When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The Acer Swift 16 AI delivers incredible performance and even manages to provide a decent gaming experience thanks to Intel's Panther Lake hardware. But, while the display is beautiful, it's also prone to reflections. The Acer Swift 16 AI is a 16-inch laptop with Intel's Panther Lake hardware . Thanks to Panther Lake, this machine is incredible, with high CPU performance, enough GPU performance for PC gaming, and long battery life. Performance is solid even when running on battery power, too -- even gaming performance is decent on battery! At a premium $1,899 price point, some of this laptop's components are incredible: The OLED display is absolutely beautiful and the huge haptic trackpad feels amazing.

Repetitive strain injury (RSI) affects roughly one in five computer users and remains largely unresolved despite decades of ergonomic mouse redesign. All such devices share a fundamental limitation: they still require fine-motor motion to operate. This work investigates whether predictive, AI-assisted input can reduce that motion by replacing physical pointing with ranked on-screen suggestions. To preserve user agency, we introduce Preview Accept Discard (PAD), a zero-click interaction paradigm that lets users preview predicted GUI targets, cycle through a small set of ranked alternatives, and accept or discard them via key-release timing. We evaluate PAD in two settings: a browser-based email client and a ISO 9241-9 keyboard-prediction task under varying top-3 accuracies. Across both studies, PAD substantially reduces hand motion relative to trackpad use while maintaining comparable task times with the trackpad only when accuracies are similar to those of the best spell-checkers.

As Windows 10 Support Ends, Microsoft Is'Rewriting' Windows 11 Around AI All Windows 11 users will soon be able to talk to the Copilot AI assistant more easily via voice, and Copilot Vision can understand the context of your screen. Microsoft saved its most powerful AI tools for paying customers in the first phase of its AI evolution. Now, the company has announced a series of Copilot features coming to all Windows 11 PCs, including Voice, Copilot Vision, and Copilot Actions. Alongside the update, Microsoft is launching an ad campaign to expose people to these new features. Windows 10 support ended on October 14, and we're about to see a wave of people upgrade to Windows 11; Microsoft seems intent on putting advanced Copilot features at the fingertips of as many people as possible--and convincing them they're worth using.

I spent quality time with the HyperSpace Trackpad Pro, which attempts to bring Apple's Magic Trackpad experience to Windows. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Apple was the first to truly popularize the touchpad (or trackpad, as Apple calls it), and most importantly, make it good. Over the years, the company enhanced the experience with a handful of features, such as multi-finger gestures or haptic feedback.

The modular and repairable PC maker Framework's latest machine moves into the notoriously difficult to fix 2-in-1 category with a fun 12in laptop with a touchscreen and a 360-degree hinge. The new machine still supports the company's innovative expansion cards for swapping the different ports in the side, which are cross-compatible with the Framework 13 and 16 among others. And you can still open it up to replace the memory, storage and internal components with a few simple screws. The Framework 12 is available in either DIY form, starting at 499 ( 569/ 549/A 909), or more conventional prebuilt models starting at 749. It sits under the 799-and-up Laptop 13 and 1,399 Laptop 16 as the company's most compact and affordable model.

The Acer Swift 14 AI offers solid all-around performance with the latest Snapdragon silicon and a generous selection of ports, but the trackpad is poor and Copilot features are still MIA. The Acer Swift 14 AI looks like an unimposing laptop that could easily be mistaken for any number of machines in Acer's lineup. It has a secret inside, though. The Swift 14 AI is Acer's first Arm-based notebook, running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processor. Laptops have changed a lot in the last few years as Arm-based chips have finally gotten powerful enough to run Windows.

The Intel-powered Dell XPS 13 was already a letdown next to the competition, and this Snapdragon-powered XPS 13 winds up downgrading most of the package without a meaningful reduction in price. It just makes a disappointing experience worse. The Dell XPS 13 (9345) takes most of what we already saw in the Dell XPS 13 (9340) -- a thin, light, and stylish system that focused a little too much on style and not enough on substance next to its competition -- and loads it with new brains in the form of a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip. While the Intel-powered XPS 13 was already on shaky ground, the shift to Snapdragon only gives this new version even less stable footing to compete with the many great laptops out there. Snapdragon might promise advanced AI capabilities over the current field, but with so many AI capabilities in wait-and-see limbo, it's probably worth waiting and seeing if the impending AMD and Intel mobile chips don't just catch up on the NPU front and then continue to score easy wins in the CPU and GPU department. As it stands, the 1,299 Dell XPS 13 (9345) has a rocky path ahead of it.

The MSI Raider 18 HX boasts a humongous screen as well as all the ports you could imagine, but the windy roar of the fans combined with the high price tag may deter some folks. Sometimes you just want to game on a truly "all-in-one" powerful laptop. And it doesn't matter how heavy it is, how loud it is, or even how long that laptop's battery lasts. So long as you can throw anything at it and get a beautiful glorious gaming experience, that's all that matters. And for those instances, the MSI Raider 18 HX is here to help you decimate… especially your wallet! The MSI Raider is first and foremost a gaming laptop and that means by standard laptops it has many flaws. Typing on it isn't great, the fans are loud, battery life is short, and it's so heavy that calling it a laptop is almost a joke. But because it's a gaming laptop, a lot of those flaws are "given" and what really matters is what it can do under the heavy load of AAA games and that's where it shines. Let's rip one band-aid off right now.

Once upon a time, long before smartphones or even laptops were ubiquitous, the computer mouse was new, and it was thrilling. The 1984 Macintosh wasn't the first machine to come with one, but it was the first to popularize the gizmo for ordinary people. Proper use of the mouse was not intuitive. Many people had a hard time moving and clicking at the same time, and "double-clicking" was a skill one had to learn. Still, anyone could put a hand on the thing, move it around on a table, and see the results on-screen: A little cursor moved along with you.

Microsoft, even without the usual face of its Surface announcements, had plenty to show off to the assembled media and industry guests yesterday. Unsurprisingly, it led with (and focused on) its latest AI developments. Its Copilot AI assistant is now graduating to assist with all things Windows 11, in an update coming September 26. It will appear in apps such as Edge, while browsing the internet, not to mention Microsoft 365 programs like Word and Excel. You activate Copilot with your voice or a right click and can use it for the sort of things you might not remember keyboard shortcuts for -- or just can't be bothered to do manually, like organize windows on your desktop, delete the backgrounds from photos or even generate a Spotify playlist.