The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

We’ve got the best cheap laptop for you, no matter your budget. The best cheap laptops for video editing, gaming, and more If you’re shopping for the best cheap laptop of 2021, the question to ask is: what’s most important, and what are you willing to sacrifice? Our pick for the best cheap laptop of 2021 is the HP Envy x360 13.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And with or without 5G, this isn’t a great laptop for $1,399 Lenovo’s Flex 5G has a lot to live up to as the world’s first 5G-enabled Windows 10 2-in-1 laptop. This is technically the world’s best 5G-ready laptop — only because there are currently no alternatives. No pressure. First, let’s start with 5G.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Microsoft’s newest Surface Laptop brings better battery life and a better chip On paper, the Surface Laptop 4 is a Surface Laptop 3 with better chips. Sure, there are differences here and there: the Laptop 4 is ever-so-slightly thinner, and there’s a new “Ice Blue” color option. The big changes are on the inside.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Perfection, for a price I have used a heck of a lot of laptops in the past year, and some of them are quite nice. But I’ve never touched a consumer laptop as gorgeous as the Spectre x360 14. as tested) the Spectre x360 is easily my new favorite 2-in-1 laptop. With a starting MSRP of $1,299.99 ($1,589.99

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

A gaming laptop that doesn’t cut too many corners The Razer Blade Pro 17 is far from an Ultrabook. Like its smaller counterparts in the Blade line, the Pro 17 is chic and professional, lacking the bells and whistles you might expect to see on a large gaming laptop. Even among gaming laptops, that’s… well, not great.)

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

USB-C, USB-A, audio jack on the left. I’m picky about touchpads, but this one is quite roomy, with a smooth Gorilla Glass surface — I’d choose it over plenty of touchpads I’ve used on multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops. Gen 1 Type-A, and a 3.5mm combination audio jack. My one disappointment was audio.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

An unremarkable laptop with a remarkable chip AMD has started a laptop revolution. There’s no doubt about it: the Ryzen 4000 series has brought exceptional performance to midrange ultraportable laptops — performance that previously cost an arm and a leg. You can fold the laptop flat but not all the way around.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

The best laptop under $1,000 This year’s HP Envy x360 is a big deal. It’s easily the best laptop under $1,000 that you can buy right now. AMD processors have mostly been fodder for budget and midrange laptops for the past few years. pen, though there’s no place on the laptop itself to store it when not in use.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

A top-notch convertible with a pricey sidecar If I saw the Asus ROG Flow X13 in the wild, I would never guess it was a gaming laptop. A 13-inch gaming laptop with those proportions isn’t unheard of, but it’s certainly unusual. It’s more than any number of excellent high-end gaming laptops cost. pounds and.62 62 inches thick.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2021

It can substitute for the 3.5mm audio cable that you’d normally plug into your favorite wireless headphones, immediately transforming them into a much better communication tool. In terms of mic audio quality, the BoomPro X certainly isn’t going to approach a proper podcasting setup or professional microphone.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Sony has added what it calls “Precise Voice Pickup technology” to the 1000XM4s, which optimizes audio processing from the five built-in microphones for clearer voice capture — and the difference is apparent. You don’t need to worry about missing a call if you’re absorbed in a movie or show on Netflix on your laptop.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Dell says the laptop’s screen is 5 percent larger than its predecessor’s, with a 92.9 The new XPS 15 has three USB-C ports as well as an SD-card reader, an audio jack, and a lock slot. The touchscreen, made of Corning Gorilla Glass 6, has a 3840 x 2400 resolution, one of the highest resolutions you’ll find on a consumer laptop.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Almost a great gaming gadget The $199 GTW 270 Hybrid earbuds from audio company EPOS are, to my knowledge, the first truly wireless earbuds made for gaming — but the buds themselves aren’t the biggest selling point. However, there is one problem: the microphones don’t work when you’re listening to audio via the USB-C receiver.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The lid, which had a red MSI logo on the GP65, is all black on the GP66, and the two raised ridges in the center of the GP65 that gave the laptop a distinctively “gamer” look are gone. That doesn’t mean this is the best-made laptop around. and an audio combo jack on the left and two Type-A USB 3.2 There’s one Type-C USB 3.2

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Remarkable tech for a steep price This laptop was a pain in the neck to review. As is often the case with premium, convertible business laptops, there are about a million different configurations with a variety of processors and other specs. pounds, I do find this laptop a bit too heavy to use as a tablet. pounds (1.5

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2021

Once your console is connected, you can hit record and chat through your microphone as you play, and the recording will pick up both game audio and your voice. But on Windows, it’ll let you play your games, but you can’t record footage or mic audio currently. Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s part of the Summit series, MSI’s first attempt to break into the premium business laptop space. It’s more expensive than many popular consumer laptops, but it’s still targeting the lower end of the premium business notebook space. Two USB-C, an HDMI, and an audio jack on the left. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2021

On a home-built desktop (Core i7-7700K, RTX 3060 Ti) and a 2017 Dell XPS 15 laptop (Core i7-7700HQ). Windows disqualified my 7th-gen laptop and forced me to do a clean install, though, so I did a dual-boot there.). Is there a reason why my audio devices are in a different place? On a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 laptop (Core i5-8250U).

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

If you squint, it’s a good laptop Lenovo’s Ideapad Flex 3 Chromebook is one of the tiniest Chromebooks I’ve ever used. Any laptop that costs that little is going to have some serious drawbacks — and the Flex 3 certainly does. Second, audio. Use the Flex 3 in laptop tent, stand, or tablet modes. It’s not too heavy, at 2.65

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Good sound quality and best-in-class noise cancellation come in an awkwardly big case Bose’s original true wireless earbuds, the SoundSport Free, sounded fantastic but were foiled by connectivity problems and audio / video sync issues that the company never fully resolved. Fifteen minutes of charging can give you two hours of playback time.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

I’m stepping in front of the laptop for Greg Kumparak this week, but don’t fret, he will be back soon. It’s a pretty common use case for most photography applications, which makes it all the harder to grok why Google went out of its way to make that experience worse.”. audio roundup. Now, let’s get to it.

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The Verge

MARCH 2, 2022

All the ports and all the power Once the domain of IT departments and corporate purchase orders, laptop docks have become an indispensable tool of the home office. And it takes just one cable to switch from portable laptop mode to desktop destroyer. First, a primer on laptop docks. CalDigit’s latest dock, the $359.95

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

A lightweight laptop with a sky-high price The Vaio Z is, speaking pragmatically, a proof of concept. Vaio says the Z is the first laptop to use contoured carbon fiber, though the 2012 Gigabyte X11 also claims an all-carbon fiber build.). pounds, the Vaio Z is the lightest laptop to include an Intel H-Series chip.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

I assumed that this gaming laptop would be fairly middle of the road, without many standout features to set it apart from the pack. This model is delivering better performance and better battery life than I’d expect to see from all kinds of gaming laptops that are hundreds of dollars more. On the left: two USB-A, one audio jack.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cutting through games like a hot Blade If you’re after a minimalist, dead-serious-looking gaming laptop, Razer’s Blade is still the one to get. Its aluminum-clad design looks more akin to Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 than a laptop that was made for gaming. Otherwise, this laptop is the physical manifestation of dark mode.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The UX425 is light for a 14-inch laptop at 2.49 percent less power than most laptop displays do. This is a clever idea (how often do you see a number pad on a 14-inch laptop?) Yep, there’s no audio jack; Asus nixed that for the UX425. The appeal of the ZenBook is in its portability. First, a quick ZenBook 14 crash course.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

A dream for workers and IT departments alike Dell’s Latitude line is the answer to Lenovo’s ThinkPad business notebooks , some of the best laptops on the market. There’s the Dell Optimizer program which (in theory) learns your behavior over time and tailors everything from audio quality to charging speed accordingly. Gen 1 Type-A.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2021

AMD helps bring OLED to the mainstream Seeing a laptop with an OLED screen at a sub-$1,000 price point is wild. But if there’s anyone I’d trust to make sub-$1,000 OLED happen, it’s Asus, one of the masters of affordable, portable laptops. Most unsurprisingly, the ZenBook 13 OLED dominated both of those laptops on battery life.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

I’m a fan of 3:2, and I’ve been happy to see more laptop models taking it up over the past year. Two USB-C, an HDMI, and an audio jack on the left. The first is that its audio is thin, and I heard a bit of distortion at maximum volume. I wouldn’t call it ugly, but it’s something that would fit in on a school laptop cart.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

That was an exciting time for laptops because it was the first generation of the Max-Q design, which brought about thinner and lighter gaming laptops than seen before. The laptop has dropped some weight, upped its specs, and brought a modern, matured design to the table. This laptop was made for gaming, so let’s get into that.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

The biggest thing you’ll probably notice, though, is that the laptop is taller. inch iPad Pro , is unusual to see on laptops. one 3.5mm audio jack, one SD card reader, an ethernet port, and a DC-in for power. This laptop can come with a 4K Mini LED 120Hz display or an FHD 360Hz display. No more logo in the center.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

It’s about the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, the best ultraportable gaming laptop ever made. But part of the appeal of a laptop with this form factor is that it could easily double as a driver for daily work or for messing around with friends on Zoom. One USB-C, one USB-A, and an audio jack on the left. The chassis is light (3.11

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2021

A business laptop with an extreme screen The ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 is a ThinkPad through and through. That, combined with its discrete GPU, puts the X1 Extreme Gen 3 out of the business laptop space that ThinkPads traditionally dominate and into the crowded market for ultraportable content-creation machines.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

But basically, the important things are: how easy it is to set up, audio, image quality, and price. And as for content, every projector I tested has an HDMI input, internal speakers, and also an audio output, so I was easily able to stream things by plugging in my Roku stick. Audio isn’t bad either. there’s a lot.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Elite Folio is a lightweight, leather-covered, convertible Windows laptop powered by a Snapdragon processor with Arm architecture. The Folio is a convertible laptop, but you have more than the usual tent, tablet, and clamshell options. I think this is the first laptop I’ve ever reviewed that I wish had slightly larger bezels.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

inch gaming laptop that puts form slightly too far ahead of function MSI’s Stealth 15M is a gaming laptop for people who’d prefer to keep their gaming habit a secret. A thin laptop crammed with powerful components can lead to higher temperatures, especially during gaming. A supremely lightweight 15.6-inch

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re looking for an affordable laptop alternative, Chromebooks are a great option to consider. Some are better suited toward basic work tasks, for example, while some of the higher-end models can even rival some of the best laptops you can buy. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. Read our review.

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