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Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Reviewer, Laptops

Reviewer, Laptops

Antonio is a laptop reviewer at The Verge. Before starting here in 2021 as a deals writer, he worked in the photography industry — and still photographs weddings on the side from time to time. He also plays lots of video / tabletop games, collects vinyl records, buys too many mechanical keyboards, and endlessly professes his love for the great state of New Jersey.

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Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X13 is one of its lightest and most repairable.

Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkPad X13 Gen 7, launching this month with Intel Panther Lake and AMD Gorgon Point chips. The X13 starts at $1,499 and weighs as little as 2.03 pounds / 0.93kg. Lenovo also boasts the X13 scores a 9/10 repairability rating from iFixit.

New ThinkPad L14 and L16 models are launching alongside the X13, primarily for enterprise deployments.

<em>The ThinkPad X13 Gen 7 has a decent port selection, including two Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI 2.1, and a 3.5mm audio jack on the left of this Intel model.</em>
<em>On the right: just one USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 and a power button.</em>
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The ThinkPad X13 Gen 7 has a decent port selection, including two Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI 2.1, and a 3.5mm audio jack on the left of this Intel model.
Image: Lenovo
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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This Gundam-themed camera combines my geekiest obsessions.

Jaron Schneider of PetaPixel has a new piece in his personal Gunpla collection for me to be jealous of: a camera. The modified IUTD TBC (To Be Continued) 35mm film camera is hand-painted and decaled by Little Road Camera to mimic the original RX-78-2 Gundam.

I may have to do something extremely wicked… and order one of these.

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Go check out Jaron’s fun write-up on the camera here.
Photo: Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel
Samsung’s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong

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The Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra is a very expensive Windows laptop with some hard-to-overlook shortcomings.

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The $5,500 dual-screen Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo is ‘who is this for’ incarnate. But it slaps.

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Asus’ Zenbook Duo is finally up for preorder but costs $400 more than expected.

The dual-screen Zenbook Duo I reviewed in January was said to cost $2,399.99 with an Intel Core Ultra X9 388H. Now preorders are open, but a base model costs $2,499.99 and the 388H configuration I tested will be $2,699.99. Ouch.

We reached out to Asus for the reason, but company reps did not immediately reply. Seems like RAMageddon claims another.

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Hmm… 🤔 that photo in Framework’s keynote looks familiar.

While hyping up its couch keyboard, Framework CEO Nirav Patel showed images of how people use its computers in the living room. It gave me a Leo DiCaprio moment as I noticed a photo from my time testing Bazzite on the Framework Desktop. How about a photo credit, Nirav?

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