Seven of the lightest laptops and ultrabooks to take on your travels
From the Microsoft Surface Book to the Razer Blade Stealth, these latest designs will help to keep you productive on your next trip overseas
Checking emails, reading documents and making notes can all be done perfectly well on a smartphone. So why travel with a laptop? If you do any kind of writing, or need to manipulate photos or graphics, a laptop remains an essential productivity tool. The provision of a “proper” keyboard, lots of storage and some serious processing power can make a big difference to your output while travelling.
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Increasingly called ultrabooks because of their lightweight and even “hybrid” designs (hybrid usually means that the display separates to become a stand-alone tablet), they run either Windows 10 or macOS, sometimes have touchscreens, and can be configured with your choice of storage and processor. Here are some of the most lightweight designs around.
Microsoft Surface Book
If you’re most at home with Windows, the ultimate show-off hybrid device is undoubtedly the Surface Book (from HK$16,588). The detachable 13.5-inch display works as a stand-alone tablet that’s big enough for reading long documents and webpages, and powerful enough for photo editing, and gaming. However, it’s not as light as the rest of this batch at 1.5kg with its keyboard, and the battery only stretches to about eight hours. Available at microsoftstore.com.hk
Apple MacBook 12