Top Laptops 2023

A rejiggered camera position and Intel’s new Whiskey Lake U processor makes the best thin-and-light laptop even better.

The Asus ZenBook 13 UX333 is a mixed bag. On one hand, it's a tiny and well-made ultrabook, it's powerful and offers good battery life, but on the other, it compromises on the screen's brightness, typing experience and IO, and its competitive pricing might not be enough to compensate for all these. We'll explain why in the detailed article below.

The Alienware m15 delivers strong gaming performance and endurance in a sleek package with long battery life for a gaming notebook.

Microsoft continues its winning streak with the brilliant Surface Laptop, which combines a thin and light design with powerful components.

It’s not the thinnest, lightest, or most powerful gaming laptop on the market, and we wish its 15.6-inch screen were brighter, but for just $750, the GTX 1050 Ti-powered Dell G3 packs an impressive punch.

Dell splices its XPS 15 DNA with its Precision mobile workstation line to create the 5530, a lightweight basher with overpowering six-core Xeon and Nvidia Quadro chops and a spiffy 4K touch panel.

With standout features like an integrated, powered stylus and a keyboard that retracts in tablet mode, Lenovo's ThinkPad X380 Yoga is an excellent 2-in-1 convertible laptop for corporate road warriors.

The 15.6-inch Lenovo ThinkPad L580 is one of the most appealing office desktop-replacement laptops you can find for less than $1,000.

The midrange EliteBook 840 G5 is a first-class 14-inch business laptop that challenges its up-the-stack HP kin, though you'll want to upgrade from the dim default screen.

Lenovo's ThinkPad T480 is the very definition of a workhorse business laptop, with a killer keyboard and a nifty hot-swappable battery. (Just spend the extra bucks for the bigger power pack.)