When it comes to high-quality Windows computers, Dell’s XPS range is regularly on everyone’s lips. The XPS 13 has been a benchmark in its price range for several years thanks to its many advantages. It ticks all the boxes of the ideal laptop PC thanks to its qualitative materials, its neat screen and its generous power. It adds an autonomy of ten hours, ideal for a day of use. A hybrid version is also available for touch enthusiasts. Unfortunately, he bowed to the full power of the new Apple processor.

Honorable Mentions:

Acer Chromebook Spin 311 (CP311-3H-K988): A compact and rugged everyday companion. The Spin 311 is the perfect solution if you want to invest in a small family laptop. Indeed, it has enough power to serve you for simple office automation and multimedia. We excluded it from our selection because it falls outside our price range in addition to offering limited possibilities.

HP Chromebook x360 14c (14c-ca0000sf/14c-ca0005nf): A versatile premium chromebook. With its premium chassis and sleek ergonomics, the x360 14c is a good example of a high-quality chromebook. It also includes a 10th generation Intel Core i3 processor to handle all of your tasks, for the benefit of its overall versatility. It is unfortunately a little heavier than its competitors (+ 300 g) and is placed between two price ranges of our selection.

How To Choose The Best Laptop For Study And Work?

While it may seem easy to choose a laptop PC that meets the configurations we need on a daily basis, it is more difficult to determine which one offers both good performance and high hardware quality, all at a competitive price.

To determine the question of the real quality / price ratio of laptops offered on the market, you can rely on the following criteria:

• Screen: you will spend hundreds / thousands of hours staring at your screen. It is therefore impossible to neglect it. The screen resolution strongly impacts the sharpness of the whole and it is therefore essential that it is adapted to your diagonal. You should also not ignore the brightness of the screen, nor its anti-reflective treatment, for comfortable use. As for the dimensions, it’s up to you to see what suits best among the most common sizes: 11, 13-14, 15 and 17 inch.
• Mobility: the whole point of a laptop PC is to be able to move it easily without constantly having to search for an outlet or a place to install it. In this sense, it is therefore necessary to ensure the endurance of the battery and the transportability of the computer (reduced weight and size). This criterion depends of course on the intended use because a larger screen (ideal in multimedia), necessarily implies an additional overweight.
• Ergonomics: to enjoy high comfort when using your computer, you need to focus on its ergonomics. To do this, you have to look at the quality of the keyboard and the touchpad, their size and their responsiveness. Some additions, like a built-in backlight, are also beneficial to the overall experience.
• Power: the choice of components (CPU, GPU, RAM) must depend on your needs, an office configuration is not sufficient for gaming use because of its lack of power. On the other hand, having too much power for basic use is useless as the additional cost will be significant. However, take care of the overall balance of the configuration (for example, a Core i7 processor will not be able to run at full capacity with 4 GB of RAM).

To help you in your choice, in this comparison, we have preselected the most famous laptops on the market. By focusing on the idea of ​​a “standard” use of the PC (office automation, surfing, streaming), we have eliminated from our selection the more specialized computers, meeting very specific configurations and which are the subject of dedicated comparisons. (laptops for gamer, for graphic designers, for students,…), And we therefore limited ourselves to a maximum budget of $1,500.