Occasionally, our writers can share their personal opinion concerning current events with Notebookcheck readers in the form of opinion articles to encourage debate.
Notebookcheck strives to be an unbiased and independent technology publication with a main focus on objective data oriented reviews, along with comprehensive CPU and GPU benchmark score aggregation and delivering trustworthy, transparently sourced news articles on a daily basis.
Notebookcheck has around 80 experienced contributors from all over the world producing written content, as of 2025. We offer our writers an opportunity to share their views with the readers in the form of opinion articles with the goal of encouraging and shaping public debates, in which all parties are welcome to partake. This is why we have a comments section at the end of each article. Readers are not required to sign up to participate.
Opinion articles only express the individual opinion of the author, and not of that of the entire editorial team. To avoid any possible confusion, these articles are clearly labeled as „comment“ and have a distinct visual style as compared to news articles and reviews.
From the Commodore C64 to modern electric vehicles: J. Simon Leitner has followed the digital transformation since the early days of the home computer era. As a co-founder of Notebookcheck, he has been applying the expertise gained from his studies at the TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) to fact-based and independent hardware analyses since 2006. With over 20 years of experience as a technology expert, his focus today is on laptops, electric mobility, environmental technology, and the intersection of construction technology and smart home architecture.
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