I recently reviewed the Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro, a solid laptop that lasted 12 hours and 25 minutes in our Laptop Mag battery life test. As I was writing my review, I found myself dwelling on the fact that this result that would have placed it on our list of the laptops with the best battery life just a year ago, but today it's not in screaming distance of making that list.
This isn't a case of a few outliers with long-lasting batteries, the new chipsets from Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel last year changed the game for Windows laptops. It's forced us to completely recalibrate our standards for good battery life in a laptop, but that's not all. We see laptops in virtually every category delivering a blend of performance and battery life that only Apple seemed to hold the secret to previously.
That's the real key to this change. In days of old, we'd see a laptop with over 12 hours of battery life, and it was a safe bet that it was using a low-powered processor that felt like a massive trade-off. Do you want all-day battery life or blistering fast performance?
But there's no need to make that choice in 2025. Here are five laptops that lasted over 15 hours in our testing and delivered outstanding performance.
