A laptop won’t revolutionize the minutiae of your life the way a smartphone can. You can’t easily whip one out to kill time in the elevator, capture a breathtaking sunset, or pay for a cup of coffee.
1. But in the years since smartphones took on all these jobs, laptops have honed
their own talents. Amazing battery life and breathtaking screens are now
common, if you look in the right place for them. The graphics muscle to play
games at full HD is affordable. And those basic old-guard features that you
won’t find on any mobile device, such as touchpads and full-size keyboards,
tend to get better with almost every generation.