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Apple’s latest 13-inch MacBook Air is thin and light, with a brilliant display. It uses the latest M4 chip and has a long-lasting 18 hours of battery life. This makes it ideal for students, creatives and everyone between. It's a very portable Mac that still delivers top-tier performance.

A sleek 2-in-1 laptop with a 14-inch touch display. It's a reliable option for everyday use and light creative work, so it’s great for students or professionals who want a portable device that can multitask well and last all day.

A larger 16-inch laptop in Lenovo’s budget-friendly lineup, this has a reliable processor and storage and will easily handle everyday tasks like browsing and streaming. This makes it a solid choice for anyone wanting a bigger screen without spending a lot.

This is a larger MacBook Air with all the same features as the 13-inch model. It has the M4 chip and the same storage and memory, but with a bigger 15-inch display. The extra space on the screen makes it great for multitasking or creative work, and it’s still very thin and light, with a long battery life. It’s ideal if you want a portable MacBook with a more expansive display.

This is a great price for a gaming laptop that's made to play the most demanding titles at speed and on a high refresh rate display. It has a comprehensive cooling system and while some of its rivals might have better displays and specs, this deal makes a versatile and powerful laptop much more affordable.

Samsung’s slim metal laptop is portable and light with a 15.6-inch HD screen. It has plenty of power for daily tasks like email, documents and video streaming. Its stylish design and Windows 11 make it a good pick for students or professionals who want a portable, well-built laptop for general use.

This is a solid pick for casual gamers or students who want good gaming capability without a high-end price tag. It has a decent 15-inch display and solid gaming specs for its price.

The LG gram Pro is an ultra-light 16-inch laptop with a high-resolution screen and a powerful Intel processor. It’s built for portability without sacrificing power, and it's great for on-the-go professionals or students. It'll handle multitasking and creative work, making it a good rival to a MacBook Air with a big display.

Dell’s premium 13.4-inch “ultrabook” has a top-end Intel chip and is extremely powerful for its size. With this, you're getting a high-refresh screen and lots of storage, so it’s ready for heavy multitasking or creative work. We'd recommend this one to professionals or power users who need top-tier performance in a portable form factor.

This 14-inch convertible Chromebook has a capable Intel processor and 8GB of RAM. Overall, it's quite powerful for a Chromebook, so it should easily handle dozens of Chrome tabs and multitasking with Android apps. Just remember that, as a Chromebook, it only runs ChromeOS apps and Android apps. It'll be best for people who mostly use the browser or use Google’s cloud services, like Google Docs, Sheets and Gmail. It should be great for students or as a secondary laptop.

We recommend this 16-inch Windows laptop with a Snapdragon X Elite chip, which makes it efficient and long-lasting. The big display is great for productivity, and it’s designed for AI-assisted features. Overall, this one's great for anyone after a large, sleek laptop with very long battery life and built-in AI tools. Just like other ARM laptops, though, it works best with apps optimised for ARM compatibility.

Another example of one of the more capable Chromebooks around – this one will have no trouble with handling web browsing and Android apps. As always with Chromebooks, it’s better for anyone who sticks to Google’s ecosystem of apps – whether for school or home use – because it only runs web or Android software.

While it’s not meant for gaming or demanding software, this 15.6-inch Dell has a good HD screen and decent specs, so it should work well for everyday tasks like browsing, streaming and office work.

This is a premium 13.3-inch Chromebook with a decent processor and a “Gemini” key for access to Google’s AI assistant. It’ll be fast, for a Chromebook, and the Gemini integration is nice if you want built-in AI help. But, like all Chromebooks, it'll only run web and Android apps. It's ideal if you want quick AI features in a laptop that's otherwise a high-end ChromeOS device.

Highly portable and equipped with the user-friendly ChromeOS operating system, this Chromebook is a great option for students. It's much more than just a lightweight model, with upgraded memory, a lay-flat hinge, wifi 6 support, a solid webcam, a Full HD touchscreen and up to 10 hours of battery life.

Ideal for studying and life admin, the HP 14S-DQ5003SA is a steal at £299 in the Prime Big Deal Days sale, with 44% off the RRP. This is the perfect laptop to sling into a backpack, with a neat, 14-inch screen and a slimline profile. A battery life of up to eight hours should mean it's not the end of the world, if you leave your charging cable at home.

Those after a cheap laptop to handle the basics – like emails, internet research and managing a Google calendar – won't be disappointed by this straightforward Chromebook. It has a big HD screen, a metal-look design, a great range of ports and a 180-degree hinge.

This affordable Chromebook is available at an even better price than usual right now. It's a 2-in-1 that folds into a tablet with its 12.2-inch touchscreen, and it delivers reliable performance and a useful selection of ports including an HDMI to get it connected to an external monitor.