Apple MacBook Pro 13 (Intel, 2020) review: The hobbyist
The latest 13-inch MacBook Pro features updated processors, a revamped keyboard, and some confusing configurations. So, does it earn in its pro designation?
Microsoft Surface Book 3 review: Graphics unleashed
Microsoft's most adventurous laptop, the Surface Book 3, has been upgraded with extra power under the hood. Is that enough to keep this aging design fresh?
Asus ZenBook Duo review: Two screens, four cores, and $1,500
The Asus ZenBook Duo takes great advantage of its ScreenPad 2.0, a second display that offers some real advantages to creative users and multitaskers.
Microsoft Surface Go 2 review: The awkward teenager
The Surface Go 2 makes marginal steps toward being a true iPad competitor, but is it enough to grow out of its awkward teenager phase? Sadly, the answer is no.
Acer Swift 3 (2020) review: An 8-core Ryzen laptop for $650
The Acer Swift 3 now comes in a Ryzen 4000 edition, and it just might be the most powerful budget laptop ever made. Our review walks you through the highlights.
HP Elite Dragonfly review: Traveling first-class
The new HP Elite Dragonfly, crafted from CNC-machined magnesium and weighing in at just 2.2 pounds, is one of the lightest commercial 2-in-1s ever designed.
Samsung Galaxy Book Flex review: QLED for the win
Samsung's laptops have never impressed quite like the Galaxy Book Flex does, thanks to standout features like the QLED display and its excellent battery life.
Lenovo Yoga Smart Tab review: A tablet, and then some
The Lenovo Yoga Smart Tab is an Android tablet that stands out in a crowd. It packs useful features into a 10.1-inch device, including a versatile kickstand.
Asus Chromebook Flip C436 review: Chromebooks have grown up
The Asus Chromebook Flip C436 proves that Chrome OS 2-in-1s can be just as well-built as their Windows 10 alternatives. Plus, they can be just as fast.
Apple MacBook Air (2020) review: The Mac starter kit
As the budget option among Macs, the MacBook Air is important, but recent models were disappointing. Does the 2020 restore the MacBook Air to its former glory?
Dell XPS 13 (2020) review: The laptop endgame
The Dell XPS 13, one of the most influential laptops of the past decade, has a new design that dares to go to the next level. It's the best laptop you can buy.
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD drops the mic
A 14-inch gaming laptop? Really? AMD's new Ryzen 4000 processors make the Zephyrus G14 the most powerful and portable gaming laptop that you can buy right now.
Dell Inspiron 15 7000 review: Powerful, affordable, and expandable
The Dell Inspiron 15 7000 specializes in upgradeability, letting you swap out the RAM and add up to two drives for more storage. Otherwise, it's just average.
Acer ConceptD 9 review: Drawing easel, meet workstation
The ConceptD 9 is an innovative machine that's focused on creative professionals who need color accuracy and who will benefit from a Wacom pen and easel display.
Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch review: The best Mac in years
Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro doesn't reinvent the wheel. There's little in the way of the innovation we typically expect from Apple. Instead, the company has returned with a true crowd-pleaser, a powerful laptop that addresses every complaint that made you consider switching to a Windows machine.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 Review: The fastest Thinkpad ever
The ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 is well-named. It's a ThinkPad on the outside and a PC geek's dream laptop on the inside. It's incredibly fast and has a display that will please the most exacting creative professional, while sporting the things ThinkPad enthusiasts will love just as much.
HP Spectre x360 13 (late 2019) review: Smaller, faster, and better in every way
The late 2019 version of the HP Spectre x360 13 is smaller than ever thanks to tiny bezels and a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio. It's also faster, offers a class-leading OLED display with incredible brightness, colors, and contrast, and it maintains the same excellent build quality as always.
Dell XPS 15 (2019) review: The top video-editing laptop
A solid video-editing laptop requires immense processing power and a color-accurate screen. The new OLED Dell XPS 15 has both in spades, especially with the optional eight-core Core i9 processor. I put it to the test to see just how fast this laptop really is.
Lenovo Yoga C940 15 review: The do-it-all 2-in-1?
Lenovo's Yoga C940 15 seeks to bring big-time power to the 2-in-1 form factor. It succeeds in terms of processor performance, rivaling the fastest clamshell laptops with Intel's Core i9. The Nvidia GTX 1650 brings mid-range gaming, while battery life and display quality are concerns. It could be better.
Alienware m15 (2019) review
Alienware's new m15 (2019) is an absolutely stunning laptop that looks unique, yet doesn't look gaudy. You'll lust after it the moment you see it. But does its performance hold up? Our Alienware m15 review takes an exhaustive look.
Asus ZenBook 13 UX333FA review: All you need
Long on battery life and short on price, the Asus ZenBook 13 UX333FA is another affordable entry that tries to unset better known rivals, such as Dell’s XPS 13 and Apple’s MacBook Air. Though not without quirks, our ZenBook 13 review finds it to be an excellent value, and possibly the only laptop you’d ever need.
Dell XPS 13 (2019) review
The XPS 13 has always been easy to recommend -- that is, unless you needed a good video conferencing webcam. So, what happens when Dell fixes one of the only problems we had with the XPS 13? Well, it’s near perfection. The 2019 XPS 13 shows Dell listening to complaints and addressing them.
HP Pavilion x360 14 (2019) review
The HP Pavilion x360 14 provides a solid value in a budget 360-degree convertible 2-in-1. As reviewed, the Intel 8th-gen CPU provides average performance that's just fine for productivity use, and the option of upgrading to an Intel 10th-gen processor is a real plus. That's the version you'll want to buy.
Google Pixelbook Go review: The Chromebook you should buy
The original Pixelbook was beautiful, but a bit too expensive. The new Pixelbook Go takes a different approach. It starts at a more affordable $649, without sacrificing build quality or performance. Is this the first Google Chromebook that's actually worth buying?
Lenovo ThinkPad T490 review: A classic workhorse
The ThinkPad T490 is an excellent replacement for the venerable T480 as the line's workhorse laptop. It's fast enough for productivity work and can be upgrade to perform better at creative tasks and gaming, and it has excellent build quality and battery life. You can spend more on a ThinkPad, but why?
HP Chromebook 15 review: The bread and butter laptop
The HP Chromebook 15 is solidly build, looks good, and equips some fast components that keeps Chrome OS humming. It's keyboard leaves a little to be desired, but the touchpad and touch display make input and control a little easier. Battery life is also a plus, giving this laptop all-day performance.
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 review: A beautiful miss
The Surface Laptop 3 now comes in a 15-inch model, which looks quite similar to what you get with the 13-inch version. But new here is a new all-aluminum finish and a custom AMD Ryzen processor. Can Microsoft's new clamshell compete with laptops like the Dell XPS 15 and MacBook Pro 16?
Razer Blade (2019) review: Still the cutting edge
The Razer Blade is our favorite gaming laptop, and in its newest iteration, it takes its display technology to another level. The 2019 Razer Blade comes with an option for either an OLED panel or an insane 240Hz refresh rate. Which is the better option?
Razer Blade Stealth 13 (Late 2019) hands-on review: For real
The Razer Blade Stealth 13 has always been a capable gaming machine, but Razer is back in 2019 with not one, but three new 13-inch Stealth laptops. With a model featuring Intel Iris Plus graphics, as well as an option the GTX 1650 graphics card, Razer is taking the Stealth lineup places it has never gone before.
Surface Pro X hands-on review: The Surface I’ve always wanted
Microsoft has announced the Surface Pro X, the most advanced Surface device ever made. Armed with a custom ARM processor and a slim design, the Surface Pro X feels like the modern Surface I've always wanted. Look out iPad Pro, you have some serious competition.
Asus ZenBook 15 UX534 review: Smaller, not better
The Asus ZenBook 15 UX534 is the company's latest to leverage tiny bezels to fit a larger display into a smaller chassis. It offers fast quad-core Intel 8th-gen CPU performance and solid casual gaming thanks to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 CPU. But, battery life is disappointing and the display is average.
Dell XPS 13 (7390) review: A tiny, insanely powerful laptop
Dell’s latest XPS 13 may look the same as the prior generation model that it succeeds, but this latest update makes this stellar laptop even more powerful. With new Comet Lake processors at the helm, the XPS 13 now supports the option for up to a six-core processors.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 4 review: So metal
Lenovo mixed things up with the ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 4, swapping out the usual magnesium alloy and carbon fiber chassis with aluminum. That makes the 360-degree 2-in-1 not only robust on paper thanks to its MIL-STD-810g testing, but also solid in hand. And it's still a ThinkPad on the inside.
Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: Left behind
At Microsoft's annual Surface event, it launched a brand new, Surface Pro 7, with a couple of small updates to the highly popular 2-in-1.
Senior Editor, Computing
Luke Larsen is a Senior Editor at Digital Trends and manages all content covering laptops, Macs, monitors, PC hardware, and peripherals. Around here we call it “computing,” but here’s a good rule of thumb: If it’s a computer or something that plugs into a computer, you found your guy. Oh, and these days, AI too. So much AI.
After getting a degree in music from the University of Oregon, Luke started his career in media hoping to get into music journalism. But when the opportunity arose, he landed in tech and hasn’t looked back since. He has over a decade of tech journalism experience, first joining Digital Trends in 2017 as a native Portlander, happy to join a tech media company that called his city home. Before working at DT, he worked as Tech Editor at Paste Magazine for over four years and has bylines at publications such as IGN, TouchArcade (RIP), and The Oregonian.
In his years at Digital Trends so far, Luke has covered high-profile industry events such as CES, IFA, and Microsoft Build, delivering on-the-ground coverage, breaking news, and first-hand reporting. He’s hosted countless YouTube videos, made podcast appearances, and written over 600 articles.
Some of his earliest tech memories include learning HTML through his MySpace account and trying to play Baldur’s Gate II on his parents’ dusty old beige box. These days, his obsession with technology is in telling stories with tech — in finding the narratives that ebb and flow through both technological advancement and product design, trickling right on down to our day-to-day experience of it. He is convinced that we all spend too much of our time using technology and not enough time thinking about it — cue a healthy dose of navel-gazing and philosophizing.
When he’s not endlessly debating what the best laptop is, Luke spends his days being a dad and a husband. Oh, and when there’s time (which there isn’t), he’s an avid fiction writer, player of designer board games, and still occasionally makes some music.