12 best laptops of the year 2025, tested and reviewed

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Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (Copilot+ PC) for $ 1300: The first Intel Copilot+ PC (7/10, wired review) we tested is the winner on all fronts, which has excellent AI and graphics performance and some of the best battery life we’ve ever seen in Intel’s hardware. With a 15.3 -inch screen a little weird, it hits its high points without breaking the bank, though the fan is tall and may weigh your system more than you like.

ASUS ZenBook A14 for $ 1,000: This is one of the lightest laptops we’ve ever tested, thanks to Caraluminums asus. The ZenBook A14 (8/10, Wired recommends) is also the first series A Series of the company and uses the new Snapdragon X Qualcomm chipset, which is the weakest and apparently the most affordable Snapdragon X series. While this laptop is excellent in terms of construction, portability and excellent battery exercise, the chipset is pale, only suitable for average web browsing, and still priced for what you get.

Asus ZenBook 14 OLED (2024) for $ 909: We were happy to see the less costly laptops that still cover some of the measures of artificial intelligence. ASUS ZenBook 14 OLED (7/10, Wired Review), the last case in the company’s affordable and non -nonsense laptops is below $ 1,000 and uses the new AMD RYZEN 7 (8840HS) CPU (8840HS). It is a small, portable device (3.1 pounds and 19 mm thick) and is packaged in many ports despite the narrow form. There are two USB-C ports (one of which is needed to charge), a full-size USB 3.2 port, a full-size HDMI output, and a microSD card reader. The keyboard has small flash keys but otherwise it is good.

ASUS VIVOBOOK S 14 OLED for $ 900: Unlike the ZenBook 14 OLED, the 14 -inch device exercises an OLED panel at a reasonable price of $ 1,000. VivoBook S 14 (8/10, is recommended that wiring) uses an Intel Core Ultra 9 Series 1 chipset with 16GB of RAM and a 1-TB SSD. This can do most of the daily tasks without any problems, although the screen can be brighter. Battery life is good and hit with average 12 hours. Unfortunately, the machine is a fingerprint magnet, so you constantly wipe it. It has many ports.

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Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge for $ 1450: Listen I don’t say you have to buy a copilot+ pc. These are Microsoft’s new laptops that run the Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, set for several new artificial information features. If you decide to need one, samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge (8/10, Wired recommends) our king is from the hill. Yes, it suffers from the same problems that most affect PC-Snapdragon hardware-graphical performance and compatibility problems-but these are largely resolved by many other strengths of the device. For beginners, this has the best overall performance of any Copilot+ PC laptop we’ve encountered to date, and the larger 16 -inch AMOLED screen even provides you for a numeric keyboard without feeling the keyboard. In AI -axis tasks, such as live subtitles in real -time Microsoft, the Galaxy Book4 Edge was unable to do so with the quick conversation of other Copilot+ PC devices we tested. Also, while playing YouTube full -screen movies, it remained cool and silent while battery life for 14 and a half hours. This is a little more expensive than the competition, but you can save some cash by choosing a smaller 14 -inch model.

Dell XPS 14 and XPS 16 for $ 1650+: Two XPS DELL laptops from 2024 (7/10, that wiring) is recommended for Windows users with jealousy Macbook. The design, specifications and sizes fully match Apple’s suggestions. The XPS 14 and 16 both have a beautiful and glossy design, ultra -bright and sharp OLED display (with a refresh rate of 120 Hz) and are very fast for everyday work. Unfortunately, when it comes to more intensive tasks such as video editing, Macbook criteria run circles around the XPS 14. The larger XPS 16, which uses a more powerful RTX 4070 graphics card, is much better but costs more than a similar MacBook. The XPS 14 and 16 are both beautiful and designed. They are very capable for most use, although heavy gamers and video editors want to look elsewhere. They are expensive for what you get, but if you don’t think you pay for the quality of the first class with clean and eye -catching design, then the XPS 14 and 16 are solid laptops.

Acer Chromebook plus 515 with $ 399: This is a 15 -inch Chromebook Plus (10/10, Wired) with the same internal components like Lenovo above. The battery life of this one is 8.5 hours of solid video playback. Acer offers an HDMI 1.4 output jack instead of the MicroSD Lenovo card slot, if you need to use or otherwise use the HDMI port, this is a better choice. There is also Chromebook plus 514 ($ 380) smaller as well.

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra with $ 3000: There are many things here to love (7/10, wired), but this price. Och you are minimal with the new Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor, the current CPU Core Core Intel CPU, along with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card. The 16 -inch touchscreen AMOLED 2,880 x 1800 pixels is magnificent to work magnificent and detonates the performance of everything we’ve tested from the water. But this price

ACER SWIFT 14 go for $ 1,000: This one is very similar to the Asus ZenBook 14 OLED, our top budget laptop. We found that Asus is a bit faster and well constructed, but Swift Go still offers prominent performance, especially given the price (10/7, wired). It also has a 15 -hour battery. The downward trend of speakers is not excellent and feels a little plastic throughout the body. But the lowest cost of the Intel Core Ultra laptop we tested for a few dollars, so if the budget is tight, the Swift Go is worth it.

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Copilot+ PC for $ 1200: The SVELTE SLIM 7X Lenovo (7/10, wired review) is not exciting, but it offers the best price to the performance of many Copilot+ PCs that we have tested. The battery life and function are standing, although the fan tends to be loud.

Microsoft Surface laptop (Seventh, 2024) for $ 1,550: Do you want a Windows laptop straight out of the horse’s mouth? Buy the Surface Edition 7 laptop (10.7, wired review). The performance is as solid battery life and you get a 120 Hz flat screen. It is so expensive only for what you get. For more information, read the best guide to our level laptops.