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Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (Copilot+ PC) for $ 1,300: The first Intel-based Copilot+ PC (7/10, Wired Review) We have tested a winner on all fronts who have outstanding AI and graphics performance as well as some of the best battery life that we have ever seen on Intel Hardware. With its slightly strange 15.3-inch screen, it hits its highlights without breaking the bank, although the fan is loud and the system may weigh it more than you want.
Asus Zenbook A14 for $ 1,100: This is one of the lightest laptops we have ever tested thanks to Asus’ ceraluminum material. The ZenBook A14 (8/10, Wired recommends) is also the company’s first A-Serie laptop that employs the new Snapdragon X chipset from Qualcomm, the weakest and supposedly affordable of the Snapdragon X series. While this laptop is characterized in the processing quality, portability and the excellent battery life, the chipset is lackluster, only suitable for average tasks of web browsing and for what you get is still a little too high.
Asus Vivobook S 14 OLED for $ 900: This 14-inch machine has an OLED panel for a reasonable price of $ 1,000. The Vivobook S 14 (8/10, Wired recommends) is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 Series 1-chipset with 16 GB RAM and a 1-TB SSD. It can do most daily tasks without a problem, even though the screen can stand to become brighter. The battery life is okay and reaches up to 12 hours with average use. Unfortunately, the machine is a fingerprint magnet so that it constantly deviates it. It has many ports.
Dell XPS 14 And XPS 16 for $ 1,500: Dells two XPS laptops from 2024 (7/10, Wired recommends) Subject to Windows users with MacBook -Eifel addiction. The design, the specifications and the sizes are perfectly available for Apple’s. The XPS 14 and 16 both have a beautiful, slim design, wonderfully bright and sharp OLED screens (with 120 Hz screen update rates), and are much quick for everyday tasks. Unfortunately, the benchmarks of the MacBook benchmark have more intensive tasks such as video editing around the XPS 14. The larger XPS 16, which uses the more powerful RTX 4070 graphics card, has drawn much better, but costs more than a similarly powerful MacBook. The XPS 14 and 16 are both beautiful, well -designed machines. They are abundant for most applications, although heavy players and video editors want to look elsewhere. They are expensive for what you get, but if you don’t mind paying a bonus for the first -class processing quality with a clean, striking design, then the XPS 14 and 16 are solid laptops.
Acer Chromebook Plus 515 for 399 US dollars: This is a 15-inch chromebook plus model (8/10, Wired recommends) with the same internal components as the Lenovo, which we recommend above. The battery life for this is a solid 8.5 hours of full screen video reproduction time. The Acer offers an HDMI 1.4 output socket instead of the MicroSD card slot from Lenovo, so that you often specify presentations or use the HDMI connection in other ways. There are also the smaller ones Chromebook Plus 514 ($ 380) It’s just as great.
Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra for 3,000 US dollars: There is a lot to love here (7/10, Wired Review), but this price. Ouch. At least you will receive what you pay, with the new Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor, the current top-of-the-line processor in the Core Ultra CPU line-up from Intel and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 graphics card. The 16-inch touchscreen of 2,880 x 1,800 pixels is great to work on it, and performance has blown everything else that we tested from the water. But this price.
Acer Swift go 14 for $ 1,000: This is very similar to the Asus Zenbook 14 Oled, our top budget laptop. We found that the Asus is a bit faster and has a much nicer processing quality, but the Swift Go still outstanding performance, especially in view of the price7/10, Wired Review). It also has an impressive battery life of 15 hours. The disadvantage is the speakers that are not great, and overall the body feels a little plastic. However, this is the cheapest Intel Core -Ultra laptop that we tested for a few dollars. If the budget is scarce, the quick GO is considered.
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Copilot+ PC for $ 1,200: Lenovo’s slimer slim 7x (7/10, Wired Review) is not exciting, but it offers the best price-performance ratio of the many copilot+ PCs that we have tested. Accounting and performance are outstanding services, although the fan tends to run loudly.
Microsoft Surface Laptop (7th edition, 2024) for $ 1,600: Would you like a Windows laptop directly from the horse’s mouth? Buy the surface laptop of the 7th edition (7/10, Wired Review). The performance is solid like the battery life and you get a smooth 120 Hz display. It’s just too expensive for what you get. Read our Best surface laptops manual For more.
