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Notebook comparison: 9 laptops in the test
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The last few years have been extremely successful for notebook manufacturers from Acer to Lenovo. Due to the Corona-related trend towards home office and home schooling, the devices sold like hot cakes and many producers were often unable to meet the demand for mobile computers.
What happens in such times is clear: when demand exceeds supply, prices go up. However, the tide has now turned completely, because worldwide PC sales, which include notebooks, collapsed massively worldwide in the third quarter. Now it is noticeable that companies and private individuals have stocked up on new devices, the need for more notebooks is simply not that great anymore.
The beneficiaries of this situation are the people who have not bought a new notebook in the last two years and are currently looking for one. Manufacturers and sellers are sitting on full stocks, and so it is quite likely that one or the other notebook bargain can be made in the Christmas business.
Nine devices from 750 euros
In this comparison test you will find a selection of nine current notebooks at prices between 750 and almost 3200 euros, which we divided into two test fields – under and over 1000 euros. All devices are aimed at private buyers who are looking for a suitable notebook for at home or for work.
Outspoken business notebooks with features such as smart card readers, which private individuals usually do not need, are expressly not represented. Which device and price range you choose depends of course on your budget and personal requirements.
Basically, the cheaper and the more expensive devices differ in a few, but for some quite important points. One of them is the quality of the screen: Higher resolutions than Full HD and high brightness values can only be found in notebooks over 1000 euros. If neither is important to you, a cheaper device might do the trick.
test procedure
Our test devices have to go through a whole series of tests in our laboratory. We measure, among other things, the display brightness, the battery life and the speed of the installed hard drive.
The AS SSD software is used for the latter, the extremely demanding PC Mark 8 and the newer PC Mark 10 Battery Life for the battery life. The PC Mark is also used to assess the office performance, the performance in video editing, in image processing as well as in rendering and visualization.
We determine the gaming performance, which only plays a subordinate role in this comparison test, with the current 3DMark. And finally, we use the rendering benchmark Cinebench in versions R11.5 and R15 as a general CPU performance test.
Based on the results of the various tests, we calculate the final results in the subcategories of mobility, performance and display quality, which flow into the final result with the equipment rating.
