Several months ago we upgraded the wife's laptop. He old laptop (an Acer 4730Z) became mine, and I used it for general browsing when needed in the living room. My other laptop (a Thinkpad X60) was ...

Adding more memory or storage, or swapping in a new battery or wireless card, can help squeeze a few more years out of that aging laptop. Here's how to figure out what you can upgrade, and how to do ...

The Framework Laptop is one of the most unique tech gadgets out there, as a fully modular and upgradeable laptop. Just how upgradeable is it? Well, to prove its point, the company is now selling a CPU ...

If you feel your laptop is slowing down, you might consider upgrading its components yourself. A new CPU can breathe new life into a PC, even if you don't swap out anything else, and is a lot cheaper ...

Plenty of companies have promised to produce a gaming laptop that could be upgraded over time. If we’re honest, nobody has managed to properly deliver on that pledge until now, as Framework launches a ...

The buzzy Framework Laptop—designed to be fully upgradable—launched to much fanfare last year. We tried its just-released 12th Gen Core upgrade kit, swapping in a whole new mainboard and leading-edge ...

The Framework Laptop 13 falls behind similarly priced systems in many ways, making it a bit of a hard sell for buyers looking to get a new machine. But its reparability and more affordable upgrade ...

Would you believe that the Framework Laptop 13 is back again? Framework’s fifth motherboard for the Laptop 13—which, in typical fashion, can be easily swapped into any existing Framework Laptop 13 of ...

Slapping an RTX 5070 onto your laptop is a big deal. It’s other parts of the Laptop 16 that falter. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.

Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

In context: Having a graphics card powerful enough to play 3D games on a laptop in the early 2000s was pretty much unheard of as the technology just hadn't matured enough yet. However, one retro ...

At first glance the GenBook RK3588 looks like a pretty typical notebook. It has a 14 inch FHD display, a reasonably compact design, and a set of ports that includes HDMI, USB Type-A and USB Type-C.