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February 25, 2016

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Lenovo has preloaded the ThinkPad Yoga 260 with a handful of useful utilities and minimal bloatware. WRITEit lets you handwrite in any text field in any program, and SHAREit beams files back and forth between your laptop and other devices, such as your phone. Lenovo Companion performs health checks on the hardware, as well as searches for driver and software updates.

Lenovo ThinkPad x260 SettingsLenovo Settings lets you tweak the camera, battery, display, audio and Wi-Fi settings. While most of these options are also available in Windows 10's PC Settings, Lenovo's app does add a couple of capabilities, including the ability to turn your laptop into a hotspot. There are also 30-day trial versions of McAfee LiveSafe and Microsoft Office 365.

Lenovo backs the ThinkPad Yoga 260 with a standard one-year warranty on parts and labor. You can purchase additional services, such as accidental damage protection and on-site service, or extend the warranty up to five years for prices ranging from $49 all the way up to $650.Productivity-minded users will find a lot to like in the ThinkPad Yoga 260, thanks to a fantastic keyboard, touchpad and stylus combination that makes writing (or drawing) a pleasure.

However, for this price, we wish the 1080p display offered richer colors and that the laptop lasted a bit longer on a charge. However, if you're looking for a durable, lightweight business 2-in-1 with plenty of versatility, the ThinkPad Yoga 260 is a very compelling choice. The laptop PC market is taking a turn into multi-tasking hybrid computing and with each new model theyâ€™re getting thinner, lighter and stronger in performance. Lenovo has been one of the market leaders in hybrid laptops and Acer is looking to give them a bit of competition and theyâ€™ve done fairly well with the Acer Aspire R14. Letâ€™s move on ahead into our Acer Aspire R14 review.

With a brushed aluminum top and brushed aluminum keyboard and palm rest area, the R14 looks much nicer than its $699 price tag would indicate. The bottom is still made of a rubberized plastic type material but the look of the R14 isnâ€™t as plain jane as you would expect. The Acer logo is still emblazoned on the front in bright chrome finish, something I would have preferred to be more subtle but the chamfered edges around the laptop and trackpad are a nice touch. Those edges are the shiny aluminum and they contrast nicely with the colored black aluminum on top. Our review unit also had color matched hinges, black on black and thatâ€™s nice attention to detail.

A real quick talking point on the trackpad. The R14 has a nice trackpad but it could be better, one thing Iâ€™ve always felt that Apple has done consistently better is with trackpads. Lenovo has improved their trackpads a lot and it would be great to see Acer do the same. Itâ€™s not unusable but I do feel a little drag and muddy responsiveness when using the track pad. The keyboard on the other hand is amazing on the R14, one of the best keyboards Iâ€™ve used on a PC laptop.

It's good that the upgrades are so straightforward, because you'll probably want to swap out the HDD. On the cheaper models you get a 5,200 RPM drive which is pretty poor, so either adding an SSD alongside to boot Windows and key apps from or just replacing it altogether would be a good call. But for $799 you're getting a great package that can be built into an awesome package.

Razer's first foray into actual system building resulted in something quite remarkable. It's as close to a true gaming ultrabook as we've got right now, with an optional external graphics card dock (dubbed Razer Core) required with the new Stealth for proper gaming performance.So, what Razer did with the Blade was stuff high-end hardware and powerful graphics into a sleek chassis. It isn't without compromise, but most of the key boxes are ticked. You get an Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA 970M graphics card in the base model with a 1080p display. Spend more and you can have a QHD+ touch display, which looks fantastic. It also comes with an anti-ghosting keyboard, backlit in Razer's trademark green.

There are a couple of things to beware of, though. The Blade is using an older generation of processor (Intel's Broadwell Core i7, not the newer Skylake), and you're limited to 256GB of SSD storage on the 1080p model, though there is an option for 512GB on the QHD+ version. And the Blade is quite expensive, with the two models costing from $1,999 for the 1080p and a whopping $2,199 for QHD+.

This one falls under the desktop replacement category, though you could carry this around with you if you're OK with hauling over eight pounds of laptop in your bag. But what else makes the Dominator Pro a true desktop replacement is its graphics card. There's no mobile GPU in here, oh no â€” this one packs a full GTX 980. So not just a desktop card, but a high-end one, at that.

There's also very little you could ever say was missing on the Dominator Pro, either. It's got the new, future-proofed USB-C Thunderbolt 3 port, a Skylake Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, Steelseries keyboard and even an option for Super RAID 4 storage â€” all of which together is pretty nuts for a laptop.

It's got a built in DAC for supreme audio, and the display has options for NVIDIA G Sync or an Ultra HD 4K panel. With all this awesomeness comes a pretty steep price, and you're not getting in on the Dominator Pro without going over $2,000. But it's all the PC you could ever want, either on the go or at home on your desk.

Alienware is a brand some love to hate, but Dell's gaming arm continues to churn out great machines. While there are choices that are smaller and more portable, or larger and more powerful, the Alienware 15 R2 sits right in the middle, offering the best all-round experience.It's more portable than the 17-inch, and it's not actually much more expensive than the smaller 13-inch model while offering a better quality base spec. You can pack out an Alienware 15 with up to a Skylake Core i7 processor, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, an NVIDIA GTX980M 8GB graphics card, a combination of PCIe SSD and HDD storage and either a 1080p or 4K display.

The Alienware 15 can also hook into the optional, external Graphics Amplifier that adds additional grunt in the form of full sized, desktop class graphics cards. So at home you get the full power of a desktop gaming rig, but you've still got a competent mobile gaming platform for when you're on the go.Origin doesn't think you need to compromise with a gaming laptop and so it puts Intel's desktop class processors into the EON15-X. This may be a contributing factor to pretty bad battery life, but you can't deny the power you're getting.

That Skylake desktop processor is paired with an NVIDIA GTX980M 8GB graphics card and up to 64GB of DDR4 RAM â€” this laptop won't leave you wanting for much. Add in an optional 4K display and dual m.2 SSD drives and there's not a lot you don't get with this machine.

You can also customize the outward appearance to your liking with a range of designs available for the lid. All this does come at a price, though, and you're looking at $1,674 for a basic system with a 1080p display and GTX 965M graphics. But if you're chasing the gaming notebook of your dreams, Origin will probably put you the closest to that of any other manufacturer.Lenovo's latest gaming focused notebook takes a different approach on styling to many others. From the outside it looks pretty bare, almost boring â€” it doesn't shout at the world that it's a gaming laptop, though there are some nice splashes of red once you open it up.

Looks aside, you get a competent gaming laptop in the Y700 without having to empty out your wallet. And if you're an AMD fan, you're catered for too, with Team Red CPU and graphics options on some models in some markets. You can also get the Y700 in a 14-, 15- and 17-inch form factor, giving you choice on size, spend and spec while getting the same basic experience.

It also means there's something for everyone. The base 14-incher starts at $699, and going up from there you've got options like 16GB of DDR4 RAM, touch or non-touch displays, HDD or SSD storage and, of course, Intel Skylake Core i7 processors. Lenovo's latest push into the gaming space has a lot to offer.

Every PC manufacturer has at least one 2-in-1 laptop/tablet hybrid in its lineup. They offer a compelling proposition: The productivity features of a laptop (with large displays and full-size keyboard accessories) and the ultraportability of a tablet. For this battle, weâ€™re looking at Appleâ€™s and Microsoftâ€™s current flagship devicesâ€”tablets the companies have designed from top to bottom as laptop replacements. (The Surface Proâ€™s tagline is literally "The tablet that can replace your laptop.â€ Apple CEO Tim Cook wonders why anyone would buy a PC anymore now that the iPad Pro is out.)

iPad Pro (starting at $799): Released in November 2015, the mega-sized 12.9-inch Retina display iPad Pro is the newcomer to this category. The full-size Smart Keyboard and the Apple Pencil are optional accessories, but youâ€™ll probably want to pick both up to get the full iPad Pro experience as it was designed by Apple.

Give Us More Gigabytes
"Storage almost full!â€ When youâ€™re life has been reduced to freeing up itty-bitty amounts of space on your gadgets, you can point the finger at the absurd cost of higher-capacity smartphones. The most infuriating example: the 16GB iPhone. Instead of starting at 32GB, Apple asks us for an extra $100 to upgrade to 64GB. (Compare that with 64GB MicroSD cards, which cost less than $20.) Despite falling flash-memory prices, most laptop makers, including Microsoft, Dell and Apple, still charge about $200 to go from 128GB to 256GB.

The smartphone was supposed to do away with credit cards, subway passes, even driverâ€™s licenses. But then why are our pockets still filled with so much stuff? Today most popular phones have the hardware needed to provide secure identification and let you badge in at the office door and flash a train pass. But weâ€™re not much closer to actually doing those things with our phones. Only one state, Iowa, has begun testing a mobile driver's license. It isnâ€™t just about convenienceâ€”with fingerprint readers and cloud capabilities, phone-based driver's licenses could actually be more secure. We give credit to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which recently launched a Mobile Passport app that speeds up the wait at immigration. But they still need to see your passport, too.

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