Shopping for a brand new laptop no matter if it’s an older or newer model can be a daunting experience. You have to consider everything from the price factor to the different types of laptop brands. If your general uses mainly consist of work, you can’t go wrong with say, the Lenovo ThinkPad series. Maybe you should look at the ASUS ROG series if you are a hardcore gamer. There are also some of the best laptop brands that are actually known for specific uses such as gaming and productivity.
Apple MacBook Air M2
The new Apple MacBook Air M2 has even more speed and power efficiency than the previous generation. If the M1 was the best all-rounder laptop, then the M2 has to be even better. With an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, the MacBook Air M2 provides up to 1.4x faster video editing and gaming performance. At only 1.24kg and 1.13cm thin, the MacBook Air M2 brings exceptional performance in a thin, ultra-portable chassis.
The Apple’s MacBooks in the hall of fame is their brilliant and colour-accurate displays, and the MacBook Air M2 doesn’t disappoint in this area. It sports a 13.6” Liquid Retina display that is the biggest and brightest ever, with support for 1 billion colours. Your movies and photos will be super crisp and vivid.
Acer Swift 5
The Acer Swift 5 comes in fresh with the new 12th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU and sports up to 16GB RAM – more than enough power for daily tasks and gaming! The battery is designed to hold up to 17 hours and provide 4 hours of use in just 30 minutes of charge time. The attractive design of the Acer Swift 5 certainly adds more points to the laptop.
The 14” FHD IPS Antimicrobial Touchscreen is also bright and vivid, and it’s the first consumer laptop to come with a full-featured microbial solution that covers the chassis, keyboard, fingerprint reader, and hinge in a BPR & EPA compliant silver-ion antimicrobial agent.
Dell Inspiron 15 3000
The Dell Inspiron 15 3000 (3515) with AMD Ryzen chip, it doesn’t just a good combination of specifications to suffice a typical student’s workload but is also a good all-around budget laptop. While it can handle the likes of some basic video-editing work, it’s still more suited to handle general computing tasks more efficiently. This means the likes of multiple internet tabs opened at once, or for daily home and school work.
At such a price range for the AMD Ryzen model, you’ll get 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD. The latter’s going to be immensely helpful for booting up your laptop faster and loading documents as well as running applications quicker. With a wide 15.6-inch HD IPS display and an acceptable viewing ratio of the display to bezel from edge to edge, the laptop should be able to provide you with an expansive viewing experience.
ASUS VivoBook 15
The ASUS VivoBook 15 comes with an OLED display that lowered harmful blue light by 70%, thus providing better eye care and sleep quality. It also has 100% DCI-P3 best-in-class colour gamut, ensuring that your creativity can be displayed in the most accurate and vibrant way possible. The OLED displays on this laptop are considered to be the world’s best display panels, and provides bright colours, fast motion, and high contrast.
Powered by the latest generation Intel Core i7 processor with up to 16GB memory and the latest NVIDIA GeForce GPU, the VivoBook 15 OLED can stand up to any task you throw at it, even some light gaming. The Aerodynamic Iceblades accelerates cooling so that the laptop does not overheat easily, all the while being silent and discreet.
Dell XPS 15
The new Dell XPS 15 is powerful enough for graphics-intensive tasks. You can expect a smooth workflow even when multitasking. The Dell XPS 15’s 15.6” large display, however, will make you feel more comfortable while editing videos. Additionally, you can attain desktop-grade rendering power with an external graphics card thanks to its Thunderbolt 4 port.
This laptop also comes with a Dolby Vision feature in which highlights are delivered 40 times brighter and blacks are 10 times darker. The laptop is also equipped with 100% Adobe RGB and deep contrast to provide true-to-life colour. Every pixel can be observed in detail without the hassle of zooming in when you opt for the 4K UHD+ display variant.
