Laptops

Despite ample processing power and a reasonable price, the Split X2 is overweight and lacking in refinement

HP Chromebook 14 review: HP’s follow-up to the HP Pavilion Chromebook promises better battery life and improved overall performance

Lenovo’s double-jointed hybrid, the Yoga 11S, is tantalisingly close to the best of both worlds, but there’s room for improvement

Sony successfully revamps its budget laptop range – what the Fit 15E lacks in build quality it more than makes up for with all-round ability

The Samsung Series 9 has long been the jewel in the Korean company’s crown, and has set the standard for thin and light laptops for the last two years. Scores in depthThe Series 9 was in effect the…

This hybrid laptop and tablet boasts a massive 15 hour battery and a pressure sensitive stylus, but does it justify the pricetag?

Gigabyte U2442V Laptop review: Gigabyte U2442V review: A surprisingly impressive 1.6kg ultrabook with dedicated Nvidia graphics good enough for gaming.

Recommended award The Gigabyte P25 is the new bread and butter in Gigabyte’s lineup of gaming portables, cutting a nice line between the more sizeable 17-inch and it’s slimline Ultrabook partner.

This is a sleek ultrabook with a quality chassis and great processing power for the asking price. But until HP decides to put some effort into the screen and audio—which, after all, are some of the…

Inside the VivoBook X202E’s pleasing exterior with its varied connectivity hides a computer with too low processing power to compete with ultrabooks and other laptops that carry an Intel Core i3. The…

The HP EliteBook Folio 9470m falls into the same trap as so many other laptops: it has good processing power, the body is well built and the battery life is more than sufficient, but the screen is of…

A bold, dual-screened vision of the convertible tablet, but ergonomic niggles and mediocre battery life see it fall short of the mark

It’s compact, it’s cute and it’s weird. But it might be your perfect netbook. Google’s Chromebook family isn’t apt to ever be an end-all solution — particularly for those that aren’t married to the…

Not without issues, but the cheaper price and Radeon-powered gaming performance make this a reasonable Ultrabook alternative

The Samsung RF710-S03UK is one of the more expensive Samsung Blu-ray laptops, but the impressive specification offers good value for money. As with the Acer Aspire Ethos 8943G , a quad-core Intel…

Gorgeous, expensive and exasperating in equal measure, and yet still desirable despite its myriad faults

The A150’s key advantage is the amount of room it has on its hard drive and the good data transfer speeds it has for getting data on and off it. Unfortunately, it’s weaker in other areas, including…

Better known for its high-end desktop gaming machines, Alienware also makes gaming laptops. The Area-51 m9750 (£2600 inc. VAT) boasts a high specification within a relatively compact chassis. The…