About

WikiLaptop compares laptop deals and prices. Every price is read from the store's own listing and stored with the moment it was read, so a number on this site always says when it was true.

Who writes this

Paul Syverson, writer and editor. He covers consumer computing hardware, tracks deals across the market, and reviews the rules and templates these pages are built from.

Where the numbers come from

Prices are read from the store's own listing and every one printed here carries the moment it was read. A price we may no longer quote is not shown as an old number: the page says to check it at the store instead.

Specifications are read from what the seller wrote in the listing. Nothing is inferred: a blank means the seller did not state it, not that the product lacks it. Where this site says a laptop has more of something than most, that is a count across the laptops listed here, not an opinion.

What we do not do

We do not have these laptops on a desk. Nobody here has opened one, run a benchmark on it, or lived with its keyboard for a week, and this site does not pretend otherwise. There are no scores, no star ratings and no verdicts, because every one of those would be invented. What this site can do is read a whole market at once, keep the prices with their moments, and let the numbers be compared.

Products are ordered by the price measured on the day. Nothing on this site is ranked by what it pays us, and the order does not change when a commission does.

We publish the number of products we cover on the front page, because a site that reads part of a market should say which part.