About LaptopChooser

LaptopChooser lines up laptops sold in the UK so you can compare them properly: the same detailed spec sheet for every model, filters for the things people actually shop on, plain-English verdicts, and side-by-side comparisons of up to five laptops.

It looks simple on the surface. Behind it is a lot of careful, slow work, and this page explains what that work is.

What goes into every laptop page

Every laptop on the site starts as a blank sheet of more than 60 specs, and we fill it in one researched value at a time.

• We go to the source. Specs come from the manufacturers’ own product pages, datasheets, spec sheets and manuals, backed up by structured product data from Open Icecat. A single laptop can mean reading through several documents from its maker.
• We match the exact model sold in the UK. Laptops come in many versions with different processors, memory, storage and screens, and UK models often differ from US ones. We pin each page to the specific configuration you can actually buy here, down to the model number.
• We record where every value came from. Each spec carries its source, so we can always go back and check it.
• We don’t guess. When a maker doesn’t publish something, the row stays blank. A missing value is more honest than a confident wrong one.

Across the site that adds up to nearly 12,000 individual values, each one looked up, checked and written down.

Checking it, line by line

Collecting the data is only half the job. The other half is making sure it’s right.

• We cross-check. Where more than one source covers the same laptop, we compare them, and when they disagree we go back to the manufacturer to settle it.
• We question anything that looks off. A battery figure that seems too good, a weight that doesn’t fit the size, a port list that doesn’t add up: each gets a second look before it goes live.
• We do our own homework on the chips. Every processor and graphics chip in our database has its own entry, researched from the chip makers’ own specifications and public benchmark rankings. That’s what lets us say “handles photo and video editing” or “plays modern games at 1080p” in plain English, alongside the raw specs.

Building a site that makes sense of it

A spreadsheet of specs doesn’t help anyone choose a laptop, so we’ve spent many hours turning the data into something useful.

• Filters that match how people shop, from budget and screen size to battery life, weight and ports.
• Categories built around real needs, like laptops for students, business, gaming or video editing, each with its own guide and answers to common questions.
• Hundreds of head-to-head comparisons, each with a written verdict, the differences that matter, and who each laptop suits.
• Plain-English summaries on every laptop page that explain what the specs mean for work, study, gaming and travel.

Every page is designed to work just as well on a phone as on a desktop, and we test it on both.

Keeping it live and up to date

Building the site took a lot of effort. Keeping it accurate takes even more, and it never stops.

• New laptops arrive all the time. We keep track of what’s launching and what UK shoppers are buying, and add new models as they appear.
• Old ones disappear. When a laptop is no longer sold in the UK, we take it off the site so you don’t fall in love with something you can’t buy.
• Details change. Makers revise configurations, publish new documents and correct their own specs. Chromebook update dates move. We go back over existing pages, not just new ones.
• Your corrections count. When someone tells us a spec is wrong, we check it against the maker’s documents and fix it.

You can see what we’ve added and improved in our changelog.

Which laptops we cover

We start from the laptops people in the UK buy most, then add current models from the major brands to fill the gaps. Where a model is sold in several configurations, each one we track gets its own page, and you can switch between them at the top of the page.

How we make money

When you buy something on Amazon after clicking one of our links, we may earn a small commission. It costs you nothing extra and doesn’t change what we show or in what order. Brands can’t pay to appear, and they don’t get to see or approve what we write. Read the full affiliate disclosure.

Get in touch

Spotted a wrong spec or a laptop we’re missing? Contact us. Corrections help everyone who uses the site after you.