Best laptops for studying up to $1,500 today

Today it is the Apple MacBook Air 13″ Apple M5, for £1,179 (score 8.2).

The Asus Vivobook 18″ Ryzen 7 260, for £1,185 (score 8.0).

In the 6 Nov 2026 catalog, the median price of the 105 models in the segment is £750, and prices range from £268 to £1,449. The final price is the one at the store.

Models whose specs list 8 GB of RAM or more and 256 GB of storage or more, with a lowest collected price up to $1,500, are included. Each model counts once: if it has more than one version within the rule, the price is that of the cheapest version and the others show on the card.

This page looks only at models that pass the "laptops for study and basic use" rule and have a price up to $1,500. To see all the ranges for that use, open the use overview; to see all uses in the range, open the price range overview.

From cheapest to most expensive, the laptop that has a higher spec score than all the cheaper ones in the segment makes the line. Anything that costs more and has an equal or lower score is left out. The line doesn’t say which laptop to buy: it only shows which ones don’t lose on both score and price at once.

Every day, with each collection: numbers, chart, ranking and the "What changed" section are rebuilt with the day’s catalog. This edition is from 6 November 2026.