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COMPANY NEWS: MSI is holding a massive laptop sale and its latest, Nvidia RTX 50 Series models are available for $300 off.

The MSI Prestige 14 AI Evo C1MG is an ultraportable business laptop. It's also currently available at an insane discount.

The Asus ExpertBook P5 is the first business laptop we've tested that features Intel’s Lunar Lake technology.

After being blown away by Asus' Intel-Lunar-Lake-based Zenbook S 14, we now get to test its big brother, the AMD-based Asus Zenbook S 16

The HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 marks a rebranding shift from HP’s previous Spectre line, but still offers a mix of performance and portability in a convertible body.

 Lenovo has started its Black Friday laptop sale early, with discounts hitting 58 per cent.

Acer's Nitro 5 budget gaming laptops have historically offered solid performance at accessible prices. They lost their way a bit, during COVID, when the price rocketed, but the new Acer Nitro V 16 looks to be priced competitively in addition to arriving with a refined look and new features. But, does it deliver?

There’s been a great deal of noise made about Ai PCs recently, but not all of it has been good. 

COMPANY NEWS: MSI's End of Financial Year laptop sale is into its last week.

GUEST REVIEW: Venom is a Melbourne-based laptop manufacturer that sells to the world. Its laptops (and even its company policies) have attracted a loyal following since being established in 2008 and the company’s latest model, the Venom BlackBook Zero 14 Phantom, seeks to be the choice of businesses, MSPs and consumers seeking a high-quality, reliable laptop that suits mission-critical, high-productivity computing tasks.

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.

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.

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.

Intel Core Ultra processors – code named Meteor Lake – will be launched on 14 December 2023, "ushering in a new age of the AI PC," according to CEO Pat Gelsinger.

Global shipments of desktops and notebooks fell by 11.5% year-on-year to 62.1 million units in the second quarter of 2023, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this followed two quarters when the decline was more than 30%.

Global PC shipments fell by 33% to 54 million units year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023, the technology analyst firm Canalys reports, adding that this was the fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit declines.

Shipments of PCs in 2022 hit a low note in the final quarter, with total shipments of desktops and notebooks falling by 29% for a total of 65.4 million units.

Fiberplane has announced the public beta of its real-time collaboration tool for site reliability engineers (SRE), allowing technical teams to rapidly mobilise and work together when debugging infrastructure issues spanning distributed systems and distributed teams.