Mark Anthony Ramirez

Laptop Mag — The Lenovo Legion Y545 ($799 starting, $999 as reviewed) is like getting a luxury vehicle for the econobox price. Its muted styling made me feel like an undercover gamer. One minute I'm producing spreadsheets, PowerPoint documents and reports, and the next I'm on a mission in Hitman 2 while sitting on a park bench during my lunch break.

Major Threat.com — Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned. We have a new obsession. Despite our best efforts to only watch television programs that educate us about the world at large and expand our knowledge of history, art, and science as it relates to the bending of time in space, we are unabashedly hooked on the lovely little reality television gem that is “90 Day Fiancé”. This TLC network series is about American love seekers being given ninety days to marry their K-1 Visa long-distance fiancé or back to their country they go. And we love it. Yeah, we said it. Imagine if you will a heroin-laced, triple nicotine, meth-dipped cigarette, coated in a maple syrup glaze and served warm on a 24k plate. That’s “90 Day Fiancé”. It tru- ly is escapism at its finest. We watch it religiously; eyes glued to the screen, vodka and soda in hand, hummus and toasted pita wedges at the ready. We trash talk about the couples, their mishaps, the starry- eyed love they have for each other, their crazy friends and families - all from the comfort of our cozy Brooklyn basement apartment.

Laptop Mag — You might know AMD for its processors and graphics cards. But what about AMD FreeSync? Now that the company is returning to laptops in a big way, it's time to get reacquainted with all the things AMD FreeSync does. You can find it in monitors, laptops and even TVs, but what is it and what does it do exactly?

Laptop Mag — If Tony Stark designed USB mics in his spare time for the weekly Avengers podcast and streaming sessions, the $99 Blue Yeti Nano would be the microphone he would've come up with. It's the dynamic little powerhouse brother of the much larger and stately Blue Yeti Blackout and Blue Yeti Pro .

Laptop Mag — The Lenovo Yoga C740 ($769 starting, $899 as reviewed) is a brilliant exercise in compromise. The laptop serves up a lightweight, flexible chassis, with mid-tier performance and over 10 hours of battery life, all for well under $1,000. But a dim touchscreen display and a somewhat heavy frame may give some consumers pause.

Laptop Mag — Elgato's new Wave 3 microphone has arrived, and it's not to be underestimated. The company's first entry into the USB mic space, the Wave 3 hits the ground running. Teaming with Lewitt, a renowned audio company, the Wave 3 delivers crystal clear, high-quality audio in a lightweight, portable package.

Laptop Mag — Elgato's entry into the USB microphone space continues with the $129 Wave 1 USB microphone. The Wave 1 is the company's entry-level device for streamers. It has many of the same design elements as its higher-tier Wave 3 USB Microphone with fewer bells and whistles. The satin-black Elgato Wave 1 sports an extremely elegant design..

Laptop Mag — Every so often in life, you get a hold of a laptop and start running it through its paces and, as you do, a soft melody, or in this case Sisquo's "Thong Song" started playing in my head as I fell for the Dell Latitude 7410 ($1,579 starting, $2,678 as reviewed).