The Best Laptops, Based On Hours Of Testing

We enlisted a dozen testers to put 18 laptops through rigorous testing. These are the best laptops based on performance, ...
PCMag

I Tested Intel's Flagship 'Panther Lake' Laptop Chip: The Graphics Are the Real Upgrade

A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated ...

How we test laptops at ZDNET in 2026

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I was one of the first to test Lenovo's new Legion Pro rollable laptop — I'm as impressed as I am skeptical

Lenovo brings a new expandable gaming laptop to the scene, but will it ever see production?

The 11 best Windows laptops for 2026

The Acer Swift Go 16 is perfect for any user who wants a well-specced, fairly priced Windows laptop with a large, vivid OLED ...

Framework Laptop 16 (AMD) review: I’m obsessed with both the concept and the laptop

Planned obsolescence? She doesn’t even go here.
Ars Technica

Review: New Framework Laptop 16 takes a fresh stab at the upgradeable laptop GPU

Even in these days of mostly incremental, not-too-exciting GPU upgrades, the graphics card in a gaming PC or graphics-centric workstation will still feel its age faster than your CPU will. And the ...

I ditched my laptop charger for a day of travel, work and gaming with Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip and still had 18% battery life left when I got home

Gaming laptop battery life is, by and large, rubbish. Or rather, trying to use a gaming-capable machine for a full day of work without charging it is, err, rubbish. I've hauled many discrete ...