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

← all rankings / dataset COBALT

Best laptop for college

Apple takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 8 ranked brands, only 7 hold a position we'd call firm.

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brands named
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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 - Applewww.apple.comapple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-i…5/?utm=airanks.net84
The best laptops for students in 2026 | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-lapt…ts?utm=airanks.net79
Best College Laptops: Tested Picks for Research, Writing, Gaming and More | Tom's Hardwarewww.tomshardware.comtomshardware.com/best-picks/best-c…ps?utm=airanks.net77
Microsoft Word - Minimum Laptop Specifications 26-27 v3.docxwww.uc.eduuc.edu/content/dam/refresh/ceas-62…df?utm=airanks.net57
Surface Laptop (7th Edition) features | Microsoft Supportsupport.microsoft.comsupport.microsoft.com/en-us/surfac…es?utm=airanks.net46
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.net46

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Apple locked Apple — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=415 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
Dell locked Dell — ci 0.71–0.86 · n=415 · 97.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 45% of answers
Lenovo locked Lenovo — ci 0.71–0.86 · n=415 · 96.7% of resamples held this rank · named in 57% of answers
Microsoft locked Microsoft — ci 0.57–0.57 · n=415 · 99.6% of resamples held this rank · named in 35% of answers
ASUS locked ASUS — ci 0.43–0.43 · n=415 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 22% of answers
HP firm HP — ci 0.14–0.29 · n=415 · 92.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 7% of answers
Acer firm Acer — ci 0.14–0.29 · n=415 · 92.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 4% of answers
Framework gathering Framework — gathering data, n=415. 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.

Apple

1.00–1.00

Dell

0.71–0.86

Lenovo

0.71–0.86

Microsoft

0.57–0.57

ASUS

0.43–0.43

HP

0.14–0.29

Acer

0.14–0.29