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Dell’s Latitude range is for its bona fide business laptops but the 9450 2-in-1 is a souped-up version for particular pack of power users, being a 2-in-1 convertible tablet with a high-concept keyboard and trackpad.

Gigabyte has a history of making impressive gaming laptops at all price points, but this, 16-inch, G6 KF variant aims to keep the price as low as possible by laser-focusing on the most important components at the expense of luxury.

After the first personal computers were built in the last quarter of the last century, it was the commoditisation of the industry that enabled Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows operating system — terrible as it was — to get ahead. PCs built by the bigger American companies were just too expensive for the rest of the world, but the fact that one could put together a box by buying grey-market parts led to the spread of Windows.

The global market for traditional PCs has returned to growth after two years of decline, the technology analyst firm IDC says, pointing out that 59.1 million shipments had been made in the first three months of 2024, or 1.5% growth year-on-year.

Over at High Performance Laptops, Nick Ross has just posted a full, Australian review of the 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 – one of the first laptops on the local market with a new, Intel, 14^th-Gen processor. Here’s the reduced, rapid review:

BLACK FRIDAY DEALS: With discounts of more-than 60%, it's the best time of year to buy a laptop. Nick from High Performance Laptops has collated the best deals and will be adding to this as more appear...

BLACK FRIDAY DEALS: With discounts of more-than 60%, it's the best time of year to buy a laptop. Nick from High Performance Laptops has collated the best deals and will be adding to this as more appear...

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire talks to Stacy Wolff, Global Head of Design and Sustainability, Personal Systems at HP. We discuss industry trends, A.I. and where the industry is going.

BLACK FRIDAY DEALS: There are already some ridiculous laptop deals available ahead of the Black Friday sales and Nick from High Performance Laptops has been collating them. 

We curate several monthly, best laptop lists over at High Performance Laptops. Here's a summary of the updated October rankings for the top gaming, ultraportable, business and overall best laptops in Australia in October, 2023.

Nick Ross has put the new Acer TravelMate B5 14 through its paces over at High Performance Laptops. Here is a summary of the main points.

The Indian Government has delayed its move on immediately banning importers of laptops, tablets and some kinds of PCs, giving the industry three months to wind up these practices, following a backlash against an order on Thursday that said the ban would take immediate effect.

India has banned the import of laptops, tablets and some PCs with immediate effect unless one has a valid licence from the authorities.

Taiwan firm Zyxel Networks has unveiled its new XGS2220 layer 3 access switch series to help small and medium-sized business owners keep pace with growing demands on their networks.

COMPANY NEWS: MSI caught everyone off guard when it announced a partnership with Mercedes-AMG Motorsport at Computex 2023. As part of this announcement, a Limited Edition, cross-promoted laptop was unveiled and is detailed below. The full launch event, including a tour of the event space, can be seen in the following video.

First on stage was MSI’s ‘Alex’ who introduced everyone to the show. This included an introduction to Jeans Huang – MSI’s co-founder – who was making a rare appearance.

This was followed by speeches from MSI’s notebook GM, Eric Kuo, and Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Head, Christoph Sagemüller, who then both combined to formally launch the partnership.

The New laptop was presented and talked about by MSI’s Notebook Division National Manager, Steven Yang before a catwalk-style fashion segment showed off the new laptop to the audience.

The main event concluded when Ophelia Yang, MSI’s SVP of Product Marketing, talked through the highlights of MSI’s 2023 range of laptops.

The new MSI Stealth 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport

The new, 16-inch laptop is relatively thin-and-light weighing just 1.88KG and being just-shy of 2cm thick.

It’s got a rigid plastic chassis and comes in Mercedes-AMG’s Selenite Grey livery. Both company’s logos adorn the lid and Mercedes-AMG’s ‘Rhombuses’ patterns can be found in various details.

It has a Steelseries RGB keyboard with number pad and the Power Button apes Mercedes-AMG’s cars with its red lettering on silver styling.

Inside will be a powerful 13^th-Generation, Intel Core i9 processor and an Nvidia 40-series GPU. It features a 60Hz, UHD OLED screen, Full HD webcam (with privacy slide) and six speakers(!) – two, 2W regular units and four, 2W woofers.

Windows Hello log-in is supported by both the webcam and a the fingerprint reader. It also has a max-size, 99.9Wh battery. Read a detailed hands-on review, here.

Full specs can be found, here.

The US is thinking of cutting off Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from accessing any American components, including those from Intel and Qualcomm, a report claims.

Apple has performed the best among big technology companies for the current quarter, posting US$90.1 billion (A$140.6 billion) in revenue, an increase of 8% year-on-year.

GUEST OPINION: Less than six months ago it was looking like many workplaces were starting to encourage employees back to the office full time, but this is now not going to be the case. Due to the continued need for mobility, now is the perfect time to upgrade business laptops, particularly in the light of hybrid working being here to stay.

COMPANY NEWS AMD's Peter Chambers spoke with iTWire.TV on CIO challenges, key enterprise trends, the Ryzen Pro 6000 series, Pluton, and partnerships with Lenovo and HP.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has unveiled a number of its products on special offers during the pre-Christmas and Boxing Day periods.