Laptops: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Apple's MacBook Pro M4 is at the top of the high-end, ultraportable food chain, and Best Buy has it on sale for $300 right now. Content creators, this deal is calling your name!

Whether you want a simple budget PC, a productivity workhorse, or a screamer of a gaming notebook, our experts have done the heavy lifting to help you find the right laptop for the job.

Microsoft posts a video of the Dell XPS 13 after a social media clip comparing the MacBook Neo to a flimsy-looking HP Victus laptop attracted millions of views.

Celebrate 250 years of the U.S.A. the PCMag way by picking up a new computer at a deep discount heading into the holiday weekend. A new machine plus the American Dream, what better way to celebrate?

A $100 bump in price has narrowed one of tech's most interesting budget battles. Here's where the MacBook Neo still wins—and where Chromebook Plus has closed the gap.

Intel says its new Wildcat Lake Core 3 Series chip family is built for affordable laptops. My first wave of tests shows exactly where it shines and struggles—and who should consider it.

Although the credits have rolled on Prime Day, a New Game+ option just appeared: six of the hottest gaming PCs we found deals on are still discounted, but the clock is ticking.

Amazon's big sale brought huge price drops on top-rated portables from Lenovo, Dell, Apple, and more. Some deals are sticking around, but we don't know how long they'll stay.

The sale's over, but a couple of discounts are tenaciously hanging on. Dell's got late Prime Day price drops on desktops, laptops, monitors, and more.

Apple's new, higher Mac prices aren't the return of the fabled "Apple tax." They show how even the biggest players aren't immune to today's global memory shortage.

Designing a 16-inch 2-in-1 laptop just right is downright difficult, especially at midrange pricing. The Lenovo IdeaPad 5i 2-in-1 16 is a clear example: Though a decent performer and satisfactory as a laptop, it lacks a high-quality screen and some creature comforts.

This high-efficiency, AI-accelerated 17-inch HP OmniBook 3 gives you a massive workspace and a long-lasting battery. It's almost half off, thanks to the Amazon Prime Day sale.

HP impressed us this Prime Day with big discounts on some of its best stuff, so check it out before Amazon's summer sale fizzles out.

If you're frantically clicking around in the last 24 hours of Prime Day, chill. Dell is here to help you save on awesome laptops, desktops, and peripherals.

Under 24 hours remain and then Prime Day goes back to its secret volcano lair until next year. Don't miss the chance to grab one of these 15 great laptops at the lowest possible price.

Price cuts as deep as 35% don't come around every day on prebuilt gaming PCs, so take advantage of Prime Day before it all ends tonight.

Memory costs have exploded in 2026, leading Apple and other computing giants to jack up laptop prices. Against that backdrop, here’s how to save on a new PC this year.

These are the discounts that made me stop scrolling: including 17% off a premium OLED Dell XPS 14, a featherweight LG Gram for a $450 discount, and an Asus Chromebook Plus for under $400.

The 2026 MacBook Pro 16-inch with M5 Max is a professional-laptop powerhouse that pairs the groundbreaking efficiency of the new M5 "super core" architecture with jaw-dropping battery life and future-ready Thunderbolt 5 connectivity.

The 2025 MacBook Pro 14-Inch looks identical to its predecessor, but the M5 chip delivers vastly amped-up AI and graphics muscle, vaulting Apple's "basic" power MacBook into a new class of mighty machine.