The Asus ZenBook 14 laptop is now available at a dirt cheap price of £599, despite costing over a grand just a month ago. The model on offer packs an AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor and 8GB RAM, which isn’t the most cutting edge pairing but should still comfortably offer enough performance power to breeze
What is the Huawei MateBook X?Huawei isn't the first name that springs to mind when you're on the market for a new laptop, but hasn't stopped it from creating one of 2017's prettiest portable computers, the MateBook X. Huawei's first laptop is an impressive machine, and rivals the Asus ZenBook 3 for thi
What is the Microsoft Surface Laptop? Microsoft's recent hardware efforts prove two things. First, Windows devices can be built without compromise. Second, that Apple isn't the only company that can meld hardware and software together in harmony. The Surface Laptop contiunes these two trends and is Micr
What is the Surface Pro?You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Surface Pro is actually the fifth convertible tablet-come-laptop from Microsoft. When did companies decide that numbers were no longer cool? Keeping in line with Microsoft’s current vibe, the Surface Pro is a pretty, by-the-numbers devi
What is the Acer Predator 21 X?When computing historians look back on 2017, I imagine they’ll mark it as the start of the end of the cumbersome gaming laptop era. As ultra-thin and efficient gaming laptops start to become the norm, a breed of super-huge laptops are likely on their last legs. If it's the
What is the Asus Chromebook Flip C100PA?The Asus Chromebook Flip C100PA is a budget laptop with a 360-degree hinge. Dubbed by Asus as "the world's first 10-inch convertible Chromebook", this feature undermines precisely what is attractive about a budget laptop.Despite the decent eight hours of battery l
Hands-on with Asus’ Dell XPS 15 rivalIn the past, if you were after a Windows-based quad-core multimedia machine, the Dell XPS 15 would almost certainly make your shortlist. The Asus ZenBook Pro might do, too, but until today the Pro brand had represented slightly chunky, flabby multimedia laptops that
Hands-on: We try out the first Max-Q laptopThe Asus ROG Zephyrus is the first of a new breed of Nvidia’s Max-Q gaming laptops. You can find out more about what that means in my Max-Q explainer, but in brief, this is designed to be the ultimate gaming laptop for both efficiency and performance.First, the
Last year’s ZenBook 3 was a clever piece of design from Asus, squeezing dual-core Core i7 processors into a remarkably thin and light laptop. This year at Computex, the company unveiled the ZenBook Flip S, which is the same formula but with a 360-degree hinge thrown in.This isn’t the ZenBook Flip UX360,
Hands-on with MSI’s new gaming beastIn the same week that Nvidia announced its way of fixing the fat and noisy gaming laptops that haunt our dreams, MSI launched a fat and noisy gaming laptop. The GT75VR Titan is the company’s latest top-spec laptop that comes with an overclockable CPU and overclockable
Hands-on with the barmiest laptop of Computex 2017Gigabyte’s Aorus X9 was first demonstrated as a concept product at CES in January. Now at Computex, this incredible machine looks set to make it into production and hit store shelves before the end of the year.With SLI graphics, an overclockable processo
Hands-on: Is the Surface Laptop the Windows 10 machine for all?The Surface Laptop is a simple product, but it’s an exciting one. It’s the first real laptop from Microsoft, and it might just offer the perfect mix of style and substance. Whereas the Surface Book and Surface Pro are hybrid devices with fan
Updated: Dell has just announced that it's bringing IPS panels to all Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming models in the coming months at no extra cost. This is a huge deal, because the current TN screen is by far the biggest problem with what is otherwise a great product. As soon as IPS models become available I'll
Hands-on with the New Surface ProSo we were all expecting a Surface Pro 5 and, er, we didn't really get one. What we got was the New Surface Pro.If you're expecting a major upgrade from the Surface Pro 4, you'll only be excited if you're the sort of person who gets excited by spec upgrades you can't act
What is the Venturer PrimePro 12 TS?The ultimate 2-in-1 laptop would give the looks and usability of a Surface Pro but at the price of a budget laptop. Bitter experience has proved this to be a hard combination to crack, but the Venturer PrimePro 12 TS is the best attempt so far.Venturer PrimePro 12 TS
What is the Asus ROG G701VI?Every gaming laptop manufacturer has tried to cram more power inside slim designs with smaller screens, but the best mobile gaming experiences are still found inside larger laptops like the Asus ROG G701VI.This 17.3-inch beast deploys an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, an Intel Core
