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Advanced guides and How-To articles on laptops and ultrabooks. These posts will help you pick the best laptop for your needs and budget, as well as show you how to improve the performance, thermals, battery life, and various other aspects of your computer.
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Here at Ultrabookreview.com, we’ve been testing and reviewing thin-and-light gaming laptops for more than 15 years now, of all kinds and from all major brands. Our experience allows us to help you choose the best portable gaming laptop (or gaming ultrabook) for your needs...
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If time has taught us anything, it should be that newer isn’t necessarily better. In the world of computing, it often means paying a significant premium to be a hardware beta tester. By buying an older used laptop (second-hand or refurbished/refreshed), you’re not just...
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Some of the thin-and-light notebooks available these days in stores are 2-in-1 laptops, or convertibles/hybrids, which means that they get some sort of rotating/detachable touchscreen and can be used as standard notebooks, as tablets, or something in between. These 2-in-1 laptops are not only...
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We’ve seen Thunderbolt ports on enthusiast computers for many years now, but these days Thunderbolt is becoming the port everyone wants on a new laptop, regardless of size, form-factor, or budget. While the original article discussed Thunderbolt 3 and 4 standards and notebooks, the...
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In this article, we’re discussing the lightest laptops and ultrabooks currently available in stores. A laptop’s overall weight is one of my main concerns when shopping for a highly portable computer, the kind I’ll constantly grab along to work or school or during my...
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While a few years ago the word “ultrabook” had not been even invented, today, ultrabooks are widespread and the kinds of portable thin-and-light computers many desire to get. But what is an ultrabook in 2026? How do you define this term and what sets...
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This article explains the specs and performance of the existing Intel Core i9 laptop platforms and provides a detailed list of all the portable, high-performance, and gaming Core i9 laptops still available in stores. We’re discussing latest-gen Intel 14th-gen Core i9 platforms launched in...
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In this article, we’re discussing the laptops available in stores with mini LED displays. There’s a good chance you’re already familiar with mini LED panels from televisions, where they’ve been available for several years. These mini LED displays are a more recent addition to...
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More and more OLED laptops are available in stores these days, of all sizes and kinds. In this article, I’m explaining the particularities of the OLED displays available on modern laptops, with their main selling points such as their beautiful immersive image quality and...
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This article explains the specs and performance of the existing AMD Ryzen 9 mobile platforms and provides a detailed list of all the AMD Ryzen 9 laptops available in stores as of 2024 (such as the latest models powered by AMD Zen4 Ryzen 9...
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This article serves to share my picks for some of the best SSDs as of early 2026. I will let you know which SSDs I finally purchased for myself after doing my research and why, but of course, keep in mind that these are...
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Looking for a good-value laptop and portable ultrabook and don’t plan to spend an arm and a leg for it? In this article, we’re going over the best budget laptops and ultrabooks that you can get for under 1000 USD (or EUR) these days,...
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These days, you’ll find a multitude of excellent thin, light, and fast ultraportable laptops in stores, but if the size and portability of your computer matter more than anything else to you, a mini laptop with an 11-inch, 10-inch, or even a smaller display...
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While you’ll find many excellent compact ultrabooks out there, some of you still favor full-size 15-inch or 14-inch laptops with larger screens and enough power to smoothly handle daily tasks, workloads, and even games. However, I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t say no to a...
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The latest update of this article provides a detailed list of all the AMD Ryzen 7 8840U and Ryzen 7 8840HS laptops available in stores as of mid 2024, as well as lists of previous generation AMD Ryzen 7 7840U, Ryzen 7 7735U, Ryzen...
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This is a complete list of creator and gaming laptops with high-resolution, high-refresh 4K displays, from 4K 120Hz up to 4K 240Hz as of this latest update. It includes the latest IPS, miniLED, and OLED panel options, among the different available implementations. Most gaming...
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This article explains why a high refresh-rate screen should be a must on your gaming laptop in this day and age, and also compiles for you a complete list of all the available notebooks equipped with 144Hz or the newer 240Hz, 360Hz, and 480Hz...
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If you’re like me, you like OLED as a display technology, but the potential for image retention (a.k.a. “burn-in”) concerns you in the long run. While OEMs such as MSI and Asus have their own special software to help address this issue, Dell does...
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Time to discuss the Nvidia RTX 4090 Laptop mobile graphics chip, the most powerful mobile dGPU option available so far in 2024 for high-performance gaming and work notebooks. The GeForce RTX 4090 is built on Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture, with updated CUDA processing cores,...
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This article tells my experience in finding a good powerbank for my laptop, something I could use as an external battery when needed. It also lists a few of the best such mobile power-banks I found in my research. Though removable batteries in laptops...
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AMD Ryzen platforms have been at the core of many good budget and mid-tier gaming laptops in recent years, but the narrative is further changing as of 2023, with the release of the AMD Ryzen 7000 H platforms. For the last few years, AMD...
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Kids are awesome, but shopping for kids can be difficult, especially in this increasingly complex and computerized world. If you’re in the market to buy your tyke or teen some new tech, we’re here to help; welcome to our shopping guide for kids’ tech!...
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In this article, we’ll go over my favorite student ultrabooks and lightweight laptops for school/college use, devices that can handle both work and play at the same time, without breaking your back or the bank for you. When I was in school, I lugged...
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This is a detailed guide on performance/gaming laptops built with modern AMD Radeon GPUs. While AMD processors have been a competitive choice on a multitude of modern laptops in recent years, AMD graphics cards have failed to win quality designs in the past. That,...
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This article should help many of you looking for a mid-range gaming and work laptop, as it takes an in-depth look at the two mainstream processors available right now (as of mid-2021 and later) from Intel and AMD, in the same chassis and same...
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review (GU405 2026 gen, Intel Panther Lake, RTX 5070Ti)
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review (gen 14 2026, Panther Lake Core Ultra, matte OLED)
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Lenovo Legion 7a review (2026 gen11, AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470, RTX 5060)
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Asus Zenbook S14 longer-term review (2026 UX5406AA, Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra 9 386H, OLED)
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Best Chromebook in 2026 – reviews, comparisons, buying guide
In this article, we’re going over our recommendations for the Best Chromebook and Chromebook Plus laptops available in 2026. I’m sure you already know what a Chromebook is by...
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