Laptops
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Medion Erazer Deputy P1: Serious gaming, seriously cheap
Strong performance, a good keyboard and the option to add more memory and storage, plus a low price, make for an appealing package. Only the low-rent display lets the side down
£946
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Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra: The laptop that can do it all The Galaxy Book6 Ultra is equally at home doing anything you could conceivably want to do on your laptop. Only the high price and shallow keyboard let it down£3619 -
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M5 Pro Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2026): A magnificent beast of a laptop Apple’s latest powerhouse laptop ups the ante significantly, delivering double the power of the standard M5 machine and plenty more besides£4449 -
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Asus Zenbook A16: The Snapdragon laptop that can Qualcomm’s new X2 Snapdragon CPUs should have Intel, AMD and Apple worried, and in the new Zenbook A16, they have the perfect home£2099 -
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Acer Swift 16 AI: An incredible value Panther Lake laptop Acer once again delivers on the value front, but this time it’s not at the expense of build quality, design or features£1496 -
M5 MacBook Air: Great laptop, but the appeal is waning Still a brilliant laptop, but with the competition stronger than ever, the appeal of Apple’s flagship laptop is weakening£1299 -
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Apple MacBook Neo: The best budget laptop bar none The MacBook Neo is one of Apple’s greatest ever products - a genuinely brilliant laptop at a very reasonable price£599 -
The best laptops to buy right now Looking for a new laptop? We’ve reviewed and tested loads of them but only the best make our list -
Best laptop deals: Amazon Spring Deal Days 2026 Looking for a good price on a laptop? Here are the best we've seen so far in Amazon's Spring Sale/Spring Deal Days event -
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x is the best laptop deal I've seen so far in the Amazon spring sale £400 for a laptop with an OLED screen, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage is incredible value -
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I love the Asus Zenbook A14 and it's now on sale for a song in the Amazon Spring Sale The Asus Zenbook A14 is a veritable bargain at £650 - not the lowest it has ever been but this is a hell of a laptop for the money -
Apple MacBook Neo: The affordable macOS laptop we’ve been waiting for? Starting at just £599, the MacBook Neo is the accessible MacBook people have been calling for, though it is powered by an old mobile chip -
Return of the Mac(Book): Apple’s MacBook Air gets supercharged with the M5 chip The new 13in and 15in M5-powered MacBook Air laptops get a healthy boost in performance but are pricier than last year’s models -
Apple takes wraps off new MacBook Pro laptops with M5 Pro and M5 Max processors And yes, the prices have gone up, too