5 of the Best Non-Apple Laptops to Buy Right Now

Operating system aside, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better ringer for the MacBook than the Surface Pro 7. On par with Apple’s hallmark product in price and perception, Microsoft’s crowning achievement features an all-day battery life and one of the fastest processors on the market.

Prices range from $800 to $2,300 USD.

There’s a notable fluidity to the Google Pixelbook that makes it the most contemporary laptop of the moment. Shifting and folding to serve as a tablet or a secondary screen to view movies/shows, the super-slim device features built-in Google Assistant and comes with a Google Pixel Pen for extremely high-level doodles.

Pricing starts at $999 USD.

You won’t find a laptop as impressive for its cost as Samsung’s Notebook 9 Pro. A touchscreen with unfathomable amounts of RAM and a 256GB SSD, this brilliance device is packed to the gills with tech and weighs only a mere 2.8 pounds and 0.55” inches thick.

There’s also fingerprint login for your Minority Report dreams—all for $1,099 USD.

There have been moments over the last decade when a Dell laptop felt like typing on a dinosaur. But times have changed, and the Austin-based tech giant is back in a place of prominence. The XPS 13 is representative of the brand’s modernizing; it is lightweight, slim, and mostly on par with its contemporaries.

This Windows laptop rings in at $980.

You don’t need to shell out $1,000 for a great laptop. In fact, Lenovo’s IdeaPad 730S is just slightly north of $600. A starter device of sorts and, for what it’s worth, lighter and even thinner than the current MacBook Air. An accelerated Samsung PCIe solid-state drive strengths the Lenovo’s performance optics greatly. But let’s be serious: That price is the real motivating factor.