LAPTOP Editors

When you're investing in a gaming laptop, the brand matters as much as the specs and features. We've evaluated the top ten gaming laptop brands to see who is the best.

MSI knows how to make a gaming laptop. Over the past year, the company pumped out ridiculously colorful displays embedded between sexy, slim and intimately thick designs, and each laptop is outfitted ...

Acer's had a strong year in gaming, because it made bold design choices and offered good options at every price. Its massive Predator 21 X wowed everyone who saw the machine's curved screen, and the c...

Razer slips into fourth place thanks to the Razer Blade 15, with its retro but funky design, and a suite of notebooks with gorgeous displays and keyboards. The Razer Blade Pro earned a near-perfect 4....

The gaming laptop space is nothing if not competitive, so it was not a shock to see Alienware fall from the top spot in our brand rankings to second place. Dell's sub-brand still delivers gobs of powe...

Editor’s Note: We have updated some sections of Asus’ report to reflect newly discovered information regarding its displays, warranty policy, and other features.After a respectable fourth-place finish...

HP's gaming notebooks had a good, if not exactly thrilling year. Highlights included two Editors' Choice awards, for the company's Omen 15 and 17 laptops, which saw a new design language. Those laptop...

Both Gigabyte and Aorus produced some solid all-arounders over the past year. With their vibrant displays and thin bezels, innovative mechanical keyboards, and helpful gaming software, Aorus and Gigab...

When it comes to laptops, Origin PC is more about quality than quantity. While we reviewed only two laptops from the boutique PC maker (the Eon 17-X and Eon 15-S) this past year, both systems earned o...

When it comes to premium laptops like the XPS 13, Dell is definitely a heavy hitter. But when it comes to entry-level gaming systems, the company has work to do.The company placed last in this year's ...

Despite making some key improvements over the past year, Lenovo remains near the bottom of the pack for gaming. The powerful and premium Legion Y920 is one of the best gaming laptops we've reviewed in...

Acer recently revealed a small army of laptops covering a range of uses, including gaming, education and multitasking. But which laptop should you choose? While we wait for pricing and launch dates, h...

They say that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, but Qualcomm's just-announced Snapdragon 850 processor could change the way you look at ARM-powered Windows machines. The new pl...

Long gone are the days of staring into space while you're sitting on the john. Like it or not, our smartphones and tablets have become bathroom companions, keeping us company as we take those ever-imp...

Maybe you're annoyed that they're no longer the underdog. Or maybe you prefer the openness of Android and Windows to Apple's walled garden. Or maybe you despise that people line up around the block to...

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is finally upon us! E3 is one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world, and a prime opportunity for companies to premiere their latest software and console tech...

Laptops get faster and thinner every year, but in 2016, a number of groundbreaking technologies changed the way people interact with their computers. From a completely flat keyboard that transforms in...

Add a column. Insert clip art. Track changes. Execute a mail merge. Those are just a few of the classic tools available across the many generations of Microsoft Word. The world's most popular document...

Special features such as QuickRemote and Video Wiz separate LG from some other brands. Sadly, below-average camera performance and design prevented this brand from earning a higher score. The Optimus ...

Android beat iOS to the punch when it comes to tabbed browsing, and it offers other such goodies as an incognito mode for anonymous surfing and the ability to sync bookmarks with Chrome. Find out more...

The tech world has gathered in Barcelona for the biggest mobile tradeshow on earth, and we're here getting hands-on time with the hottest new products from smartphones to laptops. Here are our top sto...

Android's Ice Cream Sandwich operating system isn't available for tablets (or many smartphones, for that matter), but there's still plenty every slate user can do with their device—from making video...

While Android phones use a drop-down menu to display notifications, Honeycomb tablets take a different approach. Learn all about it below.See NotificationsLook at the bottom right of the screen to se...

Say what you will about the world's most-used presentation software, but PowerPoint 2013 is an indispensable tool for business presenters and amateur slideshow makers alike. First, its interface shore...