Laptop
The best laptop power banks for 2025
If you travel or sometimes work away from your desk, a laptop power bank may come in handy. These larger portable chargers pack enough power to refill a phone multiple times, a tablet a couple times over and get most laptops from near-dead to work-ready in around an hour. Over the past few years, I’ve…
I tried Acer’s first Chromebook with an NPU: AI features aside, it’s just a nice budget laptop
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsAcer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 specs and availabilityAcer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 designAcer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 performanceWho should get the Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514? Acer is upgrading one of its premium convertible Chromebooks with more AI prowess. Announced today at IFA 2025 in Berlin, the…
Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus review: An affordable laptop disguised as a premium gem
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsLenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus price and specs I love when a laptop looks way more expensive than it isA plain old, decent displayA great array of portsRefreshingly crisp, full-bodied audioA well-spaced, comfortable keyboardThe Flex 5i’s webcam is just like most laptop webcams Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus benchmarks…
I Tested the Asus ProArt P16 Laptop and It Delivers the Goods for Creators
9.0/ 10 SCORE Asus ProArt P16 Pros Gorgeous 16-inch, 4K OLED touchscreen Strong component lineup, including RTX 5070 GPU Slim and light given the size and what’s under the hood DialPad controller on touchpad is useful Cons Runs hot and loud 3D frame rates are good but not great Display bezels are a bit thick…
Dell Premium 14 review: New name, same great laptop
Every now and then companies make truly boneheaded decisions, which is exactly and replaced it with something generic. It’s like if Ford decided to rebrand Mustang and call it The Prime Sportscar instead. It doesn’t make sense. But now that XPS has become Premium, it’s time to see if Dell’s latest flagship 14-inch ultraportable —…
Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition review: A solid business laptop with some quirks
Step aside, old boy. The ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition is making me forget all about the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the most renowned business laptop for over a decade. Of course, Lenovo isn’t doing away with the X1 Carbon, but the X9 series certainly seems like the company’s experimental project for the same premium category. It’s…
Best Cheap Laptop for 2025 – Budget Computers Under $500
There are a ton of models for less than $1,000 on the market at any given moment, and a large fraction of those are less than $500. As long as you manage your expectations regarding options and specs, you can still get quite a bit from a budget laptop model, including good battery life and…
The dream of a Raspberry Pi laptop becomes a reality — ArgonOne Up Review
Why you can trust Tom’s Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Argon40 is no stranger to the Raspberry Pi community or Tom’s Hardware. Its most recent foray was the Argon One V5 case, a…
Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025) review: a well-rounded gaming laptop
Why you can trust Tom’s Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. We’ve seen a ton of top-of-the-line gaming laptops that break the bank this year. But now we’re finally seeing some premium rigs with…
Best Hard Drives 2025: Top Picks for Laptop, NAS, Desktop and More
Are you the one who thinks that an HDD hard drive or, some might still say, a mechanical hard drive is a story of a long-gone era but still looking for the best hard drive? The conventional HDD might feel like ancient tech, but it is valuable where you need more space in less amount….