Laptop

October 2025 update. Ultra-portable laptops, also known as subnotebooks or ultrabooks, stand out with their extremely compact design, lightweight build, and excellent battery life. They are a great pick for anyone who needs a laptop that's easy to carry and reliable when working on the go. This article lists the best subnotebooks recently tested by Notebookcheck editors.

ARC Raider is a new extraction shooter that has had many of us questioning our newfound loyalty to Battlefield 6 for about 2 weeks now. Since I had a ton of fun with the game so far, I wanted to share some performance and gameplay impressions in this new format. To give it an additional little twist, I captured this session on the Aorus Master 18 with the company's RTX 5090 eGPU, rendering the game on a 4k screen.

The Honor Magic V5 is the successor to last year's V3 that changed the game somewhat on how a foldable can still deliver an almost uncompromising "regular" smartphone experience, and the new one for 2025 improves on pretty much everything. But still ... is it enough?

The Lenovo Legion Go S was the first gaming handheld to officially ship with Steam OS, alongside the original Steam Deck, of course. We had to compare it directly to its Windows sibling, and despite almost identical hardware, well, the results are quite surprising... or not, depending on your perspective!

October 2025 update. Equally suitable for creators, professionals on the go, and gamers, multimedia laptops are true all-rounders. In this article, we list the highest-rated multimedia laptops tested by Notebookcheck in recent months.

Vivo is back, and with the Vivo X300 Pro, they might have just released one of the most capable smartphones for photography. We had the chance for some hands-on time during the launch event in Vienna and were able to unbox the photographer kit and take some images and video samples.