Notebooks

Reviews and buying advice.

Top rated notebooks

We list our top rated notebooks for the month, ranging from Ultrabooks to gaming units

Top rated Ultrabooks: February 2012

Our top rated Ultrabooks for February 2012

Top rated Ultrabooks: January 2012

Our top rated Ultrabooks for January 2012

Top rated laptops: January 2012

Our 10 top rated notebooks for January 2012

Top rated laptops of 2011

With over 70 laptops reviewed this year, here are our 20 top-rated models

Latest Reviews

Toshiba KIRA Ultrabook review

Toshiba's KIRA offers everything we want in an Ultrabook, we just wish it wasn't so loud

Lenovo ThinkPad Helix convertible Ultrabook

The Helix is the best tablet product to choose if you want an excellent keyboard dock

Gigabyte U2442F Extreme notebook

Gigabyte has designed an Ultrabook that allows you to do a lot more than just browse the Web and compose emails

Toshiba Satellite P870 notebook

A 17.3in notebook with lots of style and plenty of speed, but it could use improvements in some areas

Medion Akoya E6232 (MD 99222) notebook

This 15.6in notebook has good speed and features for its $499 price tag, and also some expected design issues

Dell Inspiron 17R notebook

A big laptop that's perfect for anyone who wants a basic desktop replacement computer

Acer Aspire V5 touchscreen laptop

Don't be put off by the Pentium; this laptop actually goes alright

Toshiba Satellite P840 touchscreen notebook

Toshiba's 14in touchscreen notebook has lots of storage space and good performance, but falls short in a few key areas

Acer C710 (Q1VZC) Chromebook review

A small and inexpensive laptop for the Google generation

Samsung Series 9 laptop review (15in)

The Series 9 is the type of laptop you should consider if you want something functional, yet stylish

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PCW Tech Blogs

How to perform a memory upgrade on the HP 2133/2140 Mini-Note PC

Give the HP Mini-Note PC a new lease on life with a memory upgrade

Notebook memory upgrade: Toshiba Satellite A300

Here's how to upgrade the memory in a Satellite A300 laptop.

Adding Memory to old laptops: Lenovo ThinkPad Z60m

Lenovo made you remove the palm rest in order to get to the ThinkPad Z60m's memory slots.

Latest Articles

Article | 9/05/2013 Airbus provides paperless flight data to pilots with Dell

Airbus has partnered with Dell to provide electronic flight bag (EFB) systems for A320 airliner operators worldwide.

Article | 8/05/2013 Toshiba's luxurious Ultrabook: KIRA

Toshiba has just shown off its KIRA Ultrabook, which is a premium Windows 8 Pro-based laptop aimed at users who want something more than a standard, c...

Article | 7/05/2013 Intel introduces Silvermont, the future of smartphones and tablets

A few days before the Computex trade show in Taiwan, Intel has announced the launch of a new processor architecture, called Silvermont, designed to be...

Article | 2/05/2013 Intel lifts the veil on Haswell graphics

Intel is clearly tired of Nvidia and AMD kicking sand in its face when it comes to graphics performance. The company has had a talented GPU engineerin...

Article | 2/05/2013 New Chromebooks coming this year from Asus and Acer, report suggests

Hard on the heels of the news that the Linux kernel itself has now added Chromebook support, other reports this week suggest that the ongoing populari...

Article | 2/05/2013 Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost

Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already re...

Article | 29/04/2013 Intel starts countdown clock for next-gen Haswell chips

In just a few weeks, Intel's one-chip-fits all family of core processors will finally meet Microsoft's one-design-fits all operating system, Windows 8...

Article | 25/04/2013 Windows Blue won't solve all Microsoft's problems, analysts say

"Windows 8 sucks because Windows 8 apps suck", said analyst Michael Cherry, not mincing words. "And there's nothing in all these rumors of Windows Blu...

Article | 18/04/2013 Product snapshot: Toshiba KIRA, a high-resolution luxury Ultrabook

Toshiba has unveiled the KIRA Ultrabook, which is described as being the company's first "high resolution premium Ultrabook". It's a 13.3in Ultrabook ...

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