The Acer Nitro V 15 attempts to balance price and performance but falls flat by compromising in three critical areas: gaming performance, storage, and display quality.

Thin, light, and more than powerful enough to chug down your overabundance of Chrome tabs

A business laptop with outstanding battery life, but a disappointing IPS display

The Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 is an AI-powered refresh of one of the top Chromebooks, delivering smooth performance in an affordable package with built-in AI tools.

The Acer Swift 14 AI Intel is a decent productivity laptop with some highlight features, but not so good that you should add it to your cart immediately.

The Lenovo Chromebook Duet 11 Gen 9 is an incredibly portable Chrome tablet with solid battery life, high-quality cameras, slick stylus and gesture controls, and good performance for the price.

While it falls short on overall performance, the HP Omnibook Ultra Flip 14 has a couple of surprising strengths

The MSI Stealth A16 AI+ offers a great keyboard and long gaming battery life, but its price does not warrant a subpar display and slower performance than competitors.

This much power with this much battery life feels like it may break the laws of physics.

No laptop is so perfect that it can't be improved, but the 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 comes as close as any I've ever reviewed.