The Gigabyte Aero 15-X9-RT5P is expensive, no doubt about that. But considering that it excels both as a serious gaming laptop and a standard laptop you can use for work, the price is much bearable. The Aero 15 isn’t just a great gaming laptop. It’s a value packed great laptop, period.
The Razer Blade 15 boasts a quality and stylish design, while packing a strong feature set and performance that easily outguns the majority of the competition backed by forward-looking technologies like Nvidia’s RTX 2080 GPU, DLSS and ray tracing for butter-smooth playability.
Like the new class of mainstream counterparts, gaming laptops come in various sizes and flavors. The MSI GV62 8RD-200 affirms the new concept, among others, that you don’t have to stick with bulky black boxes with insane accents that would be absurd if you bring them into a professional setting, in order to enjoy your games.
The Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-52-78VL is a compelling mid-range laptop that packs the latest Nvidia GPU and Intel into an exciting case that promises fast framerates on modern games and strong productivity performance. Though it isn’t the most extravagant, and certainly not the most portable, the Predator Helios 300 sits at exciting balance of balance of value and performance.
The Lenovo Chromebook S330 has three redeeming features: It’s one of the most affordable Chromebooks on offer, it’s nicely designed, and it gets a great battery. But it’s also not very fast for use on complex tasks, and it functions rightly as a budget notebook.
The HP Envy 13-aq0044nr is a well-crafted, great-looking ultraportable laptop with strong performance and small but meaningful touches over the 2-in-1 Spectre x360, that make it a pure joy to use. It’s very fast, last a very long time on a single charge, and feels great in hand.
The Chromebook Flip C434 is an exciting laptop, providing class-leading performance, and it’s by far the most exciting piece of hardware around. It runs fast enough for the usual OS tasks, it runs a long time on a single charge of the battery, and its sleek metallic design makes it easy to carry around in college and at work. That’s more than we always say about Chromebooks in this price range.
