After analyzing over one thousand laptops based on internal specs, expert reviews, and aesthetic/external elements, we’ve come up with the top three choices in each of five key categories.
Reviews
Review: The Kindle Fire HDX Is the Amazon-centric Tablet Finally Done Right
The online merchant’s new Fire is more powerful and less quirky than its predecessors — and its built-in tech support is a breakthrough.
Review: Sparkup Magical Book Reader Lets You Record Books in Your Own Voice
The Sparkup Magical Book Reader lets you record books in your own voice or download pre-recorded books for your kids to play back.
Review: Apple’s iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c and iOS 7
Apple is never going to be a company that makes a phone for everybody. But with the iPhone 5s and 5c, Apple is finally offering new models for two different types of somebody.
Grand Theft Auto V Review: Everything Rockstar’s Learned About Open-World Design, Refined
More like “grand theft all your free time.”
Review: Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix Is All Kinds of Gorgeous
Welcome back, high-def Donald and Goofy.
Review: Mini Jambox Speaker Is the Jambox, Halved
Jawbone’s newest Bluetooth sound system is more perfectly pocketable.
Sony Alpha 3000 DSLR Camera: Small Price, Big Results
What if you could get a DSLR that is small, inexpensive and easy for beginners to use, while still being powerful enough for a more experienced photographer?
Parallels Access Turns Windows and OS X Apps Into iPad-Friendly Versions
Access aims to let you use Windows and OS X programs on your tablet, blurring the lines between tablet operating systems and desktop operating systems.
The Nokia Lumia 1020’s Landmark Camera Does Not a Perfect Camera-Phone Make
The image quality is impeccable; the software has some quirks.
Review: Gone Home Is Realistically Haunting
The first game from The Fullbright Company creates tension without ghouls and ghosts.
Review: TiVo’s Roamio DVRs Stream to iPhones and iPads
The venerable TV box gets its biggest update in years.