I had already mentioned in my article “Why manufacturers are struggling with AMD notebooks, why AMD likes to trip itself up and why the blue conspiracy is not a conspiracy at all | Search for answers“, why notebook manufacturers are still so reluctant to buy AMD CPUs and APUs for mobile applications. But I’ll explain in a moment [...]


M MEMTEQ – Portable 15.6″USB monitor with IPS screen review

I had actually been thinking about an Asus ZenScreen in the same size, because I would have liked to have had a portable monitor for both the smartphone and the notebook. But this monitor doesn’t have an hour in hands-on mode, because it unfortunately had a pretty good reflection and extreme halos. But the almost 270 Euros are a little steep [...]


Why manufacturers are struggling with AMD notebooks, why AMD likes to trip itself up and why the blue conspiracy is not a conspiracy at all | Search for answers

I just had to write down the following now, because I neither like the usual conspiracy theories about alleged constraints (although Intel has provided enough reasons for this in the past), nor do I find many forum discussions fair, which once again show that among many forists there seem to be more experts than capable engineers in the [...]