Tag: 2021

Omen is HP’s flagship laptop range. It’s available in many SKUs which make use of Intel, AMD and Nvidia hardware. This HP Omen 16.1 is near the top of …

HP Victus is a replacement for HP’s not-so-sporty-sounding Pavilion gaming brand – sitting a tier down from the top-end Omen range. So, as a ‘budget’ gaming laptop, how does …

The Acer TravelMate Spin is a business-grade, convertible ultraportable laptop that aims to do it all in a stylish and robust manner. In a crowded market, where should it …

Regular readers will know we’re big fans of Asus’ ExpertBook ultraportables. They’re small, light, very usable and tend to have exceptional battery life, depending on the spec. Now, here’s …

Back in the day, Lenovo was the Rolls Royce of business notebooks but the rest of the world caught up. This latest Lenovo ThinkBook 15 wants to be a …

Of Huawei’s three, recent, ultraportable MateBooks, the MateBook D 14 is the cheapest. While it’s hard to distinguish it from it’s pricey brethren, there are a fair few changes …

We recently reviewed the flagship model of Huawei’s new MateBook series, the MateBook X Pro 2021 and the cheaper MateBook D 14. The Huawei MateBook 14 is the mid-range …

Huawei recently launched three new ultraportable ‘MateBook’ laptops. The Huawei MateBook X Pro 2021 is the flagship model which promises all the bells and whistles. So how good is …

We weren’t too impressed with Alienware’s m15 R5 and m15 R6 laptops because, despite being fast, there were some significant thermal throttling issues. Now, here’s the super-thin Alienware X15 …

We finally got our hands on Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition G513 which is a laptop that online communities have tended to rave about. So, what’s all the …

The interwebs are full of Lenovo Legion fanboys on all the big forums. But the language is starting to become uncritical and zealot-like. We’ve already had some experience with …

The new Dell XPS 17 9710 is Dell’s latest and greatest Creator laptop that’s designed for designers… and office types who want something better than the riff raff has. …

The new Dell XPS 15 9510 looks rather similar to those of the past few years. However, as we’ve learned with high performance laptops, this tends to suggest that a winning …

We’re big fans of Venom computers for an unusual reasons: the company guarantees a $500 trade-in payment after seven-years of use! That’s a great way of dealing with e-waste. …

We recently reviewed Alienware’s m15 R5 Ryzen Edition gaming laptop but it has a non-identical twin: the Intel-based Alienware m15 R6. This is exactly the same except that it has an 11th-Gen Intel …

We recently reviewed Asus’ mid-range TUF Gaming A15 laptop which offered decent performance at a decent price. However, the value proposition was tinged by its propensity to overheat when …

In the classic cartoon, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar challenges the mighty Gaul warrior Asterix and his trusty sidekick Obelix to complete 12 impossible …

Despite the fact this is the fifth MSI GE-series Raider laptop we’ve seen this year, we were particularly keen to get our hands upon it. But first, for those …

With the Asus Zephyrus G15 blowing us away with its unholy alliance of an AMD CPU and an Nvidia GPU, we were very keen to see how the much-cheaper …

MSI recently released a bunch of new laptops. Among them were the twin MSI Sword and MSI Katana designer laptops which were differentiated in a Luke Skywalker vs Darth …

We’re big fans of MSI’s limited edition laptops. The first we saw was the Dragonshield GE66 designed by the guy who designed the Death Star’s trench in Star Wars: …

Asus has launched its new ROG Zephyrus G15 which is an unholy alliance between AMD and Nvidia: the former provides the CPU, the latter provides the GPU. So, how …

It doesn’t take long to see what’s special about the MSI GE66 Raider, MSI’s 15.6-inch all-rounder. While the styling might not have the head-turning gaudiness of a Lambo, it’s …

We reported on the launch of the Pioneer Dreambook PC70 back in February but here we are reviewing the beast. Unlike the several-kilo, Clevo breadbaskets of yore, this is …

Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) and AMD have announced the world’s first laptops first laptops in about a month to use AMD Radeon RX 6800M GPUs: the ROG Strix …

The Razer Blade 15 Base Model 2021 is a cool-looking, CNC-milled, black, anodised aluminium laptop with sharp lines and high-contrast, green colour accents… just as it was when it first appeared in 2018. The latest 2021 model …

We recently took a look at MSI’s Sword and Katana notebooks and struggled to tell them apart. Now here’s the MSI Pulse GL66 – how different is it? NEW: …

UPDATE: We now have a full review of the MSI Sword laptop. Read below to understand how it differs to the MSI Katana. UPDATE 2: Check out our MSI …

A year or so on from the start of COVID-19 restrictions, life looks different and not just because none of us ever want to hear the term “the new …

The Acer Predator Helios 300 is Acer’s top-end gaming laptop but its pricing is more mid-range in the high performance laptop market. It begs the question, is it a gaming bargain …

Dynabook is the evolution of Toshiba’s laptop division which subsequently got bought by Sharp… another great name in notebooks… at least in Asia. We recently reviewed the company’s Portégé …

MSI’s Summit range of laptops targets ‘Business Elites’ and seeks to marry high performance, style and portability together in order to create a desirable all-round-laptop. There’s even a reasonable graphics …

Lenovo’s ThinkVision M14t monitor is a thin, glossy, touch-screen panel that plugs into your computer via USB-C and provides a second display. There are no drivers required and it …

Dell’s XPS laptops have had a familiar look and feel for a few years now, but why change a winning design? The Dell XPS 13’s milled aluminium chassis and …

We were big fans of Toshiba’s Portégé range of laptops. When laptops first got popular, the category was full of fugly-looking portable boxes that weren’t light and had no …