Everyone wants to have the laptop screen was larger, and the laptop itself while remaining compact and lightweight. Increasing the screen size by reducing the scope just helps to reduce the size of a laptop area, and even more – so a 13-inch laptop with a narrow framework fits perfectly to the body the usual 12-inch device. Nsmartphone decided to evaluate by calculation, in any modern Top 6 laptops frame around the screen is really very narrow.
We decided not to reinvent the wheel again and again calculated for the top models of the ratio of the display area to the area of the Top 6 laptops on the same principle, which had already calculated the figure for smartphones. Besides laptops themselves more square, meaning that our calculations in this case closest to reality.
APPLE MACBOOK PRO 15″
Both the updated MacBook Pro included in our Top 6 laptops, and 15-inch version soon appeared in the first place – its screen takes 81.8% of the area of the entire surface of the laptop, and this is not the only advantage of the laptop. The screen is 15.4 “in the updated version made even brighter, more contrasting, it became more colors. But the most interesting innovation, in our opinion – a Touch Bar, the touch panel in place of the upper keyboard row, which is very useful in some scenarios, the use of a laptop. The panel helps the cause of Siri, rewind the video and to perform a number of manipulations for which previously had to carry a mouse around the screen. Given the already convenient trackpad, which was twice as much, then the mouse does not need. The user can choose the configuration of the Touch Bar with or without it.
The design of the
new MacBook Pro is perfect – laptops to get even thinner (15.5 mm) and light (1.83 kg). Inside, the most productive laptop Apple -4-core Intel Core i7 processor with a clock speed of 2.6 / 2.7 / 2.9 GHz, 16 GB of RAM and SSD-drive capacity of 256 GB to 2 TB.
The main thing that disturbs the majority of users of both versions of the MacBook Pro – the absence of the usual ports. The 15-inch model is equipped with four ports Thunderbolt 3 with a capacity of 40 Gbit / s and is fully compatible with USB Type-C. In addition to the laptop just have to buy adapters, preferably with a complete set of inputs and outputs. By the way, now the wire USB-C at the end of the MagSafe there, and how many laptops will be killed because of not time the power cord – is anyone’s guess. On the other hand, the autonomy of more than 9 hours allows you to charge the device once a day.
DELL XPS 13
“The smallest notebook in the world with a unique, virtually frameless display InfinityEdge” – so to position the model Dell XPS 13, which is updated every year. This is undoubtedly a good laptop and a permanent participant in all collections, the most compact laptops, but also last year’s model did not pass in our top 6 for dimensions. But the new version (model 9360) by decreasing the body width up to 200 mm at once fell to the second place of the hit parade – the screen surface she occupies 80.2% of the front panel. Due to the narrow framework (by 5.2 mm) laptop with a 13.3-inch display fit into the case of the 12-inch conventional laptop. And if you compare the size of a 13-inch MacBook Air, as does the manufacturer, the Dell XPS 13 has turned out really less.
The laptop is also very thin – the thickness ranging from 9 mm at the thinnest point to 15 mm. Dell XPS 13 – a good solution for travel: with them you will have a full-fledged laptop weighing 1.18 kg (1.27 kg for models with touchscreen), so even with autonomy for more than 11 hours.
To display no complaints with a resolution 3200h1800 pixels, clear and brilliant, he was a good, in addition to the older version of the touch screen. Any modification and without touch screen with Full-HD resolution. The front panel with the side of the screen is covered with protective glass Corning Gorilla Glass, and in combination with the narrow limits of minimalist design and looks beautiful it bluntly. “Under the hood” of the novelty – the processors of the 7th generation of Intel Core i5-7200U and i7-7500U and 8 or 16 GB of RAM. HDMI and VGA output at the laptop there, but there are two USB 3.0 and connector Thunderbolt 3. From unusual – the location of the camera on the left below the display.
APPLE MACBOOK PRO 13″
Updated MacBook Pro with the display of 13.3 “was also in our selection, but on the third place. We will not list all the features of the model – they are already mentioned above. According to its size 13-inch model is only slightly more than MacBook Air 13 “: 14.9 mm thickness and 1.37 kg weight – along with 10 hours of battery life this is an excellent application for portability.
The model is equipped, depending on the configuration of two or four ports Thunderbolt 3, inside 2-core Intel Core i5 / i7 processor with a clock frequency of 2 to 3.3 GHz and 8-16 GB of RAM.
APPLE MACBOOK
So, it turned out that exactly half of our Top 6 laptops take Apple products. Released this year, “simply» MacBook has an aspect ratio of the screen size and the housing area of 75.8%. MacBook does not become thinner than its predecessor, has not received the new ports and to keep the same screen -. Retina 12 “with a resolution of 2304h1400 pix, added only new color Rose Gold shell. However, the laptop got Intel processor generation Skylake and faster flash drive: Speed increased by about 15-20%, and to work with large files has become more comfortable.
The device weighing less than 1 kg, you can carry around all the time, and it will then be a full-fledged assistant – that contribute to a good autonomy (more than the 1 hour), passive cooling components, complete OS. However, the thin body does not include a large number of connectors – on everything about everything, including charging, there are only one USB Type-C and a 3.5mm mini jack, and users need to resent the adapter again. Today it is the lightest and the thinnest Apple notebook, but that actually have to carry around with the MacBook 12-inch, we have already told in his review.
MICROSOFT SURFACE BOOK
It seems that Microsoft came to the conclusion that the tablet Surface can not replace a laptop for one hundred percent, and decided to release a full-fledged laptop, the MacBook Pro as a competitor. However, on our hit parade, Surface Book is on the 4th place is its screen occupies 74.9% of the housing.
The most noticeable feature of the Surface Book – is the ability to tilt the screen up to an angle of 180 ° and precisely adjust the angle of inclination, this loop has a notch hinge. In addition, the notebook is classified as “Transformers” – the screen is “detachable” from the docking station with a keyboard and turns into a tablet. For these features Surface Book pays a wide gap that is formed between the screen and the keyboard when closed – there is great accumulated dust.
A few words about the compactness of which is worth mentioning. Thickness Block screen – 7.7 mm, the entire notebook – from 13 to 22.8 mm, the full weight of the device is 1,516 kg, the body is made not of aluminum but of a lightweight magnesium alloy. Mode video playback Microsoft promises up to 12 hours.
13.5-inch screen might initially seem too high –
Microsoft chose for him the aspect ratio of 3: 2instead of the more familiar to us 16: 9 or 16:10. In other words, when watching movies on it, be ready for the black bars on top and bottom, but it will be more convenient to work on the order of the documents. In terms of the choice of wide configurations: in the stuffing used Intel Core i5 and i7 processors of the sixth generation, 8 or 16 GB of RAM and SSD capacity of 128, 256, 512 GB or 1 TB. With ports of the situation, it is better than Apple – there is an SD card slot, port Surface Connect, 2xUSB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort and a headphone jack, located separately on the screen unit. The notebook comes with a stylus silver Surface Pen, which can be fixed on the screen thanks to a magnet.
XIAOMI MI NOTEBOOK AIR
How would Apple Xiaomi nor inspired ideas, the Chinese 13-inch model was only in the last place in our top 6? The boxes around the screen are really thin, the company notes that the display occupies 80.1% of the area of the closed notebook, according to our calculations, the same screen with the specified dimensions is obtained just 74.3% – to a record should be a little more to try. Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air was very concise in terms of design, but stylish – aluminum, safety glass on the screen, the same thin frame. The notebook uses Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM DDR4 standard, set the drive to 256 GB and the possibility of installation of a second SSD. The result is a good workhorse that will cope with everyday tasks, especially if you do not have the extra couple of hundred thousand.
Other parameters also give quite a decent Top 6 laptops – the screen used in the IPS-matrix of 1920×1080 pixels, the battery holds a charge up to 9.5 hours in a mixed mode, the large touchpad with multitouch support, a comfortable backlit keyboard, pre-installed Windows 10. Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air more. bulky in size, then the prototype, although its weight is only 1.28 kg. But the ends do not fit only USB Type-C for charging, but the two USB 3.0 ports and HDMI-out.
