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Last week, Microsoft made a major announcement as it blocked the popular BYPASSNRO workaround on Insider builds, used to skip the internet and Microsoft Account requirement checks during the Windows 11 installation OOBE (initial setup). Microsoft has its reasons why it wants people to use a Microsoft Account instead of local accounts. The company explained in detail all about it back in 2024, and on the announcement blog post itself, it noted that the change was being made to "enhance security and user experience of Windows 11." Microsoft wrote: Following this announcement, enthusiasts and smart Windows users started looking for ways in which they could work around and circumvent this. That is when we picked up on this newish method proposed by the user ThePineapple. We say newish since it already existed for the last six months or so, but no one had noticed it as the BYPASSNRO script has been so popular. The trick involves using a CXH URI string to trigger a hidden local account during the OOBE. We covered it in its dedicated article here. There is also a PowerShell script that can help in this regard. Meanwhile, another user has discovered yet another way to bypass this. This is similar to the BYPASSNRO one but involves going to the Registry and tweaking it. Upon finding this, Neowin looked around and found that Microsoft's own official documentation explains how this works. The company notes that by default, the HideOnlineAccountScreens value is set to "false" such that the sign-in page appears during the OOBE. So for the bypass to work, one has to change it to "true". Microsoft notes that this is "primarily for enterprises" for running unattended installs, but it should work for all users. Neowin also noticed that there is also an option to hide the wireless network setup option too using HideWirelessSetupInOOBE. Again, the default value is "false" so that this page appears, but users can flip it to "true". Source: Microsoft (link1, link2) Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

I used (almost) every edition of Microsoft's operating system and fondly remember some of its iconic first-party programs. My intrigue for computing started when my parents brought home our first Windows 3.1 family PC and transitioned to an offline-only Windows 95 build with its iconic Start menu, obsessed with drawing shapes in Paint and writing homework in Wordpad. However, it significantly picked up when we graduated to Windows 98 SE with a dial-up Internet connection and a heavy investment into yearly hardware upgrades. Having access to the World Wide Web from age 10 was formative to an incredible degree, influencing me throughout my life. Now, as Microsoft turns 50 years old, I'm looking back at three programs that played a powerful role in shaping who I am today — do you remember them all, or were you occupied with others? Let me know in the comments while I overcome my pre-millennium nostalgia. MSN Messenger MSN Messenger 6.2 running with escargot.chat. (Image credit: Windows Central | Ben Wilson) I can draw a clear picture from where I am now to the dawn of MSN Messenger, which shows how I met some of my closest friends and developed my career; it was that important. It eventually became the most popular instant messenger in my environment, replacing ICQ and, particularly, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) once I convinced my friends to sign up for a ".NET Passport" from Microsoft. Having a small pool of peers didn't stop me from using it in the early days, and some of my strongest memories involve the basic (and ugly) layout of MSN Messenger 1.0+ before Windows XP repackaged it with a Luna-style UI. However, some stubborn holdouts forced me to keep a copy of the multi-networked Trillian app installed on my PC. Without that, I'd have lost contact with the contrarians who refused to ditch Yahoo! Messenger or whatever already-doomed platform it might have been back then. In the end, everyone migrated to what became Windows Live Messenger, and it was a mandatory mainstay on my daily desktop until everyone broke off to Skype and elsewhere. Still, I fondly recall memories circa 2003 when Microsoft's instant messenger had connected me to lifelong friends and introduced me to mutual connections that would shape my entire career. Where is it now? Discord runs on PC, mobile, and even Xbox. (Image credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) Officially, Windows Live Messenger is dead; a part of Microsoft's ever-growing graveyard. Its intended replacement was Skype, but it never felt quite the same to me, while TeamSpeak and Ventrilo better served VOIP services for my friends. Unofficially, the instant messenger lives on within a fan-made MSN Messenger project called escargot.chat — a replacement for the login service that unfortunately remains insecure (so don't use your usual passwords.) It's a fun toy to play with, but it doesn't have much staying power beyond that. Modern replacements like Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp are supported on multiple devices with easier access, so MSN Messenger doesn't have much reason to stick around outside nostalgic fancy. Microsoft FrontPage Official art for Microsoft FrontPage 2000. (Image credit: Microsoft | Internet Archive) Before the modern age of smartphones and cellular data, "going on the computer" felt more like an active journey to the Internet — a place you left once you shut off your Windows PC or your 56k dial-up modem dropped its time-limited connection. In that era, personal websites were booming. They often resembled blogs or diaries, but there were corners of the web that hosted ultra-niche hobbyist pages or dedicated fan zones for particular video games, sharing tips, tricks, and cheat codes that I would send to the family printer to waste some ink. I was lucky to attend a school that took personal computing seriously, and basic HTML was a brief segment of that class. As a pre-teen, building tables with bracketed code was mildly entertaining, but slow to satisfy. Thankfully, Microsoft FrontPage was a gateway to expressing my earliest designs of garish font choices and clashing background colors. Everything I made in Frontpage was awful, but it was mine, and that was the appeal — sharing knowledge of hidden clothing colors in Habbo Hotel, surrounded by animated .gif images of dancing hamsters. Bliss. Where is it now? Squarespace is a modern website builder. (Image credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan) Web development has become easier as these WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) apps, including successors like Adobe Dreamweaver, are now mainstays alongside browser-based page builders and editable templates. While blogs are still popular on the modern Internet, social media has pulled most of their appeal to casual users on platforms like Facebook and professionally-driven LinkedIn. FrontPage doesn't make sense for Microsoft to maintain now that demand is lower, and it would take a significant effort for it to evolve beyond the usefulness of existing competitors like Squarespace and Wix. Windows Movie Maker Windows Movie Maker running on Windows XP. (Image credit: Microsoft | Reddit) I developed an obsession with Windows Movie Maker years before the launch of streaming platforms like Google Video and its predecessor, YouTube. It was still exciting to throw together homemade videos with images and clips from my hard drive alongside cliché animated titles set to awful bit-crushed .mp3 music ripped from a CD. Those old enough to remember the days of Microsoft's .wmv (Windows Media Video) format might share similar memories of their "My Received Files" folder filling up with cheesy compilations shared across MSN Messenger in an aggressively compressed codec that resembled the garbled mess of RealPlayer's thankfully retired .rv format. Nevertheless, it felt like a breakthrough in creativity at the time. I spent many weeks creating stop-motion animations with LEGO figures and a basic Logitech QuickCam, all set to movie soundtracks recorded with an awful 3.5mm microphone pointed at my television. I might have apologized to my friends and family members who suffered through my 240p flicks, but truthfully, I regret nothing. Windows (Live) Movie Maker had such a significant influence on me that it led to me spending almost all of my savings on a MiniDV camcorder and a PCIe FireWire adapter to rip all the footage. Where is it now? DaVinci Resolve 19 running on Windows 11. (Image credit: Windows Central) Windows Live Movie Maker still sort of exists as a spiritual successor within Clipchamp, but only because Microsoft acquired the web-based video editor in 2021. Clipchamp has an incredible number of competitors, as freemium options in CapCut and DaVinci Resolve offer powerful toolsets with paid memberships expanding even further, so there's little reason for Microsoft to keep Windows Movie Maker around separately. Even the .wmv format has become deprecated, as .webm and modern codecs for .mp4 like AV1 and H.265 take over as standardized replacements across the Internet. A glimse of Microsoft's booth during my trip to MWC Barcelona 2025. (Image credit: Windows Central | Ben Wilson) Clearly, my affinity for Windows and Microsoft in general hasn't faded, as evidenced by where I am today. While I might cling to rose-tinted nostalgia for bygone mascots like Clippy, I still love following the company and its continued efforts in the PC space, for better or worse. Stick with us for more celebrations and criticisms of Microsoft's 50-year history as we continue to speculate, report, and analyze practically everything the company does in its various categories. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

More than a decade ago, in 2012, Microsoft released its 64-bit exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) file system as the successor to 32-bit FAT32. Seven years later, in 2019, the Redmond giant made a big revelation when it announced support for the exFAT format in Linux. Fast forward a decade, in 2022, Sony engineer Yuezhang Mo found that reducing repeated traversal of directory entries improved the performance of exFAT by up to 57%. This was pushed in Linux kernel version 6.2. Mo is back to helping exFAT again, and this time, the latest pull request contains a bunch of exFAT-related improvements, and a performance boost is one of them. He writes: For those wondering, the "discard mount" option refers to the operation of informing the underlying storage device about blocks that are no longer in use. So, when a file system is mounted with the discard option, it enables real-time discard operations. These operations automatically notify the storage device whenever blocks transition from "used" to "free." The patch explains: The performance improvement was measured using an 80 GB file, and it took 4 minutes and 46 seconds or close to 287 seconds to delete that. With the new optimization, the task was completed in under 2 seconds, which equates to an improvement of 172 times: You can view the pull request here on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) website. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

April 1st brings good news for Firefox users: version 137.0 is here with a pretty hefty changelog. You can now download the latest update and enjoy some new features like tab groups (another long-anticipated feature after vertical tabs from Firefox 136), HEVC playback on Linux, PDF signing, and a big refresh for the address bar with contextual search, a unified search button, and more. And hey, you can now use the address bar as a calculator—just type your expression, and Mozilla will do the job for you. Nice. Here is the changelog: Security fixes in Firefox 137.0 are available here, and Enterprise Release notes are available here. You can update Firefox by heading to Menu > Help > About Firefox. Alternatively, get the browser from the official website or the Microsoft Store (if you are on Windows 10 and 11). Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Microsoft released new Dynamic updates for all supported Windows 11 versions last week, namely 24H2, 23H2, and 22H2. The updates apply to Windows Server 2025 as well. Dynamic updates bring improvements to the Windows Recovery in the form of Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) updates, also called Safe OS updates, as well as to the Setup binaries in the form of Setup updates. The dynamic updates for Windows 11 24H2 also apply to Server 2025 as well. First up, we have the dynamic updates for Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025: Up next, we have the dynamic updates for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2: For those who may not be aware, these Dynamic Update packages are meant to be applied to existing Windows images prior to their deployment. In a Tech Community blog post about Windows 10 Dynamic Updates, Microsoft explained Dynamic Updates in more detail regarding its various components and uses. These packages include fixes to Setup.exe binaries, SafeOS updates for Windows Recovery Environment, and more: The Setup updates are available for manual downloading from the Windows Update Catalog website. You can find them here: KB5056378/ KB5054981. You can also avail of the WinRE updates manually there at KB5054686/ KB5054059, but they are delivered automatically via the Windows Update channel. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Mainstream Windows 10 support is ending in six months, and even though Microsoft is letting users have one more year of security updates for $30 (third-party solutions promise much longer support), the operating system's market share is declining rather quickly. According to the latest data published by Statcounter, Windows 11 made a significant jump in March 2025. Windows 10, on the other hand, lost a big chunk of users in just one month. As of right now, Windows 10 holds 54.23% of all Windows PCs worldwide, which is a 4.43-point decline. Windows 11 has 42.66%, which is a new all-time high for the operating system and an increase of 4.53 points (the biggest jump in three years). For Windows 11, the year-over-year change is +15.98 points (in March 2024, it was at 26.68%), and for Windows 10, it is -14.84 points (69.07% in March 2024). Source: Statcounter It is quite interesting to see Windows 11 catching up with its predecessor so quickly, but Microsoft still has a lot of work to do to convert the remaining Windows 10 users. Some of them will migrate to Windows 11 naturally, while others will have to stick to the outgoing OS for some time for all sorts of reasons. Some cannot officially update due to outdated (by Microsoft's standards) hardware, while others remain skeptical about Windows 11's changes and controversial design choices. With Windows 10, Microsoft is offering the Extended Security Update program to regular customers for the first time (previously exclusive to commercial users), which is another reason why Windows 10 is expected to hang around for a bit longer. As of right now, Microsoft plans to provide extended security updates to regular consumers for only one year. While all the drama is happening between Windows 10 and 11, the remaining Windows versions remain relatively unchanged in terms of their market shares. Windows 7 has 2.22% (-0.08 points), Windows XP is at puny 0.33% (+0.04 points), and Windows 8.1 is at 0.28% (-0.02 points). You can find more information about Statcounter's latest data here. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Benchmarking hardware allows one to judge the performance of a component or various components on their system by comparing them against similar hardware. Some of the most popular benchmarking utilities out there, which Neowin also uses for its tests and reviews, are 3DMark, CrystalDiskMark, and Cinebench, among others. There are also other lightweight software programs like PassMark (free), which, although not quite as modern as something like 3DMark or Procyon, allows a user to run a quick pass to gauge the system performance. We strongly urge you to avoid UserBenchmark, which, despite appearing to be helpful at first glance, has a serious bias against AMD hardware, and that means their performance assessments for non-Intel and non-Nvidia gear are not accurate and truthful. Instead, you can try CrystalMark Retro, from Crystal Dew World, the creators of CrystalDiskMark. The app has received its latest update, and it supports Windows OS, including Windows 10/11, all the way back to XP, 95, and 98. The release notes state: CrystalMark, like PassMark, is not going to be the best tool out there if you want to know how good your hardware is in modern workloads. However, it can still give you some idea. For example, the utility uses OpenGL to assess GPU performance for 3D workloads. However, that should not matter given that CrystalMark Retro is more geared towards users who are still running really old systems, and that is not an option on its alternatives since legacy support is mostly dead elsewhere. I ran it on my own PC consisting of an AMD Ryzen 5700G (Zen 3) and the Radeon RX 6800 XT (RDNA 2). As you can see below, it does not test memory, so my 32GB Gskill DDR4-3600 CL16 kit was not given a workout. Aside from this, the latest version also fixes a compatibility issue with the FM (Fujitsu Micro) TOWNS 32-bit retro PC that was released back in 1989: You can download CrystalMark Retro from its official website here, where it is hosted on SourceForge. Source: @openlibsys (X) Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Wintoys is one of our favorite Windows 11 applications. This free, user-friendly tweaker is a treasure trove of various features and options that help customize Microsoft's operating system and deal with some of its quirks and annoyances. After nearly a year in no-update mode, the maker of Wintoys is back with a massive 2.0 release, which is full of great changes and new features. With version 2.0, Wintoys received a redesigned logo with light and dark mode support, a new welcome experience, some neat animations, and more. While visual changes are nice, the most interesting part about the latest update is its features, of course, and the official changelog has a lot of them. For starters, Wintoys 2.0 now has a settings restore button that lets you undo everything and get back to the original state with a single click (this setting also applies to system changes). Those who are discontented with the File Explorer in Windows 11 can also get the classic interface and remove the Home and Gallery sections from the navigation pane. Another great addition is the ability to enforce Digital Markets Act changes that let you uninstall Microsoft Edge in unsupported regions by triggering official processes and without changing regional settings. The Tweaks menu also received a new Super-user section where you can activate God mode and Developer Mode, adjust User Account Control (UAC) settings, and toggle User Choice Protection Driver (UCPD). Other improvements include new and updated system properties cards that let you check your storage, GPU driver version, Windows activation key, system uptime, and more. Just hover the cursor over a card on the Home page, and you will get more details about each part. In addition to new features, Wintoys 2.0 brings multiple bug fixes and improvements. You can find the complete list of changes in the official release notes. Just keep in mind that there is a known issue where Alt + Tab freezes the app due to a bug in WinUI 3, which Microsoft has yet to fix on its side. Wintoys 2.0 is now available, and you can download it for free from the Microsoft Store using this link. The app is compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you want more toys for your Windows PC, check out the latest update for PowerToys, which delivered a new launcher, Color Picker improvements, and more. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

PowerToys 0.90 is now available for download. The March 2025 update for everyone's favorite set of Windows utilities is here with the long-expected PowerToys Run v2 (now called Command Palette), improvements for Color Picker, variables support for New+, and more. Microsoft announced the upcoming release of Command Palette in late December 2024, promising a revamped user interface, a reworked extension model, and other changes requested or suggested by the community. Now, several months later, the promised module is finally available. Here are the release highlights: And here is the rest of the changelog: You can download PowerToys 0.90 from GitHub or the Microsoft Store. If the app is already installed on your system, go to Settings > General and click "Check for updates." Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D is probably the best pure gaming processor on the market right now. We reviewed its 16-core counterpart, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, which is also an excellent gaming SKU and will additionally serve multitaskers well. While that is something for AMD to be happy about, it also seems like several of its 9800X3D parts are failing. Users are reporting that their CPU burned up or died for some reason they can't quite pinpoint. As we mentioned above, though, there is also the possibility that several of them are first-time buyers and may not be all that familiar with DIY PC building quirks. So user-side error is certainly possible too. Curiously, it looks like ASRock motherboards are the ones where users are reporting the highest number of failures. There is apparently mounting evidence to suggest may be the case. A Reddit user natty_overlord on the ASRock subreddit has compiled as many as such cases and in total, the number of 9800X3D failures has crossed 100. They write: The issue is also not prominent on one or two particular motherboard variants or chipsets, as it is being seen across the board. They include ASRock Steel Legend, ASRock Taichi, Riptide, and more. Out of the 108 total Ryzen 9000 failures, Tom's Hardware calculated that ASRock mainboards saw 98 failures or 82% of cases. Asus came second with 16 or 13% of the cases, MSI had five failures or 5% of the cases. Gigabyte managed to top the chart with just a single failure or approximately 1% of the cases. Meanwhile, in terms of chipsets, the newer 800 series chipset boards had the majority of failures. On one hand, situations like these especially on such an expensive gear, are never desirable; but on the other, we have also reported about instances where overclocking enthusiasts have pushed CPUs to their extremes, like this 9950X3D at 6 GHz. So they could well be user-side errors too. Hopefully, AMD and ASRock as well as the other motherboard vendors, are investigating. But for that, the companies may require more data as the sample size is still fairly small compared to the total potential number of Ryzen 9000 CPUs out there. It is noteworthy here that ASRock had already issued a firmware update to fix X3D problems towards the end of February. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

The mobile RTX 5090 GPU isn't exactly blowing the doors off in early tests, and I'm here to temper your expectations. Gaming laptops with NVIDIA's RTX 50-series mobile GPUs officially entered the market on March 28, with options from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, and more. Many laptops are ready to ship, while others are being released throughout April. You can preorder most models even if there's a shipping delay. However, I come to you with a word of warning regarding the most expensive new NVIDIA RTX gaming laptops. NVIDIA's RTX 5090 laptop performance is half that of its desktop counterpart The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are thinner than ever, but there's still no way they're fitting into a laptop without some modifications. (Image credit: Windows Central | Ben Wilson) NVIDIA has provided OEMs with RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPUs, so there's plenty of variety from which you can choose. However, I come with a word of warning for those who are interested in the mobile 5090. NVIDIA's RTX 5090 Laptop GPU looks a lot like a desktop RTX 5080, so don't buy a new laptop expecting the same performance. As Notebookcheck discovered in its initial RTX 5090 Laptop testing, the mobile version is up to 50% slower than its desktop counterpart. That applies to PC games and synthetic benchmarks. I've included some results here, but I urge you to check out the full collection of graphs and further analysis at Notebookcheck.net. A look at Notebookcheck's findings on RTX 5090 Laptop performance in 3DMark. (Image credit: Notebookcheck) Notebookcheck's graphs showing RTX 5090 desktop and laptop performance in Blender. (Image credit: Notebookcheck) You can see in the above graphs how big a difference there is between the laptop and desktop RTX 5090 GPUs. Notebookcheck uses a Zotac RTX 5090 Solid model to compare to the new Razer Blade 16 (2025) and the ASUS Strix Scar 18 G835LX with the mobile 5090 card. The difference in performance also extends to gaming benchmarks. Notebookcheck's findings regarding RTX 5090 desktop and mobile performance in Cyberpunk 2077. (Image credit: Notebookcheck) It's no surprise that NVIDIA's laptop GPUs don't measure up to their desktop counterparts. I wasn't expecting such a large gap. The NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition desktop GPU we reviewed is thinner than ever, but it's impossible to include as much raw horsepower in a thermal envelope as small as a laptop. The RTX 4090 Laptop is slower than its desktop sibling, although the difference isn't quite as major, with roughly a 35% performance decrease. The raw specs of the two NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs show some interesting bits, and I included the RTX 5080 desktop GPU for further comparison. GPU RTX 5090 Laptop RTX 5090 Desktop RTX 5080 Desktop GPU name GB203 GB202 GB203 CUDA cores 10,496 21,760 10,752 RT cores 82 170 84 Tensor cores 328 680 336 ROPs 112 176 112 VRAM 24GB 32GB 16GB Memory bandwidth 890GB/s 1.79TB/s 960GB/s Memory bus 256-bit 512-bit 256-bit TGP 175W 575W 360W The RTX 5090 Laptop GPU looks a lot closer to the desktop RTX 5080 than anything else. Don't get me wrong; the mobile RTX 5090 is a monster GPU, but it probably shouldn't have been granted the top-tier XX90 branding. Both the mobile 5090 and desktop 5080 use the same GB203 GPU chip, and other than the 24GB of VRAM and the lower power draw in the mobile 5090, the numbers are very similar. The tradeoff is, of course, extra mobility and less power draw, with the mobile 5090 dropping to a fraction of the desktop 5090's power demands. The major appeal for the 50-series cards includes access to the full suite of DLSS 4's tools, including Multi Frame Generation (MFG). MFG is so far exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs, and its performance boosting capabilities are impressive thanks to AI advancements. Where can I buy NVIDIA RTX 50-series laptops? I'm not here to stop you from buying the laptop of your dreams. I simply want to shed some light on the situation. NVIDIA's RTX 5090 Laptop GPU isn't exactly going to offer the XX90 performance you might desire, and I want to temper expectations before these laptops ship. If you're indeed in search of the power available from the desktop 5090, there's really only one avenue: build your own PC or check out a pre-built with the 5090 already inside. If you are interested in checking out the fresh line of NVIDIA RTX 50-series laptops, it looks like Best Buy and Newegg currently have the most varied selection. You can also head over to Razer to check out its refreshed Blade 16 and Blade 18 models, while Dell is home to the new Alienware Area-51 gaming laptops. I also found the Legion Pro 7i (Gen 10) with RTX 5080 Laptop GPU available for preorder at Lenovo. Are you buying a new laptop with NVIDIA's RTX 50-series mobile GPUs? Which one are you getting? Let me know in the comments section below! Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend