At IFA 2026, computing chased the high and low ends — AI and budget-focused machines left little for the rest of us

At IFA 2026, computing chased the high and low ends — AI and budget-focused machines left little for the rest of us

The computing world is splintering into two. At IFA 2026, the world of laptops continued its trajectory from Computex towards a logical conclusion: a world where personal computing aims at the low end to combat the MacBook Neo and pick up customers during a RAM shortage, but otherwise focuses on high-end machines that promise to be agentic machines for the next chapter of the AI boom.There are machines that are below $800 with 8GB of RAM, and there are machines that are multiple thousands of dollars with anywhere from 128GB to 192GB of memory. Want something in between? Good luck.

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