PC Magazine - 09.2019

ECG AND IMPROVED SENSORS Following in the footsteps of the Apple Watch Series 4, the Active 2 has an electrocardiogram sensor to ...

B lack Edition” may sound like a luxury car or men’s cologne, but it’s an appendix to Dell’s Inspiron brand—it designates the be ...

A SLOT FOR THE STYLUS By “fully loaded,” I mean that my Windows 10 Home test unit came with a 1.8GHz (4.6GHz turbo) Core i7- 856 ...

The matte-black Dell measures 0.74 by 14.1 by 9.8 inches, matching the HP Spectre x360 15 AMOLED (0.76 by 14.2 by 9.8 inches), a ...

Fine details look crisp and viewing angles are wide, as you’d expect from a screen with 4K resolution and IPS technology. But th ...

A BIG 2-IN-1, PUT TO THE TEST For our performance benchmarks, I compared the Black Edition to four other plus-size convertibles, ...

PCMark 8, meanwhile, has a Storage subtest that we use to assess the speed of the system’s storage subsystem. The result is also ...

We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing benchmark. Using an early 2018 release of the Creative Cloud version of Photo ...

As we’ve seen in other reviews, laptops that use Nvidia GeForce MX GPUs easily outpace laptops with lowly integrated graphics—bu ...

Yes, the Black Edition was next to last, but surviving for more than 10 hours is a respectable result for a desktop replacement ...

T hin screen bezels have been all the rage for several years, but the Lenovo IdeaPad S940 (starts at $1,399.99; $1,999.99 as tes ...

GOODNESS IN IRON GREY 7KHEDVHFRQ¿JXUDWLRQRIWKH,GHD3DG6LQFOXGHV Intel’s 8th Generation Core i5-8265U processor, 8GB of ...

The most striking elements of the IdeaPad S940’s design are the curved bezels on either side of the display. They look more like ...

The bottom panel also features a wide grille for dissipating heat. This series of small holes doesn’t feel rough against your ha ...

Be warned, however: If you opt for the 4K display (which has four times as PDQ\SL[HOVWROLJKWXS\RX¶OOVDFUL¿FHKRXUVRIED ...

The IdeaPad S940 felt peppy throughout my testing. Windows 10 Pro ran smoothly, and the laptop handled multitasking and media ed ...

The IdeaPad S940 posted a mildly disappointing PCMark 10 score. It trailed the RWKHU&RUHL8V\VWHPVEXW¿QLVKHGZHOO ...

Another media test, another disappointing result. The IdeaPad S940 again underperformed despite its Core i7 processor. We also r ...

Don’t get too excited about the IdeaPad S940’s relatively high scores. Like any laptop that relies on integrated graphics, the L ...

The IdeaPad S940 ran into the same problem as the VAIO SX14—its 4K display consumes more battery power than a 1080p panel would. ...