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Best ultrabook and portable lightweight laptop in 2025

Here at Ultrabookreview.com, we’ve reviewed hundreds of ultrabooks and portable lightweight laptops over the last 15 years, of all kinds and from all brands. In this guide, I’ll tell you which are our favorite portable notebooks right now, to...

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Best gaming ultrabook (thin-and-light gaming laptop) in 2025

Here at Ultrabookreview.com, we’ve been testing and reviewing thin-and-light gaming laptops for...

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Best 15-inch and 14-inch lightweight portable laptops in 2025

While you’ll find many excellent compact ultrabooks out there, some of you...

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15 Best budget laptops under $1000 in 2024 (good value)

Looking for a good-value laptop and portable ultrabook and don’t plan to...

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Best 2-in-1 ultrabook and compact laptop in 2025

Some of the thin-and-light notebooks available these days in stores are 2-in-1...

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  • Dell Chromebook 5190 reviewed – what to expect

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    Dell introduced a new Chromebook — the Chromebook 5190 – which promises 10 hours of battery life and Android app support. Chromebooks are affordable laptops and a good choice for students and users with basic needs from a computer due to how easy they...

  • Asus Zenbook Pro 15 UX550GD / UX550GE – Core i9, GTX 1050 Ti and 4K screens

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    The 15-inch Asus Zenbook Pros have been some of the most popular thin-and-light premium laptops of 2017, alongside the Dell XPS 15, the Lenovo Yoga 720 and Yoga 730, and perhaps the HP Omen 15. With the launch of the Intel Coffee Lake hardware platform in early April...

  • REVIEW: Asus ROG Strix GL703GS SCAR Edition – i7-8750H, GTX 1070 and 17-inch screen with GSync

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    In this article we’ve gathered our impressions on the updated 2018 model of the Asus ROG Strix SCAR Edition GL703GS. That’s a mouthful, in Asus’s “good” tradition, but this laptop is definitely interesting as a powerful 17-inch gaming machine with the latest hardware features...

  • ASUS VivoBook 15 X560UD / K560UD review (Core i5-8250U, Nvidia GTX 1050)

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    This article is about an all-round laptop that combines solid everyday performance, gaming abilities, a 15-inch screen, a compact form-factor and a great price: the Asus VivoBook 15 X560UD (or K560UD in some regions). It’s built on Intel Core U hardware and an Nvidia...

  • What to look for in an ultraportable gaming laptop in 2018

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    A few years ago gaming laptops were bulky, heavy, expensive and couldn’t even get close to the performance of a regular PC, but a lot has changed in the meantime. These days the market offers not only powerful desktop replacements, but also a very...

  • Asus TUF FX504 review (FX504 GE – i7, GTX 1050Ti) – affordable and tough gaming laptop

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    The niche for full-size laptops under $1000 able to handle 1080P gaming with ease is highly competitive as of 2018, with most OEMs offering at least one unit in this segment. The competition drives down prices and at the same time, drives up the overall quality...

  • Is the XPS 15 9575 2-in-1 faster than the XPS 15 9560? Yes, no, and maybe.

    The XPS 15 2-in-1 9575 is newer than the XPS 15 9560, but is it faster?
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    Take a look at the r/Dell sub-reddit and one of the most common questions you’ll see being asked whether one should upgrade from the XPS 15 9560 to the new XPS 15 9575 2-in-1. Naturally, one of the main factors influencing this decision is...

  • Why I’m not buying the new XPS 15 9570

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    Irony update (10/5/2018): After Dell cancelled my 9575 order no less than four times, I will indeed be shamelessly buying a 9570 from a reseller (HIDEvolution). My full review of the XSP 9570 is available over here.  It’s no secret that the XPS 15...

  • Lenovo Yoga 920-13IKB Glass Vibes review (Core i7-8550U, Intel UHD 620)

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    The Lenovo Yoga 920 is one of the better convertible ultraportables available in stores as of the Spring of 2018, and we’ve talked about it in a previous article. It’s very well built, it packs an excellent display with Pen support, a nice keyboard,...

  • Acer Predator Triton 700 PT715-51 review – the GTX 1060 configuration

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    As many of you are probably already aware, Acer launched their Predator Triton 700 series laptop several months back.  It boasted having a near desktop gaming experience in a thin and light laptop by squeezing a Max-Q GTX 1080 into a chassis only ¾”...

  • Lenovo IdeaPad 720s review – a solid all-round thin-and-light laptop

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    If you’re after a portable all-round laptop and you’ve got around $1000 / 1000 EUR to spend, the Lenovo IdeaPad 720s should be on your list. We’ve spent some time with it in the last weeks and gathered all our impressions below, with the...

  • Portable laptops with Nvidia GeForce MX150 (mobile GT 1030) graphics – benchmarks included

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    This article explains what to expect from laptops with Nvidia MX150 graphics chips, as well as provide a complete list of portable devices equipped with these chips. The Nvidia GeForce MX150 is a discrete graphics chip based on the Nvidia Pascal architecture, primarily meant for ultrabooks...

  • The Intel Coffee Lake (8th gen) hardware platform for laptops – what to expect

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    As of April 3rd 2018 Intel unveiled the revised Coffee Lake hardware platform and in this article we’ll talk about what this means for the world on notebooks for the rest of 2018 and the first part of 2019. You should know that this launch...

  • Asus ROG Strix SCAR Edition GL503VS review – GTX 1070 & 144Hz GSync display

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    There are a lot of good gaming laptops out there, but this article is about one of those than stand out of the crowd: the Asus ROG GL503VS, also known as the ROG Strix Scar Edition. The GL503 is Asus’s latest series of mid-range...

  • Asus ROG Strix GL503VD reviewed – what to expect and what changed from the GL502/GL553 models

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    Back at IFA 2017 Asus announced an update for the mid-range ROG Strix gaming line: the GL503 and GL703 series. Given the previous GL502s and GL702s were some of the most popular laptops in their niche, the new generation attracts a lot of interest from...

  • Asus NovaGo TP370QL – Windows 10 on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 platform

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    For the last years Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms have been an important part of most high-end smartphones and tablets out there, but as of late 2017 Qualcomm and Microsoft unveiled the first Windows 10 commercial products built on Snapdragon hardware. I’m not going to get...

  • Dell Inspiron Gaming 7577 reviewed – $999 GTX 1060 MQ gaming laptop

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    For the last two years, the Dell Inspiron Gaming line has been one of the best series of mid-range gaming laptops you could get, with solid traits and an excellent price (especially for those of you living in the US). The latest iteration in the...

  • Acer Swift 5 SF514-52T review – a modern and extremely light ultrabook

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    The Swift 5 is Acer’s classic “ultrabook”: a compact clamshell laptop with a compact and light construction, modern hardware, an IPS touchscreen, a backlit keyboard and overall no major compromises. As of late 2017 Acer updated the series with the SF514-52T model, a follow-up...

  • Acer Spin 1 SP111-32N review – premium build, average experience

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    A few years ago netbooks were highly popular, as light, compact and inexpensive laptops you could easily lug around to school or work. They weren’t very well crafted though and didn’t perform that well either, so eventually faded away. These days there are still a...

  • Acer Switch 5 SW512-52 review – fast, fanless and affordable Windows tablet

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    If you’re interested in the Microsoft Surface Pro, you should also check out the product covered in this article, the Acer Switch 5 SW512-52. Much like the Surface Pro, this one is a Windows tablet with a similar form factor, a kick-stand on the...

  • Lenovo IdeaPad 520s-14IKB review – mid-range modern ultraportable

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    Let’s say you’re in the market for a compact all-round laptop able to handle daily activities and tackle a few casual games as well. You don’t want a full-size computer, but rather something smaller and lighter, yet at the same time your budget is...

  • Asus Zenbook UX550VE review (i7-7700HQ, GTX 1050 Ti) and how it compares to the Zenbook UX550VD

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    A few weeks ago I published an article about the Asus Zenbook UX550VD, a much awaited addition to the premium 15-inch laptop segment and alternative to the Dell XPS 15, the  Lenovo Yoga 720 15 and the newer Yoga 730 and ThinkPad X1 Extreme. However, the UX550VE variant...

  • Asus Chromebook Flip C302CA review – an excellent premium 2-in-1 Chromebook

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    This article is about the Asus Chromebook C302CA, still one of the best Chromebooks available in stores these days. Unlike most Chromebooks, this one is more expensive, selling for between $470 to $650 depending on the configuration you choose. And that’s because it’s nicer...

  • Asus Zenbook 13 UX331UN review – Core i5-8250U, Nvidia MX150

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    The second half of 2017 is finally the right time to buy an all-round ultra-portable laptop that can handle standard everyday activities such as browsing, movies or music, but also games, graphics editing, and some other more demanding chores. And that’s because Intel has...

  • Acer Spin 5 SP513-52N review – KabyLake-R Core i5-8250U hardware in a modern convertible

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    The Acer Spin 5 is one of the best-buy convertibles available in stores, as an overall good product with an affordable price tag. There’s more about it in our review. As of the Fall of 2017 Acer updated it with a new generation, the Spin 5...

  • Intel Core i5-8250U (Kaby Lake-R, 8th generation) benchmarks and impressions

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    As of late August 2017 Intel announced the first quad-core eight-thread platform designed for ultra-portable computers. The CPUs in this line are sold as 8th generation processors, although in reality they are an update of the 7th generation hardware line and are called Kaby...

  • Asus ROG Strix GL702ZC review and impressions – the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 laptop

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    If you’re interested in a laptop that won’t break the bank for you and can handle complex multi-core loads like very few other notebooks available as of August 2017 can, the Asus ROG Strix GL702ZC should be of interest. It looks like a standard 17-inch laptop, perhaps a...

  • Intel KabyLake-R (8th gen) portable laptops and ultrabooks – the complete list

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    The vast majority of ultraportable laptops available in the last years have been built on Intel Core U hardware-platforms, with options for dual-core processors with or without HyperThreading. And while the Kaby Lake hardware generation provides solid performance for everyday tasks like browsing and...

  • Asus ZenBook Flip S UX370UA review – the vanity 2-in-1 laptop

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    2-in-1 thin-and-light laptops have been around for a few years now and they’ve got to the point where they can meet most expectations, with few to no compromises. Most of them are still fairly heavy to hold and use in tablet mode, which is the...

  • Aorus x7 DT v7 review – the somewhat portable 17-inch GTX 1080 laptop to buy

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    After my disappointment with the Aorus x5 MD, my sights got set back on the Aorus x7 DT v7.  I actually became interested with this laptop after hearing how good the v6 model was, a couple months back.  Unfortunately, the v7 was heavily delayed...

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