We Tested 200 Laptops. This One Just Clocked 40+ Hours of Battery Life

Regular readers of PCMag know all about our Editors’ Choice award, our mark of value and excellence that we bestow on the best products that come through our labs. But here in the spring of 2026, we just minted a new honor: the PCMag Lab Awards, for products that achieve excellence in lab testing—and, more specifically, those that set a new performance benchmark. All of the products that we tag with our new Lab Awards badge have achieved a field-leading technical distinction of some kind—one that matters to our readers when they go to buy.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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