We Tested 200 Laptops. This One Just Clocked 40+ Hours of Battery Life
PCMag has introduced the new PCMag Lab Awards, with the first honor going to MSI's Prestige Flip 14 AI+ for achieving over 40 hours of battery life in testing. This result marks a significant leap in laptop battery performance, setting a new benchmark in the industry. The award highlights advancements in processor efficiency and growing consumer demand for long-lasting devices.
- ▪MSI's Prestige Flip 14 AI+ lasted more than 40 hours in PCMag's battery life test, a new record.
- ▪PCMag tested over 200 laptops between 2024 and 2026, establishing a robust dataset for performance comparisons.
- ▪Recent improvements in battery life are attributed to efficient new processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X and Intel’s Lunar Lake and Panther Lake families.
- ▪Six laptops in PCMag's 2024–2026 tests achieved over 30 hours of battery life, with the lowest in the top 10 reaching nearly 28 hours.
- ▪The PCMag Lab Awards recognize products with quantifiable, field-leading technical achievements beyond standard Editors’ Choice criteria.
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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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