World of Laptop

We adore HP for its shiny designed laptops that provide easy keyboards and touchpads. The company’s wide variety ranges from 11-inch variable to big-screen multimedia systems, offering something for any budget or use. Coming in fourth in our laptop-maker showdown last year, HP upped the ante by adding ground-breaking touches to some of its devices, including a 3D-motion controller and a new creative touchpad design. Tempted by HP’s options but don’t know which one to choose? To help narrow your options, these are the five best HP laptops available.

1. HP Spectre X360

HP Stream 11

·         11.6-inch, 1,366 x 768 display

·         Free Office 365 Personal subscription

·         Excellent speakers and battery life

The HP Stream 11 is an astonishingly cheap Windows 8.1 laptop. It costs less than £200, and comes bundled with a one-year subscription to Office 365 Personal that’s worth £60. In short, it’s perfect for students and families on a tight budget.
 
It’s attractive too and small and lights enough to comfortably carry around in any standard messenger bag. The screen is an average 11.6-inch, 1,366 x 768 affair, but it gets the job done and is complemented by an excellent keyboard and loud, clear speakers. The HD webcam is also more than good enough for Skype calls.

A 2.16GHz Intel Celeron N2840 processor, combined with 2GB of RAM, keeps the Stream going, and it’s powerful enough to cope with light tasks, such as web browsing, word processing and HD video. The battery is great too, and can keep going for around six hours under heavy strain.

Best Ultrabook

13.3-inch 1080p IPS LCD screen

11-hour battery life

Generous selection of ports

One of the most electrifying laptops we’ve tested, the Asus Zenbook UX305 is an almost ideal ultra-portable that won’t break the bank. It’s clad in great-looking matte-effect metal, and is a super-slim 12.3mm at its thickest point. Despite its slight frame, Asus hasn’t scrimped on connections, packing three USB 3.0 ports, a full-size SD card reader and a microHDMI slot into the Zenbook.

The 13.3-inch, 1080p display isn’t quite a match for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon’s 2,560 x 1,440 panel, but it’s still pointed and offers good viewing angles. It’s backed up by a well-mannered pair of speakers that aren’t the loudest we’ve come across.

Intel’s Core M-5Y10c processor keeps things ticking over, but it doesn’t deliver the slickest performance. Its good sufficient for general office tasks, web browsing and watching movies, but gamers would be better off looking for something more powerful. Stamina, however, is exceptional – the Zenbook can keep running for around 11 hours between charges.

 Price: £650 / $815

Key features:

15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080, IPS screen

outstanding performance

Backlit keyboard and trackpad

Aluminium and carbon fibre build

The Alienware 15 is a powerful machine that’s built for serious gamers. Its bold, chunky design makes it instantly recognisable as an Alienware laptop, while a combination of aluminium and carbon fibre ensures it retains a sense of class. It’s not the most portable, however, coming in at 3kg and over an inch thick.

All models come with a 1,920 x 1,080 IPS display with an anti glare finish, but you can upgrade to a 3,860 x 2,146 touchscreen panel if you have the cash to splash. We tested the lower resolution screen, which is impressive, offering accurate colours, deep blacks and good viewing angles. The speakers are loud and clear, but bass is a little weak for such a chunky laptop.

The keyboard is great, while the trackpad comes with two easy-to-press buttons instead of a clicky surface. Both are backlit, and you can choose from a wide selection of colors.

This brand name has dominated all the other brands in the field of technology. Their Smartphones, iPhone s and notebooks are some of their iconic products that have set the pace in the technology world. Apple laptops warrant slimness and protection while offering unique features. They can be a little too expensive but Apple laptops are the best and most reputed in the world. The laptops offered by Apple are slim and provide unique feature that put it on the top of the list for best laptop brands.

Sony is a prominent electronic manufacturer, it tends to attract customers because it offers durability, reliability and embraces technology. For decades this brand has been ruling the heart and minds of the users. Its durability and reliance attracts the customers in a lot of technological equipments such as phones, television, music system or a laptop. Sony laptops are unique, provide best quality display and deliver performance. Sony VIAO laptops especially are expensive but do not disappoint in terms of battery life and hardware.

HP is the name of advance brand in the world of laptops. The notebooks offered by HP are very unique in appearance and are preferred by the customer over a lot of other brands. The products offered by HP have won the customer’s loyalty. The Hewlett Packard (HP) products are known to be a little expensive, but they are worthy every bit. Their standard laptops offer the consumer quality with focus on sound and graphics. Among all the brands, HP is most popular with consumers from all over the world.

Dell is the most popular brand worldwide. This is because of its continuous struggle to keep up with technology and produce quality products to its customers. Dell laptops are user friendly, offer all basic features and are technologically smart despite their relatively affordable prices. 

Samsung is one of the leaders in the global market of high-tech electronics and digital media. For over 70 years this brand has been devoted to make a better world with advanced technology, speed, creativity and develop market products that define our lifestyle. Samsung is quite a mature brand that has been manufacturing quality electronics and household appliances. The same can be said about their laptops which are great and offered at an average price. They have the best notebooks for gaming which are somewhat expensive.

Lenovo is ideally a Chinese brand but its operations go all the way to the USA. For 20 years now, Lenovo has continued to churn out good quality equipment with innovative features. Their notebook prices tend to be slightly higher than their regular laptops. However Lenovo provides best quality, sound, graphics, touch pad and display.

ASUS is an Asian brand which is famous in the world for its highly stylish hardware, innovative software, quality display, great gaming experience and user friendly. Their designs come in a variety of colors and at affordable prices. This Asian brand employs more than 20,000 people and is renowned for being extremely user friendly. Some customers however claim that they have poor touchpad response and their customer support is not that efficient.

Customers looking for artistic value and sophistication tend to go for Acer laptops. Their product range tends to bend forward towards fashion than technology. Acer laptops are relatively expensive and compared to other brands they lack quality in; sound, video, keyboard and touchpad. Their Aspire series and Acer Iconia have been received positively in the market.

Customers worldwide agree that it may not offer top notch functionality, but is especially good for people working on a budget and who are looking for a suitable notebook. Their latest designs feature lightweight models that come at extremely affordable prices.

Micro-Star International is one of the best and least popular laptop brands. This company has been in existence since 1986 and is a renowned IT manufacturer worldwide. Their machines are known to handle heavy duty operations such as gaming, video and graphic editing. In that case if you are looking for a gaming laptop, MSI will provide you with top functionality and convenience. With 8GB of RAM and one of Intel’s latest quad-core Haswell processors that can Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz, this laptop has almost desktop levels of performance, and its 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX graphics chip can power through almost any game you throw at it.