1. The list in brief
2. Best overall
3. Best budget
4. Best for graphic design
5. Best under $1,000
6. Best for travel
7. Best OLED
8. How to find the best
9. How we test at Laptop Mag
The best 2-in-1 laptops are perfect for anyone in need of versatility. Flipping between a traditional laptop layout to just a touchscreen, alongside anything you can think up with a 360-degree hinge, these laptops let you do it all. Microsoft was the first to bring these transfiguring laptops into our lives, and they have stood the test of time as the likes of Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and HP have joined the party.
Determining how a 2-in-1 laptop is right for you depends on a combination of price, design, display, power, and longevity. Considering most individuals using a 2-in-1 often work in creative or technical fields, having a bright and colorful panel to accompany them throughout a workday is vital. The necessity of battery life speaks for itself, especially when doing long shifts. A sturdy exterior is also important for 2-in-1 laptops, as they need to keep their own weight supported in a number of positions and angles.
If you're in need of the best of the best, not only is the Lenovo Yoga 9i the greatest overall 2-in-1 you can purchase right now, but it is one of our favorite laptops of the year. It combines a gorgeously vivid OLED display with a sturdy aluminum exterior, alongside great performance metrics. But if you need something gentler on the wallet, we recommend the Asus Vivobook S 14 Flip OLED, similarly packing a stunning display for less than half the price.
Momo Tabari graduated with a bachelor's degree in Journalism & Media Studies at Brooklyn College and has been covering tech for four years. She has written over a hundred reviews and has plenty of experience testing and critiquing laptops.
The Quick List
Best overall
Our reviewer sung the praises of the Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 as the best laptop she’s ever reviewed. Why? That 14-inch, OLED display is spec-freakin’-tacular. The stunning 2,800 x 1800 panel has “mouthwatering vibrancy” and a magnificent color depth that you can darn-near go swimming in. It also has a blisteringly fast SSD, loud, impactful speakers, decent battery life.
Best budget
Packed with a sleek, flexible design and a decent-performing AMD chipset, the Asus Vivobook S 14 Flip OLED is the best budget 2-in-1 laptop on the market. Aside from its ultraportable design, it has a stunning, eye-catching, 14-inch OLED display that will make you salivate over its vividity and color vigor.
Best for graphic design
The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is equipped with two vivid OLED displays, a 13th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU, and a great rotating soundbar. While the price point is a tad steep, its phenomenal performance, sturdy design, and compelling speaker system make for a great sell. Don't miss out on this gorgeous dual-screen laptop.
Best under $1,000
Looking for a 2-in-1 that doesn’t break the bank? The Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1 may be what you’re looking for. It has a massive, 16-inch, 1920 x 1200-pixel display, a bright panel, impressive performance, and most impressive of all, incredible battery life. This convertible shocked us by lasting 13 hours on a charge.
Best for travel
If you’re looking for a travel buddy, but don’t necessarily need a beastly companion, the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (9315) is the way to go. No, the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 isn’t the most powerful laptop you can secure, but it is lightweight, portable and compact, making it perfect for on-the-go busy bees. Plus, it has solid graphics performance, an excellent webcam, and a versatile design.
Best OLED
If you're on the lookout for a powerful 2-in-1 laptop with a thin, sleek design, beautiful OLED panel, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of SSD storage, powerful speakers, excellent performance metrics thanks to its Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and 11 hours of battery life all packed into a 2.8K display for less than $2,000, the HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) is absolutely worth the price.
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Best 2-in-1 overall
The Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 is one of the few laptops that has earned our prestigious Editor's Choice badge this year. I fell in love with the Yoga 9i as soon as I pulled it out of the box. Not only is this sleek, elegant convertible a stunner, but it hit such a harmonious note in other aspects, too. The Yoga 9i boasts an electrifying 14-inch, 2880x1880-pixel OLED multi-touch glossy display with a 90Hz refresh rate. A panel this good makes it an excellent choice for relaxing in bed and watching TV (which is what I've been doing lately through Brooklyn 99 binges).
It has an impressive 10-hour battery life on a single charge, which tears up the category average. That's not to mention that its speakers are loud and impactful, its SSD is blisteringly fast, and its performance is top-notch for anyone seeking seamless productivity across the board.
Its display performed exceptionally in our color tests, reproducing 142.1% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which is an incredible score that absolutely crushed similar laptops like the Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 (85.2%), Dell Inspiron 16 (69.9%) and HP Spectre x360 13.5-inch (87.7%).
The Yoga 9i didn’t do as amazingly on our brightness tests, but it still did fine as it managed an average of 353 nits. While better than the Inspiron 16 (307 nits), the Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 (381 nits) and Spectre x360 (355 nits) were brighter. It also surpasses the Gen 7 Yoga 9i with improved battery life with 10 hours and 10 minutes of longevity, which makes it a far superior option to its predecessor that only hit 8 hours and 6 minutes.
Get the Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 8, and you won't regret your purchase. Even now, I still use it today for creative writing, work and watching movies or TV. The convenience its laptop sleeve with a pen holder make it easy to pull out and get to my personal projects done, and no matter how I bend it, it feels sturdy and reliable.
See our full Lenovo Yoga 9i review.
Best budget
Looking for something what won't break the bank? The Asus Vivobook S 14 Flip OLED should be your number one budget pick on this list! It won't set your wallet on fire, and it's actually good.
There's no defeating this as a budget laptop. Even with its basic configuration, featuring an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 512GB SSD, it’s a 14-inch, 2-in-1 laptop that’s hard to beat at its $680 price point. This combination of slim portability and low-key power make it perfect for students needing something affordable that can be taken on the go. What’s more, it’s hard not to admire its simplistic yet premium-looking design.
Its Geekbench 5.4 multi-core performance score was 4,351, and while this isn't great for most laptops, it's understandable for the price. Products we compared it to mostly did better, with the Acer Swift 5 (9,859) and Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon (6,241) pulling far ahead, but the Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook (1,727) couldn't quite compete. Performance of this kind should be enough to handle light productivity tasks, but if you're planning on doing intense video editing, you'll want something more expensive.
It has a lightweight, ultraportable chassis, it can transform into a number of different postures, it has a gorgeous, 14-inch OLED display that will make you drool, and its sleek, dark blue chassis is a showstopper. It also has an LED NumberPad, great for consumers who are number crunchers.
See our full Asus Vivobook S 14 Flip OLED review
Best for graphic design
Not to be confused with its sibling the Yoga 9i Gen 8, the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i boasts a unique design even among 2-in-1s. It features two 13.3-inch 2800 x 1800 OLED touch displays with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and even includes a folio cover and the Lenovo Digital Pen. You can use each display independently or together and orient them vertically like a book or horizontally Nintendo DS-style.
While it's a bit expensive for a 2-in-1 at $1,999, you get a lot of power and performance for the price, not to mention that unique dual-display setup. The Yoga Book 9i includes a 13th Gen Intel Core i7, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics. It would have been nice to see a dedicated GPU here, but the integrated graphics are enough for most tasks. The only area where they might fall short is animation and motion graphics.
The Yoga Book 9i was was just shy of our 7,767 premium laptop average on Geekbench, scoring 7,765. The dual OLED displays passed our colorimeter test with flying colors, covering 136.5% of the DCI-P3 color gamut on the top display and 136.7% on the bottom display. This easily pulls ahead of competitors like the MacBook Air M2 (75.5%) and Asus Zenbook 17 (108.5%), but the Lenovo Yoga 9i (142.1%), which is our number one pick for a 2-in-1, cannot be defeated.
The brightness could be better, though, coming in at 335 nits on the top display and 344 nits on the bottom display, lower than the 392 nits average for this category. The MacBook Air M2 (489 nits) and Yoga 9i (353 nits) were brighter, but the Zenbook (323 nits) was just a tad dimmer.
The battery life averaged 9 hours and 18 minutes at 150 nits brightness, which is a bit lower than the category average of 10 hours and 32 minutes, but still impressive considering the battery is powering two OLED displays.
See our full Lenovo Yoga Book 9i review.
Best under $1,000
The Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1 has a large display and a bright panel (for the price) — two features that often work against battery life. But still, against all odds, the Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1 managed to last a whopping 13 hours and 38 minutes on a charge. That's almost 14 hours and far surpasses the category average of 10 hours and 40 minutes. This makes it perfect for people who need a solid 2-in-1 that can last long shifts, especially if they have a cumbersome commute.
Although it's under $1,000, this 16-inch Dell laptop has a premium design (the Laptop Mag editor who reviewed it says that the dark green configuration is the most attractive) and it delivered strong performance scores. It has a decent 12th Gen Intel Core i7 chip that can juggle all of your productivity needs in a cinch.
The Inspiron 16 hit an underwhelming 69.5% coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which is a bit below the 86.4% premium laptop average. Its brightness isn't much more compelling, coming in at 307 nits, which is once again dimmer than the 429-nit average. It managed a multi-core score of 6,757 on the Geekbench 5.4 overall performance test, which is better than the Asus Vivobook 16X (4,811), but weaker than the HP Spectre x360 16 (2022) (6,920) and Huawei MateBook 16s (9,337).
However, its SSD speed wasn't quite up for the task, managing a transfer rate of 802 megabytes per second. This is significantly behind the Spectre x360 16 (2,481MBps) and MateBook 16s (1,323MBps). If you often find yourself transferring files, this might be a bit slow for you.
See our full Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1 (7620) review.
Best for travel
Dell's XPS 13 series has always been a fan favorite in the laptop world, so why not consider its convertible, 2-in-1 version? The Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (9315) features a lightweight design with a detachable keyboard. This means it can be a tablet one minute and a clamshell laptop the next.
Not only is the XPS 13 2-in-1’s 13-inch, 2800 x 1920p touch display bright, it’s also plenty sharp. The Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 threw us for a loop when it dropped 60 frames per second on the Sid Meier’s Civilization VI benchmark at 1080p, which slid past its competitors with similar integrated GPUs. The XPS 13 2-in-1 has a pair of cameras, as well -- a 2160p shooter on the rear and a 1080p front cam -- and both shooters took great photos,
Some sacrifices you'll have to make, though, are power efficiency and port variety. It's an ideal pick if you're interested in a 2-in-1 that occupies more ground as a tablet than a laptop. On the Geekbench 5.4 overall performance test, it achieved a multi-core score of 7,097, which is a bit below the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (8,541), HP Spectre x360 14 (7,243), and Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro (8,250).
But with a display that hit 482 nits, which crushes the Surface Pro 9 (432 nits), Spectre x360 14 (355 nits), and Galaxy Book 3 Pro (377 nits), it's great to take on-the-go, even during sunny days. Its color wasn't quite as stellar, with a DCI-P3 color gamut coverage of 70.9%. This is worse than the Surface Pro 9 (75.1%), Spectre x360 14 (87.7%), and Galaxy Book 3 Pro (75.1%).
See our Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (9315) review.
Best OLED
Our review called the HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) a "near-perfect" laptop, with our very own Rami Tabari going as far as to say he'd buy it himself. With a powerful Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of SSD storage, and 11 hours of battery life packed into a 14-inch, 2.8K OLED touchscreen.
To top it all off, this absolutely beast is somehow only $1,858, and while that isn't necessarily cheap, it's a pretty impressive degree of power for a configuration this beefy. Otherwise, we were impressed by its sleek design, stunning OLED panel, bouncy keyboard, powerful speakers, and 4K webcam.
The Spectre covered 85.8% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, and while it is below the average premium laptop (98.5%), it was enough to destroy the ThinkPad (70.9%), Swift (79.1%), and MacBook (81.3%). And coming in with 366 nits of brightness, the Spectre could be brighter and doesn't meet the category average (431 nits). The ThinkPad (452 nits), Swift (374 nits), and MacBook (558 nits) outshined it.
We put the Spectre through the Geekbench 6.1 overall performance test, and its multi-core score of 12,358 flew far over the average premium laptop (8,443). It wasn't far from its competitors, with the ThinkPad (Core i7-1360P, 11,133), Swift (Ultra 7 155H, 12,434), and MacBook (M3, 11,968) resting in a relatively close range. It also has a decent SSD speed, with a transfer rate of 1,362 megabytes per second, which is close to the average (1,378 MBps). It was faster than the ThinkPad (1,249MBps), but not the Swift (1,458MBps) or MacBook (2,956MBps).
See our full HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) review.
How to find the best 2-in-1 laptops
You first need to decide what type of 2-in-1 laptop is right for you. If you want a primary computing device for home and work, you should probably go with a laptop that can convert into a tablet, or what we call a bendback 2-in-1. These include the HP Spectre x360 13, Dell XPS 13 and Lenovo Yoga C940.
If you want something more portable or just need a nice display for content viewing, consider buying a tablet that converts into a tablet via a detachable keyboard. In this category are the Microsoft Surface devices and Apple's iPad Pro. Tablets are also great for artists or designers because they typically support a stylus input and aren't as unwieldy as convertible laptops.
Once you've made a choice between tablet or laptop, decide how much power you need. When it comes to specs, we recommend buying a laptop with an 11th Gen Intel U-series or H-series Core i5 CPU, at least 8GB of RAM (16GB is great) and a minimum of 256GB of storage. AMD is coming in hot with its Ryzen 5000 chips, so keep an eye out for those.
Battery life is another key component of any good 2-in-1 laptop. If you plan to take the notebook to class or the library, don't count on there being an outlet! Consider a laptop that gets at least 9 hours of battery life, which should be enough to get you through a couple of classes with enough juice for studies.
How we test at Laptop Mag
We put 2-in-1 laptops through extensive benchmark testing — both synthetic and real-world — before they end up in the hands of our reviewers. We evaluate each aspect of the laptop, including its performance, battery life, display, speakers and heat management.
In our benchmark testing, we use a Klein K10 colorimeter to detect the brightness and sRGB color gamut of the laptop's display. For performance testing, we run the laptop through a gauntlet of benchmarks, including Geekbench 5.4 and 6.1/6.2 and 3DMark professional graphics tests.
To determine real-world performance, we task the laptop to convert a 4K video to 1080p resolution and to duplicate a 4.97GB multimedia file. Our real-world graphics test is the Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm benchmark with high settings at 1080p resolution. Gaming laptops go through an entire library of games at high settings to see how their discrete GPUs keep up.
We also run heat tests by playing a 15-minute full-screen video and measuring temperatures in different areas of the laptop. Last but not least, our battery test consists of continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness. For MacBooks and premium Windows 10 (and soon Windows 11) laptops, a runtime of over 9 hours is considered a good result whereas gaming laptops and workstations that can stay powered for longer than 5 hours deserve praise.
These tests are complemented with extensive hands-on testing from our reviewers who critique everything from the laptop's materials to the feel of its touchpad. For 2-in-1 laptops in particular, it needs a strong hinge and practical design to support its own weight. It's important that every part of the design feels sturdy so that no matter what position a user bends the hinge, it won't collapse.
