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Nothing Book laptop concept let’s you be more expressive with a slender secondary screen on the lid

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Nothing has revived and redefined the see-through design aesthetics that blew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. That era was highlighted by colorful polycarbonate plastic material for translucent casings for the futuristic, fun vibe. Carl Pie took the bold step and weaved his brand’s design philosophy around clean minimalism and see-through designs in colorless aesthetics.

Over the years, Nothing’s products have inspired countless designs and concepts for good reason. Battery banks, headphones, turntables, vacuum cleaners, and whatnot. So how could we not bet against a Nothing-themed laptop tailored for gamers and creators?

Designer: Nikita Bukoros Design

The designer wants to grow on the idea of a Nothing laptop that Carl hinted at years earlier when the brand was taking its baby steps. The highly anticipated gadget never came to fruition thus far, and left Nothing fans yearning for one. Nikita wants to give the fans another reason to keep believing and perhaps subtly remind Carl of the prospect. He calls it the Nothing Book, and his idea is to reveal the complexity underneath, much like a see-through gaming PC case that reveals the innards in their glory. Everything from the inner architecture, dynamic cooling system boards, to the other components is layered in a hypnotic composition.

The designer labels the performance laptop as an industrial art piece, more than a high-end consumer electronics gadget. I totally agree with the emotion, as the PC, when flipped over, reveals all the inner electronics. One unique element that defines this laptop is the secondary screen on the lid of the machine. This external display breaks the monotony of the machines we are accustomed to, as you can show off any messages, symbols, emojis, or other elements in the classic Nothing font. To spice things up, Nikita goes beyond the monochrome color scheme and offers the concept laptop in peppy options. You can have it in hot red, cool green, subtle pink, or magnetic teal hues as well.

Going with the modern design aesthetics of the creator-focused laptop, the accompanying charging dock is purpose-built to flaunt the attractive make of the machine. When docked in, the cool charging animation is displayed on the secondary screen. At the end of the day, the laptop has to be highly practical, hence, it comes with the customary HDMI, USB-C, USB, and wired charging port.

Whether Nothing will release a laptop anytime soon is anybody’s guess, but one thing is for sure: the brand needs to look at it very seriously. The design aesthetics of the modern-day laptops are quite muted and predictable, and this concept gives fans one more reason to believe.

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This 20,000mAh Ultra-Slim Power Bank Gives MacBook Users the Battery Apple Wouldn’t

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Steve Jobs pulled the original MacBook Air out of a manila envelope in 2008 and the laptop industry never recovered. What followed was nearly two decades of manufacturers treating thinness as the primary measure of ambition. Apple refined the aluminum unibody chassis into a design language so influential that Dell, Samsung, HP, and virtually every other PC maker began chasing the same silhouette. The problem was that aluminum unibody construction left almost no room for battery expansion. The chassis became the constraint, and battery capacity was the thing that gave way. Users got a premium-feeling machine that needed a charger by mid-afternoon.

Krafted Edge, from a London-based team currently 14x funded on Kickstarter, takes that surrendered battery volume and turns it into a dedicated companion slab. At 12.88mm thin, matched to a laptop’s footprint, it slides into the same bag sleeve and sits flush underneath the machine on any desk. The 65W USB-C output handles a MacBook or Dell XPS at full charge speed, and a user-replaceable battery module means the unit survives well beyond the obsolescence cycle that Apple’s own design philosophy helped normalize.

Designer: Krafted

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Most power banks are designed as self-contained objects, with their own visual identity, their own color language, their own form factor logic. Edge is designed to be a subordinate layer, a second slab that borrows the laptop’s rectangle and adds nothing extraneous. Silicone ventilation bars on the underside keep the laptop’s chassis from sitting flush against the battery surface, managing heat without vents or fans. That is a detail most companies would have skipped in the name of simplicity, and Krafted chose to solve it instead.

Twenty thousand milliamp hours at 65W USB-C output means Edge can push full-speed charging to a MacBook Air or Dell XPS, a level of output most portable batteries cannot match for laptop use. In practical terms, that translates to up to three full laptop charges, four phone charges, and thirty-five headphone charges from a single Edge. The USB-C and USB-A ports run simultaneously, meaning a laptop and phone can charge at the same time, the actual use case for anyone working through a long travel day. The USB-A port covers older devices and accessories from the same slim device. The spec sheet reads like something Krafted reverse-engineered from real-world work patterns rather than from what was cheapest to manufacture at a given wattage.

Aircraft-grade aluminium forms the housing, with ocean-bound plastic components used for the detailing, braided metal connectors on the cable, and a plant-based leather tag, meaning the material story carries a traceable supply chain rather than a footnote about corporate responsibility. On the certification side, Edge carries CE, UKCA, and UN38.3 compliance, and at approximately 74Wh, it falls comfortably below the 100Wh threshold that most international airlines enforce as the carry-on limit for lithium battery devices, no special permission required. That number matters more than it might seem right now. Airlines across multiple jurisdictions have been tightening restrictions on portable power devices in cabin luggage, and the last thing a frequent flyer needs is a power bank confiscated at security. Edge is built to travel as cleanly as the laptop it supports, which is the whole point of matching its form factor in the first place.

The replaceable battery system means Edge has a limitless lifespan. You do not throw it away when the battery degrades, you replace the module. Krafted breaks the single-use cycle that defines the category, so the aluminium chassis, the cables, the connectors, and the circuitry all outlive the cells inside them. That is a sustainability argument, but also a value proposition, because an object built to outlast a single battery’s lifespan is fundamentally different from a disposable product dressed up in premium materials. For a category historically treated as a commodity, the replaceable module puts Edge in the same conversation as tools you service rather than gadgets you replace. In a world where Apple sells its own batteries as non-serviceable components and charges accordingly, that philosophy lands as a genuine design position.

The Krafted Edge is available at a discounted $139 price tag, while the MSRP reads $200 if you wait to buy it after the Kickstarter campaign ends. A dual pack costs you $249 right now, netting you 37% savings. The Krafted Edge ships globally, with deliveries set for July 2026.

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Dell Finally Built a MacBook Neo Rival for $700 – Then Made One Baffling Decision

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When Apple priced the MacBook Neo at $599 earlier this year, the reaction from the Windows side of the industry was roughly equivalent to a student showing up to a spelling bee having never studied. Manufacturers who had been selling mediocre plastic laptops at $700 and $800 suddenly had a very visible, very beautiful problem: a computer with premium aluminum construction, Apple Silicon efficiency, and a brand name that makes people line up outside stores, available for less than most of them were charging for hardware that couldn’t compete on any meaningful dimension. The demand that followed was so staggering that, as we covered recently, Tim Cook himself admitted Apple fundamentally misjudged how many people were waiting for exactly this moment, with production targets doubling and shipping estimates stretching to weeks. The scramble across the Windows world was predictable in direction if not in execution. What nobody quite predicted was that Dell, of all companies, would be the first to show up with a credible answer, and that it would look this good.

The new XPS 13, announced at Computex 2026, starts at $699 for general buyers and $599 for students, making it a direct price competitor to the Neo, and it arrives throwing considerably more hardware at the comparison. The display alone reframes the conversation: a 2.5K touchscreen running at up to 120Hz with HDR and Dolby Vision support, against the Neo’s non-touch panel that tops out at 60Hz. The chassis is CNC aluminum, the keyboard is backlit with chiclet keys, and the whole machine weighs 2.2 pounds at 12.7mm thin, lighter and slimmer than the Neo by a meaningful margin. Dell COO Jeff Clarke told journalists the company wasn’t chasing a pricing war but a value argument, and through the lens of pure hardware, that argument holds up convincingly right up until you hit the one decision that threatens to unravel all of it.

Designer: Dell

Let’s address the naming first, because it tells you everything about Dell’s thinking here. XPS stands for Xtreme Performance System, a designation Dell has historically reserved for its most capable consumer hardware, machines that justified the premium with raw processing muscle and build quality that could take on Apple’s best. Dropping that badge on a $699 laptop with a cut-down Intel Wildcat Lake processor and entry-level specs represents a deliberate repositioning of what the XPS identity means. Dell is essentially retiring the “extreme performance” promise and replacing it with “extreme value,” which is either a bold strategic pivot or a quiet brand dilution, depending on how the product actually performs in the real world. The hardware design team clearly delivered. The question is whether the product team followed through with the same conviction.

The base model ships with Intel’s new Wildcat Lake Core 5 320, a chip that shares its architecture with the Panther Lake lineup but is trimmed specifically for efficiency and lower price points. Paired to that processor is where the baffling decision lives: 8GB of LPDDR5x RAM in single-channel configuration, with 16GB as the upgrade option. On macOS, 8GB is a workable baseline, because Apple’s unified memory architecture and the efficiency of Apple Silicon mean the system manages that headroom with genuine intelligence. Windows in 2026 operates under an entirely different reality. Microsoft itself has publicly stated that 16GB is the recommended baseline for Windows going forward, and anyone who has watched a single Chrome tab push a Windows machine toward its memory ceiling knows this concern is grounded in daily experience. The XPS 13 can be configured up to 32GB, which is a meaningful long-term advantage over the Neo’s fixed 8GB ceiling, but that flexibility means very little if the entry configuration ships users straight into a frustrating afternoon.

One other cut worth flagging: there is no headphone jack on the XPS 13, while the cheaper MacBook Neo actually keeps one. In isolation this would barely register as a footnote, but alongside the RAM situation it starts to sketch a picture of a product team that obsessed over every physical surface while trimming in places that affect daily use. The build quality is genuinely exceptional, the display beats the Neo’s on paper in almost every measurable way, and the backlit keyboard is something Neo owners have been asking Apple to include since launch. These are real advantages. They just deserve a foundation that doesn’t wobble under the weight of a normal workday.

The broader industry moment here is genuinely exciting, and the XPS 13 deserves credit for existing at all. We’ve also been watching with cautious optimism (and maybe some slop-skepticism) the rumors around Google’s Googlebook, and which could represent Google finally waking up to the fact that the MacBook Neo is eating the lunch that Chromebooks spent a decade carefully building. Google essentially invented the affordable premium laptop category for education and casual users, then wandered away from it, and Apple walked straight through the door they left open. If the Googlebook turns out to be a real product with genuine ambition, this sub-$700 category suddenly has three serious players fighting for the same buyer, and that competition is exactly what consumers at this price point have deserved for years.

For now, the XPS 13 is the most compelling Windows laptop at this price in years, possibly ever. Spec up to 16GB of RAM and the value argument becomes genuinely hard to refute: a superior display, a backlit keyboard, Windows Hello biometrics, and CNC aluminum construction for the same money as a fully optioned Neo. But the base configuration, the one that captures the headline price and draws the comparison, asks buyers to trust that 8GB on Windows will be fine in 2026. That is a considerable ask, and Dell knew it when they made the call. The XPS may stand for Xtreme Performance System, but right now its most extreme feature is the optimism it takes to ship that memory configuration and call it done.

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