A glaring omission in Wirecutter’s laptoprecommendations: they say the HP Envy x360 13 is superior to their top picks, but don’t list it. This is ostensibly due to stock shortages, but a slightly different configuration (with the 4700U) has been in stock for a while. This is important because it’s $300-400 cheaper than their top picks.
The 13-inch HP Envy x360 with an AMD Ryzen 5-4500U processor is an excellent ultrabook—it’s compact, light, and had nearly 12 hours of battery life in our tests. It has a great keyboard, a responsive trackpad, and a reliable fingerprint reader, and build quality just as good as our other picks. But the Envy x360 is out of stock everywhere, so we can’t recommend it.
They didn’t recommend other laptops with AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs either, which other reviewers say are significantly better and slightly cheaper than Intel 10th generation CPUs. They also didn’t test the LG Gram (with an Intel CPU), whose previous iterations were excellent.
A glaring omission in Wirecutter’s laptop recommendations: they say the HP Envy x360 13 is superior to their top picks, but don’t list it. This is ostensibly due to stock shortages, but a slightly different configuration (with the 4700U) has been in stock for a while. This is important because it’s $300-400 cheaper than their top picks.
They didn’t recommend other laptops with AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs either, which other reviewers say are significantly better and slightly cheaper than Intel 10th generation CPUs. They also didn’t test the LG Gram (with an Intel CPU), whose previous iterations were excellent.