With high-quality notebooks, work-friendly screens and 5G modems are de rigueur. We test eight candidates born in 2022 in the laboratory.
There is more going on with premium devices than in any other notebook category. Apple has recently been shipping MacBooks with the M2; we brought the MacBook Air equipped with it.
Most of the seven Windows counterparts were announced at the beginning of the year, but only arrived in stores in late summer.
Intel’s twelfth Core i generation works in very different forms in the Asus ExpertBook B2 (B2402CB), Dell XPS 13 Plus (9320), Dynabook Portégé X30W-K, Framework Laptop and HP Elite Dragonfly G3. Lenovo’s ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 features an exclusive AMD CPU, the Ryzen 7 Pro 6860Z. And the second ThinkPad with the model designation X13s is the first (and currently only) in which you can buy Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen3.
