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Amazon just unleashed its Cyber Monday laptop deals and it's dropping prices on MacBooks, gaming PCs, and more

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Gear Computers Laptops Amazon just unleashed its Cyber Monday laptop deals and it's dropping prices on MacBooks, gaming PCs, and more Whether you need a basic everyday driver or a full-featured gaming PC, Amazon's Cyber Monday laptop can save you cash. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. A laptop is a big investment. Not only do they typically cost a lot of money, but you're committing a machine you'll stare at while you shop, do homework, remote work, game, and pretty much everything else in your online life. Amazon just dropped its Cyber Monday deals on laptops and these are some of the lowest prices we have seen all year.


HP EliteBook 8 G1a review: AMD's hardware shines

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The HP EliteBook 8 G1a is a Copilot+ PC with an excellent mix of CPU performance and battery life. It's a solid package, but the display drags down the experience, and the GPU just can't keep up with the rest of the hardware. The HP EliteBook 8 G1a is a 16-inch Copilot+ PC laptop aimed at businesses and professionals. It has an AMD CPU, so it marries a speedy CPU with a neural processing unit that can deliver Copilot+ PC features on some models.


AMD pushes the power of Ryzen AI 300 CPUs to business laptops

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AMD announced its third-generation Ryzen Pro processors for business laptops on Thursday, taking the AI power of its Ryzen AI 300 consumer processors and applying them to the business world. AMD launched three very similar members of its Ryzen AI Pro 300 family, with core counts ranging from eight to 12 cores. They'll launch later in October. AMD launched its Ryzen AI 300 laptop processor for consumers earlier this year, and the Ryzen AI Pro is basically that chip with some additional security technologies layered on top. The AI 300 ushered AMD's new Zen 5 architecture into the market, with more cores and more powerful RDNA 3.5 graphics.

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Acer's portable TravelMate laptops get the AI treatment

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Acer has unveiled their new TravelMate laptops mere days ahead of Computex. These business laptops are traditionally known for their slim form factor and long battery life. The new models announced today come loaded with more power-efficient Intel Core Ultra CPUs as well as useful AI capabilities. There's also a 2-in-1 version and a clamshell with a bigger 16-inch display, and they all use recycled materials in both design and packaging. Acer puts forth three offerings on the table: Acer TravelMate P6 14, Acer TravelMate P4 Spin 14, and Acer TravelMate P4 16.


Acer TravelMate P6 review: Business on a budget

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The Acer TravelMate P6 offers excellent value for a business laptop, with long battery life, a surprisingly light weight, and more ports than a typical consumer laptop. The Acer TravelMate P6 is a business laptop through and through. It's packed with ports, delivers long battery life, is surprisingly lightweight, and has a nice matte screen designed to avoid glare in normally uncomfortable lighting conditions. It's a nice and supremely practical piece of hardware, and I'd be happy to get a machine like this from my job. Starting at a retail price of 1,329, it's a bargain as far as business laptops go, especially if a workplace is getting a discount for buying a bunch at once! But if you're just looking to buy a single laptop for your own personal use, a consumer laptop may be better bet.


Ryzen Pro 7040 brings AMD's cutting-edge tech to business laptops

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AMD is stepping on the gas with its new Ryzen Pro 7040 processors for both business laptops and desktops, injecting Zen 4 CPU technology and RDNA 3 graphics architecture for increased performance. AI, too, will play a role, with some improvements for video calls to clients and partners. The fine print, though, reveals a small penalty: While last year's Ryzen Pro 6000 models were designed for both 35W to 45W laptops as well as thinner 15W to 30W and 10W to 25W thin-and-light laptops, AMD's latest chips require more power. The high-end 8-core/16-thread Ryzen 9 Pro 7940HS consumes 35W to 54W of power, and there's only a single second tier of chips for laptops that consume between 15W and 28W. Still, AMD claims that its new Ryzen Pro 7040 processors can actually outperform an Apple Mac not on performance, but on battery life.