Rich Woods

Starting at under $1,500, the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i seems to check the right boxes as the perfect laptop for creators. It has the most powerful Intel Core Ultra processor that there is, it's paired with RTX graphics, and it has a mini-LED display option.

If you've purchased a new laptop that uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus processors, you might have noticed that the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) doesn't work, despite coming preinstalled on the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Well, after Microsoft's unwillingness to fix it, Snapdragon Insider, Windows on Arm enthusiast, and Windows developer Jeremy Sinclair went out and did it himself.

The HP EliteBook Ultra is the successor to one of the best laptops on the market, the Dragonfly G4, so does it live up to it? Probably not, to be honest. It's a wonderful laptop, but there are a ton of compromises that made me wish the company just made a new model and swapped out the motherboard and chipset. I've reviewed hundreds of laptops, and while I'm so used to jumping from PC to PC, Qualcomm's new chipset makes me not want to use anything else.

It's almost everything I want in a laptop

It's the back end that matters

For the past two generations, the Lenovo Yoga 9i has been the best laptop, or at least it's shared the crown with HP's Spectre x360. The 2024 model comes with a modest redesign and a new deep blue color, along with Intel Core Ultra processors.

It feels like Intel has been talking about Lunar Lake almost from the day it announced Core Ultra, which was codenamed Meteor Lake. It's finally here, in the form of Intel Core Ultra Series 2.

It seems surprisingly good

Lenovo's new concept Auto Twist AI PC has a screen that swivels using AI.

At any given trade show, Lenovo seems to have the biggest offering, but at IFA 2024, it seems to be even bigger. The firm has new laptops powered by Intel's Core Ultra Series 2, AMD Ryzen AI 300, and Qualcomm Snapdragon. From a si licon perspective, it's the most diverse range of laptops we've ever seen from Lenovo.