Laptop Guide

The Asus ZenBook 13 UM325S offers awesome performance, a gorgeous OLED display and long battery life, but its compact design puts the keyboard in an uncomfortable position.

The Acer Predator Helios 300 delivers good gaming and overall performance for a solid price, but suffers from below-average battery life.

The Lenovo ThinkPad P15 delivers massive performance, but it has the price and size to match.

The Razer Blade 15 Base Edition (2021) offers great graphics power and a colorful 1440p panel, but it suffers from middling CPU performance and a dim display.

Microsoft's Surface Pro 7+ improves upon the consumer model with faster performance and a few usability features but this business tablet has some drawbacks.

The Asus ROG Flow X13 gives gamers versatility, power, endurance and innovation in one gorgeous chassis.

Lenovo's 7th Gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon's lightweight and durable design, gorgeous display, long battery life and extensive security features make it the best business laptop on the market.

The Acer Swift 3x is a zippy machine for impatient content creators who want a fast-performing laptop that can handle light photo and video editing; it’s a shame about that battery life, though.

The Vaio Z sports a lightning-fast SSD and a gorgeous 4K display packed in a super light design, but it is egregiously overpriced and can’t compare to other flagships.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 (GA503Q) delivers almost everything you want in a gaming laptop from kickass performance and battery life to punchy speakers and a clicky keyboard.

The HP Envy 14 (2021) excels in performance and packs a pretty 14-inch, 16:10 display along with a discrete Nvidia GPU, but it fell short in some areas.

The Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel offers powerful gaming and overall performance with good battery life and a sliding 4K display, but that panel lacks vividness.

The Gateway Creator Series 15.6-inch Performance Notebook is a mixed bag of greatness at a very affordable price and bizarre choices for a performance notebook

The Porsche Design Acer Book RS sports excellent performance and amazing battery life, but it’s pricey thanks to a tacky design.

The HP Omen 15 is an attractive, fun gaming laptop with a gorgeous 4K display that invites you to play all day, every day as long as you have an outlet nearby

The Gigabyte Aorus 15G sports a killer RTX 3070 GPU, but between short battery life, a squishy keyboard and mediocre speakers, the graphics card can’t make up for everything.

The Alienware m17 R4 brings even more power and performance to the table, but at the cost of battery life.

Minor updates to the Yoga 9i improve upon a winning formula

The Alienware m15 R4 hits all of the staples of a great gaming laptop: kickass performance, beautiful display and a sexy design.

The Lenovo Legion 5 is a stylish gaming laptop for an affordable price, and if it can hold up on our benchmarks, then it might even be one of the best cheap gaming laptops out there.