Top laptops

The £ mark is something of a sweet spot for laptops these days. It’s a lot of money to spend, but if you choose wisely, you can get a great laptop that does most things well. The latest iteration of Acer’s 14in Swift 3 is a good case in point - ...

This is the latest model in a long line of Lenovo Android tablets, following on from a former Buy It! favourite of ours, the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro. However, this new tablet will be judged against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8, which – as you’ll see on page ...

The latest addition to Samsung’s Galaxy Book range of laptops is this second-generation model. It’s an attractive laptop-tablet, with a touchscreen that can open like a laptop with the keyboard in front, be folded further back into a tent position ...

We awarded the original Microsoft Surface Laptop Go four stars and a Recommended award back in Issue 596. Two years and one pandemic later and Microsoft has now launched its sequel, predictably named the Surface Laptop Go 2. For anyone not familiar ...

MSl’s Pulse GL66 has been configured to catch the eye of gamers, but don’t let that put you off' if gaming isn’t your thing. Its graphics are certainly powerful enough to produce stunning backdrops if, for example, you like to take Microsoft Flight ...

This almost became our new top laptop, dethroning our long-time favourite, Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7. When we tested the Aero 13 it was priced £ on Currys. But that had risen to £ just a few days later, which was enough to keep it off top spot. ...

The Blade 14 sees Razer equipping its laptops with AMD CPUs for the first time, and Razer hasn't messed around, cramming a Ryzen 9 5900HX inside this compact machine. The 5900HX has eight SMT- enabled cores (16 threads) alongside base and boost ...

Gigabyte's Aorus machines have carved a sizeable niche in the gaming laptop space, and this new machine is its first model with an RTX 3070 GPU. This Ampere-based chip has 5,120 CUDA cores and 8GB of memory, and here, the RTX 3070 has a peak TOP ...

Toshiba’s laptop division turned into Dynabook a couple of years ago, but the X40-J range is the first to introduce a change in the overall design. It retains an attractive if understated dark-blue finish, but there are now thin silver outlines on ...

This 15in model is Acer’s latest attempt to squeeze a desktop PC equivalent into a laptop. At 2.1kg (4 1/2 lb), it’s twice the weight of the lightest laptops, but less of a beast than many gaming systems. And although the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 GPU ...

There are lots of working environments were normal computer equipment wouldn't survive for long. Those in the military, or working with a disaster support agency, or even on a construction site can't have a mission-critical computer die because of ...

The exquisite brushed metal - US Military grade quality, allegedly - aesthetic makes a big impact as soon as you take the Asus ZenBook Flip out of the box. Read our Asus ZenBook Flip 15 Review. The material makes for a solid machine, and ...

Catastrophe theory' isn’t about disasters, it’s the study of sudden shifts caused by small changes. Since the 1990s, laptops have got steadily smaller and lighter. But at some point an odd thing happened: although the most popular 15.6in models were ...

Too cool for school. Read our Dell Latitude 3300 Review. Bornean Orangutans. Hawksbill Turtles. Yangtze Finless Porpoises. Bezels. They're all in danger of extinction. If the border around the screen of the typical premium laptop gets any ...

HP Spectre Folio 13 Not suitable for vegans There are laptops, there are tablets, and now there’s this: a touchscreen and keyboard fixed to a folder that can be stood up like a laptop or folded back to use as a tablet. It looks different from ...