Podcast Ep. 6: The Best Laptops to Buy in the WORST Year to Buy a Laptop

Well, maybe I'll go with my ones.

And I think the first thing as I transition, and obviously if you've got more, just add them in as I speak.

But I think the thing that surprises me, Andrew, just hearing your recommendations, and I didn't know them before I hopped on camera, is just how many of them are the same as mine.

And I think it just shows the audience that a lot of people maybe buy one laptop in isolation and then perhaps argue with us that, hey, you should have given this one a better review.

And I think when you have as many laptops in to compare and contrast them between each other, it becomes so obvious which are the really good ones and which aren't.

You just know it.

I'm going to go through mine in a second, but the sheer number of duplication between your list and mine just really shows that when you're faced with a room of 200 laptops, it becomes really clear the ones that stand out.

But yeah, I'll go through mine.

I'll go through probably...

the cheapest to the most expensive.

And I was actually going to separate this into two sections, like best laptops and then best laptops for students.

But I think we kind of covered both anyway.

So I'll just highlight which are good student picks along the way.

I think the cheapest one I like, and I'm going to turn around to show you it because I have it down here, is the HP Omnibook 3.

And we have this Best Buy SKU that currently I think it's out of stock.

Hopefully they get more in.

But what really surprised me was it came in about $500.

So it's cheaper than your Neo, it's cheaper than your XPS, and it has the Qualcomm Base X chip from the original generation, which is more performant than the core chip that's in that XPS and also the Neo's A18 Pro, whatever it is.

So it actually has a bit more performance, and it costs less.

And one of the biggest risks of those laptops is that the performance just sucks.

And this one, I believe it may have even come with 16 gig of memory, which is obviously more than the Neo.

And it came with actually a very good screen.

It really surprised me.

The screen was really good.

So one of the things that gets me is normally when I recommend Qualcomm laptops, I tell people, oh, well, just be careful.