No matter if you're working from home full-time or just a few days a week, it's important to carve out a home office setup that separates your work and personal lives. It's equally vital that your workstation is kitted out with the right gear and accessories to make the day more bearable and comfortable. Since 2020, we've been testing standing desks, office chairs, monitors, USB hubs, keyboards, and tons of other work-from-home gear in our own lives. These are our favorites.
Updated June 2025: We've added several new products in nearly every category.
You'll Need a Good Laptop or PC
We're guessing you have a laptop or desktop PC, whether a personal device or your company’s. If not, here are a few of our favorite laptops. Our step-by-step laptop buying guide can also help.
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A MacBook Air is more than what most people need. The M4 chip is quite capable, even if you have light photo editing needs, and the hardware is excellent. The webcam is sharp, the display is bright, the battery is long-lasting, and there's decent port selection. It even supports two external monitors, so you can hook it up to other screens. If you need a bigger laptop display, go for the 15-inch MacBook Air, which also upgrades the speakers.
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With a 16-inch OLED screen, the Zenbook S 16 is a laptop you'll want to keep using after work hours. It's powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU with Radeon 880M graphics, along with 24 GB of RAM, which is plenty to handle most tasks compared to laptops in this price and weight class. It also lasts a long time off the charger—14 hours in our tests—so you can bring it to every room without lugging a power brick.
If you can do all your work via a browser, which happens to be Google Chrome, consider a Chromebook. The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is the best Chromebook ever made, with no flex whatsoever, a great trackpad, and an OLED display. It's plenty fast for web-browsing tasks and has a handful of helpful AI features. Port selection is a little limited, and you'll have to pay an extra $100 for the version with the touchscreen.
Apple iMac (M4, 2024) Photograph: Christopher Null
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