200 Laptops Tested, One Battery King: This MSI 2-in-1 Lasted 42 Hours on a Charge
MSI's Prestige Flip 14 AI+ has earned the first PCMag Lab Award for Best Laptop Battery Life after lasting over 42 hours in testing. This result marks a significant leap in battery performance, setting a new benchmark among 200 laptops tested since 2024. The achievement reflects broader improvements in laptop efficiency driven by new processor technologies.
- ▪MSI's Prestige Flip 14 AI+ lasted over 42 hours in PCMag's battery life test, a record in their testing history.
- ▪PCMag has tested over 200 laptops since 2024, with battery life trends showing significant improvement due to new chip architectures.
- ▪The PCMag Lab Awards were introduced in 2026 to recognize hardware and software with field-leading technical performance.
- ▪Six laptops in PCMag's recent tests exceeded 30 hours of battery life, with the lowest in the top 10 reaching nearly 28 hours.
- ▪New processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X and Intel’s Lunar Lake and Panther Lake families are driving gains in power efficiency.
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PCMag readers know all about our Editors’ Choice award—the gold standard for standout products—but in 2026, we’re raising the bar. Enter the new PCMag Lab Awards, reserved for hardware and software that's not just best-in-class, but serves up a quantifiable, field-leading technical distinction in our tests. Lab Awards winners push performance forward in ways that truly matter when you’re actually buying.Laptops, of course, are a big focus of PCMag’s coverage. (PCs are our namesake, after all.) So it's fitting that our first laptop-related Lab Award focuses on an essential aspect of any machine: its battery life.
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