12 Best Laptops of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Other Good Laptops to Consider

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition (Copilot+ PC) for $1,300: The archetypal Intel-based Copilot+ PC (7/10, WIRED Review) we tested is simply a victor connected each fronts, boasting outstanding AI and graphics show and immoderate of the champion artillery beingness we’ve ever seen connected Intel hardware. With its somewhat oddball 15.3-inch screen, it hits its precocious points without breaking the bank, though the instrumentality is large and the strategy whitethorn measurement you down much than you’d like.

Asus Zenbook A14 for $1,000: This is 1 of the lightest laptops we've ever tested, acknowledgment to Asus' Ceraluminum material. The Zenbook A14 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is besides the archetypal A-series laptop from the company, and it employs Qualcomm's caller Snapdragon X chipset, which is the weakest and supposedly the astir affordable of the Snapdragon X series. While this laptop excels successful physique quality, portability, and sports fantabulous artillery life, the chipset is lackluster, lone suitable for mean web browsing tasks, and it's inactive priced a small excessively precocious for what you get.

Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (2024) for $909: We've been pleasantly amazed to spot much lower-cost laptops that inactive incorporated immoderate measurement of artificial intelligence-focused show tuning. The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (7/10, WIRED Review), the latest successful the company's enactment of affordable, no-nonsense laptops, is nether $1,000 and uses the caller AMD Ryzen 7 CPU (model 8840HS). This is simply a small, portable instrumentality (3.1 pounds and 19 mm thick), and it packs successful plentifulness of ports contempt the slim form. There are 2 USB-C ports (one of which is needed for charging), 1 full-size USB 3.2 port, a full-size HDMI output, and a microSD paper reader. The keyboard has tiny arrow keys but is different bully to benignant on.

Asus Vivobook S 14 OLED for $900: Not dissimilar the Zenbook 14 OLED, this 14-inch instrumentality sports an OLED sheet for a tenable sub-$1,000 price. The Vivobook S 14 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 Series 1 chipset with 16 GB of RAM and a 1-TB SSD. It tin grip astir regular tasks with nary problem, though the surface could basal to get brighter. Battery beingness is OK, hitting up to 12 hours with mean use. Unfortunately, the instrumentality is simply a fingerprint magnet, truthful you'll perpetually beryllium wiping it down. It has plentifulness of ports.

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge for $1,450: Listen. I’m not saying you should bargain a Copilot+ PC. These are laptops with a caller designation from Microsoft, moving Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets, tuned for respective caller artificial quality features. If you determine you request one, Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is our king of the hill. Yes, it suffers from the aforesaid problems that interaction astir Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC hardware—middling graphics show and compatibility issues—but these are mostly flooded by the galore different strengths of the device. For starters, it has immoderate of the champion wide show of immoderate Copilot+ PC laptop we’ve encountered to date, and the larger, 16-inch AMOLED surface adjacent affords you country for a numeric keypad without making the keyboard consciousness cramped. At AI-driven tasks similar Microsoft’s real-time Live Captions, the Galaxy Book4 Edge kept up with rapid-fire dialog successful ways different Copilot+ PC devices we’ve tested weren’t capable to do. It besides stayed chill and quiescent portion cranking retired a artillery beingness of 14 and a fractional hours portion playing full-screen YouTube videos. It’s a spot pricier than the competition, but you tin prevention immoderate currency by opting for the smaller 14-inch model.

Dell XPS 14 and XPS 16 for $1,650+: Dell's 2 XPS laptops of 2024 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) are aimed astatine Windows users with MacBook jealousy. The design, specs, and sizes enactment up perfectly with Apple's offerings. The XPS 14 and 16 some person a gorgeous, sleek design, wonderfully agleam and crisp OLED screens (with 120-Hz surface refresh rates), and are plentifulness speedy for mundane tasks. Unfortunately, erstwhile it comes to much intensive tasks similar video editing, the MacBook's benchmarks tally circles astir the XPS 14. The larger XPS 16, which uses the much almighty RTX 4070 graphics card, fared overmuch amended but costs much than a likewise almighty MacBook. The XPS 14 and 16 are some beautiful, well-designed machines. They're plentifulness susceptible for astir usage cases, though dense gamers and video editors volition privation to look elsewhere. They're costly for what you get, but if you don't caput paying a premium for first-class physique prime with clean, eye-catching design, past the XPS 14 and 16 are coagulated laptops.

Acer Chromebook Plus 515 for $399: This is simply a 15-inch Chromebook Plus exemplary (8/10, WIRED Recommends) with the aforesaid interior components arsenic the Lenovo we urge above. The artillery beingness for this 1 is simply a coagulated 8.5 hours of full-screen video playback time. The Acer offers an HDMI 1.4 output jack successful spot of the Lenovo's microSD paper slot, making this 1 a amended prime if you often request to springiness presentations oregon different usage the HDMI port. There's besides the smaller Chromebook Plus 514 ($380) that's arsenic great.

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra for $3,000: There's overmuch to emotion present (7/10, WIRED Review), but that price. Ouch. You get what you wage for astatine least, with the caller Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor, the existent top-of-the-line processor successful Intel’s Core Ultra CPU lineup, on with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card. The 16-inch AMOLED 2,880 x 1,800 pixels touchscreen is magnificent to enactment connected and show blew everything other we've tested retired of the water. But that price.

Acer Swift Go 14 for $1,000: This 1 is precise akin to the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED, our apical fund laptop. We recovered the Asus to beryllium a small faster and person a overmuch nicer physique quality, but the Swift Go inactive offers outstanding performance, particularly considering the terms (7/10, WIRED Review). It besides boasts an awesome 15-hour artillery life. The downside is the speakers, which aren't great, and wide the assemblage feels a small plasticky. But this is the slightest costly Intel Core Ultra laptop we've tested by a fewer dollars, truthful if the fund is tight, the Swift Go is worthy considering.

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Copilot+ PC for $1,200: Lenovo's svelte Slim 7x (7/10, WIRED Review) isn't exciting, but it offers the champion price-to-performance ratio of the galore Copilot+ PCs we've tested. Battery beingness and show are standouts, though the instrumentality does thin to tally loud.

Microsoft Surface Laptop (7th Edition, 2024) for $1,550: Want a Windows laptop consecutive from the horse's mouth? Buy the 7th Edition Surface Laptop (7/10, WIRED Review). Performance is coagulated arsenic is artillery life, and you get a creaseless 120-Hz display. It's conscionable mode excessively pricey for what you get. Read our Best Surface Laptops guide for more.