Ultraportables
Walk down any laptop aisle and you'll notice that the selection of laptops has gotten dramatically thinner and sleeker. These svelte lightweight designs, combined with the latest energy-efficient hardware and long-lasting batteries, produce laptops that deliver productivity with the sort of portability that old bulky clamshell designs could never offer.
These wafer-thin systems represent a new vision for ultraportable computing: a no-compromises laptop light enough that you'll forget it's in your briefcase, whose battery and storage let you resume work in seconds after being idle or asleep for days. Solid-state drives (SSD)—whether a full 128GB or 256GB SSD or, more affordably, 32GB to 64GB of eMMC flash storage—give these ultraportables their quick start and resume capability. Intel's marketing focus has migrated to the convertible-hybrid laptops and detachable-hybrid tablets that it refers to as 2-in-1 devices, but ultraportables are still a distinct category.
Most importantly, the entire laptop category has thinned down in general. Whether you're looking at ultraportables carefully designed to be sliver thin, mainstream PCs, or even gaming machines, the entire laptop category is thinner, lighter, and better suited to life on the go. The best of these models will still cost you a pretty penny, particularly if you're looking for a business system that won't weigh you down when you travel for work, but the performance they offer is remarkable, and they often come with several high-end features as well. Features like 1080p touch screens, full-size HDMI ports, and 8+ hours of battery life are commonplace these days. Premium laptops (with premium prices) now come with 3K and 4K high-resolution screens, up to 3,840-by-2,560 resolution at the top end.
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