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MSI challenges Lenovo, HP with Tile-tracking laptops

Enlarge / MSI introduced the E14 Flip Evo 2-in-1 (pictured) today. (credit: MSI) The newest laptops in MSI’s highest-end productivity and business lineup should now be easier to locate should you misplace them. The refreshed Summit laptops include a new model, the Summit E14 Flip Evo, and they take a page from HP and Lenovo laptops by […]

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Testing Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake laptop CPUs: Many cores make light work

Enlarge / Intel’s 12th-generation Core chips are coming to laptops. (credit: Intel) We came away impressed when we tested Intel’s top-tier 12th-generation desktop chips. Though still power-hungry compared to competing AMD Ryzen processors, their combination of big performance cores (P-cores) and clusters of small efficiency cores (E-cores) helped them shine under all kinds of workloads, […]

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MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo review: A flip in the right direction

Enlarge MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo $1300 at Costco $1599 at Amazon $1599 at B&H (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.) A 2-in-1 laptop may seem like the ultimate device for people who want portability and versatility without giving up too much power. You get the […]

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Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake Model Notebook

Expand / This MSI-built mention system is powered by a Tiger Lake i7-1185G7, the highest-end CPU at Intel’s coming lineup. (credit: Jim Salter) We have been really curious at Intel’s forthcoming laptop CPUs, codenamed Tiger Lake, as the corporation’s Architecture Day event in August. Tiger Lake’s official launch occasion  previously this month did not provide […]