The Acer Swift Edge SFA16-41 is a miraculously thin and light 16-inch laptop with a spectacular OLED display. But fitting everything in forces some compromises.
| Mark Coppock | August 16, 2023 |
The Envy x360 15.6 is an OK laptop with decent performance and battery life. But its old-school 16:9 OLED display isn't sharp enough. It just doesn't stand out.
| Mark Coppock | August 15, 2023 |
The Lenovo Slim 9i 14 is a portable powerhouse with an elegant and solid design. But its mini-LED display is disappointing, as is its very poor battery life.
| Mark Coppock | August 9, 2023 |
The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 3 is largely unchanged, with just an update to Intel 13th-gen CPUs. It retains its lightweight chassis, which is feeling dated.
| Mark Coppock | July 31, 2023 |
The Lenovo Slim Pro 9i takes what's best about the Slim 9i and beefs it up, with a superfast CPU, a competent GPU, and a Mini-LED display great for creators.
| Mark Coppock | July 19, 2023 |
The Dell Inspiron 14 2-in-1 provides competent productivity performance and great battery life, but its build and display quality fall short of the competition.
| Mark Coppock | July 15, 2023 |
The Lenovo Flex 5i 14 has an attractive entry-level price when on sale. But in the reviewed configuration, its battery life, display, and build hold it back.
| Mark Coppock | July 10, 2023 |
The Alienware x16 performs like a full desktop replacement, and it's compact enough that you could fit it in a backpack. But it still has some rough edges.
| Jacob Roach | July 6, 2023 |
The 15-inch MacBook Air might have a small target demographic, but it's nearly the perfect laptop for them.
| Luke Larsen | July 1, 2023 |
The Dell XPS 13 Plus is the kind of laptop that'll cause head turns and double-takes, but is it a laptop you should actually buy?
| Luke Larsen | June 29, 2023 |
The Origin EON14-S looks like a mighty attractive laptop on paper, but it disappoints once it's in your hands.
| Jacob Roach | June 25, 2023 |
The 2023 HP Envy 16 significantly increases performance for gamers and creators. Everyone else can stick with the previous year's model and save some cash.
| Mark Coppock | June 22, 2023 |
Razer's updated Blade 14 didn't need to change anything, but the laptop updates some core issues of the original design in a big way.
| Jacob Roach | June 20, 2023 |
The MSI Prestige 16 Studio has some high-end components, but its performance was inconsistent and unstable. And its Mini-LED display disappoints.
| Mark Coppock | June 15, 2023 |
The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED somehow manages to pack solid performance, excellent battery life, and an OLED display into a near-budget price. It's a true bargain.
| Mark Coppock | June 14, 2023 |
Google has partnered with companies such as Acer, Asus, and Lenovo to create the world’s first ChromeOS-powered cloud gaming laptops.
| Aaron Leong | June 14, 2023 |
Next-gen gaming laptops up to this point have been expensive behemoths, but the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 bucks that trend by packing in the value.
| Jacob Roach | June 3, 2023 |
The HP Chromebook x360 14c is a premium Chromebook with an affordable price.
| Mark Coppock | May 30, 2023 |
The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i takes the dual-display concept and makes it work. There are a few glitches, but for the most part, there's a ton of useful flexibility.
| Mark Coppock | May 27, 2023 |
The MSI Creator Z17 HX Studio provides great performance thanks to one of the fastest CPUs around and a solid discrete GPU. It's also well-built and -designed.
| Mark Coppock | May 11, 2023 |
The Dell XPS 13 (9530) upgraded the CPU and GPU, but left everything else unchanged. That makes for a lackluster update this year.
| Mark Coppock | May 2, 2023 |
The 2023 version of the Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED makes some significant changes from the previous generation's Editor's Choice model. But it's still great.
| Mark Coppock | April 30, 2023 |
The LG Gram Style is the best-looking laptop so far in 2023. Looks aren't everything, though, and the laptop suffers some flaws that hold it back.
| Mark Coppock | April 26, 2023 |
The Dell XPS 13 has its aim sighted on the M1 MacBook Air and somehow manages to undercut it.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
Alienware did something wild by adding a 480Hz screen to one of its fastest laptops. And although the screen is smooth, it's not the right upgrade for everyone.
| Jacob Roach | April 25, 2023 |
The Zenbook Fold 17 might be the first PC with a foldable screen that actually makes sense.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
With the Alienware x14, the company tries to make the case for an extremely thin gaming laptop. Does it work?
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
The M2 MacBook Air is the laptop Apple has always wanted to make -- and in most cases, it's a rousing success.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
The Asus ROG Flow Z13 proves why a gaming tablet might be a good alternative to a gaming laptop after all.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
The Surface Laptop Studio is all kinds of weird, without sacrificing the needs of a high-performance laptop.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
The Razer Blade 14 is a huge success, combining an amazingly thin chassis with incredible gaming performance.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
Despite boasting great battery life and the S-Pen, the Galaxy Book Pro 360 doesn't quite feel like the apex of design Samsung was aiming for.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
Microsoft has made some big gains to performance and battery life, making the Surface Laptop 4 the best in the line so far.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
The Acer Predator Triton 300 SE marks a new class of small 14-inch gaming laptops with RTX-level performance.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
The Lenovo Yoga Smart Tab is an Android tablet that stands out in a crowd. It packs useful features into a 10.1-inch device, including a versatile kickstand.
| Alina Bradford | April 25, 2023 |
The redesigned Dell XPS 13 doesn’t reinvent the laptop’s winning formula but does offer much-needed tweaks including the latest Intel hardware and a thinner, lighter body.
| Matthew S. Smith | April 25, 2023 |
Samsung is bringing the S Pen to its latest 13-inch 2-in-1, the Notebook 9 Pen, along with a suite of Samsung-powered software.
| Luke Larsen | April 25, 2023 |
Does the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501VI shed the conventions of the gaming laptop market to pioneer a new breed of gaming laptop? Almost, but not quite.
| Jaina Grey | April 25, 2023 |