We test dozens of laptops every year here at ZDNET, and our testing process employs a dual approach. On one hand, we run a series of benchmarking programs to gather important system data and metrics.

We had a chance to go hands-on with a prototype Lenovo Core Ultra 3 notebook at CES 2026 and put the Panther Lake laptop ...

How do you benchmark your PC? In this guide, we show you how to measure your gaming frame rates and gauge your PC performance in apps. Knowing how to run a PC benchmark test will enable you to see ...

Today Dominic is checking out Death Stranding on the PC. As the first pc game to use the Decima engine - the same engine that powered Horizon Zero Dawn - we find out how well this game runs on PC, and ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 laptop GPU shows a 30% performance boost over the RTX 4060 and a 70% increase over the RTX 3060 in a leaked 3DMark Time Spy benchmark. It surpasses the ...

Windows 11 just came in last in a six‑way speed showdown against its own predecessors, a result that seems to confirm every ...

CES is still raging on, and before Nvidia can even blink, there are performance leaks of the company's upcoming Nvidia RTX 5080 laptop graphics chips. Leaked benchmarks using Geekbench's OpenCL test ...

Big, bold design meets unbridled performance: the Alienware 16 Area-51 isn't flawless, but it'll easily replace a desktop ...

We’ve said it before: There’s one simple trick to increase the performance of your Windows laptop, and it made an enormous difference in Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2, which we reviewed today.

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