In-depth laptop reviews, buying guides, and expert comparisons to help you choose the right device for your needs and budget.
A numeric keypad needs deck width, so it turns up on 15.6- and 16-inch machines and disappears from 13-inch ones. Screen size is a proxy for it, not a guarantee: of the seven picks below, the 15.6-inch Acer, the Dell 16 and the ThinkPad E16 all have one, while a 16-inch Samsung convertible in the … Read more
Search “best laptop with a DVD drive” in 2026 and the list comes back short. BGR’s 2026 roundup of laptops you can still buy with a built-in CD/DVD drive names five, and four of them are older models — an HP ZBook 17 G5, a Dell Inspiron 15 5000, a Fujitsu LifeBook A3511 and a … Read more
Microsoft sells the 13-inch Flex Keyboard as its own product, and retail listings for the Snapdragon X2 Elite Surface Pro are labeled “Device Only” — the advertised price buys a tablet. ASUS answers the same question the opposite way: on Best Buy’s product Q&A, ASUS states the ROG Flow Z13 box contains the device, the … Read more
A client sits down, describes what they want, and you need to sketch it live — adjust the linework while they watch, resize it to fit the placement they’re pointing at, then get a clean stencil printed before they change their mind. That moment is what actually decides which device makes sense, more than any … Read more
Siemens’ own documentation lists 8GB of RAM as the minimum for TIA Portal. That’s not the hard part of choosing a laptop for PLC programming — the hard part is that generic laptop advice completely misses the two things that matter here: whether your CPU throttles under sustained compilation loads, and how you’re going to … Read more
Verisk’s system requirements page puts both Xactimate desktop and Xactimate Online on Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Online is the part that surprises people: it runs through Chrome, Firefox or Edge, but it installs a ClickOnce browser extension and the operating system requirement does not change, so it is not a way onto a Mac. … Read more
A product listing records whether a keyboard is backlit. It does not record how far the keys travel, whether a keycap rocks when a finger lands off center, or how the deck feels three hours into a draft. Those are the properties a writer notices first, and they surface only in reviews that bother to … Read more
EVE Online’s published minimum is a dual-core 2.0GHz CPU, 4GB of RAM and a GeForce 420 with 1GB of VRAM — figures CCP has left in place while the game passed its twentieth year. Most “best gaming laptop” lists for EVE aim far above that, at hardware built for demanding modern titles rather than a … Read more
The property a wireless audit depends on isn’t printed on any specification sheet. Aircrack-ng’s driver documentation states the position: with an in-kernel mac80211 driver, “chances are, monitor mode is supported. Injection may or may not be supported.” Monitor mode is the easy half. Injection is what decides whether a machine can run a deauthentication or … Read more
Citrix’s system requirements page for the Workspace app on Windows lists a minimum of 2 GB of RAM. The same page carries a line that decides more purchases than any specification on it: “Citrix Workspace app for Windows is supported only in emulator mode on the Windows ARM64 operating system.” Platform support narrows this category … Read more