Tag: 12th Gen Intel

Colorful Technology has unveiled the Rimbook L1, an ultraportable laptop for users on a budget. The launch marks the entry of Colorful into a broader notebook category beyond its …

Our laptop reviews use of an exhaustive scoring system that mathematically compares every new laptop with everything that’s come before it. However, price and availability change all the time …

We publish several, on-going, monthly, laptop group tests here at High Performance Laptops. However, the Best Business Laptop feature has always had issues. In the past, we’ve focused upon …

Every month, we perform a group test to determine the Best Portable Laptop of the month. This normally involves updating our in-depth laptop reviews with the latest pricing to …

High Performance Laptops’ reviews use of an exhaustive scoring system that mathematically compares every new laptop with everything that’s come before it. However, price and availability change all the …

The kids are going back to school in a couple of weeks and that means there are some great laptop deals available – not just models for students and …

HP only recently showed off its new folding, OLED convertible laptop at its HP Flex event that was peripheral to SXSW Sydney. It was commonly called the HP Fold …

MSI’s gaming laptops have been incredibly popular on our site. But, we were particularly intrigued when one seemed to show up in Diablo 4. MSI commissioned High Performance Laptops …

Not long ago we reviewed MSI’s Katana 15 – a very popular budget gaming laptop which went on to be our Best Value Laptop overall. Now, here’s the Gigabyte …

MSI’s twin, budget gaming laptops, the Sword and Katana, quickly became popular when they launched, owing to them lying in an entry-level sweet spot of price, performance, styling and …

The Acer TravelMate B5 14 is an interesting laptop. It’s designed for school (and the education system in general) and features enhanced robustness and replaceable components to complement this. …

HP has an almost bewildering array of smart, business-class laptops, but the Pavilion isn’t one of them. It looks like a business laptop but, as our review explains, the …

Microsoft is back with its latest flagship convertible: the Surface Pro 9. It’s very thin and light (and Intel Evo certified) and the fact it’s almost more of a …

In the world of bonkers Asus’ engineering exercises, the fact that the Evo-certified, Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED still exists, is noteworthy. Many such exercises fail shortly after …

We’ve been enormously impressed with Asus’ Expertbook laptops in the past. They’ve been incredibly well made and impressively portable. This 16-inch version promises more of the same and we …

What do you call a laptop with no keyboard? It sounds like the set-up to a joke but the actual answer is a tablet and yet the Asus Zenbook …

Asus’ Zenbooks have been impressing the pants off us lately. They might not excel at all tasks, but they are phenomenal, all-rounders that will suit many tasks. We reviewed …

The Asus Zenbook Pro 16X OLED is part of Asus’ ProArt line for Creators. It’s not cheap, but it’s powerful and properly packed full of features. There’s also a …

We’ve had to wait a while, but we’re finally reviewing Lenovo’s flagship gaming laptop. It follows in the footsteps of some amazing gaming laptops including the all-conquering behemoth, Asus …

We reviewed our last ROG Strix almost a year ago and absolutely loved it. Remarkably, you can still buy it at a bargain price and it’s still well worth …

MSI has been owning the show with its Raider, Titan and Stealth gaming laptops for more than a year now. However, there’s another premium MSI gaming laptop range and …

Many people know Acer’s Helios and Nitro gaming laptops for being high-value gaming machines. But, fewer people seem to know about the Triton gaming range. The Acer Predator Triton …

Of the three laptops HP recently sent us, the HP ZBook Power G9 differs in that it’s a beefy, (corporate) workstation rather than an ultraportable. It’s not a laptop …

The HP Envy x360 2-in-1 Laptop 13-bf0022TU (to give it its full name), is yet another another business-class, ultraportable in our labs. But, despite its office-friendly credentials it’s actually …

We’ve been impressed with Acer’s flagship gaming laptop in the past. It might not be the fastest gaming laptop, but it’s typically offered a great combination of value and …

We’ve had a bunch of business-grade ultraportables pass through our labs lately and we’ve had a bunch of them disappoint us. This is the souped-up version of one of …

We’ve seen all manner of amazing MSI gaming laptops come through our doors in recent months, but this is the one we’ve been waiting for most. It’s a Raider …

HP’s top-tier business-oriented have impressed us in the past and now the company has several different ranges hitting the market. This is the HP Elitebook X360 1040 G9 – …

MSI has been knocking it out of the park with its high performance laptops this year. Models from its Raider and Stealth ranges have topped our Best Laptop ratings …

To say we’re fans of the MSI Prestige range is an understatement. Never has a laptop provoked such a visceral reaction for both its looks and performance except, perhaps, …

We’re seemingly swamped with ultraportable laptops at the moment but each one is impressing us in at least one way. At first glance, the new, Intel Evo-certified, Acer Swift …

We found the 17-inch MSI Stealth GS77 to be the almost-perfect High Performance Laptop: it’s thin, light, portable and very very powerful. Now, here’s the 15.6-inch version, the MSI …

MSI’s Modern laptops tend to be mid-range, general-productivity, ‘Lifestyle’ laptops that offer reasonable quality at a reasonable price. They tend not to excel at much, but they can also …

We’ve been impressed with Dynabook’s Portégé laptops which have kept true to the original Toshiba designs that revolutionised the world of ultraportable laptops back in the 90s. Now, here’s …

Independent, US laptop maker, Framework laptops, is coming to Australia with shipments starting in October. The company offers a mix of pre-built and kit-laptops (for build-your-own enthusiasts) which are …

If your new (or old) MSI laptop has a washed out screen and videos look terrible with banding and blocky graphics, worry not… it’s a known issue with a …

LG Electronics Australia has today announced the Australian availability of the company’s top-tier, 2-in-1 LG gram premium laptop, designed to boost improve productivity. The two, new 16-inch 2-in-1 ultraportables …

In the world of High Performance Laptops, Lenovo Legions are highly regarded. But, while the 5 series might represent a second tier (with a few limitations compared to the …

Now with more people than ever working remotely, laptop features that used to be helpful in an office environment might not carry as much value. But people still want …

Asus likes pushing boundaries and the ROG Flow GZ13 is another of it’s, ‘I can’t believe they invented it’ models. Should people want a convertible tablet, with an RGB, …

MSI has announced its latest Intel HX series laptops (with 12th Gen Intel HX series processors at its latest MSIology launch event. Of particular note was the announcement of …

Dynabook has announced it’s refreshed its Portégé X30L series laptops with the introduction of the lightweight, 13-inch Portégé X30L-K. It features the latest, hybrid-architecture Intel 12th Gen Core P-Series …

The MSI Crosshair 15 is one of MSI’s upper mid-range gaming laptops. This is an attractive proposition as the company’s top-tier models can get prohibitively expensive while this seeks …

MSI has impressed the pants off us recently thanks to its power-packed, svelte Stealth GS77 and MackBook-Killing Creator Z17. However, both have a thin chassis which causes thermal throttling …

In a world where high performance laptops are almost whizz-bang in their existence – thanks to rapid refreshes and upgrades – we’ve recently been heartened to see that the …

We were impressed with our first look at MSI’s last MacBook Killer, the Creator Z16, a few months ago. However, before we got to test the real thing, we …

Not so long ago we raved about the fact that the MSI Stealth GS76 (with its 11th Gen Intel processor) had finally come close to breaking the law that …

Most people are fans of MSI’s GS Stealth series: it’s impressively thin, adorned in Ninja-black livery and is very powerful. However, the MSI Stealth 15M series – sometimes called …

Alienware has announced a new X14 ultra-thin (15mm) gaming laptop to join the X15 and X17. It’s claimed to be the world’s first 14-inch laptop that supports Nvidia G-Sync …

The MSI Katana GF76 (12th Gen) is the first high performance laptop we’ve seen to wield a 12th generation Intel processor. Naturally we were particularly keen to see how …