IdeaPad

IdeaPad Slim 3x 15 (Gen 10, Snapdragon X) The value pick for a bigger screen. Even the base model comes with 16GB of memory, rare at this price, and Expert Reviews ran its larger-battery version for 15 hours 2 minutes. It also carries a MIL-STD 810H durability rating and showed no flex or creaking in testing, reassuring for a laptop that will spend years in a bag. Two choices matter. The base 15.3-inch IPS screen is drab, so pay the modest extra for the 15.1-inch OLED version, which also brings the bigger battery. Like the HP, it runs Windows on Arm, and it has no spare memory slots, so the memory it ships with is what it keeps for life.