Notebooks

China's new energy and CO2 policies could affect the production of electronics.

Google to follow Apple's footsteps with PC SoCs.

Shortages of cheap and small components constrain shipments of PCs.

Apple and Google have troubles transferring production from China to Vietnam.

Microsoft's Windows 365 runs out of servers.

Microsoft's Windows 365 is now generally available, putting Windows 10 or 11 on almost any device from the cloud, starting at $20.

XMG says that supplies from Intel and Nvidia are stable and shipments from AMD increasing.

Independent benchmarks show Nvidia's mobile RTX 3050 Ti delivers terrible performance per dollar compared to the mobile version of the RTX 3060 that's 50%-75% faster.

HP and other makers of PCs are increasingly placing long-term component orders to ward off shortages.

CES 2022 will adopt digital and in-person formats.

Laptop makers expect shortages of components to continue in 2H 2021.

PC sales set a multi-year record in Q1 2021 of 83.981 million units.

Vaio's new Z-series 2.3-pound laptops tap Intel's Tiger Lake-H35 CPU series.

Expanscape's multi-display Aurora laptops are rather expensive, but the company says demand is still high.

An ultimate desktop replacement notebook comes with seven screens and weighs 12 kilograms.

Adata's XPG and Intel develop an 11-mm thick 15.6-inch gaming notebook with Tiger Lake.

Newcomer Tachys offer an $1099 laptop powered Ryzen 7 5800H and RTX 3060 GPU.

Google follows Apple, Huawei, and Samsung with its own custom silicon.

Acer adopts Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7c for convertible Chromebooks.

In early benchmarks, it looks like the MacBook Exclusive Radeon Pro 5600M performs quite well!