This section includes our guides and reviews on the available full-size laptops with 15.6-inch screens, or the larger 16-inch and 17-inch models. Most of the units covered in here are still fairly compact and portable, but more powerful than the standard ultrabooks. We also cover the available high-tier multimedia notebooks, the available full-size laptops with convertible screens and a large selection of gaming notebooks with powerful hardware, dedicated graphics, excellent screens, and specific designs and particularities.
This is our detailed review of the mid-2022 7th-generation update of the Lenovo Legion 5 series, in the Legion 5i variant built on 12th-gen Intel hardware and Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics. The Legion 5s are Lenovo’s offer in the mid-tier gaming segment, where most...
This article is my detailed review of the Asus TUF Dash F15 2022 generation, a portable and excellently priced RTX 3060 laptop meant for all-purpose daily use and gaming/school work. Last year Asus launched a controversial TUF Dash series of all-purpose laptops, 15-inch computers...
This is my detailed review of the LG Gram 17 series, a premium ultrabook with a full-size 17-inch display. There aren’t many such laptops out there, designed to bundle a large display in a portable and lightweight format. In fact, the Gram 17 is...
This is my review of the Acer Aspire 5 budget laptop, in a mid-tier well-balanced A515-57G configuration that bundles an Intel i7 processor with Nvidia MX550 graphics and an IPS screen. These are quite capable specs for an affordable laptop that I bought for...
I was especially interested in seeing what Dell managed to improve with the new Dell Inspiron 16, after testing and liking the AMD Inspiron model last year. Especially since they jumped on the 16:10 bandwagon and swapped out that 15” screen for a larger...
I bought the Dell XPS 15 9520 a few weeks ago, and have been using it ever since in order to gather my thoughts and impressions on this update, and share them with you in this review. The XPS 15 hasn’t changed much over...
This article is our detailed review of the highest-tier configuration of the 2022 Lenovo Legion 5i Pro series, with Intel 12th-gen i7-12700H + 32GB RAM + Nvidia RTX 3070Ti specs. I’ve already reviewed the mid-tier i7 + RTX 3060 configuration of the Legion 5i...
Having reviewed the entire range of 2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus laptops in the past months, I wanted to put up together a comparison of some of the most popular models in this lineup, something to help you easily navigate between them and make a...
This is my detailed review of the Asus ROG Flow X16 2-in-1 convertible gaming laptop. There’s no other similar device out there as of mid-2022, a convertible laptop able to marry under the same hood a fairly portable 16-inch format with modern and powerful...
Asus presented the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED some months ago, and in meantime, I’ve got to spend the last two weeks with a final model and I can share my thoughts and impressions with you. The laptop is not yet available in stores and...
This is our detailed review of the mid-2022 generation of the Lenovo Legion 7i, the top-tier performance and gaming laptop in the Lenovo Legion family. I’ve used this laptop for the last few weeks and gathered my thoughts and impressions down below. While not...
This is my detailed review of the LG Gram 16 series, a premium ultrabook with a full-size 16-inch display. I’ve already reviewed the 2022-generation of the LG Gram 17 in a previous article, and in this one, I’ll mostly focus on how the slightly...
This article shares my impressions of the Acer Swift Edge series, the (barely) lightest 16-inch laptop currently available on the market. This is a premium-tier daily-use computer aiming at the market share of devices such as the LG Gram 16 or the MSI Prestige...
This is our detailed review of the Lenovo Legion Slim 7i, the more compact and more portable all-purpose laptop in the Lenovo Legion family. I’ve used this laptop for the last few weeks and gathered my thoughts and impressions down below. Unlike the 2021...
The Asus ROG Flow X16 is probably the most anticipated laptop I’ve had to deal with in a long time, and it’s finally at my doorstep. I’ll admit, the Zephyrus S17 last year was very intriguing as well. But because Asus took so long...
This is my detailed review of the 2022 Asus ZenBook Pro 16X OLED premium performance notebook. You probably remember the ZenBook Pros of the past, premium-tier compact designs able to compete against the heavyweights in its niche. These past years, Asus mostly focused on...
This is our detailed review of the Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 series, a premium full-size laptop built on AMD Ryzen hardware and designed as a multi-purpose work/play companion. This Z16 doesn’t look like the other ThinkPads of the past years, and rather merges some ThinkPad...
This article is our detailed analysis of the 2022 Asus ROG Strix Scar 17, Asus’s full-size performance/gaming 17-inch laptop of this generation. The 2022 model builds on the chassis and design lines of the previous Scar 17 from 2021, so don’t expect significant changes...
This article gathers my first impressions of the 2022-generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold, the foldable laptop that Lenovo plans to offer in stores by the end of 2022. I’ve spent about an hour with a few pre-release versions of this 2nd generation ThinkPad X1...
This article is my review of the 2022 Asus ROG Zephyrus DUO 16 GX650, with impressions and results gathered while using this laptop over the last two weeks. My review unit is the top configuration available at this point, built on an AMD Ryzen...
The ROG Strix Scar 15 is Asus’s top-tier performance/gaming laptop, a full-size 15-inch laptop designed for an uncompromised experience in your workloads and games. I’ve spent the last few weeks with the 2022 Scar 15 update and I’ve gathered my impressions down below, going...
For the 2022 generation, Acer have significantly revamped their popular Predator Helios 300 lineup. In all honesty, this was in dire need of updates in order to regain its competitiveness in the mid-range segment of performance/gaming notebooks, which it topped at some point in...
This is my detailed review of the 2022 Lenovo Legion 5 Pro series, in the 5i Pro variant built on an Intel 12th gen platform with Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics. And AMD-based 5 Pro model is also available, and we’ll cover it in a...
This is my detailed review of the MSI Prestige 15 series of thin-and-lightweight all-purpose laptops. The Prestige 15 is a compact daily driver with a full-size 15-inch display and a total weight of just 1.7 kilos. It can handle everyday multitasking and casual use...
So, you’ve already maxed out your Dell XPS 15 with 32GB of DDR4 RAM and the best 1TB NVMe SSD for the money—now your Dell XPS 15 is as good as it gets, right? Nope, not yet! Without some hardware and software tweaks, your...
Last year, the Lenovo Legion 7 lineup offered some of the better full-performance and gaming laptops of the generation, and now Lenovo have updated the 2022 Legion 7 models in a couple of important ways. Let’s start with what matters. Unlike in 2021, this...
Back in the days, Asus used to offer lineups of full-size ROG laptops built on the most powerful hardware specs available at the time, but they stopped doing it in the last few years once the ROG G703 series was no longer updated. That’s...
Asus’s ROG Flow family of gaming ultraportable laptops just received a new member as of mid-2022, with the ROG Flow X16 GV601. This is not as compact as the 13-inch Flow X13 and Flow Z13 available so far, as it is a 16-inch computer,...
I’ve been busy with reviews the past few months and barely get to enjoy my new Zephyrus G14. But this month, I got to play with the new Razer Blade 15 2022 model, so I’m pretty happy about that, mainly because the Blade 15...
We reviewed the Legion Slim 7 last year and concluded it required some serious updates in order to remain a competitive alternative for the portable performance designs out there, and here enters that awaited update, the 2022 generation of the Legion Slim 7 series....