15 laptops to blow your budget on

How's that faithful old lappy holding up? Still ploughing on without a 'K' button? Good for you. 

When the time to upgrade finally does arrive (or you spill another tea on your old one - whichever happens first), how about pushing the boat out? Going big? Sinking some serious cash into a serious laptop that'll keep you going for years to come. 

Here we select 15 of the finest laptops money can buy. Choose wisely. 

MacBook Air

• Intel iCore i5
• 8MG RAM
• It's just so pretty

£999

Asus N Series

• Bang & Olufsen ICEpower speakers (it sounds massive)
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M graphics card
• 2TB hard drive

£899.95

Dell XPS 13

• Super-sharp 13.3-inch full HD edge-to-edge screen 
• 8GB RAM
• As good as anything with an Apple badge on it, but cheaper

£999.95

Microsoft Surface Book

• The best hybrid laptop/tablet currently available (in our humble opinion)
• 13.5-inch touch screen (so Windows 10 actually makes sense)
• Intel Core i5 processor

£1,299

Lenovo YOGA 900

• Fancy 360 hinge mechanism allows you to fold it flat into a tablet/tent/regular laptop
• Intel Core i7 (seriously impressive brains for a laptop)
• 13-inch QHD touch screen display

£1,199.95

Samsung Notebook 9

• Gorgeous, super-slim keyboard. It feels proper lovely
• 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 processor
• Weighs just 839g

£1,199

Dell Inspiron 15 7000

• Intel Core i7 process (big grunt)
• A proper NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB graphics card
• 15.6-inch UHD touch screen display

From £999

HP Spectre 13

• Seriously portable: world's thinnest laptop at 1.04cm in thickness, weighing just over 1kg 
• 256GB solid state drive
• Guaranteed to attract more compliments than a squad of puppies

£1,149.95

Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air

• 13.3-inch full HD display
• 256GB solid state drive
• 9.5 hour battery life - it's a really, really neat little package

Coming 27 August

Alienware 13 OLED

• Absurdly sharp 13-inch OLED screen
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M graphics card
• All-day battery life

From £999

HP Elite x2

• Seriously clever laptop/tablet hybrid feature with a kickstand that can find the perfect angle
• 12-inch touch screen display
• 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD

£934

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga

• A proper 'work' laptop with a 360-degree hinge
• 14-inch 2K touch display (if you pay extra for it)
• Built to last

From £1,289.99

MacBook (12-inch)

• Phwor
• 12-inch Retina display
• Cor blimey
• 512GB flash storage

£1,299

MSI GT80S 6QF

• ABSURDLY powerful
• Like, powerful enough to run a VR headset without breaking as sweat
• Pretty much the best gaming laptop there is. Seriously

£4,099

Toshiba Satellite P50

• Hard disk 1TB HDD and 8GB SSD solid state hybrid drive (store all the stuff ever)
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M video card
• Forget about using a desktop ever again

£1,099.95