CES is right around the corner, and Lenovo is kicking off the event with a series of announcements for its business-oriented ThinkBook lineup. This is where the company usually puts out its coolest and most unique devices, and this year is no different. The lineup includes the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid, a 2-in-1 laptop that not only works as a laptop or a tablet but also gives you the option to switch between Android and Windows on the fly.

The button layout of the Claw doesn’t deviate too much from other gaming handhelds. | Image: MSI MSI is the latest PC manufacturer to attempt to take on Valve’s Steam Deck with the Claw, a new Windows-based gaming handheld it’s announcing at CES. The Claw is powered by Intel’s new Meteor Lake Core Ultra processor announced last month and can be specced with “up to” an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, according to MSI’s press release. At CES 2024, MSI tells us it plans to ship three models ranging from $699 to $799 when it arrives in the first half of the year — with the base tier shipping with an Core Ultra 5 and 512GB of storage. We’ll have a full hands-on from CES soon: we literally just got hands-on the handheld and are writing up impressions now.Although Valve didn’t invent the handheld gaming PC form factor, its release of the Steam... Continue reading…

While MSI might be known for its gaming laptops, the company offered something different at CES 2024. Indeed, the leaks and the rumors were true, and MSI has officially taken the wraps off Claw, their first PC gaming handheld. It's different from the others on the market since Intel's new Meteor Lake CPUs power it, and it sure does look pretty powerful.

As CES kicks off, Lenovo is introducing a wide range of new laptops for 2024, and the Yoga lineup is getting its fair share of upgrades. The big focus for 2024 is AI, and all the new Yoga laptops are focused on it, whether its thanks to Intel Core Ultra processors or Nvidia GPUs.

MSI is joining the party at CES this year, launching a number of key products aimed primarily at gamers. The first is the RTX 4080 Super, announced by Nvidia on Monday alongside the RTX 4070 Ti Super and the 4070 Super. On top of that, the company is also launching the MSI Spatium M580 liquid-cooled SSD and a mesh WI-Fi system.

If you do not like big butts, Alienware has a new gaming laptop for you. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Gaming laptops generate a lot of heat, and Dell’s Alienware brand long ago settled on giving its gaming laptops big butts in order to exhaust it. But the problem with a large rear end on a laptop is it looks kind of goofy and makes packing it up a little more troublesome, so the Alienware M16 R2 has gotten a little booty reduction.Compared to the previous generation, the M16 R2 is just 9.82 inches deep. That’s 1.58 inches shaved off compared to the M16 R1, or about a 14-percent reduction in depth. Which should make it fit in a lap or on a cramped dorm room desk a heckuva lot easier. To go along with that less obtrusive back end (officially called a “thermal shelf” by Dell) the M16 R2 also has a new “Stealth Mode” that should allow you... Continue reading…

Razer’s press materials included this image, ostensibly of a LAN party, where everyone has brought enormous plug-in RGB desk mats along with their laptops. I love it and want to go to there. | Image: Razer You truly have to hand it to Razer for stretching a series of modest spec bumps across two separate announcements and two separate weeks. Razer was so excited about the new display options on the Blade 16 and Blade 18 that it announced them on the 4th, and today, we have a few more details about what’s coming to both laptops this year, mostly of the spec sheet “number go up” variety. There’s also a USB-C dock. Here we go. The Blade 16 goes OLED and gets a minor CPU bumpThe biggest news for the Blade 16 is the previously revealed 2560 x 1600 240Hz OLED panel. Razer spokesperson Will Powers told The Verge via email that the Blade 16 will also be available with the dual-mode mini-LED display we tested in 2023, which can run at either... Continue reading…

At CES 2024, Lenovo revealed its new gaming laptops for the new year. There are a ton of 9th-generation devices from the company that you'll be able to buy this year, including refreshed Legion 9i, Legion 7i, Legion 5i, Legion Slim 5, Legion Pro 7i, and Legion Pro 5i models, with some featuring Intel's latest 14th-generation CPUs. For even more power, there's also the Legion Tower desktops. Those needing more affordable products can also check out some refreshed LOQ laptops. These laptops all have Lenovo's LA AI chips onboard and can enable higher framerates in games.

Alienware is announcing three new gaming laptops, two monitors, and a new gaming keyboard and mouse at CES 2004. The more notable of the laptops is the fully redesigned Alienware m16 R2, which sports a fancy Stealth Mode. Also announced are the powerhouse m18 R2, and the x16 R2. We can't forget the monitors, either, which include the Alienware 32 4K QD-OLED, and the Alienware 27 360Hz QD-OLED. Competing for the lineup is a new Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming keyboard and gaming mouse.

Image: Kia CES is famous for highlighting the outlandish, the uncompromising, and the immobile in the auto industry, but props to Kia for thinking more practically with its latest concept. The South Korean automaker unveiled the PBV, or Platform Beyond Vehicle, which utilizes a flexible chassis to support a variety of vehicle types designed for businesses and individuals. How flexible? Kia is thinking of at least nine different vehicle variations built on the same platform. The PBVs kind of resemble boring blobs: minivans with flat fronts, minimal overhangs, and an overall boxy design that screams “utility.” They can have long or short wheelbases. Interiors can be configured to fit the specific use case. Customers can mix and match... Continue reading…

Image: Intel Intel is announcing its full 14th Gen mobile and desktop processor lineup today, including the latest HX-series mobile processors that will power some of 2024’s gaming laptops. Not to be confused with Intel’s new Core Ultra CPUs for laptops, the 14th Gen variants are a refresh of the Raptor Lake 13th Gen mobile versions we saw at CES last year.The flagship Intel Core i9-14900HX will ship in more demanding gaming laptops, complete with 24 cores (eight performance cores and 16 efficiency cores) and an up to 5.8GHz turbo frequency. These latest chips also support up to 192GB of DDR5-5600, alongside discrete Wi-Fi 7 support, Bluetooth 5.4, and Thunderbolt 5 support.Much like the desktop versions, Intel is bumping the core count on the Core... Continue reading…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Unity is undergoing yet another layoff, and this time it’s going to affect about 25 percent of its entire workforce, or around 1,800 employees. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company, which makes the popular game engine Unity, said it’s making the cuts “as it restructures and refocuses on its core business, and to position itself for long-term and profitable growth.”Unity has been through several rounds of layoffs within the past year, with the most recent one affecting 265 workers last November. However, it’s still not clear whether Unity is cutting 1,800 additional workers on top of the layoffs it announced last year. We’ve reached out to Unity for clarification.Last year’s layoffs came just weeks after... Continue reading…