Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 2
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 ($1,575. 40) offers something a little different than your standard small-business laptop experience. That’s thanks to a second, power-sipping E Ink display on the exterior of the case that complements the main screen.…Read more
Lenovo Yoga 6 (13-Inch)
The 13-inch Lenovo Yoga 6 (starts at $649. 99; $949. 99 as tested) looks unassuming, but it represents a strong overall package. Our configuration of this convertible laptop is reasonably priced for a Ryzen 7 CPU with 16GB of memory, delivering good all-around performance, especially for less than $1,000.…Read more
XPG Xenia 15 KC
XPG gaming products have been hit or miss in our experience so far, as the fledgling offshoot of Taiwanese component maker ADATA ramps up its portfolio. From the able-bodied XPG Xenia 14 laptop to the good-enough XPG Mage keyboard, the products we’ve seen are increasingly solid efforts from an emerging, rising brand. The XPG Xenia…
HP ZBook Studio G8
What do you get when you cross a mobile workstation with a gaming laptop? The HP ZBook Studio G8 (starts at $1,894; $4,488 as tested) is often ordered with one of Nvidia’s formerly-known-as-Quadro professional GPUs, but is also available with Nvidia gaming graphics like our test unit’s GeForce RTX 3070, and its keyboard has RGB…
The Best Dell Laptops for 2022
If you’re shopping for a laptop, you have torrent of options to choose among, be it a thin mobile companion or a hefty, rugged notebook, with a vast range of options in between. Where even to start? Sometimes the easiest thing to do is to narrow down your options based on what you know. And sometimes that’s…
The Best Battery Life Laptops for 2022
How long a laptop lasts on its internal battery is one of the most important considerations for PC shoppers. Business travelers and students are often at the mercy of their computer’s remaining juice, since so many conference rooms, aircraft, and lecture halls are woefully short on accessible power outlets. Just a few years ago, it was necessary…
Acer Aspire Vero
At both the packaging and product levels, sustainability and environmental awareness are more prominent than ever in the tech world: ocean plastics, recyclable boxes, metals on their second life. Acer is the latest company to embrace eco-friendly design in its laptops with the Aspire Vero (starts at $699, $899 as tested), a 15-inch laptop partly…
Samsung Galaxy A42 5G
While it launched globally in 2020, the Samsung Galaxy A42 5G is only just now arriving stateside. Sandwiched between the $279. 99 Galaxy A32 5G and the $499. 99 Galaxy A52 5G, the $399.…Read more
The Best Verizon Phones for 2021
We put dozens of phones a year through rigorous testing in PC Labs to find out which ones live up to their ad copy and which are just phoning it in. If you’re buying a phone on Verizon right now, these are the best you can get. Verizon fell to third place in our Fastest…
The Best T-Mobile Phones for 2021
For the first time ever, T-Mobile is America’s Fastest Mobile Network. Our 2021 drive tests took us to 30 cities and traveled 10,000 miles, and we found that T-Mobile’s mid-band 5G network is the only 5G that makes a difference right now. If you haven’t gotten on the T-Mobile 5G train, it is definitely time…
