The Verge
Most Recent Review
MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013)
Toby’s Estate Coffee in Brooklyn should be my favorite local coffee shop. The Australian company’s first US location is big and bright, with ample seating, great service, and terrific coffee — the... Read Full Review
- Most Recent
-
Alienware 14 review
"There's a thousand thin notebooks out there. If you want one, there's plenty of options," says Alienware's Frank Azor. Here at E3, the company's announcing the first new industrial design for its laptops in four years... and yet... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,199.00
Released Jun. 11, 2013
-
Sony VAIO Pro review: 'we're going to war with the MacBook Air'
My go-to laptop buying advice has been the same for the last two years, at least for anyone who doesn't know their PRAM from their Linux kernel. Oh, you're looking for a new laptop? Buy a MacBook Air. Apple's cheapest and lightest... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,249.00
-
Acer Aspire R7 review
I think I'm going blind. I've never had glasses, and always kind of liked being the guy with perfect vision, but I'm pretty sure I'm going blind. Ten times a day I catch myself craning my neck toward my laptop screen because a... Read Full Review
Priced At $999.99
Released May. 17, 2013
-
Toshiba Kirabook review: finally, a flagship Windows 8 laptop
Typically when I meet with a manufacturer to talk about new products, they're coy about mentioning their competitors. They refer to "our competition," or "other players," or "similar devices." Every company wants me to believe it's... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,599.99
Released May. 12, 2013
-
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 review: a netbook by another name
A few years ago, netbooks were small, light, inexpensive, often underpowered computers — and the word quickly became a pejorative term, to be used only with the greatest of disdain as you throw your netbook out the window. Then... Read Full Review
Priced At $799.00
Released December 2012
-
HP Spectre XT TouchSmart review
Last September, HP introduced one of the most credible MacBook Air competitors we’d yet seen: the 13-inch Envy Spectre XT was thin, light, strong, and yet still comfortable to use, a rarity in a Windows ultrabook. Yet it also had... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,399.00
Released December 2012
-
Chromebook Pixel review
"Disposable." When Eric Schmidt and Google first introduced Chrome OS, its operating system designed for desktop and laptop PCs, they kept using that word. Schmidt promised cheap devices that were essentially interchangeable —... Read Full Review
Priced At $1,299.00
Released February 2013
-
Asus Taichi review (11.6-inch)
Since Windows 8's debut last October, PC manufacturers have all followed pretty much the same playbook. Build a laptop with a touchscreen? Check. A docking laptop / tablet hybrid? Check. A strange, hinged device that twists and... Read Full Review
Released 2012
-
The best gaming laptop: we review the most powerful portable computers on the market
Traditionally, gamers have looked to hefty, monstrous machines with stylish designs — though some prefer the term “ostentatious” — for their portable gaming needs. Even as other laptops get thinner, lighter, and sexier,... Read Full Review
Priced At $2,499.99
Released September 2012
