How to buy a laptop when everything’s expensive

If, after months of increasingly dire RAMageddon warnings, you just now find yourself in the market for a new laptop... we're here to help. In the latest installment of our "RAMageddon Survival Guide," laptop reviewer Antonio G. Di Benedetto joins David Imel to offer his recommendations.

Further reading:

• Apple announces September iPhone launch event (theverge.com/tech/983407/apple-iphone-launch-e…)

• Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games (theverge.com/tech/984936/xbox-disc-to-digital-…)

• Xbox’s limited-edition green Series X is already sold out (theverge.com/games/985678/xboxs-limited-editio…)

• Panic is passing Playdate tariff refunds on to customers (theverge.com/games/985364/panic-is-passing-on-…)

• A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping (theverge.com/tech/979996/best-laptops-students…)

• An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it (theverge.com/tech/983554/hp-omnibook-3-16-snap…)

• This is my new favorite laptop, but thanks to RAMageddon the price already went up by $800 (theverge.com/tech/971160/framework-laptop-13-p…)

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