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The Corsair One continues to be our favorite compact high-performance gaming desktop. The latest model, the One a200 ($3,799 as tested), harnesses AMD s powerful Ryzen 5000 desktop silicon and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card for truly smooth 4K frame rates in today s toughest PC games. Though costly, like all things related to gaming hardware these days, the Corsair delivers a top-notch build, ultracompact dimensions, and blissfully quiet liquid-cooled operation. Indeed, it leaves few desires unmet from a power-user and aesthetic perspective. The One a200 easily claims our Editors Choice crown for a gaming desktop in this class.
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It s not that Lenovo offers more ThinkPads than you can shake a stick at it s just that it would take a very long time to shake that stick at them all. The ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 (starts at $896; $1,039 as tested) is a business laptop aimed at small offices, priced below the enterprise ThinkPad T and premium ThinkPad X series (in other words, overlapping the ThinkBook series). It s a 14-inch slimline with many of the ThinkPad virtues, such as a first-class keyboard and MIL-STD 810H durability. But it s on the heavy side for a 14-inch laptop; it has only one USB-C and one USB-A port (not counting an outdated USB 2.0 port); and the power adapter steals the USB-C port. Lenovo laptops regularly earn four or four and a half stars in our review ratings, but this one falls a bit short.
With stellar performance from an eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 processor, the latest Asus ZenBook 13 is an excellent blend of light weight and maximum performance in an ultraportable laptop.