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And where does the Gigabyte P34G fall in your ratings,, is it a multimedia notebook with a gtx760?, at least on par with the Asus, is it a gaming notebook? Or is 1.7 kg and no flashing lights means it doesnt rate in your gaming notebook definition? Or is it a premium business notebook?, or as it is not a Lenova, HP or Dell it cant be a business notebook?. I dont see it in any but it competes highly in all three categories!

Actually, I am losing confidence in your review process. I just rechecked your P34G evaluation of a month earlier and Please explain why the p34g is not in your top 10,,, it is the same form factor as the U24T, much faster graphics, vastly better screen, 16gb of ram, faster processor and costs 1 euro more, yet it is not listed...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Gigabyte-P34G-Notebook.105195.0.html

Perhaps your reviewer/s  should read your own reviews

It is annoying it see manufacturers who push the envelope not getting supported and the dreary mediocracy being maintained..

You have GOT to be kidding, recommending the Lenovo U510.  This is the most frequently fire-saled lenovo product on the outlet site, it has a dim screen, no battery life, it's a piece of fluff in a pretty chassis.  Recommend a laptop with a score of 79 on your gaming list?  What is wrong with you people?

notebookcheck is becoming ridiculous

Asus N550JK is not a ULV CPU. It's the same i7-4700HQ or i5-4200H as the N750JK.

Lenovo Ideapad Y50 (http://"http://www.thedostore.com/ideapad-y5059-431090.html") , a best gaming option laptop, with GDDR5-4G Graphic card..

Lenovo Ideapad Y50 (http://http//www.thedostore.com/ideapad-y5059-431090.html) , a best gaming option laptop, with GDDR5-4G Graphic card..

Can I ask why You have removed XPS 15 late 2013 model from this list comletly? A few moths ago it was frist for a long prerion of time then second now gone completly.

I must agree with all of these comments, although not to an angry degree. But the smaller boutiques with their actually great and quite powerful Multimedia Systems should get a leg up here, and one would expect at least one of these smaller laptop manufacturers would make this top ten list, which amounts to Notebookcheck's very real cred.

I'm also surprised the XPS 15 (early 2014) isn't here, when it was 2nd behind the MBPr15 until recently, and is one of the main machines compared against in the Zenbook NX500 review. As other commenters have noted, its difficult to rely on these lists when there are such glaring ommisions. More transparency would be appreciated.

Aghhhhhhhhhh, wtf is this wortman at 80, even the 18 month old gigabyte p34g gets 82, but of course its an old notebook and your criteria excludes older notebooks.... sic Macbook Pro retina, sorry your ratings have no credibility

"[v5-573g] could be even considered a gaming notebook, but it only costs 799 Euros" - so now the price makes a notebook gaming or not?

Seriously , your two top notebooks for "multimedia" have old GT750 GPU's...  I would have thought the graphics performance would be the key criteria in judging a multimedia notebook...

Please consider giving readers an alternative method for rating devices that doesn't revolve around your interpretation of what a multimedia, business, lightweight gaming device should be. JUST GIVE US THE FACTS and let us filter what criteria we think is important.

I really appreciate the detail of your technical evaluations but not your interpretation of them. 

How could you seriously recommend by rating an old notebook with ancient gpu at the top of your list when because of its age a new model is likely soon.

Further, you only encourage manufacturers it rest on their laurels

I don't really understand what is ASUS doing... In my opinion the N550JK is better in every aspect compared to the N551JK

Can someone fix the amazon.com links? Many of them are horribly wrong, pointing to similar models with outdated processors.

May I ask why the i7 FHD model of the XPS 15 9550 (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-15-9550-Core-i7-FHD-Notebook-Review.158875.0.html) is not listed, despite having a higher score than the i7 UHD version (i7 FHD: 88%; i7 UHD: 86%)?

I agree with some ratings for the May 2018 update. The Aero 15 is very nice as are the new HP laptops,ASUS etc. I still don't get how the XPS 15 is missed, or why you have the macbook ranked as number 1? Most everyone can agree the macbooks have not been refreshed in quite some time and the hardware specs are far behind some of these other offerings. Also, screen brightness does not dictate accuracy. The XPS infinity edge screen and probably some of HP's have the most accurate RGB color specs.

All given best multimedia notebook, any of one you can have for your official purposes and all notebook are perfect for work and also have smart features.

       

• Dell XPS 15 9560 (i7-7700HQ, UHD)Razer Blade (2017)
          HP Spectre x360 15t-bl100
     Apple MacBook Pro 15 2017 (2.8 GHz, 555)
     Gigabyte Aero 15
     Asus ZenBook Pro UX550VD
     Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro i5
     Acer Aspire 5 A517-51G-80L
     Dell Inspiron 17-7773-0043
     Acer Swift 3 SF314-52G-89SL
  

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It isn't really fair, you are evaluating v6 and v7 reviewed products with the same scale

(as of 2020 June 13)

I don't quite understand this ranking.

NBC had reviewed the 2020 macbook pro 16", yet they put the old butterfly switch 15" on the first place, whereas the 16" isn't even in the list?

And why are the lenovo ideapad s340 and msi ps63 modern even on the list in the first place?
Their screen and performance are just mediocre at best, and as for the ps63, you call a laptop with less than 200nits of brightness a "multimedia" laptop? Seriously?

sorry for the typo: it's s540, not s340

Best multimedia laptop with 50 dB at load and with 50 °C on the keyboard?

So no  changes since the last list?

...no update to include the Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen4?

MacBook Pro 2021 with awful response time from 43ms is "best multimedia notebook"?

Are you seriously? On us, even playing a 30fps video (not to mention 50/60fps) cannot be guaranteed without a breakdown in synchronization - the panel simply does not have time to redraw the entire screen in 100% of cases. And this is the best "multimedia" screen? Not able to draw pixel to pixel 4k video or fhd video without muddiness? And even 2560x1440, it is also not able to draw pixel to pixel, i.e. can't physically draw clear anything at all?

Today, only 4k IPS/120Hz panels can be recognized as a multimedia screen (for example, HP install such panels in the Omen series since 2021, unlike Apple) and nothing else.

Moreover, all screens with miniLed backlighting suffer from zone halos. even 4000+ backlight zones are not enough to draw a clear picture on the screen, only screens with microLED are capable of this, but Apple could not launch them into a series.

Well, about the fact that on the Mac's screen all the glare is yours, I don't even mention it.

Until Apple installs normal, full-fledged panels with 4k resolution of 3840x2160 (or better 3840x2400 16:10), there can be no question of a "best multimedia laptop" in its camp. Only these panels are universal and give the highest quality in sharpness of details..

Here we go again with the apple fanboys.  Apple is one of the worst multimedia notebooks every made. It shouldn't even be on this let along the first three choices.  Apple computers are incompatible with at least 75 percent of audio formats and probably 60% of video formats. Apple blocks you from being able to install standalone players like VLC so you are forced to use a limited number of players which are also limited in their compatibility.  It may be the best and smoothly operating but when it's compatibility is crippled and your ability to introduce software is blocked it then becomes a terrible multimedia computer. Shouldn't even be on this list.

Oddly enough, after all these years, the only company represented in these that I trust even slightly is dell. Laptops are complicated. Now a lot of stuff can go wrong with them, and it's usually very hard to fix, because there's so many models that you like, even if you fully are confident that you are buying the correct part, you could have just barely bought the wrong one or it was listed slightly wrong because someone on the other end got confused because it's like fifteen characters.

Lenovo basically doesn't even have support if something goes wrong with it, you're just screwed. if it just came out recently and something goes wrong, then they'll just replace it, but if it's been a year, then they've already gone through, like ten new models of laptops like completely new models, not even just like mini revisions like what hp does where they release a new model, apparently every week.

I know asus said they were committing to not having the worst support in the entire world. But I haven't checked in to see how that is going, and if they actually it acted on that, or if it's the same as before, but before it was quite bad, so they'd have a lot of room to improve


And acer's not listed here, they have absolutely horrific support as well, and one said, laptop is no longer being produced, it's like lenovo,  they act like it never existed, but the conceptD 5 and 7 have the best form factor of any convertible laptop I've ever seen. I don't understand why they didn't just keep making them, and microsoft had a model I think of the surface laptop that faulted the same way because i'm so over that floppy keyboard thing with tablet keyboards, it's so useless in garbage.
But anyway, that is the best laptop I've ever had. But yeah, when something goes wrong with it, it's really, really difficult to fix on your own.And every time it's at risk that i'm just gonna blow it up completely cause it's so fragile once opened.