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5 Best Linux Laptops (2023): Repairable, Budget, Powerful

3Dec

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5 Best Linux Laptops (2023): Repairable, Budget, Powerful

Lemur Pro is not the best for graphics-intensive tasks like gaming or video editing (see below for some more powerful rigs with dedicated graphics cards), but for everything else, this is one of the nicest laptops you can get.Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition was one of the first big-name laptops to ship with Linux and it remains the lightest, smallest laptop with Linux installed. This configuration sports a 12th-Generation Intel i7-1250U processor, 32 GB of RAM (soldered), and a 1-TB SSD. It ships with Ubuntu Linux 20.04, but in my testing, it will happily run any distro from Fedora to Arch (Dell support applies only to Ubuntu though). When you're on the product page, make sure you choose Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS as your operating system (it defaults to Windows).For more details on the hardw...

9 Best Cheap Laptops (2023): Our Picks for $700 or Less

9Nov

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9 Best Cheap Laptops (2023): Our Picks for $700 or Less

For our full take on what to look for in a laptop, see our guide Choosing the Right Laptop. The condensed version (even if your budget is limited) is to try to get at least an Intel i5 processor and at least 8 GB of RAM. 16 GB is even better. Recent versions of Windows (both 11 and 12) use an astronomical amount of RAM (sometimes as much as 6 GB in my testing). If you only have 8 GB total, that doesn't leave much RAM for applications, and results in a slower laptop.Aim for these specs: Try to get a laptop with at least a 10th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of storage in the form of a solid state drive. We suggest getting a 13- or 14-inch display that's close to FHD (1080p resolution). If you're going to use it for watching movies, consider a 2-in-1 model (alt...

30Oct

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Razer Blade 14 Review: A PC Replacement

I don’t usually preorder games, but I was so eager to play Starfield that I made an exception. I shelled out extra cash to play the game a meager five days early. There was just one problem. I would be out of town at a nerd con for those exact same five days. Fortunately, the Razer Blade 14 laptop made it possible for me to do both.Razer’s latest gaming laptop packs AMD’s beefy new Ryzen 9 7940HS processor, Nvidia’s RTX 40-Series GPU, and up to 32 GB of RAM. It’s an absolute sledgehammer of specs that’s capable of tearing through the most demanding games you can play. That's great! My plan to play Starfield in a hotel while I was on vacation meant I needed all the power I could get.Portable PowerhouseNearly every aspect of the 14-inch Razer Blade feels premium in a way that few laptops wi...

Acer Chromebook Plus 515 Review: A Speedy $400 Laptop

19Oct

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Acer Chromebook Plus 515 Review: A Speedy $400 Laptop

Hey, remember Chromebooks? Those ultra-cheap laptops that run a stripped-down operating system built on Google’s Chrome web browser? You know, the one your kid had to use for Zoom school and all that “asynchronous learning” during the pandemic?Well, Chromebooks are back, and they’re better than ever. This month, Google rolled out a big upgrade called Chromebook Plus, an umbrella category for a new class of devices from various manufacturers (including Google itself). The big sell is speed: New Chromebook Plus laptops promise double the performance over “top selling Chromebooks from July 2022 to Dec 2022,” thanks to faster processors, more memory, more storage, and even better video cameras—all while keeping starting prices at the $400 level.My first encounter with a Chromebook Plus was th...