JULY 2019 PCWorld 39touchpad, but HP paired its wood options with
metals colored to match, and they look dreamy.
For the business crowd, HP also
announced new Elite-series laptops (go.
pcworld.com/elte), with options ranging
from a claimed 24-hour battery life to a panel
blazing at a fierce 1,000 nits of brightness. For
context, that’s just as vibrant as Nvidia’s
glorious G-Sync
Ultimate displays (go.
pcworld.com/ac27).
Yes, please.- DELL LAPTOPS
Dell showed up with some heavy firepower,
too—literally, in the case of the upgraded
Alienware m15 (go.pcworld.com/alin). The
new Dell Inspiron laptops (go.pcworld.com/
in13) bring premium amenities with a budget-
friendly price, too. But it’s the redesigned XPS
13 2-in-1 that caught our eye the most.
Long the forgotten member of the XPS
7.8.ray-traced reimagining of Quake II (go.
pcworld.com/riq2) on June 6—on both
Windows and Linux—and entering a
partnership with Bethesda to include RTX
technologies and Adaptive shading in
Wolfenstein: Youngblood. If you buy an RTX
20-series graphics card, Nvidia will toss in a
free copy of the game.
- HP LAPTOPS
Now, let’s shift focus to the
computers where all this funky
fresh hardware will reside. First
up: HP. The company
announced a full selection of its
wonderful Envy laptops and
2-in-1s clad in wood (go.
pcworld.com/wood). The
natural elements cover only the
keyboard’s wrist area and