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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 ...

HP’s affordable laptop-tablet has changed only slightly on the outside, shaving a few millimetres off its width, but Intel’s eighth-generation processors give the design new life. The configuration we tested is currently only £ more than the ...

It’s not hard to imagine the perfect laptop. Big screen, full-size keyboard, yet the whole thing should be nice and small. Try explaining this to an industrial designer and they’re likely to start making excuses about ‘contradicting yourself, ...

They used to say a week was a long time in polities. Given recent events, that’s probably been revised down to about five minutes. The tech industry also moves pretty quickly, so when a PC maker announces a new product, the clock is ticking to get ...

Apple's top-of-the-line portable Mac gets upgraded for 2018. Don't turn the page in horror at the huge price above just yet - the latest 15-inch MacBook Pro doesn't have to cost nearly the same as an entry-level iMac Pro. That price ...

We can't test every single PC that comes out. So one of the ways we can help you choose from all the models available is to make some generalisations. Read our Chillblast Helios 3 i7 Review. For example, when you’re choosing ...