The best laptops and Chromebooks provide speed, power, and long battery life. Consumer Reports provides the top picks for a range of tasks.

The x360 is one of the better laptops money can buy, but it does have some minor flaws, such as loud fans, no HDMI port, and no internal pen storage, a drawback because it’s easier to lose the stylus, which sticks onto the side.

Released just last year, the 'Ultra' version of Samsung's tablet is not only a towering deal, it's a towering tablet, too, given its 14.6-inch display size.

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Buying a new Windows 8 device isn’t as simple as, say, picking up a new Android tablet. The device-spanning nature of the overhauled operating system means Windows works on a vast array of hardware, from laptops to tablets to desktops to genre-straddling ...