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...

Not known as a top-tier smartphone maker in the United States, Sony’s middle-of-the-road performance in reviews, user interface, special features and battery life resulted in a ho-hum sixth-place fi...

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...

A company cannot come in dead last for its smartphone reviews, battery life and displays and expect to do well overall, as BlackBerry can attest. The company previously known as RIM has had a tough ye...

If CES is any indicator of the year to come, 2016 will be the year of the laptop. At this year's show, we saw more than three dozen new systems, many with innovative features such as eye-popping OLED ...

The Recent Apps button on Android Honeycomb tablets makes it a breeze to switch between open programs by presenting live thumbnail views of what’s running. Even better, tablets running Android 3.1 a...

You don't have to look far to find examples of unnecessary Internet use. From smart phone-wielding urbanites texting on every street corner to college students glued to Facebook in the library, connec...

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 ...