Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Even astronauts need to level up their laptops once in a while — including the crew of Expedition 74 on board the ISS, which NASA announced last week is in the process of some computer upgrades. In a statement to The Verge , NASA spokesperson Joshua Finch confirmed the new laptops the astronauts will be using: “The International Space Station Program has selected the HP ZBook G9 Mobile Workstation as the next laptop for the space station.” According to HP , the custom ZBook Fury G9 for the ISS includes an Intel Core Ultra 9 vPro HX processor, an Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell GPU, 128GB of DDR5 memory, and four 2TB NVMe SSDs. The configuration for the ISS also needed a custom “NASA-exclusive” power adapter, HP says: “The ISS runs mainly on DC power, which means the standard AC chargers used in homes and offices on Earth simply won’t work there.…