The laptop market in 2026 continues to evolve, shaped by advancements in technology, shifting user demands, and rising costs.

Nvidia has a new Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) specification that has a pretty good chance of becoming the first industry-wide graphics-upgrade standard for laptops. The spec defines three classes ...

The GPU is among the most important silicon in a modern laptop. It’s often tapped for demanding tasks, including 3D graphics rendering, video encoding, and AI workloads. Yet despite its importance, ...

Upgrading the GPU in your gaming laptop is normally not an option, but external graphics card cases allow you to make that change, so long as you have a fast enough Thunderbolt/USB port. The new Razer ...

Brian T. Horowitz is a seasoned tech journalist and copy editor with 25 years of experience. A surge in laptop sales expected in 2025 will impact other workstation accessories used in offices and by ...

Planned obsolescence? She doesn’t even go here.

Just 15 minutes to upgrade. That's what Framework has promised. A mere 15 minutes to go from a laptop with an 11th Gen Tiger Lake platform inside it to an ultra-modern 12th Gen Alder Lake, armed only ...

Modern laptop graphics cards offer incredible power and, in many cases, impressive efficiency, too. They aren’t quite as easy to break down as the best graphics cards for desktop PCs, because their ...

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 ...