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Q4 2025 update. Looking for a travel-friendly replacement for your old desktop? Office laptops with a large 17-inch display can be a great fit for your desk while offering ample performance for everyday tasks like word processing and web browsing. Below, you'll find the best 17-inch office notebooks tested and rated by Notebookcheck.

With the ROG Scar 16, Asus has scaled down the already excellent 18" version into a much more portable form, all while maintaining the same "clean" design, fantastic Mini-LED display, great port selection, and impressive performance. However, there is also the Strix G16, which features a standard IPS panel but generally shares the same qualities. In its RTX 5080 configuration, it once again raises the value question compared to RTX 5090 laptops.

During a time when gaming laptops have become much more subtle in their styling and gotten a lot more portable, Alienware is staying true to their roots. Their latest gaming laptop, the Alienware 16 Area 51, may be one of the biggest 16" notebooks, but also features a new design, powerful internals, impressive gaming performance and excellent fan noise behaviour!

After the excellent Legion Pro 7i covering the high-end, the Legion Pro 5 being one of the fastest RTX 5070 Ti laptops we have tested so far, the Lenovo Legion 5 might already be the "best" mainstream gaming laptop for 2025.

October 2025 update. Convertible laptops are different. They have a special hinge; thanks to that, they can be used as both a notebook and a tablet. 2-in-1s are suitable for numerous tasks and use cases, from private use in the living room and at the garden table to the education sector or professional environment, since convertibles are very suitable for presentations. The best convertibles we know of are listed in this article.

With the Aorus Master 16, Gigabyte's gaming brand adds a true high-end laptop to their line-up, and while the 16" is not quite perfect, with an RTX 5090, Intel HX CPU, and a 240Hz OLED, there is a lot to like for gamers, and even potential workstation users.

We have extensively tested a wide range of laptops, from high-end gaming machines to budget office class notebooks. Let us present a summary, a list of the best laptops for every kind of user. We can reveal one thing right away: The top laptop is available for less than 1,000 dollars/euros!