Laptops
Laptop news — new releases, mobile chip announcements, and battery tech.
Qualcomm Pushes Windows on Arm Down to $300 Laptops With Snapdragon C
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon C platform is aimed at $300-and-up Windows on Arm laptops, with Acer first out of the gate via the Aspire Go 15. The catch: local AI is coming to the budget aisle, but Copilot+ is not.
LG gram Pro 2026 Hits US Shelves — Aerominum Chassis, RTX 5050, 25-Hour Battery
LG's 2026 gram Pro lineup is now available in the US, led by a 17-inch RTX 5050 laptop that weighs just 3.26 lbs and a 16-inch OLED model with 77Wh battery and up to 27 hours of claimed runtime. The new Aerominum chassis is the real story.
Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 Leaked With Panther Lake and Arc B390 — This Changes the Ultrabook Game
Leaked benchmarks confirm the next Surface Laptop 8 packs Intel's Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 368H with Arc B390 integrated graphics — delivering near-RTX 4050 GPU performance in an ultrabook chassis. The business lineup targets May; consumer models may slip to summer.
Lenovo Unveils World's First 1,000Wh/L Silicon-Anode Battery for Laptops
Lenovo announces the ED1000, a silicon-anode battery hitting 1,000Wh/L energy density — the first to break that barrier in a laptop form factor. New ThinkPad P Series workstations with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs follow.