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Pluton, Microsoft’s new security chip, will finally be put to the test

Enlarge (credit: Lenovo) In November 2020, Microsoft unveiled Pluton, a security processor the company designed to thwart some of the most sophisticated types of hack attacks. On Tuesday, AMD said it would integrate the chip into its upcoming Ryzen CPUs for use in Lenovo’s ThinkPad Z Series of laptops. Microsoft already used Pluton to secure […]

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Review: Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 is a powerful laptop with heat problems

Enlarge / Lenovo’s Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 4. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The term “desktop replacement” is a bit out of fashion as a descriptor for laptops these days, if only because fewer people have desktop computers they’re trying to replace. But I struggle to think of a better term for something like Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 […]

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Lenovo updates ThinkPad lineup with 16:10 screens and more

The front of the ThinkPad X13. [credit: Lenovo ] Today, Lenovo announced a broad overhaul of its ThinkPad laptop lineup, led by the popular X13 and X13 Yoga. Lenovo has added many features previously seen in its X1 Nano model to various other laptops across the ThinkPad line. Among those is a continuing shift to […]