Tag: AUD $2000 to $2999

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Gigabyte laptop in for review. They’ve always offered good value and this one comes with a price tag that we didn’t …

Microsoft has released snazzy-looking, updated versions of its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, both built on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 processors, marking the next generation of its consumer and business …

It’s one of the most popular laptops on the planet, but its alluring veneer can often blur the lines between form and function for buyers who think it can …

Portégé laptops have been legendary since Toshiba brought them out in the 90s. At that time, laptops resembled bricks in the way that early mobile phones resembled iPhones and …

Not long ago, HP impressed us with its OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 which itself was an evolution of the impressive Spectre. Both were high-end, consumer-grade, ultraportable convertible tablet AiPCs. …

We’ve been fairly suspicious of SnapDragon-based laptops since they appeared: they might be lightweight, have the Ai chops to support Microsoft’s CoPilot+ features and have impressive battery lives, but …

I loved the Acer Swift Edge 16 when it appeared in late 2023. It was a smart-looking, 16-inch ultraportable that oozed quality. The ‘new’ model is mercifully identical in …

The Vivobook S 15 is the first Snapdragon laptop that we’ve seen from Asus. We’ve been devilishly impressed with the company’s Zenbooks and Vivobooks for a long time now, …

With Asus, MSI and HP knocking it out of the park recently, Lenovo has been somewhat conspicuous by its absence. Not anymore. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition …

MSI’s Sword range of budget gaming laptops has been a perennial favourite since it first appeared. It’s typically offered all the important features, design elements and performance levels that …

We’ve been very impressed with the Lunar Lake laptops that we’ve seen so far, but the Asus ExpertBook P5 is the first business laptop that we’ve seen with Intel’s …

Asus has announced that its ExpertBook P5, the company’s first Copilot+ PC tailored for SMBs, is now available in Australia and New Zealand. Designed with modern professionals in mind, …

Lenovo has unveiled its latest device, the Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition, a 15-inch laptop designed in collaboration with Intel. Aimed at users seeking premium build quality and advanced …

Acer is launching new AMD-based Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14 laptops with AMD Ryzen 8040 series processors that are equipped with Ryzen Ai. The laptops feature AMD …

Asus’ Zenbooks have been knocking it out of the park in recent times. Their ability to meld great build quality, excellent ergonomics, decent power and great value into a …

LG has announced its recommendations for laptops in the Back To School period. We suspect that these premium models aren’t the best for smaller kids who won’t care for …

The kids are going back to school in a couple of weeks and that means there are some great laptop deals available – not just models for students and …

We’ve seen some stunning laptops from Acer in recent months. Portable workhorses like the Swift Go 14 and the Swift Go 16 both became our daily drivers. We declared …

A load of laptops from Asus turned up and the smallest one was the Asus Zenbook S 13. It’s one of the smallest laptops we’ve seen in ages and …

The Lenovo Yoga 7i wasn’t just one of the best, ultraportable business laptops we’d ever reviewed, it remains one of the best laptops we’ve ever used. Now, here’s the …

The Acer Swift Edge 16 is an important laptop. It’s the first on the market with AMD’s latest Zen-4-architecture-based Ryzen 7 7840U processor which features built-in Ai processing. Update: …

We reviewed a bunch of Acer laptops in recent months, but finding them to buy has been difficult. Now, here’s a brand-new, 13th-Gen gaming laptop from the company’s top-end, …

We’ve been enormously impressed with Asus’ Expertbook laptops in the past. They’ve been incredibly well made and impressively portable. This 16-inch version promises more of the same and we …

At its recent ‘new gaming laptops’ event, MSI revealed a new budget model that aimed to provide great design and great value to gamers of any budget. It would …

HP’s top-tier business-oriented have impressed us in the past and now the company has several different ranges hitting the market. This is the HP Elitebook X360 1040 G9 – …

To say we’re fans of the MSI Prestige range is an understatement. Never has a laptop provoked such a visceral reaction for both its looks and performance except, perhaps, …

We’re seemingly swamped with ultraportable laptops at the moment but each one is impressing us in at least one way. At first glance, the new, Intel Evo-certified, Acer Swift …

We like a well-made ultraportable almost as much as an innovative Asus science experiment. Well the Asus Zenbook 14X OLED ticks both boxes and chucks in an OLED screen …

We’ve been impressed with Dynabook’s Portégé laptops which have kept true to the original Toshiba designs that revolutionised the world of ultraportable laptops back in the 90s. Now, here’s …

LG Electronics Australia has today announced the Australian availability of the company’s top-tier, 2-in-1 LG gram premium laptop, designed to boost improve productivity. The two, new 16-inch 2-in-1 ultraportables …

Hot on the heels of Dell’s Dark Knight-like Latitude 7330 Rugged Extreme laptop is a lesser, but much-more-accessible, rugged offering: the Acer Enduro Urban N3. It’s definitely a bit …

The Acer ConceptD 3 Ezel is a Creator-designated workstation with a flip-top touchscreen. Inside it uses relatively old technology, but is it still a good buy? Acer ConceptD 3 …

The MSI Katana GF76 (12th Gen) is the first high performance laptop we’ve seen to wield a 12th generation Intel processor. Naturally we were particularly keen to see how …

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 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 …

Not long ago we reviewed the MSI Sword which hit a very popular sweet spot between budget and performance. It was part of MSI’s GF range which is nominally …

We reviewed the 10th Gen Acer Predator Helios 300 a few months ago and noted that while it seemed under-powered for a company’s flagship gaming laptop, it still had …

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 …

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 …

In some ways MSI is great for consumers – offering a crazy number of gaming laptops for every type of gamer there is means there’s something for everyone. But …

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 …

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 …

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 …

MSI’s Prestige 14 laptop sits atop a varied heap, offering portability and premium performance in a pulchritudinous package. We’ve tried-out two colour varieties; a sober, Carbon Grey sandblasted aluminium …