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.
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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
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Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED review: the best foldable yet
It’s a 17-inch foldable that actually works
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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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.
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.