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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 Review: Fast but not flawless

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 accomplished what it sets out to do, offers the most powerful ThinkPad you can buy. But it's not class-leading.
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MSI Creator Z16 laptop review: Gamer meets creator

The Creator Z16 is MSI's shot at a MacBook Pro alternative. The 120Hz screen is excellent, but it's not a laptop without its faults.
HP EliteBook 840 Aero G8 sitting on desk.

HP EliteBook 840 Aero G8 review: Superlight and superexpensive

The HP EliteBook 840 Aero G8 provides a lightweight business-class laptop that will keep your company's data safe and secure.
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MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo review: A solid laptop at a stiff price

The MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo is a very nice addition to the 13-inch 2-in-1 crowd, although it's a bit more expensive than most.
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Dell XPS 15 OLED review: The best keeps getting better

The Dell XPS 15 is fast, beautiful, built right, and offers up a gorgeous OLED display. It's a dream machine for creative types and power users.
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Asus Vivobook Pro 16X review: A powerful OLED laptop, done right

The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X is everything a content creator needs in a laptop, and it comes in at a great price.
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Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 review: When choosing Intel hurts

The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 has received the Intel treatment, which unfortunately resulted in decreased performance and battery life from the AMD model.
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Acer Swift X review: Content creation for cheap?

The Acer Swift X provides a winning combination of Ryzen CPU and Nvidia GPU to provide a portable powerhouse for creative professionals.
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Asus ROG Flow X13 review: The king of small gaming laptops?

The ROG Flow X13 is one of the smallest gaming laptops in the world. But is the performance trade-off worth it?
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HP Pavilion Aero 13 review: Ultralight, ultrapowerful?

The HP Pavilion Aero 13 is an extremely lightweight laptop that punches above its budget classification.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 review: A great laptop made even better

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 is a highly refined business laptop that's fast and long-lasting with some meaningful improvements.
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Dell XPS 17 review: A mobile workstation in disguise

Need a large, 17-inch laptop with fantastic performance? The Dell XPS 17 is in a league of its own.
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Asus Chromebook Flip CM3 review: The ultimate student Chromebook?

The Asus Chromebook Flip CM3 is slower than you'd like, but it lasts a long time on a charge and comes at a bargain-basement price.
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Asus Chromebook Flip C536 review: Flawed, but the price wins out

The Asus Chromebook Flip C536 has its flaws, but its strengths and its low price make up for them.
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Asus ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED review: Dual screens, if you need them

The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED is a better dual-screen option in its second generation, and powerful to boot.
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Framework Laptop review: Let the laptop disruption begin

With its fully modular internals, the Framework Laptop is a wake-up call to the rest of the industry. But is it actually a laptop worth buying?
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Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable review: Tablets are back in business

The Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable is the tablet made for business users.
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Acer Chromebook Spin 713 2021 review: A supremely fast Chromebook

The Acer Chromebook Spin 713 is a fast and long-lasting Chrome OS 2-in-1 that's well worth consideration.
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Razer Blade 14 review: The usurper has arrived

The Razer Blade 14 is a huge success, combining an amazingly thin chassis with incredible gaming performance.
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LG Gram 17 (2021) review: Large and light on its feet

The LG Gram 17 offers a lovely and expansive display with outstanding battery life, all without weighing you down.
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HP Elite Dragonfly Max review: A work-from-home dream machine

If you're a businessperson who lives on Zoom and has a serious budget, then the HP Elite Dragonfly Max is for you.
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Lenovo Legion 5 Pro review: The antidote for thin, expensive gaming laptops

Gaming laptops keep getting thinner and more expensive. The Legion 5 Pro puts an end to that trend -- in a good way.
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Asus VivoBook Flip 14 (2021) review: A fast, cheap laptop

Buy the Asus VivoBook Flip 14 for its performance and price -- just don't pay too much attention to the display and build quality.
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HP Envy x360 15 (AMD) review: Creative performance for $1,000?

HP aimed at creators with the Envy x360 15 AMD but fell short on the display and ended up with a productivity powerhouse instead.
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HP Envy 14 (2021) review: Great laptop, but tread lightly

The HP Envy 14 is a great laptop for productivity users, but its display holds it back for creative types.
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HP Elite Folio Review: A new twist on the pull-forward 2-in-1

The Elite Folio is a different take on the 2-in-1, with a useful form factor and a comfortable vegan leather exterior.
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Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 (15-inch) review: OLED disappointment?

Despite boasting great battery life and the S-Pen, the Galaxy Book Pro 360 doesn't quite feel like the apex of design Samsung was aiming for.
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Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 2 review: Solid performer at a sound price

The Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 2 makes improvements in all the right places to better appeal to its small-business target.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga review: Old dog, meet new trick

The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga stands out from the ThinkPad crowd with a unique look and feel, as well as solid 2-in-1 functionality.
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Acer Aspire 5 (2021) review: Not easy on the eyes

The 2021 Acer Aspire 5 is slow, suffers from mediocre battery life, and has the worst display I've ever tested.
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Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 review: Steps in the right direction

Microsoft has made some big gains to performance and battery life, making the Surface Laptop 4 the best in the line so far.
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Asus ZenBook 13 OLED UM325 review: AMD laptop perfection?

With an 8-core processor and a brilliant OLED screen, do laptops get any better than the ZenBook 13 OLED?
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HP Elite C1030 Chromebook review: Secure, manageable, and really expensive

The HP Elite C1030 Chromebook is one of the most secure and manageable Chrome OS laptops you can buy.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable review: The Surface Pro has met its match

The Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable competes strongly against the industry's leading 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.