PC Pro Magazine November 2018 Back Issue

THIN AND LIGHT LAPTOPS: TWELVE ON TEST FROM £800
We pondered for a while: what shall we call this month’s laptops? Ultrabooks? That name – still an Intel trademark and specification – has fallen out of favour in recent years. Now people flit between “thin and light” and ultraportable, with a scattering of “2-in-1s” to confuse matters. Either way, it doesn’t matter. These are the slimmest and coolest laptops in town; the laptops you want to be seen using at home, at work and on the move. If that means a high price, so be it. When we challenged manufacturers to bring us their best thin-and-light laptops, we explained we didn’t care how much they cost as long as they kept thickness and weight to a minimum. We wanted to showcase the breadth of laptops you can buy that will work in almost any situation, whether you’re killing time in the coffee shop, watching Netflix on the sofa or sweating over a PowerPoint presentation at your desk. The result? Well, we used to say that no laptop could provide performance, portability, battery life and ergonomics, but we’re beginning to change our minds. Now, you can have it all.