Matthew Buzzi

Samsung showed me its world-first new gaming monitor, and it has some catches attached Computex was a pretty big deal this year, full of new chips from the likes of Qualcomm and Intel, but while those will likely change the market in …

What Does 'Speed' Really Mean in a Laptop? The idea of speed in a laptop can be sliced in many ways. In practical terms, you can look at it as a blend of two factors: (1) CPU processing power and (2) graphical prowess for tasks such as gaming, 3D rendering, or graphics-accelerated content creation. The two are very different things, and we benchmark all the systems we review with both kinds of speed in mind. Some of the fastest laptops are strong in one area and not the other.