Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Most PCs are coming out of the box with the new operating system. That being said, it's getting less and less likely you'll buy a new laptop with Windows 10. You can find the system requirements for Windows 11 here. The Windows-based picks on this list should be ready to run Windows 11. We checked out the M2 Pro and M2 Max in the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros. The standard M2 can be found which you can find in the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. On Macs, Apple's top chip are the M2 series. ranging from 15 to 28 watts depdning on on the model. AMD's Ryzen 7000 series chips will compete with Intel with its own U-series. and we expect to see notebooks with those chips in the coming months.

Those are broken into 28-watt P-series chips for performance and 15-watt U-series for the slimmest designs. Intel's most recent chips are its 13th Gen 'Raptor Lake' chips. Of course, there's always new tech coming down the pipe. These days, Intel tends to use its Evo standard to label its top ultrabooks, and you'll often see the name on sticker badges alongside Core i5 or i7. However, just as many people refer to tissues as Kleenexes or web searching as Googling, the term ultrabook commonly refers to any premium ultraportable laptop, whether it carries Intel’s seal of approval or not. Much of this occurred as the PC world was first catching up to the original MacBook Air. The “ultrabook” moniker was originally coined by Intel in 2012 and used to refer to a set of premium, super-thin laptops that met the chipmaker’s predefined standards.

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