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Ultraportable laptops

Most Popular Ultraportable laptops

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 (AMD) review: The Golf GTI of compact ultrabooks
£850
Lenovo's new Yoga Slim 7 is a fabulous bargain: fast, well made and extraordinarily sensibly priced
HP Chromebook 11
HP Chromebook 11 review
£229
Cheap, well-built and with a great screen, if you want a laptop for mostly online work, this is a great choice
Huawei MateBook 14 (2020) review: A great laptop with bags of power
£750
Performance like this, in a sub-£1,000 laptop, would have been unthinkable before

Latest Ultraportable laptops

Dell XPS 13 (late 2020, 11th gen): A steady improvement
Ultraportable laptops

A solid showing from the Dell XPS 13 and Intel’s 11th gen silicon but hardly groundbreaking

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£1399 inc VAT
Chuwi HeroBook Pro+: A £244 laptop with a 3K display
Ultraportable laptops

Slow but very cheap and the screen is remarkably good for the money

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£244 inc VAT
M1 Apple MacBook Pro 13in: This laptop will change the world
Ultraportable laptops

An almost unbelievably good laptop, the Apple Silicon M1 MacBook is here and nothing is ever going to be the same again

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£1299 inc VAT
Huawei MateBook X Pro (2020): A mild update to a good laptop
Ultraportable laptops

Huawei’s MateBook X Pro gets a slight upgrade, including Intel’s 10th-generation processors

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£1400 inc VAT
HP Elite Dragonfly review: Business class
Ultraportable laptops

It’s impossible not to fall in love with the HP Elite Dragonfly but the high price means it narrowly misses out on an award

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£1775 inc VAT
Bmax X14 review: The best budget laptop?
Ultraportable laptops

The Bmax 14 is a big surprise: a quality budget ultrabook that delivers where it counts

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£399 inc VAT
Acer Swift 5 front view lid open
Acer Swift 5 (2019) review: Punching well above its weight
Ultraportable laptops

The Acer Swift 5 may be one of the lightest 14in laptops on the market but it punches well above its weight

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£899 inc VAT
Acer Swift 7 is as powerful as it is heavy
Ultraportable laptops

Form beats function on the latest Swift 7, an amazingly portable yet underpowered Windows laptop

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£1749 Inc VAT
Xidu Tour Pro review: A top-notch budget laptop
Ultraportable laptops

An affordable touchscreen compact ultrabook ideal for day-to-day productivity

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£460 inc VAT
Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 review: An ultraportable dream
Laptops Ultraportable laptops

Another fully fledged premium Microsoft ultraportable to rival laptops from Dell, Asus and Apple

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£1249 inc. VAT