Top Laptops 2023

In the X280, Lenovo gives the ThinkPad X200 series its biggest redesign in ages, serving up a winning take on the 12.5-inch ultraportable.

There is a lot to like about the GS65. It’s well designed, super thin given its overall power, and has a crisp and fast display to boot. Also, it has battery life rarely found on a gaming laptop. The speakers are a letdown and the fans can get loud, and if you were looking for extra FPS due to additional cores, you're going to have to keep looking. Still, it's a great laptop for gaming, with looks that match its horsepower.

If you're shopping for a business laptop and portability is your top priority, Dell's capable13.3-inch Latitude 7380 is a pricey but lightweight solution.

We could wish for a few enhancements to the 13.3-inch Asus ZenBook UX330, but we know a good deal when we see one. Bonus: This ultraportable passes our productivity and battery tests with flying colors.

Formidable in every way (starting with its price), the HP ZBook 17 G4 mobile workstation and its color-calibrated UHD display are ready for the most demanding jobs, from video editing and 3D rendering to VR authoring.

Look past the Dell Latitude 5289 2-in-1's conservative design, and you'll find a thoroughly capable convertible with strong performance, elegant pen support, and almost-two-workday battery life.

The X270 is a compact, though chunky, take on the ThinkPad with a deceptive amount of power. Add to that a full port loadout and a swappable battery, and this Lenovo laptop will work through the day and into the night.

Empowered by Nvidia’s latest graphics, Razer's latest Blade refines the platform into the veritable MacBook Pro of Windows laptops – an apt analogy end to end – perhaps out-doing even Apple this time.

We’re rather in love with the MacBook Pro, but as with many love affairs there are irritations. The trackpad is huge and wonderful to use; but it’s so big that the keyboard has been pushed up to make room, as well as flattened down to make the laptop slimmer. These factors together mean typing on the new Pro is a little harder – especially for touch typists, who will struggle to locate keys at first – than on on previous models. And those arrow keys are a nightmare. The Touch Bar is lovely to look at and fun to use. Right now it’s fun, but we’re reasonably confident that it will become essential. This is a fast machine, of course, but maybe not quite fast enough for some tastes; it’s worth reflecting on that maximum spec of 16GB of RAM, which may hold this machine back from a role in genuine pro settings.  All in all, this is a fast and beautiful laptop but one with some flaws to consider.

The top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro is now slimmer and more capable, and comes equipped with Apple's new Touch Bar. It's a laptop with the speed, storage, and size that traveling power users crave. Just get ready to buy some dongles.