We’ll be waiting until next year for the first round of PCs sporting Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip, plus whatever Intel and AMD have in store for lightweight laptops. As a hint of what to expect, in stepped a company nobody had ever heard of, offering a laptop few people wanted. Humain (no, […]
‘It’s Moving Slower Than We Want.’ Qualcomm’s Still Trying to Figure Out PC Gaming
PC gaming has become Qualcomm’s white whale. The company wouldn’t put it in those terms, but it’s clear the company wants users to know its new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip will be gaming capable. It’s far from the ideal, and Qualcomm seems to know it. It wants to show off the new chip’s GPU […]
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU Is Another Stab at Burying Intel
Qualcomm’s nascent push into PCs now has the sequel chip that will set the tone for what to expect from Windows-based machines going into 2026. This year, Qualcomm doesn’t have just one flagship CPU; it has two. Announced at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Qualcomm, and Gizmodo […]
Android Needs to Remember Its Roots Before It Can Become a PC
Google’s getting in on PCs, and it could mean we’ll finally have another option beyond today’s stable of operating systems. After letting ChromeOS moulder in a sea of its own inadequacies, the tech giant confirmed it’s going to offer a true PC operating system alternative to macOS or Windows 11 sometime… eventually. At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon […]
Yes, the Screen on This Lenovo Laptop Really Flips From Horizontal to Vertical
Walking into a Lenovo showroom can sometimes feel like I accidentally stepped into a taping of the 1990s sitcom Family Matters. I’m there to see the standard, Carl Winslow-level laptops, the tried and true dependable designs. Then steps in Steve Urkel. Behind his technicolor suspenders, he’s holding a giant metal monstrosity he’s calling a head-tracking […]
Maingear’s ‘Super 16’ Gaming Laptop Has a Blistering Fast 300Hz Display
The jump to the Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs and the avalanche of tariff woes make our gaming gadgets more costly for only marginal performance gains. Out of this murk of price gouging is Maingear, a company best known for making custom gaming desktops. Its new “Super 16″ 16-inch gaming laptop, announced at the same time […]
I Can’t Tell if Acer’s New ‘Predator’ Laptop Is Better for Gamers or Working Stiffs
In the end, graphic-obsessed gamers only really care about maximizing frame rates. But that’s not all gaming laptops are good for. If you ignore the blinking RGB lights most gamer devices stuff into every crevice, they pack high-end CPUs and GPUs built for intensive graphics processing—handy for artists or AI developers. Whereas there are plenty […]
Razer Blade 14 (2025) Review: A Slim Gaming Powerhouse With a Trackpad That Drove Me Mad
There has to be a laptop that does it all and won’t break my back as I haul it around town. I’m sure every mobile-minded gamer has asked themselves that question and come away without a good answer. The one arena I keep coming back to is the 14-inch gaming laptop. Today’s tiny beasts have […]
The Best Gadgets of August 2025
Wow, are we really here again? Already? It’s almost September, folks, and Gizmodo’s consumer tech team is firmly fixed on upcoming events like IFA 2025 in Berlin and Apple’s impending annual iPhone extravaganza (Meta Connect 2025 is mid-month, too!). That being said, there are still a lot of cool gadgets we reviewed in August that […]
The Framework Laptop 16’s Big Feature Will Be the Most Important PC Innovation in Years
Laptops don’t change. Every year is the same tired story. Laptops grow thinner by millimeters or boost performance by small percentage points. Framework, the makers of some of today’s most modular laptops, now has a new device that’s so promising, it could change the game for all notebooks going forward. Now that we’ve had a […]