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These are currently the best Ultrabooks
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If you are looking for a powerful, yet compact notebook, choose an Ultrabook. Stiftung Warentest currently lists nine of them, all with good grades. An Apple MacBook Pro is at the top, four powerful devices share second place, and a laptop is the clear price-performance winner.
Today, hardly anyone knows that the term “ultrabook” was once introduced by Intel for devices with certain minimum requirements. Today they are considered powerful, high-quality and compact notebooks. Because they usually don't have a touchscreen, Ultrabooks are also Windows alternatives to Apple's MacBooks for many users. Stiftung Warentest has nine current devices in this category in its list. Seven of them have just been tested, two were tested in the spring.
Apple defends first place
One of them is Leader MacBook Pro with 14-inch display and M2 Pro chip. The devices with an M3 chip that recently came onto the market no longer made it into the current test. However, they largely only differ in their somewhat higher computing power, which would be reflected in the partial grade for the functions.
The MacBook Pro with M2 Pro, which cost an average of 2230 euros, received an overall grade of 1.6. The functions and display received very good ratings, while the testers liked the endurance, handling and versatility.
Four strong pursuers, one clear price-performance winner
This also happened in the spring Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 with a 13.5 inch screen the quality rating is 1.9. With a price of 1030 euros, it is less than half as expensive as the front-runner and received consistently good marks from Stiftung Warentest, with the exception of only satisfactory versatility.
Das received the same overall grade in the most recent test Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UM3402YA-KP389W. Its average price is 1200 euros. The examiners gave his great endurance a 1, but otherwise there were good ratings in all other categories.
Third runner-up is the one that costs around 1450 euros LG Gram 14Z90R-G.AA79G. If the price doesn't go down, Asus is ahead because the reviews are practically identical.
In addition to the mileage, Stiftung Warentest also has the display Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 14 (1340 euros) was rated very well, otherwise the fourth ultrabook passed all other individual tests well with a quality rating of 1.9.
This is the examiner’s price-performance tip Acer Swift Go 14 SFG14-71-51JU. It costs an average of only 800 euros online, but with an overall grade of 2.1 it is only slightly weaker than the best ultrabooks in Warentest. Its display is very good, functions, battery, handling and versatility are good.
