if you’re shopping on a tight budget say $800 or less and you want more value or you just don’t want a Mac asus’s zook 14 is the way to go this laptop is from asus’s premium range so it actually punches well above its price in terms of its overall build quality it comes with either an AMD or Intel Core Ultra processor which are both plenty powerful for student needs and unlike a MacBook Air at this price point it comes with 16 G of memory and 512 gig of storage between the two models the Andy variant is cheaper offering more value plus it has better battery life but if you want better graphics say you’re doing some light gaming the Intel version is the one to get the main downsides though of both these laptops is at the price point you’ll likely be getting them with a 1920x 1200 resolution display although this does help boost battery life and it certainly does you may find that content on screen just does not look as sharp as other laptops in this Roundup if that annoys you look for the Zenbook 14x from last year