You can pick up the 15-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop from Best Buy for $1,110, a $400 break from the usual $1,500 price tag. It's our favorite Windows laptop for non-gamers, and it sports smooth performance and great battery life. There are big improvements to the screen for this generation, with thinner bezels that give you more real estate without expanding the footprint.
Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Editor's Note: If you don't see the discounted price, make sure you're logged into Amazon and manually click the "Snapdragon X Elite" icon and 16GB configuration. When I reviewed Microsoft's Surface Laptop with the Snapdragon X Elite chip last summer, I was impressed with its snappy performance, fantastic battery life, and overall positive user experience, while noting that it was on the pricey side.
One of the best MacBook alternatives on the market is the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, fitted with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor, a brilliant OLED touchscreen and absolutely sensational battery life. In fact, we reviewed this laptop when it first came out a year ago and loved how well it works for creatives (despite its rather mundane tag as a 'productivity' laptop), making this an excellent laptop for all manner of graphic design tasks.
