Laptop Mag is shutting down

Laptop Mag is shutting down aft astir 35 years of providing consumers with in-depth accusation astir laptops and different technology. In a unit gathering seen by The Verge, Faisal Alani, the planetary marque manager astatine Laptop Mag proprietor Future PLC, said, “After cautious information and a reappraisal of our semipermanent strategy, we’ve made the determination to adjacent the Laptop Mag concern effectual today.”

Laptop Mag has gone done galore evolutions implicit the years. It started arsenic a people work successful 1991 erstwhile Bedford Communications launched the Laptop Buyers’ Guide and Handbook. Laptop Mag was aboriginal acquired by TechMedia Network (now called Purch) successful 2011 and transitioned to digital-only contented successful 2013. Future PLC, the steadfast that owns brands similar PC Gamer, Tom’s Guide, and TechRadar, acquired Purch and Laptop Mag on with it.

“We are incredibly grateful for your dedication, talent, and contributions to Laptop Mag, and we are committed to supporting you passim this transition,” Alani said. Laptop Mag’s shutdown follows the closure of long-time tech tract AnandTech, which was besides owned by Future PLC. It’s not wide whether Laptop Mag’s archives volition beryllium disposable pursuing the shutdown. Future PLC declined to comment.