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Dell's multiple-award-winning XPS 13 ultraportable approaches perfection with a high-resolution OLED touch screen. It's not cheap, but it's irresistible once you lay eyes on it.

The latest rev of the G5 Gaming Desktop is a highly configurable budget model, solid for basic esports and casual gaming. (We'd opt for Dell's video card and PSU upgrade over our test model for going all-out at 1080p.)

14:35 All Specs Its not that Lenovo offers more ThinkPads than you can shake a stick at—its just that it would take a very long time to shake that stick at them all. The ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 (starts at $896; $1,039 as tested) is a business laptop aimed at small offices, priced below the enterprise ThinkPad T and premium ThinkPad X series (in other words, overlapping the ThinkBook series). Its a 14-inch slimline with many of the ThinkPad virtues, such as a first-class keyboard and MIL-STD 810H...

Tiny and quiet, MSI's Cubi 5 10M preconfigured mini PC is a versatile if plain-looking option that's a good fit for offices and living rooms.

All Specs Versus other compact desktops weve seen of late, Lenovos IdeaCentre Mini 5i (starts at $509.99; $629.99 as tested) is smaller and more stylish, while also a step up in performance. This little Lenovo is a true mini PC thats nearly the same size as the Apple Mac mini and much smaller than Windows mini-towers like the Acer Aspire TC-895-UA91 or the HP Slim Desktop. It lacks the brushed-aluminum luxury of the Mac mini, but the IdeaCentre Mini 5i adds a dash of style to its plastic chass...

5:07 All Specs Lenovo has simplified its mobile workstation lineup, though it still gives you three 15.6-inch models to choose from. The ThinkPad P15 (starts at $1,507; $4,886 as tested) replaces the ThinkPad P53 as the fully loaded flagship, leaving design and rendering pros and scientific and engineering analysts who want something lighter to pick the ThinkPad P1 or P15s. Equipped with a dazzling 4K display and a colossal eight-core Intel Core i9 processor and 16GB Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 Ma...

Priced just above $1,000 in our test model, Lenovo's 14-inch ThinkBook Yoga competes with convertible laptops costing hundreds more.

12:41 All Specs The use of carbon fiber instead of aluminum, magnesium, or plastic is a rare but not unprecedented thing for ultraportable laptops. Its the namesake, after all, of Lenovos award-winning ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and part of the popular Dell XPS 13. VAIO would like to point out that it pioneered the practice with its X505 in 2003, and the company says its taken it to the next level with the 2021 reincarnation of its flagship VAIO Z. This 14-inch notebook is made out of contoured car...

All Specs When we reviewed the $799.99 HP Pavilion 24 All-in-One last year, we declared it the all-in-one PC for the rest of us, for whom a spendy Apple iMac is out of reach. If a 24-inch model at $800 is for the rest of us, then the HP All-in-One 22 is the all-in-one PC for all of us. (Models start at $399.99, with our 22-dd0010 test configuration coming in at $429.99.) This entry-level all-in-one offers a leaner price and a smaller display than its 24-inch sibling. The low price levies its ...