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Laptops are evolving at a dramatic pace, and this is the place to track their progress, or lack thereof. The best laptop is out there, and our laptop reviews dig deep into what’s new from the world’s biggest manufacturers to help you find it. From each new iteration of the Apple MacBook and Microsoft Surface to what’s coming up from likes of Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more, The Verge has you covered.

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LG Gram Pro 17 review: a Gram with more gusto

LG’s new Gram Pro is a three-pound laptop with an RTX GPU inside — a great achievement for LG and a fairly niche product for the rest of us.

Sep 27|

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The HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook is incredible — with one big problem

Beautiful chassis, fast processor, great screen, and software that doesn’t keep up

Sep 13, 2022|

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Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED review: the best foldable yet

It’s a 17-inch foldable that actually works

Aug 31, 2022|

Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 review: sure, this one is good, too

Sep 1|

The best budget laptop of 2023

Aug 23|

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Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: AMD’s new chip is a game-changer

AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world’s fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right.

Aug 22|

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LG Gram Style review: a beautiful mess

I’ve never seen a laptop that looks quite like this. I’ve also never seen a laptop with its particular set of problems.

Aug 20|

Best gaming laptop in 2023: seven laptops to get your game on

Aug 16|

Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra review: a lean, mean Windows machine

Jul 27|

HP’s Spectre x360 13.5 is nearly perfect, except for one thing

Jul 20|

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Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i is for the two-screen lifestyle

The Yoga Book 9i jettisons the traditional lower laptop deck for a second touchscreen, which opens up some interesting use cases along with some compromises.

Jul 14|

Razer Blade 14 (2023) review: this pricing is silly

Jun 20|

Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: exactly what was asked for

Jun 12|

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A day on the Vivobook 15

The Vivobook 15 is a 15-inch budget alternative to the Acer Aspire 5 but with some of the same problems.

May 24|

Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true

May 17|

A day on the Acer Aspire 5

May 15|

HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook review: a colorful competitor

May 11|

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A day on the Gateway 14

I spent a day on a $279, bright blue, cow-spotted 14-inch laptop, and I’m seriously impressed by how much it has to offer.

May 7|

Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED (2023) review: lighter than Air

May 1|

What’s it like to use a $300 Windows laptop for a day?

Apr 16|

Dell XPS 13 review: Dell is coasting (and that’s fine)

Apr 8|

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Y’all, this laptop is too much

Asus’s ROG Flow Z13, a collaboration with Acronym, has hit shelves, and I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Just take a look for yourself.

Mar 31|

The HP Dragonfly Pro is a great laptop with some odd extra stuff

Mar 16|

Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive

Mar 10|

Acer Swift 3 OLED review: a great package with one thing missing

Feb 22|

What’s the difference between the M2 Pro and the M2 Max?

Feb 15|

Razer Blade 18 review: the price is going up

Feb 11|

MSI Titan GT77 HX review: Intel’s most powerful laptop chip, tested

Feb 8|

Razer Blade 16 review: the RTX 4090 is a powerful, very expensive chip

Feb 7|

Which M2 Mac is right for you?

Feb 6|

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Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 (2021) review: return to form

Apple’s new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade

and Monica Chin

Jan 25|

Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2023) review: the core count grows

Jan 23|

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Richard Lawler Nov 16, 2022

Surface Pro 9 (Intel vs ARM) review: which one to buy?

Monica Chin reviewed both iterations of the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 and has a few reasons why the Intel version is still the better choice.

Surface Pro 9 review (ARM):

With an extremely lightweight build, 5G support, and good battery life, the Surface Pro 9 could be the perfect on-the-go device... Microsoft has that hardware part down to a science. But it still hasn’t figured out how to make Windows on Arm viable for the high-end mainstream.

Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (SQ3) review: Windows on Arm is not ready

Nov 16, 2022|

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Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (Intel) review: this is the one to buy

There are two Surface Pro 9s. The Intel model is the boring but safer buy.

Nov 16, 2022|

Asus’ Steven Harrington Vivobook is a cool-looking laptop with uncool battery life

Nov 15, 2022|

HP’s Pavilion Plus 14 is a powerful, confusing OLED machine

Nov 7, 2022|

HP Victus 15 review: an $800 laptop that can game

Nov 6, 2022|

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Dan Seifert Oct 31, 2022

It’s not often that a new product is worse than the one it’s replacing.

We’re accustomed to things getting better every year, but in the case of Acer’s generally-excellent Chromebook Spin, the opposite happened.

The Chromebook Spin 714 is worse than last year’s Spin 713 in a number of crucial ways, including display and battery life. Bummer.

Acer’s Chromebook Spin 714 is worse than its predecessor

Oct 30, 2022

Acer’s Chromebook Spin 714 is worse than its predecessor

Oct 30, 2022|

Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (13.5-inch) review: a few steps forward and one big step back

Oct 25, 2022|

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