These are the best laptops and electronics products of 2023

Eschewing traditional laptop design is easy, convincing people to buy the “weird looking laptop” is tricky—but we instantly fell for the magical Lenovo Yoga Book 9i, a 2-in-1 productivity laptop with dual 13.3-inch, OLED displays that rotates and flips into handy, practical configurations. Its traditional laptop mode works with the included virtual and physical mouse and keyboard options. There’s an included stylus for note-taking and drawing in tablet mode. Cross-screen browsing and reader modes are fantastic for displaying a bunch of information at once. The Yoga Book 9i fits into your workflow the way you want it to. Read our full review.

For anyone beholden to the Apple ecosystem, the MacBook Pro 14 M2 Pro is the most well-balanced MacBook when comparing price to performance. No laptop we’ve tested comes close to its 24-hour battery life, its display is one of the brightest and most color-accurate we’ve tested, and it excelled at almost all of our benchmark tests—synthetic and real-world—speeding past the majority of Windows laptops we’ve tested with Intel or AMD processors, and (barely) bested by the Dell XPS 17 in integrated graphics performance. Read our full review.

This last-gen Dell Inspiron 14 Plus is a solid, multipurpose laptop, and the best overall productivity laptop you can get for under $900 that comes with a discrete GPU. Not only does it give you better graphics performance than an integrated GPU, but its 1TB of storage space is more than enough to store school or work files and multiple video games. The Inspiron 14 Plus also has a classy design, and springy keys, and comes with a service manual that teaches you how to repair it yourself. Its battery will last you nearly an entire workday, too. Read our full review.

Sometimes being the best laptop for the money also means being the best laptop for students in our world—and being a student often means forgoing fast performance and special features to save as much money as possible. But Dell sacrificed little to make its Inspiron 14 Plus more affordable than its competition, so that’s more money to put toward your cafeteria meal card. It comes configured with a last-gen CPU and GPU, but the Inspiron 14 Plus has more than enough moxie to last you through high school or your undergraduate degree. Read our full review.

It’s rare to find a gaming laptop with as fast performance and as long of battery life as the Asus ROG Strix G18 for under $2,500. In most games, its power-efficient Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card reaches over 100 fps at 1080p with the graphics set to the highest preset. If you want to hit the Strix G18’s 240Hz refresh rate, Nvidia 40-series GPUs support DLSS 3.0, which uses AI to generate new frames, so the graphics card doesn’t need to process as much. The result is a massive frame rate boost up to 100 fps—and sometimes more. Read our full review.

The reMarkable 2 isn't a conventional tablet, like an iPad Air or Samsung Galaxy Tab. Rather, it's designed with one purpose in mind: distraction-free productivity. When it comes to note-taking, planning, drawing diagrams, or typing up the first draft of an assignment or a chapter of your latest book, this tablet, with its proprietary, low-latency monochrome Canvas (similar to E-Ink in looks but different in function) display is an absolute beast. Primarily, the reMarkable 2 is designed to be used with a stylus—the device's textured display glass and wide selection of templates make it the closest thing we've found to scribbling on paper in the digital world. It can convert your handwriting to text and fire it off in an email or, sync with your smartphone, tablet, and computer where you can add typed notes to your work in the reMarkable app. Read our full review.

The Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 is as massive as it is impressive. The 49-inch ultrawide is, conceptually, two excellent 27-inch 1440p monitors stuck side-by-side in a single display. With a blazing fast 240Hz refresh rate, excellent color coverage that outpaces similarly-sized WOLED displays thanks to the application of quantum dots, a sleek, futuristic design, and the near-infinite contrast ratio OLED monitors are known for, there’s a reason the OLED G9 tops the list of best gaming monitors. Read our full review.

It turns out that you can teach an old dog new tricks. Four years after release, the SteelSeries Apex Pro received an update this year enabling Rapid Trigger functionality—the ability to immediately reset if it moves up or down, registering keystrokes as fast as you can mash. Combine that with the ability to set the actuation point and a price tag that hovers between $130 and $150 when similar competitors are often $200 or more, and you’ve got a winner. Read our full review.

Valve’s Steam Deck wasn’t the first handheld gaming PC, but it blew the doors off the market when it was released in 2022. This year was the first time a big company put out an alternative. The Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme isn’t perfect, but it offers enough to be competitive. A 120Hz, 1080p screen with plenty of color and contrast, excellent speakers, and much more power than the Steam Deck, all at only $50 more than the 512GB model of Valve’s handheld, makes this a compelling buy. Read our full review.

The Meta Quest 3 is an improvement on the Meta Quest 2 in every way and the best VR headset you can buy. At $500, it offers an impressive 2064 x 2208 pixels per eye at 120Hz, a 15% wider field of view than its predecessor, and access to both the Quest 2’s back catalog and the ability to play VR games from Steam or other sources. It also happens to be comfortable to wear. While the full-color passthrough video isn’t objectively impressive, it’s the best on the market right now. Read our full review.

While the Kindle Paperwhite might be Amazon's most popular e-reader, we think that the entry-level 11th-generation Kindle is currently the best that Amazon has to offer: it comes packing almost everything that makes Amazon's premium e-readers, like the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis great, at a fraction of the price. Written text and greyscale images look outstanding on this e-reader, with its bright, crisp 300 DPI monochrome display. By connecting a pair of Bluetooth headphones to it, you'll be able to use this Kindle to listen to your favorite Audible audiobook content. And of course, like any Amazon e-reader, the 11th-generation Kindle provides access to Amazon's massive collection of books, comic books, and manga. Read our full review.