Laptop

Chin up, kids, and mind the webcam: Honor lifts lid on MagicBook 14-inch and 15.6-inch laptops

CES Not a good look if camera hits you from the wrong angle

Personal Tech09 Jan 2020 | 9

HP's Elite Dragonfly lappie to let Tile gadget-trackers stalk it till they're Blue in the tooth

Or find it under a crap-pile in your pigsty of a desk... let's be real, that is what you'd use it for

Personal Tech06 Jan 2020 | 7

Latitude 9510 lappy has a speakerphone so you can tell the conference call all about your 30-hour battery

Don't forget the 5G cellular radio

Personal Tech02 Jan 2020 | 21

Weird Flex but OK: New Samsung laptop lines haul QLED monitor tech squinting into the sun

Two Books, 600 nits – another is first to feature Intel's Lakefield chippery (Soz, Microsoft)

Personal Tech30 Oct 2019 | 6

Back to school with El Reg - how about a chunky Lenovo for the student in your life?

Hands On The second generation 300e for when your little darling simply must have Windows 10

Personal Tech28 Aug 2019 | 38

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Comment Thief swipes Reg vulture's computer from under his fingers in cafe – here's what happened next

Personal Tech21 Aug 2019 | 373

Did you buy a hot Asus Rog Strix notebook? Like, really hot? Like, super hot? Like, ow-ow-ow my lap's on fire hot?

You could be in line for a slice of $12m from PC slinger

Personal Tech10 Jul 2019 | 9

Enemy of the Matebook: Huawei shuts up laptop shop. When is it back? Depends on America's Entity List

They've got us on the list

Personal Tech12 Jun 2019 | 26

Intel unveils Project Athena: Chipzilla tells lappy makers how to build their own kit

OEMs toe the line for that sweet, sweet marketing moolah

Personal Tech29 May 2019 | 18

Thought Macbooks were expensive? Dell UK unveils the 7 meeeellion pound laptop

Includes a £3m discount. Excludes VAT and delivery

Personal Tech09 Jan 2019 | 43

Who fancies a six-core, 128GB RAM, 8TB NVMe … laptop?

Sorry. Not laptops. ‘Mobile workstations’

Personal Tech04 Jul 2018 | 100

For some reason, you lot love 'em. So here are the many ThinkPads of 2018

We make sense of the range

Personal Tech03 Apr 2018 | 57

Desktop PC shipments dip below 100m/year

And there's worse to come between now and 2022 for all client devices bar typoslabs

Personal Tech01 Mar 2018 | 26

Teensy plastic shields are the big new thing in 2018's laptop crop

Webcam shields, security integration, USB-C and micro-desktops are the moderately hot spots for the PC industry

Personal Tech20 Feb 2018 | 104

Leftover Synaptics debugger puts a keylogger on HP laptops

Vendor first to patch, expect other OEMs to follow

Security11 Dec 2017 | 46

Your next laptop will feature 'CMF' technology

You didn't miss a new standard: CMF is 'colour, materials and finish' and PC-makers use it to make us fashion victims

Personal Tech14 Nov 2017 | 42

RIP wireless laptop docks as Intel bins WiGig parts

Chipzilla thinks fast short-range wireless is good for VR, where desks are always tidy

Personal Tech11 Sep 2017 | 8

It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild

Anniversary special brings back much-loved features

Personal Tech04 Sep 2017 | 138

Microsoft's Surface Pro 2017, unhinged: Luxury fondleslab that's good...

Review ... as in Veblen Good

Personal Tech09 Aug 2017 | 65

Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement?

Review Jailbreak it the official way, kids...

Personal Tech01 Aug 2017 | 127

America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

Peeps flying into US face 'enhanced screening'

Security28 Jun 2017 | 206

Utah fights man's attempt to marry laptop

Foe of same-sex unions seeks to wed machine

Bootnotes02 Jun 2017 | 113

Huawei missed memo that PC's dead – so here are three new notebooks

Hands On Touchscreens? Who needs 'em?

Personal Tech24 May 2017 | 34

No laptop ban on Euro flights to US... yet

Pilots: Um, you want all those lithium batteries in the hold?

Security18 May 2017 | 67

PC sales are up across Europe. You read that right. PC sales are up

Laptops lead EMEA sales revival, but Brexit-blown Blighty misses out

Personal Tech24 Apr 2017 | 41

Lenovo's 2017 X1 Carbon is a mixed bag

Hands-on This year's flagship ThinkPad for business feels a little underwhelming

Personal Tech06 Apr 2017 | 36

Brave VMs to destroy themselves, any malware they find on HP's new laptop

1 like = 1 prayer for pre-baked Bromium virtualization tech

Security13 Feb 2017 | 18

HP doorsteps Apple shoppers at the altar of dreams

HP Inc GPC '16 Is our innovation stale, asks pres at PC giant? No 'f*****g way' says a shopper

Personal Tech13 Sep 2016 | 46

John Ellenby, British inventor of the first laptop, powers off

Obituary GRiD Compass made it into space and onto Aliens

Personal Tech30 Aug 2016 | 14

These big-name laptops are infested with security bugs – study

Bloatware creates easy pwnage

Channel31 May 2016 | 70

HP Inc Elite X3: Windows 10 phablet for enterprise-y types

MWC16 Vendor returns to the handheld market

Channel21 Feb 2016 | 24

Fleet of 4.77MHz LCD laptops with 8088 CPUs still alive after 30 years

Reader has 'a couple of dozen' Toshiba T1000s still in use 24/7, and a tale of embezzlement to dazzle

Personal Tech09 Feb 2016 | 67

Who wants a quad-core 4.2GHz, 64GB, 5TB SSD RAID 10 … laptop?

The folks at Eurocom have released another monster 'mobile workstation'

Personal Tech05 Feb 2016 | 105

Toshiba, Fujitsu and Vaio may be about to merge laptop ops

Japan's laptop-makers mulling combined last stand say Taiwanese sources

Channel01 Feb 2016 | 9

The designer of the IBM ThinkPad has died

Richard Sapper also worked for Alessi and Fiat

Personal Tech06 Jan 2016 | 46

Victorian government teacher-laptop scheme illegal, says judge

State looks under lounge for $20 million in refunds

Legal08 Nov 2015 | 28

Laptop imports declared SECRET in Australia

Data on networking sales freed again - do YOU know about any big deals that went down?

Legal12 Oct 2015 | 9

HP creates laptop for SITH LORDS

Is this really what Meg Whitman meant by 'innovative new computing experiences'?

Personal Tech09 Oct 2015 | 55

OLPC heir reveals modular laptop design

'Infinity' allows kids to swap out components, even the screen

Personal Tech21 Aug 2015 | 22

Intel building Xeon into lapwarmers as designers, content creators call the shots

Desktops. Pah!

Personal Tech10 Aug 2015 | 20

If Microsoft made laptops, it'd make this: HP Spectre x360

Review Neat-looking convertible - not spectacular but does the business

OSes27 Jul 2015 | 45

The Lazarus Effect: Saved by Linux and Cash Converters

Feature Desperate times require desperate measures

Personal Tech25 Jul 2015 | 47

It's official – HP really will get you a Windows 10 PC on July 29 (barely)

Better order early, though

Personal Tech15 Jul 2015 | 11

Remake, remodel: Toshiba Chromebook 2

Review With this Glitzy Googletop it pays to be dim

Personal Tech08 Jun 2015 | 48

Force Touch tweak: Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display

Review All’s well that Haswell?

Personal Tech02 Jun 2015 | 36

Acer: 'We will be the last man standing in the PC industry'

Pics Acer's Jason Chen will give you Win10 for free

Channel27 Apr 2015 | 46

Google gives spit n' polish to world's most expensive Chromebook

Revamped Chromebook Pixel raises specs, lowers prices

Personal Tech11 Mar 2015 | 26

Tulsa woman bludgeons man mercilessly with laptop

Gobbles genitals, but not in a good way

Bootnotes02 Mar 2015 | 33

OLPC spin-off teases modular 'Infinity' computer

Swap out CPUs, cams and drives like LEGO so laptop grows with your kids

Personal Tech23 Feb 2015 | 11

Think you’re hard? Check out the frozen Panasonic CF-54 Toughbook

Pics Rugged, skinny and light – Angelina Jolie in laptop form

Personal Tech13 Feb 2015 | 32

Lenovo still ‘not satisfied’ despite MEGA PROFIT rise

PC success set to be replicated across other divisions

Channel06 Nov 2014 | 5

What's an Ultrabook? Now Intel touts 2-in-1 typoslabs to save PC biz

IDF 2014 They're tablets! They're laptops! They've got no wires! Aw, just buy 'em

Channel11 Sep 2014 | 28

What PC sales slump? That's ALL OVER, declares Gartner

Analyst firm says shipments grew in Q2 – and they'll keep growing

Channel09 Jul 2014 | 4

Verizon to turn LTE faucet back on for Chromebook Pixel users

Says its sorry promo service ended 'prematurely'

Personal Tech25 Jun 2014 | 6

HP has Chromeboxes with Intel Core i7 chips, but they'll cost you

Or fine, cheap out and get a Celeron, if you must

Personal Tech11 Jun 2014 | 10

Toshiba's CB30-102 13.3in Chromebook – imagine a tablet with a keyboard

Review Adjusting to life with Chrome's disease

Personal Tech02 Jun 2014 | 28