Gaming & creative laptops

AMD’s best Ryzen CPUs are hard to top for their combo of raw power when plugged in and battery efficiency when not – ideal for gaming machines

SCORE PRICE As reviewed, £2,000 (£2,400 inc VAT) from razer.com To misquote Austin Powers, 14in laptops are my jam. They’re the best form factor for gaming laptops, being an actually portable scale fo

SCORE PRICE £708 (£850 inc VAT) from scan.co.uk German manufacturer Medion loves to deliver value-packed products, and so it’s no surprise to see it sell an RTX 50 series gaming laptop for a mere £850

Slim and light laptops look nicer, feel better and tend to last longer between charges than the rest. And no, you don’t actually need workstation-grade power just to record those music tracks you like to fuss over at the weekends. Here, then, are 2025’s top truly portable laptop contenders, ranging from under £500 to well over two grand…

All limits are off: we’re now only looking for the wildest, most ambitious laptops out there – most notably one that doesn’t look like a laptop at all

While just about every laptop wears the ‘AI’ banner these days, it was Qualcomm’s Snapdragon CPUs that introduced the Copilot+ concept