We’ve tested several Huawei laptops over the years and ended up recommending most of them, such as the compact MateBook 13 and the competitively-priced MateBook 15. We’ve never properly tested their flagship MateBook X Pro series, though, until now, when we got to spend...
Despite the whole controversy around the Huawei company, it’s hard to deny they still make some of the best value notebooks on the market. Thus, if you’re fine with buying a Huawei product (it’s up to you, but as long as you’re not working...
The MateBook D is Huawei’s line of affordable laptops, and in this article, we’ve gathered out impressions on a slightly older model, yet one that’s still popular in some regions, the MateBook D 15 MRC-W10. This offers a compact and light all-metal construction, a...
The Dell XPS 13 has been my ultrabook of choice for a few years now. I own and have been constantly using while on the go an XPS 13 9343, and I’ve reviewed here on the site all the later updates released in the last...
The Huawei MateBook X Pro caused quite a splash when it debuted at Mobile World Congress three months ago. The unconventional 13.9-inch display came courtesy of the 3:2 3000 x 2000 resolution aspect ratio. The screen can also display 100 percent of the sRGB...
More and more OLED laptops are available in stores these days, of all sizes and kinds. In this article, I’m going to explain the particularities of the OLED displays available on modern laptops, with their main selling points such as their beautiful image quality...
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...
In this article, we’re discussing fanless laptops and silent Windows ultrabooks and Chromebooks, or in other words, laptops with passive cooling solutions, without a fan that spins and makes noise. You’ll find quite a few different laptops without a fan available in stores, and...
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...
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,...
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 ultrabooks right now and explain why, in order to help...
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...
We’ve seen Thunderbolt ports on enthusiast computers for a while now, but these days Thunderbolt is becoming the port everyone wants on a new laptop, regardless of size, form-factor, or budget. The 3rd and 4th generations of Thunderbolt are significant upgrades over their predecessors...
If you are in the market for a compact, thin-and-light laptop with some sort of dedicated graphics, I’m pretty sure you came upon one of the Asus ZenBook 14s available out there. This article is all about the Asus ZenBook 14 lineup of all-around...
This here is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro, also known as the IdeaPad Slim 7 Pro in some markets. Lenovo offers this laptop in a multitude of variants that differ from region to region, to the point that it can get confusing for...
The LG Gram 16 is one of the few large-screen ultrabooks currently available in stores, a computer that offers the lightweight construction, portability, specs, and capabilities of an Evo certified ultrabook, but paired with a larger display. This was made possible with the introduction...
This article is a detailed list of all the important laptops with small bezels available in stores these days. We’re constantly updating it and adding new units are they’re released. By reducing the size of the bezels around the screens, manufacturers are able to...
There aren’t many Windows laptops with 3:2 displays out there, and this is the niche Acer aims-for with their 2020 Swift 3 SF313-52 model. Most notebooks get wider 16:9 screens, with some moving to 16:10 displays lately, such as the Dell XPS 13 or...
If you’re looking for a portable laptop, or perhaps a budget computer with some sort of gaming prowess in 2020, you’ll most likely get the good value for your money with some of the available Nvidia GeForce MX350/MX330 configurations out there. These are Nvidia’s...
In this article, we’re taking a close look at the ASUS Zenbook 14 UX434FLC, the early-2020 update of the popular ZenBook 14 series of ultraportable laptops. This is based on last year’s ZenBook 14 UX434FL and UX433FN, with a similar design and construction, but...
Acer offer a handful of new Swift 3 series for 2020, built on two of the important hardware platforms available for ultraportable laptops at the beginning of this year: AMD Renoir Ryzen 7 4000 Mobile Series (7 mm) and Intel’s 10th gen Ice Lake...
Acer’s Swift 3 lineup includes a multitude of competitively priced ultraportable notebooks with slim designs, matte screens, and updated hardware specs. For 2020, Acer offers no less than 3 compact Swift 3 models, two 14-inch variants based on either Intel or AMD hardware, as...
The Asus VivoBook S15 series is one of the most popular lines of mid-range laptops in the last few years, as these were among the first compact and lightweight full-size computers without major compromises and with a competitive price. In this article, we’re talking...
This article gathers our impressions on the Asus ZenBook S13 UX392FN, Asus’s top-of-the-line ultrabook for the most of 2019. The UX392 follows up on one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2018, the ZenBook S13 UX391 series, and competes at the high end of its...
Whiskey Lake is Intel’s third refinement of the 14 nm build-process and the latest Core U 15W hardware-platform you’ll find in thin-and-light ultraportables and budget full-size notebooks in the fourth quarter of 2018 and most of 2019 until the next-gen Intel Cannon Lake platform...
I’ve bought a Dell XPS 13 as soon as the compact refresh was initially released back in 2015, and I’ve been using it ever since as my travel laptop. You can find my initial impressions in this article, as well as my long-term experience with...
Asus revamped their entire lines of Zenbook (all-round thin-and-lights), Zenbook S (ultraportables) and Zenbook Flip (convertibles) laptops for the second part of 2018 and first half of 2019, and these are not just some minor updates. The updated models are thinner, lighter and more...
This article is about one of the better ultraportable laptops available in stores in Mid 2018, the Lenovo ThinkPad T480s. If you’ve read our article about the Dell XPS 13 and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, think of this one as an X1 Carbon...
This article is about the Asus Zenbook S UX391 series, Asus’s new flagship clamshell thin-and-light ultraportable for 2018. It’s meant to compete with the top contenders out there, like the Dell XPS 13 9370 or the Huawei MateBook X Pro, with whom it shares...
This article is very long due, but we finally get to talk about the updated models in the Asus ZenBook UX430 series of ultra-portables, the UX430UN model with Intel 8th gen hardware and Nvidia MX150 graphics. Keep in mind this article is published in August...