The best laptops you can buy on Prime Day, according to a tech expert

Right now is a particularly confusing time to buy a laptop. This year alone, laptop makers have released dozens of so-called AI PCs that make big claims about improving your creativity and productivity through fancy artificial intelligence features.

The thing is, many of these promises are still just that.

So don't buy a laptop for what it could do in the future. Instead, we recommend purchasing one of our favorites: They're reliable, feel good every day, and will last for years. Even better, many of these are currently on sale during the Amazon Prime Big Deals Days event.

I've written or edited most of Wirecutter's laptop guides since 2014, and in that time I've tested and reviewed hundreds of laptops: high-end Ultrabooks, budget Windows laptops, powerful gaming laptops, practical Chromebooks, and more.

So you can be confident in your choice because every option you see here has been reviewed by our team as part of our extensive testing process and should last for years. Additionally, the Wirecutter Deals team double-checked the discounts to confirm that all of the laptop deals on this site really are as good as they can be, no matter what kind of computing power you need.