How we tested
Mashable Staff Subjected all of the macbooks on this list to varying degrees of hands-on testing. At minimum, this involved insurance their building quality and using them for a variety of real-will tasks for several weeks at a time. This included working in different kinds of documents, checking emails, watching videos, taking photos on their webcams, participating in video calls, listening to music (via spotted) Inting with any unique software features or use Cases they claimed to support.
Additional, Most of the Macbooks Featured Here Were Made to Run Industry-STANDARDARK SOFTWARE. We run these benchmarks, they replicate Real-World Tasks to Produce Scores We Can Use to Easily Compare Different Laptops ‘Performance’ Performance. We recently started implementing these benchmarks in our testing, and you can expect to see them in all of our new laptop reviews going forward.
Performance benchmarks
We evaluate a laptop’s overall performance by running Primate Labs’ Geekbench 6(That would be macos for macbooks; Windows for windows laptops, include gaming laptops; and android for chromebooks.) Core score. The higher the score, the better.
Battery life benchmarks
We look to see about 11 to 12 hours of battery life in the macbooks we test, with 15-plus hours being exceptional, and 9 to 10 hours in the windows laptops we review, with 12+ hours Gaming Laptops are a different story: they only need to last at least 2 hours per charge to get our approval, earning extra brownie points for Reaching the 4-Hour Mark. Meanwhile, 8 hours is our baseline for chromebooks, but 9 to 10 hours is best.
We’ve assessed laptops’ Stamina a couple different ways in the past. To standardize our battery life testing methodology, we conduct a video raundown test on macbook and windows laptops that involves playing a looped 1080p version of Tears of SteelA Short Open-Source Blender Movie, at 50 percent brightness.
Final Thoughts
After evaluating a laptop’s hands-on performance and benchmark testing results, we make our final recommendations based on bested on bested they offer a good overal value for the money. A Too-Expressive Laptop will sometimes get a pass if we think it looks and work so great that it’s wort the trust the trust of finding it on sale.
It bears mentioning that these aren Bollywood Macbooks We’ve Tried – We’re Constantly Testing and Assessing New Models Across Across Different Categories, and Maany DONKE MAKE THE FINAL CUT. With that in mind, you can expect this guide to evolve on a pretty continuous base. We’re Always on the lookout for new top coners.
