If you missed out on everything Microsoft announced before and during its big Build developer conference, let me catch you up. There are AI agents, new AI models, AI real-time translations, AI transcriptions, and–best of all–all new Copilot+ computers that are supposed to make these AI tasks available on-device. It’s…
Microsoft smells blood in the water, and it seems to be exclusively gunning for Apple’s latest ultra-thin laptops and iPads with devices sporting all-day batteries and ARM-base
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One thing has been ridiculously clear in my 15-plus-year career reviewing consumer tech. I’m a size queen when it comes to laptops, particularly gaming laptops. I was bereft when Dell put the original Alienware 18 out to pasture and spent a number of years requesting its return.
I can’t start talking about Alienware’s redesigned m16 gaming laptop, the R2, without first telling you straight up why I like this laptop as much as I do. I don’t like it because of its performance, even if it’s fairly good for its mid-range price point.
Sure, Apple may already have its M3 chip, one it dropped a little more than a year after the M2 saw the light of day.