View Deal. Screen: Up to Reasons to avoid - Keyboard lighting color can't be changed. Gigabyte Aorus 17G Display: Reasons to avoid - Heavy weight calls into question its portability. Lenovo Legion 7 Gen 6. Reasons to avoid - Battery life is lacking. Alienware m17 R4 Reasons to avoid - Battery life of less than 3 hours. Reasons to avoid - Has some kinks and bugs that need to be worked out. Razer Blade 15 Reasons to avoid - Short battery life.
Reasons to avoid - Poor battery life of less than 5 hours. Lenovo Legion 5 Pro. Screen: inch x IPS nits, Hz. Storage: Up to 2TB M. Reasons to avoid - Fairly generic chassis that's on the heavy side. Razer Blade Reasons to avoid - Lower performance than other laptops.
Matt Hanson. The laptop also offers powerful audio with Dolby Atmos support, and we found it to be reasonably cool at most touchpoints, even while gaming. It also lasts a long time on battery when you aren't gaming. There are a few concerns of note, including the complete lack of a webcam, and the display, while decent, could be brighter. If you want to play esports like a professional, you'll want a laptop with the fastest screen you can find. The design feels premium but has an interesting mix of dark materials and clear plastic.
It's reminiscent of both a hot rod car and a 90's MP3 player, which might turn some people off. But the comfortable keyboard, strong overall performance and bassy audio all contribute to a strong gaming experience, even if you don't like seeing the inside of your laptop. If you're willing to sacrifice your refresh rate for higher resolution, the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro is one to check out.
While some other gaming notebooks opt for Hz, the Legion's Hz, x screen is a stunner in its own right. It also has a aspect ratio, which we appreciate for productivity use. Our review unit came with a Ryzen 7 H and an Nvidia GeForce RTX , which together offered competitive performance across our suite of gaming benchmarks.
We were also impressed with this laptop's keyboard, which seems to have benefitted from the excellence of Lenovo's business-oriented ThinkPads. The system is, however, a bit thick. If you don't want to deal with bulk, you may want to consider other options on this list. Read: Lenovo Legion 5 Pro review. The two displays are both bright and colorful, and at a bit over 4 hours and 52 minutes on our battery test, it's endurance is good for a gaming notebook, anyway. The keyboard and mouse are in an awkward position, like most dual-screen notebooks on the market most people will likely use an external mouse for gaming.
So you'll have to decide if that second screen — which is great for chat programs, gaming guides or music apps — is worth a more difficult typing experience.
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Freedman is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming. He also keeps up with the latest news. Follow him on Twitter: FreedmanAE. Included in this guide: 1. Display: Weight: 6. Reasons to avoid - Very expensive - Runs a bit warm. Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model Late Weight: 4. Reasons to avoid - Shallow keyboard - Pricey - Productivity performance could be improved.
Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model. The standard p resolution means that the generally slower mobile GPUs are all but guaranteed high frame rates, while companies are slowly drip-feeding p panels into their laptop ranges. A p screen offers the perfect compromise between high resolution and decent gaming performance. At the same time, a 4K notebook will overstress your GPU and tax your eyeballs as you squint at your inch display. Your guess is as good as ours. He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later.
When he dropped it out of the window. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck. Included in this guide: 1. View Deal. Image 1 of 4. Image 2 of 4. Image 3 of 4. Image 4 of 4. Razer Blade Screen: p Hz, p Hz, or 4K Hz. Battery: 80 Wh. Dimensions: 9. Weight: 4. Screen: inch IPS p Hz. Battery: 75 Wh. Dimensions: Weight: 3. Reasons to avoid - Looks a bit plasticky - Can be loud when pushed.
Screen: inch p Hz or p Hz. Battery: Dimensions: 0. Dell G3 Screen: It may not boast Beats Audio, as found in the Envy line, but the dm4t has nothing to be ashamed about.
Its Altec Lansing speakers located under the front lip provided enough oomph to fill a small room. Tweaking the audio settings using the Dolby Home Theater utility located in the Control Panel also helped. The dm4t has a typical spread of ports: two USB 2. A memory card reader sits just under the lip on the left. The 1. Using the included CyberLink YouCam app, the dv4t did a good job of showing accurate skin tones when there was a fair amount of ambient light.
When we turned off the lights, the camera adapted fairly well, but the picture looked grainier. Equipped with a 2. In PCMark Vantage the system scored 5,, which is about points below the thin-and-light average 5, The Samsung SF , which has a first-gen Core i5 processor, scored 5,, and the Lenovo Z , which has a second-gen Core i5 processor, notched a much higher 6, The dm4t's GB, 5,rpm hard drive booted bit Windows Home Premium in 58 seconds, a bit faster than the second category average.
However, it duplicated a 4.
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