Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad X13 Gen 7. This is a 13.3-inch laptop that is targeted at business users and can come quite light at around 2lbs.
This laptop is expected to launch in Japan in May and there are both AMD and Intel processor options.
Important specifications include:
Nikon has registered a new N2324 camera. No one knows what this is yet (although many are hoping for a Z9 Mark II and some fear it’s an update to the Z30, a less popular offering).
We will keep on the watch for any new information about what this camera is.
The NVIDIA N1 is Nvidia’s forthcoming ARM System-on-Chip (SoC) designed for premium, slim laptops, featuring a MediaTek CPU, Blackwell-architecture GPU, and up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory.
This platform seems to be targetted at gaming and AI tasks, and may compete with RTX 5070-class laptops.
Leaks seem to indicate a summer 2026 launch of a laptop built on this platform (but this is not confirmed).
We are very happy to see more competition in the video card space, along with relatively good prices in an era of price gouging. Video cards with 32GB of RAM and relative affordability didn’t really exist prior to this card. There are of course disadvantages with going Intel over Nvidia, especially in the AI space, but Intel continues to iteratively improve their offerings on all fronts.
This card is out now, as of April, and is listed at $949/$999 depending on the brand.
Framework, best known for their Linux laptops, has a live launch event coming on April 21st at 10:30am PT. See their blog post for more information.
As Linux continues to get better on the desktop (and is improving on the gaming front), we’re hoping to see even more companies offer it as an alternative to Windows.
No concrete details have leaked yet about any new laptops of desktops from Framework.
We normally don’t get too excited about external drives, but this one is pretty good:
So is that its marketing hype, that you can run over it with a car? It isn’t cheap but it is an interesting product.
Three new patents (see: 1,2) have been issued from Sigma for a 300mm F2.8 lens, a 250mm F2 lens, and 200mm F1.8 lens. These appear to be for the Sony E mount, at least initially.
We don’t have any other information at this time, and it’s not uncommon for patents to be filed for lenses that never get made. But hopefully at least some of these lenses get made. As a bonus, we hope that Sigma makes them significantly cheaper than first-party offerings and keeps the weight and size down as much as possible.
I don’t know if we should get tired of all of these cheap but small aperture lens or happy to have so many affordable, small options. I lean towards the latter.
We don’t have a price or release date for this lens yet, but it is full-frame, it would be reasonable to expect it to be available for the Sony E, Nikon Z, and L mounts. We should also expect reasonable performance in the center and questionable edges. F6.3 requires so much light that this lens is really limited. Think of it as an expensive lens cap, maybe. But we will be happy to be surprised.
For a little bit more money, you could buy a vintage 24mm F2.8 lens, but it obviously would not be as small. And for more money yet you could a third-party autofocus 24mm F2.8 lens.
This leak comes courtesy a Weibo post.
We don’t want the micro-four-thirds format to die but we worry that it will. Creating new, innovative cameras, especially in the video domain, could be a viable path forward for the format. Instead, what we often see if a recycling of parts and producing a camera that really isn’t compelling or competitive with its peers.
Unfortunately, these early, unconfirmed rumors about the new OM-3 Camera sound as if it’s using the same sensor as a previous OM camera has some minor iterative improvements. Let us hope that’s not the case.