Analysis: The first day of CES 2015 saw a triumph for laptop design

By Kane Fulton

With the rumoured launch of Intel’s Broadwell-U CPUs at CES 2015, it was highly likely that laptops featuring slim and portable designs would emerge — but the systems that strode the red carpet under the Las Vegas sky surpassed my already high expectations.

I’m a sucker for a stylish ultraportable, and while the gains in battery life brought by Intel’s fourth-generation Haswell processor made a huge difference to on-the-go productivity, for me, the slim and light designs made possible by Broadwell make the next generation of systems far more exciting.

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Take Dell’s new XPS 13, for example. The previous incarnation of the company’s Ultrabook was hardly a monster, but its successor looks cut from an altogether different, silkier cloth. The 11-inch notebook’s aluminium bezel is so thin that it’s virtually invisible, and Dell has managed to cram a 13.3-inch display into a frame the size of what you would typically find on a 11-inch laptop.

As Juan Martinez notes in our hands on review, the XPS 13 2015 has an 11% larger display than the one on the 13-inch MacBook Air, despite the laptop being 23% smaller than Apple’s …read more

Source: techradar.com – Computing Components