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Need a budget laptop for the kids? Or a powerful one for design work or gaming? Dell sells a huge variety. Let's decode the ...

CES 2026 marks a make-or-break moment for Dell’s consumer-computing business. Just ask the company's newly crowned vice chairman and chief operating officer, Jeff Clarke, who made the point abundantly ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Its design is fairly basic and doesn't match the sleekness ...

The Dell 14 Premium, the new name for the most recent iteration of Dell’s XPS 14, was once a consistent front-runner among the best laptops for the last decade that I’ve been reviewing computers and ...

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Even after using laptops for years, many users don’t even touch the most important tool: the built-in hardware diagnostics. These tests are preinstalled on every Windows laptop and Mac. Since they are ...

Many believe that Apple makes the most efficient laptop chips and that MacBooks have the best battery life because the Arm ISA supposedly offers superior performance and efficiency over the crufty x86 ...

Back by popular demand (and the Dell faithful's outrage!), the XPS name returns in new 14-inch and 16-inch laptops that also refresh the design. I got some time with these perennial favorites; check ...