Tag: 13th Gen Intel

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Gigabyte laptop in for review. They’ve always offered good value and this one comes with a price tag that we didn’t …

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 …

MSI’s Sword range of budget gaming laptops has been a perennial favourite since it first appeared. It’s typically offered all the important features, design elements and performance levels that …

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 …

In our exhaustive, monthly group tests, we update the price, availability and value scores from our definitive laptop reviews, to determine the ranking of various groups of laptops. This …

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 …

I’m glad to see Aussie-battler brand Venom return to High Performance Laptops. The company regards laptop making somewhat differently to the rest of the market thanks to the founder’s …

We recently unboxed the Venom Zero 14 Phantom and have since been testing it to bits. While we prepare the full review, we thought we’d start off with a …

We’re excited to have another Venom laptop in our labs… it’s been a while. But, there’s a good reason for that. Unlike most other laptop manufacturers, Venom doesn’t refresh …

LG has announced its recommendations for laptops in the Back To School period. We suspect that these premium models aren’t the best for smaller kids who won’t care for …

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 …

MSI has announced new Core Ultra laptops and a new, Core Ultra-powered handheld gaming device at CES. The new laptops feature Intel’s 14-th Gen HX processors with Neural Processing …

We’re closing in on the kids going back to school and – whether you’ve procreated or not – that means there are some killer laptop deals on the horizon. …

Laptops that can play games while hiding in an office are becoming increasingly popular and that’s what we’ve come to expect from MSI’s Vector range. Only recently we reviewed …

MSI’s Vector line is its lesser-known, gaming-laptop range. It eschews the glitzy RGB, pure-gamer bling of the company’s better-known Titan and (nowadays) Raider ranges, to deliver a top-tier gaming …

A load of laptops from Asus turned up and the smallest one was the Asus Zenbook S 13. It’s one of the smallest laptops we’ve seen in ages and …

We were a little disappointed when we reviewed the last generation Asus Vivobook 16X OLED as we felt corners had been cut and that a potentially very good creator …

Only yesterday we reviewed the hugely desirable MSI Mercedes laptop. However, the MSI Stealth 16 Studio A13V is essentially the same laptop without the race trim. As such, while …

We were blown away when MSI announced its partnership with Mercedes-AMG motor sport at Computex, earlier this year. We were also impressed when we spent some time with the …

We liked the first Acer Triton we saw as it was a perfect sleeper laptop that was good at gaming but could also hide in an office. However, the …

It’s fair to say that Lenovo makes some very good laptops. Just about every device we’ve seen has ended up at (or nearly at) the top of our monthly …

The Lenovo Yoga 7i wasn’t just one of the best, ultraportable business laptops we’d ever reviewed, it remains one of the best laptops we’ve ever used. Now, here’s the …

We rounded off 2022 with the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i taking top spot on our Best Laptops list and, ever since, we’ve been looking forward to seeing what the …

The HP Elite Dragonfly G4 is designed to be a top-tier, business-grade ultraportable laptop and it didn’t take us long to suspect that HP might have succeeded. It’s not …

It’s been way too long since we’ve had a Gigabyte laptop in our lab, so we’re very pleased to get two in at once. First up is the Gigabyte …

High Performance Laptops is in San Jose at Intel’s Developer Conference called, Intel Innovation. On display was an unspecified Gigabyte gaming laptop – which just happens to look exactly …

We reviewed a bunch of Acer laptops in recent months, but finding them to buy has been difficult. Now, here’s a brand-new, 13th-Gen gaming laptop from the company’s top-end, …

We saw two, different-sized, Intel-Evo-certified LG Gram laptops at a launch in mid June, but getting hold of them has been a major issue. The subsequent press release stated …

We were very impressed with Acer’s recent GO 14, but now here’s the Acer Swift Go 16. We expected it to be the same but two-inches bigger, but it …

Acer’s Swift Go 14 is an Intel Evo-certified, ultraportable laptop with high-end features and some beefy power under the bonnet. Over the years, we’ve seen impressive laptops in this …

Alienware’s laptops have, historically, been a mixed bag. They look great and be very fast indeed, but they can also be heavy and somewhat unstable. The new Alienware m16 …

We’re at the Computex tech trade show in Taipei and were given a tour of the brand new and forthcoming laptops on MSI’s massive stand. We’ll be updating this …

MSI’s latest launch event, called MSIology: Luxury Gaming Experience, took place on May 30th and saw the announcement of a partnership with the Mercedes AMG racing team plus a …

At its recent ‘new gaming laptops’ event, MSI revealed a new budget model that aimed to provide great design and great value to gamers of any budget. It would …

Lenovo’s flagship gaming laptops always do very well so we were hoping for great things from the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i. Will it be our new Number 1 Best …

We’ve only just reviewed (and been blown away by) Aussie independent laptop manufacturer Pioneer and it’s monstrous DreamBook Power X370 RTX which had a full complement of top-tier tech. …

Asus’s Zephyrus range has been one of our favourites since it first appeared. Its aim is to be sleek, powerful and portable and many models, over the years have …

This site’s very first review was of a beefy Pioneer Dreambook but, sadly, we weren’t overly impressed with the performance and value proposition. However, the Pioneer DreamBook Power X370 …

MSI held a large event called, ‘The Leap to Singularity’ to showcase the new MSI laptops for 2023. It included speeches from MSI’s Country Head, Jerry Lu, Intel Australia’s …

MSI’s Modern laptops are mid-range offerings that don’t excel at much but can offer great value as a general purpose, portable computer. The new, 13th Gen range has been …

We finally have our first 13th Gen Intel laptop in for review. It’s also the first with an Nvidia RTX 4000 series GPU. Much as we’re dying to see …

At the recent launch of the new MSI laptops, we heard about how the new models, across the entire range, were benefiting from 13th-Gen Intel processors and 40-series Nvidia …

Lenovo announced an innovative new model in the ThinkBook Plus series at CES 2023 that reimagines Lenovo’s strong heritage of the twistable form factor with a dual rotating display …

MSI has unveiled its new laptops at CES 2023. They feature the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs and 13th-Gen Intel Core HX series CPUs. Eight of the …

Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) has announced its new 2023 laptop lineup, complete with new CPUs and GPUs from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia, as well as significant improvements to …