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 students 2026 13 inch

Apple takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 9 ranked brands, only 4 hold a position we'd call firm.

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answers sampled
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brands named
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bootstrap resamples

Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Dell XPS 13 Inch – Lightweight Touchscreen Laptop | Dell USAwww.dell.comdell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xp…op?utm=airanks.net105
Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 - Applewww.apple.comapple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-i…5/?utm=airanks.net102
The best 13-inch laptops in 2026: Top ultraportables worth your moneywww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-13-i…ps?utm=airanks.net77
The best laptops for students in 2026 | Tom's Guidewww.tomsguide.comtomsguide.com/best-picks/best-lapt…ts?utm=airanks.net64
Buy MacBook Air, 13-inch, M5 Chip, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, Silver, 32GB memory, 512GB storagewww.apple.comapple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air…ge?utm=airanks.net58

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Apple locked Apple — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=419 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
Dell locked Dell — ci 0.88–0.88 · n=419 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 85% of answers
Microsoft locked Microsoft — ci 0.75–0.75 · n=419 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 52% of answers
Framework firm Framework — ci 0.50–0.63 · n=419 · 80.5% of resamples held this rank · named in 4% of answers
Lenovo contested Lenovo — ci 0.38–0.63 · n=419 · 59.2% of resamples held this rank · named in 2% of answers
HP soft HP — ci 0.25–0.63 · n=419 · 69.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 2% of answers
ASUS gathering ASUS — gathering data, n=419. No bootstrap interval yet.
Acer gathering Acer — gathering data, n=419. No bootstrap interval yet.
MSI gathering MSI — gathering data, n=419. 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

0.88–0.88

Microsoft

0.75–0.75

Framework

0.50–0.63

Lenovo

0.38–0.63

HP

0.25–0.63