BEST of 2024

[@Burbanana]

There's no doubt about it

[@RassamFanan]

Thanks!

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Thanks! Appreciate it

[@CF542]

I was surprised how much you enjoyed the 10 inch laptop.

[@CPA003]

I think it's worth mentioning that the dell XPS starts with 256gb SSD and charges you 300 bucks to upgrade to 512 gb. Similar story with RAM. It's important to hold the same standard that you hold for apple to Dell. Dell also has some very bad price gouging. Spec for spec, the macbook air 13 is 200 dollars cheaper than the xps 13. I'm not saying apple pricing is fair. It's also quite unfair/stingey.

[@cameronbosch1213]

Not to mention it's a horrible laptop with an embarrassing port selection, performance beaten by cheaper laptops, ugly design, bad keyboard, horrible touch row, and one of the worst touchpads I've ever used. Like, I'm struggling to find ANYTHING good about this year's XPS laptops.

[@CPA003]

@@cameronbosch1213 Yes I agree. The port selection makes the macbook air look like a laptop with a diverse port selection. In additon, although some say it looks good, I think it's a prime case of form of function.

[@Best0fBritish]

​@@cameronbosch1213They are the best because they are small, have good screen options, the best support reach and they great build quality. You trade performance and ports for that. I hope David gets a 2025 14 inch HP Elite book in as I am using one of the latest 2024 models alongside the XPS and it's a good bridge between an XPS and MacBook M4 Pro 14 with matte screen. The port selection on the HP is magnifico.

[@Oddly_potato]

What would you say the best laptop is for engineering and running simulations on CAD software and stuff?

[@Matrix_TM.]

honestly if the proart p16 had a haptic trackpad and 120 hz that would have been the best laptop overall imo, otherwise *great* video 👌

[@cameronbosch1213]

Haptic touchpads aren't always better than a good traditional glass touchpad. The MacBooks have good haptic touchpads. The XPS lineup has really bad haptic touchpads.

[@rafaelperez9652]

Invaluable video Andrew! This is one of those videos that needs to be watched more than once if anyone out there is looking to purchase a Best laptop of 2024!! Excellent Andrew!! 👏😁

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Appreciate it!

[@mastercompuk]

Hi Andrew, It's a very good channel with all reviews. I was just wondering if you could also create review for the best laptops for programmers. Long hours usage, working in diffrent environments, many windows and tabs open etc.. Thank you.

[@iamnoob-ep3tz]

shout out for the win max 2, I just love this thing so much along with the mini. Sad that I sold mine since I got a very good deal on the g16. Honestly win max 2 would be so good if you ignore it to be a handheld lol

[@gabl4157]

surface 7 15 inch 32gb for daily use, so much more fun than xps 9730 with 4070

[@camilstoenescu]

What's the difference between a business laptop and a pro laptop?

[@arijitroy7]

3:16 asus vivobook s14

[@Leonardo-sw8rx]

Galaxy book4 ultra 9 4070

[@alexshavlo6701]

Respect to the Professional !

[@Bluestreak589]

Think you came up with a pretty good list for this year. I was thinking about dinging the 16" MacBook Pro M4 Max but having thought about it a bit more I think you're right... Those of us who do work which can actually take advantage of the Max (vs Pro) know who we are - For most people the Pro is already overkill. The lineup I'm happy didn't make your list this year? Dell XPS... They just plain haven't lived up to the high bar set by pre-2020 models (whether it be QA/durability/reliability/engineering issues 2020-2023 or this year's - My opinion - Horrible redesign... I at least want real function keys if I can't have an AMD processor and 17" screen also).

[@brentomagic]

Do you think the Asus g16 is better than the lenovo 7i for a gaming laptop? I feel the lenovo is a great option too.

[@abdullaplays5402]

just watch josh does tech video on it

[@miguelangelt1445]

Why don't you include workstations?

[@CyberTweaker]

agreed with you but skipping the lenovo legion family (slim 5 oled and legion 5 pro, 7 and 7 pro) for gaming is criminal especially from a price to qualite or price to performance ratio.

[@cameronbosch1213]

Slim 5 OLED wasn't updated this year and neither was the Legion Pro 7 (the Pro 7i did get a spec refresh that was so minor it wasn't worth talking about). The Legion 7i this year was good, and a massive improvement over the Legion Slim 7i from last year, but still not great given the low battery life and suboptimal port location.

[@raymondong4504]

Is the X1 Carbon Gen 13 review coming out this year?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Should be coming this week

[@raymondong4504]

Cool! Thank you. Looking forward to it.

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

Best Mini LED LCD Windows laptop? I want the brightest screen.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i

[@frebrd78]

​@@andrewmarcdavidI just received mine today. Glad my intuition served me well. 👍

[@andreaorsini752]

I've just bought an Elitebook 1040 G11 with 32Gb of Ram Oled Screen 2.8k Meteor Lake 155H at about 1500 US Dollars. Terrible mistale??? Should I return it?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Great laptop.

[@Namu4Life]

When is the Legion 7i 2024 review going to come out?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

This week hopefully

[@RyanMilbrod-n4w]

How was the Knicks game?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

It was great. They won!

[@RassamFanan]

Thank you, however this video would be more helpful if it came before Black Friday and buying season, it’s just my POV

[@andrewmarcdavid]

I did the Early Black Friday and Black Friday videos

[@RassamFanan]

@@andrewmarcdavidThen this video head title is more appealing!

[@iifb2288]

Huawei matebook x pro 2024 . please review sir...

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Huawei does not send me review units.

[@JL-OnwardandUpward]

Microsoft Surface left out...please!

[@MarcoAshford]

Where did HP Spectre x360 go? Is it replaced by HP - OmniBook Ultra Flip and will never come back? They are the exact same specs. Andrew def was a fan with Josh in the chats haha!

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Yes, the OmniBook Ultra Flip replaces the Spectre x360

[@MarcoAshford]

@@andrewmarcdavid Oh NO! So that means my Spectre x360 is the last bloodline in my hand and it's gone forever? I'm gonna cry for a min. The new name blows. Spectre is always a cool name.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

@ I agree

[@MarcoAshford]

@@andrewmarcdavid hey thanks for the reply Andrew. What do you think is the biggest difference between Lunar lake and meteor lake? I really can’t tell much difference from raw specs. Is it drawing less power to make battery last longer?

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@MarcoAshfordit blows harder than the Dell XPS 2024! 😂

[@robertskett8164]

IMO Best 2024 13" laptop is the Pro Art 13 for sure? Cheaper and more powerful similar screen etc etc than the XPS 13, Or if that's too heavy or expensive then the MSI prestige 13 EVO that has just been refreshed with Lunar Lake

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Because it has a discrete gpu it is in the prosumer category. I could have made that category as well now that I think about it.

[@robertskett8164]

@@andrewmarcdavid I looked at the XPS over black Friday with £400 off, still too expensive and little too heavy for 13" for late 2024. 14" ones are same weight , 13" should be closer to 1kg IMO. Looking forward to new Zenbook 13. Hoping this gets lunar lake refresh soon. If MSI can do it...

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

14:49 Audio cuts off for a few seconds???

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Yes, I caught that but it was already uploaded. Thanks for letting me know. I may trim it out in a bit

[@mohsen925]

👌👍👍👍👍💯💯

[@tpham3527]

Your reviews were always most appreciated. This year came with many exciting laptops. The snapdragon captured my attention. I tried some of them, plus a meteor lake & a lunar lake ones. After using them for a few days, I found: Among the snapdragon laptops, MS surface 7 is the best. It worked perfectly with all my printers & scanner (except the old V19 Perfection. The Asus and the HP have terrible keyboards with light bleeding around keys. This caused difficulty to see the keys in low light. The XPS has zillions of background processed. The Lenovo Yoga Slim x would not work with any printers nor scanners. None of them, either snapdragon or intel woule work any better than my old Lenovo Legion with 12th gen I7 processor. Hence, I may end up waiting for next year releases or keep the MS Surface 7 for occasionally playing around.

[@Jayguevara1982]

I bought the 2024 G14 in April. It is fan-tas-tic. I use it for work, for gaming and for graphical work for the website of my employer. It's marketed as a gaming laptop, but it's more of an all-in-one, to be honest. It does everything well. Not the best in all categories, but, at least to me, it's just the best on average.

[@cameronbosch1213]

Too bad it's extremely expensive to get 32 GB of RAM and can't go higher. I need that for VMs and software development.

[@williamcohen3351]

Plenty of laptops to choose from depending on your needs. Great review.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Thanks 🙏

[@alimioricha7077]

Pls best laptops for engineering Especially the 2 in 1 pls ​@@andrewmarcdavid

[@ismaelrivera1999]

Great, love it. Did I miss the 2-1 category in the video?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

I chose HP OmniBook Ultra Flip and Lenovo Yoga 9i and they are in the video.

[@Sawyer907]

So no snapdragon laptops huh. Interesting.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

Dell XPS 13 was included which comes in two variants.

[@berntlie6799]

Question: what settings are used in benchmarking? * Battery or plugged in? * Best performance or balanced? Reason for question: I downloaded Geekbench 6 and Cinebench 2024 and ran them on my 2 year old HP Elite Dragonfly G3. If I do plugged-in and best performance, the scores are not lagging much behind what the Lunar Lake laptops do in your testing (only a couple of % difference in single core; 20-30% difference in multi core).

[@bradleycochran4595]

Andrew, I loved the video. For my Windows laptop, I have the Asus Zephyrus 16 with the AMD CPU and 4060 GPU. I use this for my fulltime job, part time teaching, and I enjoy playing Electron Arts Madden and FIFA. Have a great holiday season.

[@tecemdia9759]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@akin242002]

Thanks for all the hard work. Each deep review usually takes 3-5 days, so 100+ reviews are very taxing. For my needs, the Surface Laptop 7 13.8 inch laptop and Asus Zenbook S 14 Aura edition. Waiting on the price to drop for the X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

I appreciate it!

[@MrItwillbelegendary]

I was waiting for this! 🥳

[@AliHassan-cb7lr]

Thanks Andrew. For 16 inch, i am tied up between zenbook s16 and xps 16. XPS looks stunning with minimial sleek design , but s16 is so thin and light weight . Anything u can add here.

[@freshis16]

You should review the tuf a14. They gave a power efficient(and powerful) cpu dedicated nvidia graphics. It is amazing performance-wise.

[@cameronbosch1213]

It does look interesting. Where is the 32 GB of RAM model and where is the Zen 5 Zephyrus G14?

[@freshis16]

@ somewhere is asus’ basement, waiting yo come out.

[@andrewmarcdavid]

On the way. Hopefully review drops this week.

[@alimioricha7077]

Best laptops for Engineering pls Especially the convertible ones thanks 👍

[@tecemdia9759]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@jocman7339]

What about 17' ????

[@cameronbosch1213]

The 17 inch laptop class, presenting to the emergency room, dead, on arrival.

[@jocman7339]

That sucks... Any video in future 🤔 .? That Alienware m18 R2 looks good, but do you have any suggestion on similarly specificated LT ~ for general use & editing (this one is a bit heavy for portability)??? Keep on doing good work 😃👍

[@jurgenplaushku5835]

is it just me or your voice is used a lot in ai generated content?

[@andrewmarcdavid]

If that is the case, I am not getting any royalties unfortunately.

[@pointdooly]

Second!

[@MrRafaelgeneral]

First

[@majnuntech]

Thank you for the hard work all year long. Do you have any recommendations for anything 17 inch or bigger for gaming that is not shouting gamer laptop ?