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Being the first device built on a new chip platform is a real distinction, not a marketing footnote. It means the engineering choices weren't copied from a previous generation's playbook, they were made from scratch around silicon nobody else had shipped yet. That's the position the ONEXPLAYER 3 occupies as the first handheld built on Intel's Arc G3 Extreme platform. Built around a genuinely...

Plenty of devices claim to do three things. Fewer actually commit to all three without quietly being best at only one. The X1 Pro's case for the "definitive" label doesn't rest on any single spec, it rests on how completely each of its three modes, handheld, tablet, and laptop, holds up on its own rather than existing as an afterthought bolted onto the other...

Putting a water loop inside something meant to be held in two hands sounds like a solution looking for a problem, right up until you try to squeeze 120 watts out of a chip small enough to hold in your palm. That's the wall ONEXPLAYER's engineers ran into while developing the APEX, and the reason the answer ended up being liquid cooling in a...

Two devices can share a processor and still behave completely differently under load. That's the interesting part of putting the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip into an 8-inch handheld and a 14-inch tablet: identical silicon, identical peak clocks on paper, and very different amounts of metal and airflow surrounding it. The same chip, two different bodies The APEX and the Super X both...

Two nomads can pack for the exact same trip and land on opposite answers to the same question: carry everything you need, or carry the lighter thing and rent the power when you actually need it. Neither answer is wrong. It depends on whether your workload lives mostly in the bag with you or mostly at whatever desk you land at each week. The...

Every gamer shopping for a new machine eventually hits the same fork: buy the thing that does one job extremely well, or buy the thing that does several jobs well enough. A dedicated gaming laptop has never had to compromise its cooling or its keyboard for the sake of also being a tablet. A 3-in-1 has never had to compromise its portability for the...

Some purchase decisions come down to a spec sheet. This one comes down to a shape. A pure handheld disappears into a jacket pocket but asks you to type on a touchscreen. A mini-laptop opens flat on a tray table but adds bulk you'll resent the moment you actually want to play something. Most people shopping between the two aren't torn on power, they're...

Ten years ago, comparing an integrated GPU to a gaming tower would have been a short article. The iGPU loses, every time, and there's nothing more to say. That comparison stopped being a foregone conclusion the moment AMD packed 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units and a 256 GB/s memory bus into a single chip small enough to fit inside an 8-inch handheld. The chip...

A backpack built for remote work used to hold two devices: something thin enough for the plane, and something separate for unwinding once the laptop closed. That math is changing. A growing number of remote workers are packing one 14-inch slab that types like a laptop, streams AAA games like a console, and folds flat enough to work from a hostel bed. MacBooks earned...

One hundred twenty watts used to require a desktop tower or, at best, a thick 16-inch gaming laptop with a fan system loud enough to announce itself. The newest ONEXPLAYER hardware compresses that ceiling into the smallest modular 3-in-1 the company has built, and pairing it with a compact eGPU dock pushes the whole footprint further without asking for a bag any bigger. The...