Starting at $499, the Pixel 9a delivers excellent battery life, strong performance, impressive cameras, and a durable IP68-rated build. With seven years of software updates, its understated design hardly matters.
In brief: In the gaming laptop space, AMD has focused most of its recent efforts on Zen 5-based APU lineups like the Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen AI Max. However, new variants of the high-end Dragon Range processors show that the company hasn't abandoned notebooks with dedicated CPU and GPU combos.