Top laptops

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 ...

Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-l Co-ordinate your work Latitude is one of Dell’s long-established business computing ranges. Like Toshiba’s Satellite (see our review, Issue 557) or the IBM ThinkPad, now made by Lenovo (see Issue 537), ...

Desktops, laptops, tablets - why can’t we just have one kind of PC that does it all? A full-size convertible like this is the nearest thing so far, squeezing all-round processing power into a case that’s not only portable, but lets you fold the ...

It’s what’s inside that counts As you may recall, Microsoft's Surface Pro is a tablet with a keyboard you can add on, while the Surface Book is a laptop with a keyboard you can take off. The Surface Laptop, by contrast, is - as its name makes ...

Yes, the price is a lot for a laptop. But what a laptop! Inside is an i7-8750H processor with no less than six cores, served by 16GB of memory and a 512GB NVMe SSD that achieved write speeds of just over 1,000 and read speeds of just under 2,300 ...