As of July 2025, we believe the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air powered by the M4 chip is the best cheap MacBook for most people.

This refurbished Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 is still a standout thanks to its 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, ...

The 2020 Surface Book 3 15” features the 15W 10th Generation Intel Ice Lake quad-core Intel Core i7-1065G7 with the boost speed up to 3.90 GHz. While the 2024 Surface Laptop 6 15” features the 28W ...

The 2023 Surface Laptop Studio 2 features the 45W 13th Generation Intel Raptor Lake H 14-core Intel Core i7-13700H with the boost speed up to 5.00 GHz. While the 2020 Surface Book 3 15” features the ...

Surface Laptop Go 3: Price and release date Unfortunately, the Laptop Go 3 has an even slightly higher price of entry at $799 in the US, but as long as Microsoft the necessary improvements in its ...

The Microsoft Surface Book 3 is also a very expensive laptop for its specs. The model I have, with 512GB of storage and 32GB of RAM, costs $2,799, which is pricey for a laptop with an ultrabook CPU.

And the Surface Book 3’s 13.5-inch display is higher resolution at 3,000 x 2,000 compared to the Surface Laptop Studio’s 14.4-inch display at 2,400 x 1,600.

The Surface Go 2 rounds out the bottom end and the the 15-inch Surface Book 3 marks the high end. But in the middle, where most people are shopping, things get murky.

The higher variant of the Surface Laptop Studio cone with the Intel Core i7-11370H processor and a 102 W charger. In addition, it weighs an extra 80g.