The laptop world is a-changing. New CPUs and GPUs—yes, mobile discrete GPUs—are bringing forth laptops that are thinner, lighter, and faster than ever, even gaming laptops. And the advances keep coming: We first glimpsed Intel's 10th-generation, 10nm laptop CPU first in Taipei at Computex, and we just got our first 10th-gen benchmarks as it rolls out officially. It will coexist with the 9th generation of Core mobile processors, and mobile GeForce GTX 1650 and 1660 Ti graphics. Stay tuned for new models we bring in for review.
Updated 11/19/2019: The Lenovo IdeaPad 6 14 manages to pack in a quad-core Core i5 chip and a full-HD touchscreen into a 2-in-1 form factor, all for just $500. Read our full review. Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 with a Ryzen 7 CPU (available on Microsoft.com), both interesting and disappointing; read our review. Lenovo's IdeaPad S340-15IWL (available on Lenovo.com) is a budget laptop that has a screen option we like better than the one we tested. Read our review. Dell’s new XPS 13 7390, with its 6-core Intel Core i7-10710U CPU, has actually outpaced bigger workhorse models—and it's our new top pick for best thin-and-light. Google's Pixelbook Go (available via Google.com) is arguably the company's best Chromebook yet, providing a high-quality laptop for a pretty reasonable price. Read our review.
