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Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated graphics makes PC gaming viable without a GeForce or Radeon chip.

While the Asus is the second foldable Windows PC to come across our test bench, the fact that it upsizes basically everything limits direct comparison to the Lenovo X1 Fold. I couldn't help but feel ...