Best by the numbers
Laptops under €1000, ranked
The sweet spot for most buyers: enough budget for a decent screen and build without paying the flagship premium. This is every model under the bar in our database; the line under the title explains the ranking.
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The picks
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Apple MacBook Air 13 (M1, 2020)
Apple discontinued it but Walmart still sells the M1 Air around 549 to 599 dollars, and with the most mature Asahi support of any Apple Silicon machine it is the cheapest realistic way to put Fedora on an Apple laptop.
€ 929 8.0/10 Linux, minor tweaksStrong on Battery 9Build 9
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Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 (AMD)
A 1.25 kg 13-inch ThinkPad with a Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U, Radeon 780M and Ubuntu certification, around 650 dollars refurbished.
€ 700 7.5/10 Linux out of boxStrong on Keyboard 9Battery 8
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Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 (Intel)
A 1.49 kg 14-inch business ThinkPad with a SO-DIMM slot to 48 GB and a 400 nit 1200p panel, around 450 dollars refurbished.
€ 480 7.3/10 Linux out of boxStrong on Keyboard 9Build 8
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Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra, 2025)
The first Arm Chromebook Plus with a real OLED-grade panel and 14-hour battery for 649 dollars, but it is ChromeOS only.
€ 699 7.3/10 Linux not supportedStrong on Battery 9Screen 8
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Xiaomi Redmi Book Pro 16 (2025, Intel Core Ultra 200H)
A 16 inch 3K 165Hz Core Ultra 7 255H ultrabook with a 99 Wh battery for around 895 dollars grey-import, Linux runs with linux-firmware-git plus the usual Arrow Lake suspend quirks.
€ 830 7.3/10 Linux, minor tweaksStrong on Battery 8Screen 8
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 (2022)
A 1.12 kg 14-inch ThinkPad with a 16:10 panel and the older UVC webcam, around 600 dollars refurbished.
€ 640 7.2/10 Linux out of boxStrong on Keyboard 9Build 8
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Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 4 (Intel)
A 1.43 kg Raptor Lake refresh that swaps the Gen 3 P-series for a calmer 1335U U-series, with a 5 MP UVC webcam that needs no IPU driver.
€ 750 7.2/10 Linux out of boxStrong on Keyboard 9Build 8
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Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 (CP714-1H, Intel Core Ultra, 2024)
A premium 14-inch ChromeOS convertible with a Core Ultra 5, aluminium build and about 10-hour real battery for 749 dollars.
€ 799 7.2/10 Linux not supportedStrong on Build 8Keyboard 8
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HP OmniBook 5 14 (Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100, 2025)
A 1.35 kg ARM ultrabook with a 14 inch 1200p OLED and a 59 Wh battery that hits over 25 hours of video playback for around 900 dollars, but Snapdragon X Plus on Linux is still an experimental story and the X1P-42-100 is the lowest tier of the family.
€ 836 7.2/10 Linux unverifiedStrong on Battery 9Value 8
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Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 4 (AMD)
The AMD sibling of the T14 Gen 4 trades the Intel model's SO-DIMM slot for soldered LPDDR5x but keeps the 1.42 kg chassis and the ThinkPad keyboard, and the 7840U with Radeon 780M is a real step up in multicore.
€ 949 7.2/10 Linux out of boxStrong on Keyboard 9Build 8
