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 laptop for gaming on a budget

Lenovo 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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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Best budget gaming laptops of 2026: The best cheap laptops we've tested and benchmarked | Tom's Hardwarewww.tomshardware.comtomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-la…ps?utm=airanks.net92
No more boring back-to-school laptops: The 15.6" Lenovo LOQ with Ryzen 5 processor and RTX 4050 graphics is $300 off - and it's a dream for aspiring creatorswww.techradar.comtechradar.com/computing/storage-ba…rs?utm=airanks.net77
This $899.99 Acer Nitro gaming laptop with Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU is a budget 1080p powerhouse — 16-inch rig boasts huge 32GB DDR5 RAM, fast 180Hz refresh rate, and a 512GB SSD | Tom's Hardwarewww.tomshardware.comtomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-la…sd?utm=airanks.net54
Acer Nitro V ANV15 41 R2Y3 Gaming Laptop– 15.6" Full HD 144Hz – AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS – GeForce RTX 4050 16GB DDR5 – 512GB SSD Obsidian Black ANV15-41-R2Y3 - Best Buywww.bestbuy.combestbuy.com/product/acer-nitro-v-a…ws?utm=airanks.net35
Lenovo LOQ 15.6" Gaming Laptop Full HD AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS 2023 16GB Memory NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB 512GB SSD Luna Grey 83JC0000US - Best Buywww.bestbuy.combestbuy.com/product/lenovo-loq-15-…HV?utm=airanks.net32
The Gigabyte A16 features an RTX 5060, Ryzen 7, and a 165Hz display — all for $999 thanks to a massive $500 price cut at Walmart | TechRadarwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/computing/gaming-lap…rt?utm=airanks.net30

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Lenovo locked Lenovo — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=422 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 89% of answers
Acer locked Acer — ci 0.86–0.86 · n=422 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 60% of answers
ASUS locked ASUS — ci 0.71–0.71 · n=422 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 48% of answers
MSI locked MSI — ci 0.57–0.57 · n=422 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 25% of answers
HP locked HP — ci 0.43–0.43 · n=422 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 19% of answers
Gigabyte locked Gigabyte — ci 0.29–0.29 · n=422 · 99.9% of resamples held this rank · named in 8% of answers
Alienware locked Alienware — ci 0.14–0.14 · n=422 · 99.5% of resamples held this rank · named in 2% of answers
Dell gathering Dell — gathering data, n=422. 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

1.00–1.00

Acer

0.86–0.86

ASUS

0.71–0.71

MSI

0.57–0.57

HP

0.43–0.43

Gigabyte

0.29–0.29

Alienware

0.14–0.14