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Apple MacBook Air 13 M5
A light, fanless 13.6-inch laptop with Apple's M5 chip and 16GB of memory, suited to email, documents, browsing and calls. Check the connections and fixed memory first.
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Best laptops for everyday jobs: email, documents and calls
Everyday work needs a laptop that runs your programmes, has room for your files and fits how you carry it.
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Apple MacBook Air 13 M5 vs Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (M4)
Both suit everyday work equally well. Unless you need something only the M5 offers, let the price decide.
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Apple MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max
Apple's fastest laptop chip in the compact 14-inch MacBook Pro. It finishes demanding creative work quickly, but independent testing found heat, fan noise and slowdowns under long, heavy loads.
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Apple MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro
Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Pro chip, a 120Hz mini-LED screen and a large 99.6Wh battery. It suits people whose photo, video or creative work makes an ordinary laptop wait.
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Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra
A 16-inch Windows laptop for creative work, with a 2880 x 1800 AMOLED touchscreen, six speakers and NVIDIA RTX 5060 graphics. The price and audible fans are the reasons to pause.
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Acer Aspire Go 15
A 15.6-inch Windows laptop that reaches our preferred 16GB memory and 512GB storage baseline at £449. It has a long battery run in Notebookcheck's test but a plain design.
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Acer Aspire Vero 16
A 16-inch Windows laptop with 16GB of memory and a roomy 1TB drive, a bright, colourful screen and long battery life. It suits work, study and home use rather than heavy creative work.
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Acer Chromebook 314 14
Acer's Chromebook 314 is a 14-inch ChromeOS laptop with 128GB of storage, twice the space of several bargain Chromebooks. With 4GB of memory, it suits web browsing, email and online documents rather than heavy work.
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ASUS CM14 Flip Chromebook
The ASUS CM14 Flip is a convertible Chromebook with a touchscreen that folds back into a tablet. That flexibility, not raw speed, is the reason to choose it over an ordinary bargain Chromebook.
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ASUS Vivobook Go 15 E1504FA
A 15.6-inch budget laptop with a Ryzen processor and a 512GB drive. It saves money by pairing them with only 8GB of memory, below our 16GB standard.
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ASUS Vivobook V16
A 16-inch Windows laptop with 16GB of memory and a 512GB SSD at £799 when we checked. It is large and about 1.95kg in TechRadar's higher-spec review unit, so it suits desk use more than carrying.
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ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED
A 1.2kg, 14-inch laptop with a 120Hz OLED screen, 32GB of memory and a 1TB drive. Worth it if you will use that memory and storage for demanding multitasking or large files.
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HP Chromebook 15a-nb0504sa
The HP Chromebook 15a is a 15.6-inch ChromeOS laptop with a roomier screen and a full keyboard with number pad. Its 4GB of memory makes it a simple machine for web-based work, by design.
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- Acer Aspire Go 15
- Acer Aspire Vero 16
- Acer Chromebook 314 14
- Apple MacBook Air 13 M5
- Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (M4)
- Apple MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max
- Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro
- ASUS CM14 Flip Chromebook
- ASUS Vivobook Go 15 E1504FA
- ASUS Vivobook V16
- ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED
- ASUS Zenbook A14 (UX3407)
- HP Chromebook 15a-nb0504sa
- HP OmniBook 5 16
- Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14
- Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15.3
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition 14
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition
- Microsoft Surface Laptop 13-inch
- Samsung Chromebook Go 14
- Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra