Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The best back to school laptops for 2026, ranked by price — from a $499 Windows laptop up to the MacBook Air M5.

HP OmniBook 3 - go.magik.ly/ml/412rj
MacBook Neo - go.magik.ly/ml/412ri
ASUS ZenBook A14 - go.magik.ly/ml/412rh
DELL XPS 13 - go.magik.ly/ml/412r7
MacBook Air 13 - go.magik.ly/ml/3c1no
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 - go.magik.ly/ml/412rf

Canada Links:
HP OmniBook 3 - go.magik.ly/ml/412rx
MacBook Neo - go.magik.ly/ml/412rn
ASUS ZenBook A14 - go.magik.ly/ml/412rt
DELL XPS 13 - go.magik.ly/ml/3ylop
MacBook Air 13 - go.magik.ly/ml/412rq
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 - (Canada doesn't have the cheaper model) Racists!

Everything got more expensive this year, so I'm doing this one cheapest to most expensive, and I'm using education pricing wherever it exists.

Six laptops. I've used five of them. The one I haven't, I say so.

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