Top Laptops 2023

A few design improvements to the LG Gram 17 make the world's lightest 17-inch laptop an excellent choice for frequent travelers who need all the screen real estate they can get.

Microsoft’s 13.5in Surface Laptop 3 is a refined, premium Windows 10 machine that ticks almost every box and does so often at prices undercutting rivals.

I really like Lenovo’s new Thinkpad Carbon X1 and I think it has it where it counts: the construction, the inputs and the multitude of screens and hardware configurations, among others. Compared to the previous models, this 2019 X1 Carbon 7th gen improves in the screens, audio and noise-levels, but settles for shorter battery life and some performance limitations in demanding loads. We'll talk about all these aspects in the review below.

Impatient (and deep-pocketed) business pros will thrill to the Dell Latitude 5591, a speedy six-core productivity powerhouse that outruns most 15.6-inch laptop competitors.

The 15-inch MacBook Pro delivers strong performance, fast storage and long battery life. But it's as expensive as ever, particularly if you want a roomy SSD. And we'd like more ports.

The Razer Core X is one of the most competitively priced eGPUs on the market, as well as being attractive and solidly built.

The HP Chromebook 13 is the finest and thinnest Chrome OS machine yet, however the lack of a touchscreen and average battery life prevent it from being the best.

The Huawei MateBook 16 could have been one of the best laptops to come out in 2021. It has a beautiful 3:2 display and a lot of ports, but it’s not available everywhere.

The new XPS 13 Plus model offers a beautiful design, the edge-to-edge keyboard is an absolute triumph, and the OLED display is an eye-bathing treat. It’s not the most practical laptop for serious or power users, however, thanks to underwhelming battery life, a poor port selection, and a needlessly gimmicky approach to function keys.

The Dell Precision 5560 is a great workstation. It's available with Intel 11th Gen CPUs and discrete NVIDIA GPUs, which are powerful enough to handle demanding workloads like graphic design, 3D animation and modeling, and video editing. It has a fast SSD for quick file transfers, a comfortable keyboard that you can type on all day, and its memory and storage drive are user-replaceable. However, it gets hot under load, and there's some thermal throttling on the CPU.