This category holds every workstation and business laptop review we’ve published: desktop workstations, mobile workstations, business laptops, and the desktop AI systems that now sit alongside them, from Dell Pro Precision, HP ZBook and EliteBook, and Lenovo ThinkPad P series to GB10 and GB300 machines like the NVIDIA DGX Spark and MSI XpertStation WS300. The benchmarks are sized to the class of machine. Laptops and desktop towers run SPECworkstation and SPECviewperf for professional graphics and compute, Blender and PCMark 10 for rendering and office work, and PCMark 10 Modern Office for battery runtime. Local AI systems are measured on LLM throughput at model sizes that fit their memory, and every system gets thermals and power recorded under sustained load.
The lab data from these reviews feeds our leaderboards, which are the fastest way to compare systems side by side: Best Desktop Workstations, Best Mobile Workstations, Best Business Laptops, and the Laptop Battery Life leaderboard, which ranks the 20 longest-running laptops we’ve tested. For local AI, the Best Laptops for Local AI and Best Desktops for Local AI pages rank systems on measured model performance, and our agentic AI hardware sizing guide covers how much VRAM, RAM, and storage a given model needs before you buy.
The Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition is the first XPS built on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark N1X. Dell houses the chip in what it calls its thinnest high-performance XPS yet: a 17.8mm CNC aluminum chassis with a 3.2K Tandem OLED touch panel, a 99Wh battery, three USB4 ports, HDMI 2.1b, and a full-size SD reader. Our
The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 is Lenovo’s thin flagship mobile workstation. This 16-inch machine carries the premium features the rest of the ThinkPad P line trims to meet weight and price targets. It’s an aluminum chassis that measures 9.87mm at the front edge and weighs under 1.8kg, a 90Wh battery with 140W charging, two
The Dell Pro Precision 9 T2 is the Xeon version of the single-GPU tower we reviewed a year ago as the Dell Pro Max Tower T2, and it arrives with two changes at once: a new name, as Dell moves its workstations back under the Precision brand, and a new platform, with Intel’s Xeon 6
The HP OmniBook Ultra 16 is HP’s 16-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark notebook, a 0.62-inch-thick laptop built around NVIDIA’s N1X superchip and a 3K OLED display. We tested two units side by side: one with the full 20-core N1X, 128GB of LPDDR5X, and a 2TB Gen5 SSD, and one with the same chip, 32GB, and a
The Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 16 puts the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X into a convertible: a 16-inch OLED touchscreen on a hinge that folds into tablet and tent modes, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and a 0.69-inch aluminum chassis. Our unit carries the full 20-core N1X with its 6,144-core Blackwell GPU, 64GB of LPDDR5X, and a
The Lenovo Pro 9n 15 is Lenovo’s 15.3-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark clamshell for creators, with a 165Hz 2.5K OLED display, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and an aluminum chassis 0.66 inches thick. Our unit carries the entry silicon: the 18-core N1X with a 5,120-core Blackwell GPU, 32GB of LPDDR5X, and a 1TB Gen4 SSD on Windows
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business is the first Surface laptop built on NVIDIA silicon, and the first RTX Spark system to get a review from us. Our unit carries the full chip: a 20-core Grace Arm CPU, a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, and 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, with the user able to
The ASUS ExpertCenter PN55 is the AMD side of ASUS’s commercial mini PC line, a 130 x 130 x 34mm box that puts a Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 2280 slots, and dual 2.5GbE behind a fingerprint reader and a Copilot key. Our review unit runs the Ryzen AI
The ASUS NUC 16 Pro moves the NUC Pro line from a 4×4-inch footprint to 5×4 inches, and ASUS spends the extra inch on a second M.2 slot, a second 2.5GbE port, and a cooling stack of two exhaust fans, a dedicated DIMM fan, and three heat pipes. Our review unit pairs the Intel Core
We’ve taken a look at a couple of GB300 DGX Stations now, and recently had two of them physically in our lab at the same time: the ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 and the HP ZGX Fury AI Station. With both towers sitting next to each other, we wanted to connect them and see what
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