Laptop Reviews

More ports, more RAM, a nicer screen, and a better webcam for a little less money.

The $1,300 ‘Aura Edition’ laptop doesn’t quite live up to its fancy new Lunar Lake processor.

This Snapdragon-powered laptop is a productivity machine, but unless work foots the bill, you can do better.

Samsung’s first Copilot Plus PC is everything a thin and light laptop should be — but its performance is limited.

AMD stands up to Qualcomm with its new Ryzen AI chips, showing it’s nowhere near out of this race.

The closest the company’s come to merging the power of a laptop with the battery life and flexibility of a tablet.

Microsoft and Qualcomm finally deliver the hardware Windows on Arm needed.

The new 14-inch XPS has the redesigned chassis, touchbar, and invisible trackpad of the XPS 13 Plus, but better thermals and twice the battery life. And yet.

Where the Blade comes ahead in performance, the Zephyrus wins on value.

Small design variations make a big difference.

The 13-inch and 15-inch Air are better than ever, but Apple needs to do something about the upgrade funnel.

We’ve updated our review score.

It’s undoubtedly fast, powerful, and earns the Pro moniker. It’ll also cost you a pretty penny.

The long-awaited replacement for the 13-inch MacBook Pro is here, and it’s exactly as expected. But the line between Air and Pro users is blurrier than ever.

Google’s midrange ‘Chromebook Plus’ cohort is off to an excellent start.

The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense.

The 2023 Framework Laptop 13 has a new AMD option, and it’s a stellar performer.

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Studio 2 has new chips, a new touchpad, and a very, very high price tag.

LG’s new Gram Pro is a three-pound laptop with an RTX GPU inside — a great achievement for LG and a fairly niche product for the rest of us.

It’s not quite as powerful as the gargantuan Strix Scar X3D, but it’s also not quite as expensive.

The best budget laptops for video editing, gaming, and more.

AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world’s fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right.

Samsung’s 16-inch workstation aims to be the go-to for Windows fans with graphics-heavy workloads.

The latest Spectre model is a solid competitor to Dell’s high-end XPS, but there’s a big difference in battery life.

The Yoga Book 9i jettisons the traditional lower laptop deck for a second touchscreen, which opens up some interesting use cases along with some compromises.

This is a nice laptop with a somewhat confusing price.

Apple’s first big-screened MacBook Air addresses a long-standing need in the company’s laptop lineup. And it comes with zero surprises and no sticker shock.

The Vivobook 15 is a 15-inch budget alternative to the Acer Aspire 5 but with some of the same problems.

The 2023 Framework Laptop 13 remains a DIY dream while fixing many of the 2022 Framework Laptop’s biggest issues.

The Acer Aspire 5 has gotten a design upgrade, but it’s not as fancy on the inside.

Several companies have tried pricey Chromebooks with premium builds and gorgeous screens. HP’s Dragonfly Pro Chromebook is just the latest — and it’s a solid machine, but some hiccups with battery life, weight, and connectivity keep it from being a really great buy.

I spent a day on a $279, bright blue, cow-spotted 14-inch laptop, and I’m seriously impressed by how much it has to offer.

If you’re looking for a Windows-based alternative to Apple’s MacBook Air, the Zenbook S 13 is what you want. It’s even thinner and lighter than last year’s version, too.

I spent many hours using HP’s 14, a $289 Windows laptop. You’re all welcome.

The latest XPS 13 is good enough — but no longer good enough to top the market.

Asus’s ROG Flow Z13, a collaboration with Acronym, has hit shelves, and I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Just take a look for yourself.

I love the laptop, but I don’t love what it’s packaged with.

This isn’t a bad laptop, but it is a bad deal.

This is a portable, powerful laptop with a battery life problem.