AIRANKS — The Authoritative Rankings for AI Web Content

AIRANKS measures AI visibility: we ask AI models real product and service questions, capture the complete answers as immutable observations, and publish what they contain — which brands were mentioned, which domains were cited, and which exact pages were linked. Every domain gets an AIR score from 1–10 (a decile of visibility in the active dataset; 0 means insufficient data), with the methodology in the open.

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The Question

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Best budget laptop windows

Lenovo takes the top spot in 54.6% of resamples. Of 7 ranked brands, only 2 hold a position we'd call firm.

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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Stop buying 8GB laptops: The best $500 picks with 16GB RAM | TechRadarwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/pro/stop-buying-8gb-…am?utm=airanks.net138
These are the 5 best laptops under $500 we tested to find the budget winnerswww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-lapt…00?utm=airanks.net136
Acer Aspire Go 15 15.6" Laptop Ryzen 5 7520U 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Radeon 610M Graphics Windows 11 AG15 21PT R641 Pure Silver - Best Buywww.bestbuy.combestbuy.com/product/acer-aspire-go…88?utm=airanks.net89
The 4 Best Laptops Under $500 of 2026 - RTINGS.comwww.rtings.comrtings.com/laptop/reviews/best/by-…00?utm=airanks.net78
Aspire Go 15 Laptop - AG15-32PT-3188 | Acer Store – USstore.acer.comstore.acer.com/en-us/aspire-go-15-…88?utm=airanks.net59
Don’t overpay: Here's the best laptops for students I'd buy right now for back to school | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/computing/laptops/do…ol?utm=airanks.net47
HP's OmniBook 3 16" beats everything else on the budget laptop market right now — if only the pricing were easier to predict | Windows Centralwww.windowscentral.comwindowscentral.com/hardware/hp/hp-…ew?utm=airanks.net46

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Lenovo contested Lenovo — ci 0.83–1.00 · n=424 · 54.6% of resamples held this rank · named in 83% of answers
Acer contested Acer — ci 0.83–1.00 · n=424 · 54.6% of resamples held this rank · named in 81% of answers
ASUS locked ASUS — ci 0.67–0.67 · n=424 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 43% of answers
Dell contested Dell — ci 0.33–0.50 · n=424 · 64.4% of resamples held this rank · named in 46% of answers
Microsoft contested Microsoft — ci 0.17–0.50 · n=424 · 59.3% of resamples held this rank · named in 25% of answers
HP firm HP — ci 0.17–0.33 · n=424 · 93.9% of resamples held this rank · named in 28% of answers
Samsung gathering Samsung — gathering data, n=424. No bootstrap interval yet.

The Incomparability Lattice

what the intervals separate, not what the list claims

An edge means one brand's interval sits strictly above another's — zero overlap. No edge between two brands is not a gap in the drawing, it is the finding: their intervals overlap, and the bootstrap cannot tell them apart. Brands on the same rung are incomparable, not tied — the ranking above orders them anyway because a list has to print a total order; this diagram is the honest version.

Lenovo

0.83–1.00

Acer

0.83–1.00

ASUS

0.67–0.67

Dell

0.33–0.50

Microsoft

0.17–0.50

HP

0.17–0.33