Joanna Nelius Profile and Activity

Reviewer, Laptops

Joanna Nelius reviews laptops for The Verge. Previously, she reviewed all sorts of computing devices and gaming hardware for USA Today, Gizmodo, PC Gamer, and Maximum PC, while reporting on issues related to technology and education. When she’s not eyeballs-deep in benchmark data, she’s teaching interactive fiction to teenagers or working on her short story collection and memoir.

Culture

Melodrama!

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Oct 17

Tech

Flipper Zero 1.0 firmware update supercharges the hacking handheld

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Sep 10|

Tech

Lenovo’s concept laptop can unfold itself and turn to face you

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Joanna Nelius Sep 4

Asus has new Intel Lunar Lake laptops.

The Zenbook S 14, Vivobook S 14, Vivobook 14/16 Flip, and ExpertBook P5 each have the new Core Ultra 7 and cost between $1,000 and $1,500. You can pre-order the Zenbook today from Asus; the Zenbook and Vivobook should go live at Best Buy in the next couple days. The Expertbook and Vivobook Flips are coming later this year.

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The Vivobook S 14.

Image: Asus

Joanna Nelius Sep 4

Asus’ first Copilot Plus PC is getting a new Qualcomm chip.

The 15-inch Vivobook S 15 Windows laptop will come with an eight-core Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a 2880 x 1620 display with a 120Hz refresh rate — all for $900 at Best Buy, available today.

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Image: Asus

Tech

Acer’s Project DualPlay concept laptop has a pop-out controller

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Acer’s 14-inch laptops claim 24 hours of battery life from Intel, Qualcomm, or AMD

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Joanna Nelius Sep 3

Dell says its next XPS 13 will get up to 26 hours* of battery life.

*While streaming Netflix at 1080p with an FHD+ screen at just 150 nits of brightness.

Still, that’s eight hours more than its last-gen laptop in the same test, even with the same battery size and display. The only thing on the spec sheet that’s changed is the processor — to Intel Lunar Lake.