Tag: Business
Aircraft hangars are one of the most demanding environments that require fire protection. Housing high-value aircraft, aviation fuel, maintenance equipment, electrical systems, and specialized tools, all these facilities need …
Markets do not move randomly across sectors. Money flows in a predictable sequence tied to where the economy stands in its cycle. Financials lead early recoveries. Industrials and materials …
Australian computer manufacturer Venom Computers has released the BlackBook S-Pro 14 Wraith G10, a 14-inch performance notebook aimed at professionals who need more capability than a standard ultrabook but …
Asus has unveiled the ExpertBook Ultra, a business laptop weighing 0.99 KG that the company claims can deliver 50W of sustained CPU performance inside a 11mm-thin chassis without thermal …
Strong customer experience rarely breaks down because of one obvious failure. More often, it slips because small operational gaps are left unchecked across systems, staffing, processes, and leadership. These …
Running a business in Australia brings a specific kind of pressure. Rising operational costs, fluctuating supplier pricing, and compliance overhead can eat into margins faster than expected. Cutting expenses …
Brooki Bakehouse has hired Andrew Head as its first Chief Executive Officer, as the bakery brand prepares to scale its operations domestically and internationally following a strategic partnership with …
HP revealed a broad set of updates at CES 2026, highlighting a strategy centred on flexible work, Ai integration and employee wellbeing. The announcements span new form factors, embedded …
Anker Innovations used this week’s All Energy Australia 2025 event in Melbourne to showcase its latest lineup of smart energy and connected living solutions, aiming to strengthen its presence …
Lenovo has unveiled its latest generation of ThinkCentre desktops, introducing Ai-powered systems aimed at small and medium businesses. The new ThinkCentre neo 55 Gen 6 lineup includes an all-in-one …
High Performance Laptops publishes several, on-going, laptop group tests but our quest to determine Australia’s Best Business Laptop operates a little differently and has significantly evolved over time. The …
In today’s digital-first economy, technology isn’t just supporting the business, it is the business. The role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has evolved from managing systems and infrastructure …
Lenovo has a huge range of desirable 14-inch business and productivity laptops and each range has multiple highly configurable variants. The 2025 (Gen 10) Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 is …
You’re battling productivity concerns and a cost-of-living crisis – and now there’s another challenge that might be hitting your business harder than you realise. Late payments aren’t just an …
We’re in the middle of one of the most exciting, disruptive and downright transformative moments in business history – the Ai revolution. Across the globe, artificial intelligence is reimagining …
Being “data-driven” has become a popular buzzword in recent years. In the push toward efficiency and more accurate decision-making, data has become a strategic pillar for many organisations. However, …
Both HP and AMD recently made a big fuss about the launch of the new ZBook. It strives to be an Ai-laden, ultraportable, workstation-grade, business-focused powerhouse for demanding professionals …
HP has launched the ZBook Ultra G1a, a 14-inch mobile workstation designed for professionals, businesses and creatives working across design, engineering and content creation. The new device brings together …
We like a business-grade ultraportable laptop as they’re tough, mobile and don’t have glossy screens. Here’s the latest Acer TravelMate P4 Spin 14 which is also a convertible tablet. …
We’ve been massively impressed with HP’s ultraportables in recent years. Now here’s our first Snapdragon-based model, the ‘business-grade’ HP EliteBook Ultra G1q. We’ve had some issues with Snapdragon laptops …
Australian businesses must act decisively to adapt to the rapidly advancing wave of artificial intelligence (Ai) and emerging technologies. Business leaders to pivot now or risk being left behind. …
The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) has released a blueprint for a simplified and pro-employment workplace relations system. It highlights the role of small businesses as a …
Australia has long thrived on principles of openness, adaptability and innovation, but in today’s interconnected world, its greatest asset is not just its strategic location between East and West …
Australian businesses can leverage open-source threat intelligence to boost their cyber-defences. Australian businesses of all sizes can subscribe to a Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP) instance, also known as …
I’ve been a huge fan of MSI Prestige laptops in the past. These ultraportable gems can come with discreet graphics chips for gaming and arrive in colours like show-stopping …
We’ve been very impressed with the Lunar Lake laptops that we’ve seen so far, but the Asus ExpertBook P5 is the first business laptop that we’ve seen with Intel’s …
Digital signage is a game-changer for businesses, but like any other marketing tool, it’s only powerful when it’s done right. Too often, businesses fall into the same traps when …
Optus has announced that its enterprise and business customers can now access high-speed, uncapped internet via satellite, provided they have a clear view of the sky. The new service, …
Having best of breed compliance technology in place will help your enterprise stay on the right side of the authorities elsewhere in the world. Is offshore expansion part of …
HP has greatly impressed us with its ultraportable, consumer (and business-grade) laptops in the past. Now, here’s the latest version of its Spectre x360 2-in-1 convertible. It’s a premium, …
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), most large Australian companies show confidence and significant commitment. Riverbed’s latest AI & Digital Experience Survey 2024 reveals that 83% of business …
The evolution of technology, from cloud computing to decentralisation and now generative AI, has made IT environments more complex than ever. This complexity is creating significant challenges for IT …
In the world of High Performance Laptops, the Asus’ ROG Zephyrus range is always popular. It’s Asus’ version of the do-it-all laptop that’s portable, can fit into an office …
We’ve seen some stunning laptops from Acer in recent months. Portable workhorses like the Swift Go 14 and the Swift Go 16 both became our daily drivers. We declared …
It’s fair to say that Lenovo makes some very good laptops. Just about every device we’ve seen has ended up at (or nearly at) the top of our monthly …
The Lenovo Yoga 7i wasn’t just one of the best, ultraportable business laptops we’d ever reviewed, it remains one of the best laptops we’ve ever used. Now, here’s the …
We rounded off 2022 with the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i taking top spot on our Best Laptops list and, ever since, we’ve been looking forward to seeing what the …
HP only recently showed off its new folding, OLED convertible laptop at its HP Flex event that was peripheral to SXSW Sydney. It was commonly called the HP Fold …
The HP Elite Dragonfly G4 is designed to be a top-tier, business-grade ultraportable laptop and it didn’t take us long to suspect that HP might have succeeded. It’s not …
Microsoft is back with its latest flagship convertible: the Surface Pro 9. It’s very thin and light (and Intel Evo certified) and the fact it’s almost more of a …
Acer’s Swift Go 14 is an Intel Evo-certified, ultraportable laptop with high-end features and some beefy power under the bonnet. Over the years, we’ve seen impressive laptops in this …
We’ve been enormously impressed with Asus’ Expertbook laptops in the past. They’ve been incredibly well made and impressively portable. This 16-inch version promises more of the same and we …
It’s been a long time since we’ve reviewed a Razer laptop – the company hasn’t been very ‘focused’ on the Australian market for the past year or so. However, …
What do you call a laptop with no keyboard? It sounds like the set-up to a joke but the actual answer is a tablet and yet the Asus Zenbook …
The Lenovo Yoga 7i seeks to be an ultimate business laptop that can convert into a tablet. The latest 16-inch model has a 13th-Gen Intel processor (which in Lenovo’s …
The Lenovo Ideapad Slim 1 is a low-cost laptop based on AMD technology. It’s ultraportable, should have a great battery life but has a bunch of cost-saving limitations. Is …
MSI’s Modern laptops are mid-range offerings that don’t excel at much but can offer great value as a general purpose, portable computer. The new, 13th Gen range has been …
Asus’ Zenbooks have been impressing the pants off us lately. They might not excel at all tasks, but they are phenomenal, all-rounders that will suit many tasks. We reviewed …
Microsoft Surfaces exist because Microsoft got a bit fed up that laptop partners weren’t always implementing all of its latest Windows features into its most popular laptops – in …
The HP Envy x360 2-in-1 Laptop 13-bf0022TU (to give it its full name), is yet another another business-class, ultraportable in our labs. But, despite its office-friendly credentials it’s actually …
We’ve had a bunch of business-grade ultraportables pass through our labs lately and we’ve had a bunch of them disappoint us. This is the souped-up version of one of …
Asus’ ExpertBooks have been some of our top-rated portable laptops since the site began. But, it’s been a while since we’ve had one in and they’ve been getting long …
HP’s top-tier business-oriented have impressed us in the past and now the company has several different ranges hitting the market. This is the HP Elitebook X360 1040 G9 – …
To say we’re fans of the MSI Prestige range is an understatement. Never has a laptop provoked such a visceral reaction for both its looks and performance except, perhaps, …
We’re seemingly swamped with ultraportable laptops at the moment but each one is impressing us in at least one way. At first glance, the new, Intel Evo-certified, Acer Swift …
We like a well-made ultraportable almost as much as an innovative Asus science experiment. Well the Asus Zenbook 14X OLED ticks both boxes and chucks in an OLED screen …
MSI’s Modern laptops tend to be mid-range, general-productivity, ‘Lifestyle’ laptops that offer reasonable quality at a reasonable price. They tend not to excel at much, but they can also …
Who doesn’t like an ultra-light ultraportable? Well, the Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 is just that. It’s incredibly thin, feels incredibly solid and yet it also promises premium performance. We’ve seen …
We’ve been impressed with Dynabook’s Portégé laptops which have kept true to the original Toshiba designs that revolutionised the world of ultraportable laptops back in the 90s. Now, here’s …
The Acer TravelMate Spin is a business-grade, convertible ultraportable laptop that aims to do it all in a stylish and robust manner. In a crowded market, where should it …
Regular readers will know we’re big fans of Asus’ ExpertBook ultraportables. They’re small, light, very usable and tend to have exceptional battery life, depending on the spec. Now, here’s …
Back in the day, Lenovo was the Rolls Royce of business notebooks but the rest of the world caught up. This latest Lenovo ThinkBook 15 wants to be a …
Of Huawei’s three, recent, ultraportable MateBooks, the MateBook D 14 is the cheapest. While it’s hard to distinguish it from it’s pricey brethren, there are a fair few changes …
We recently reviewed the flagship model of Huawei’s new MateBook series, the MateBook X Pro 2021 and the cheaper MateBook D 14. The Huawei MateBook 14 is the mid-range …
Huawei recently launched three new ultraportable ‘MateBook’ laptops. The Huawei MateBook X Pro 2021 is the flagship model which promises all the bells and whistles. So how good is …
MSI’s Summit series has always been aimed at “Business Elites” but we’ve always felt it’s come up short. Now here’s the latest MSI Summit Flip E16 and there are …
The new Dell XPS 17 9710 is Dell’s latest and greatest Creator laptop that’s designed for designers… and office types who want something better than the riff raff has. …
The new Dell XPS 15 9510 looks rather similar to those of the past few years. However, as we’ve learned with high performance laptops, this tends to suggest that a winning …
We’re big fans of Venom computers for an unusual reasons: the company guarantees a $500 trade-in payment after seven-years of use! That’s a great way of dealing with e-waste. …
Venom is a computer brand that’s based in Melbourne but sells to the world. While the Venom BlackBook Zero 14 Phantom isn’t the usual high performance laptop we’re used …
Dynabook is the evolution of Toshiba’s laptop division which subsequently got bought by Sharp… another great name in notebooks… at least in Asia. We recently reviewed the company’s Portégé …
MSI’s Summit range of laptops targets ‘Business Elites’ and seeks to marry high performance, style and portability together in order to create a desirable all-round-laptop. There’s even a reasonable graphics …
Dell’s XPS laptops have had a familiar look and feel for a few years now, but why change a winning design? The Dell XPS 13’s milled aluminium chassis and …
Lenovo’s ThinkVision M14t monitor is a thin, glossy, touch-screen panel that plugs into your computer via USB-C and provides a second display. There are no drivers required and it …
Asus’ ExpertBook range has been around for a few years, but this latest evolution, the Asus ExpertBook B9450, offers some head-turning features. Update: Check out the updated model, the Asus ExpertBook B9400 (which has …
Lenovo’s Yoga is a laptop and tablet rolled into one. Courtesy of its “Yoga 360” hinge, the Lenovo C940’s screen folds back (essentially) 360 degrees to become a 14mm tablet. But, there …
MSI’s Prestige 14 laptop sits atop a varied heap, offering portability and premium performance in a pulchritudinous package. We’ve tried-out two colour varieties; a sober, Carbon Grey sandblasted aluminium …
MSI makes, what can appear to be, a bewildering array of laptop variants. What’s more, those variants are all available in sub variants. The benefit of this is that …
Back in ye olden days, there was a great industry gasp when the first laptops with widescreens appeared. The extra real-estate was cited as revolutionary. Now here’s Huawei crowing …
