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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

Huawei MateBook 14s: Huawei's best compact laptop
Ultraportable laptops

With a lovely 90Hz display, great build and usability, the Huawei MateBook 14s is one of the best 14in laptops on the market

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£1200 inc VAT
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4: A minor upgrade
Ultraportable laptops

An impressively quick, ultraportable laptop, but the Surface Laptop 4 can’t quite match the M1 MacBook Air

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£999 inc VAT
Huawei MateBook 14 (2020): A great laptop with bags of power
Ultraportable laptops

Performance like this, in a sub-£1,000 laptop, would have been unthinkable before

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£750 Starting at
Asus ZenBook Flip S UX371EA: The luxury yacht of laptops
Ultraportable laptops

A gorgeous laptop that competes with the Dell XPS 13 but it just falls short

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£1794 inc VAT
Asus ZenBook S 13 OLED (2022): A mighty fine ultraportable
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The ZenBook S 13 OLED is a superb Windows ultraportable with one of the best displays we’ve seen on a laptop

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£1300 inc VAT
Apple MacBook Pro 14in (M1 Max, 2021): The ultimate portable
Ultraportable laptops

A powerhouse tour de force, Apple’s 14in MacBook Pro is the ultimate mobile workstation

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£1899 inc VAT, base spec (£3,999 as tested)
Acer Swift 5 SF514-55T (2021) review: Slim, sleek, chic
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A great laptop at a very reasonable price; Acer's 2021 Swift 5 is a winner

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£999 inc VAT
Dell XPS 13 (2020) review: Another great XPS
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A fine ultraportable laptop from Dell but prices have seen a hike

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£1599 inc VAT
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s: Solid, dependable and fast
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A lovely laptop to use day to day but rivals deliver a more rounded set of capabilities for less

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£1540 inc VAT
LG Gram 17 (2021) review: Light it up
Ultraportable laptops

The king of lightweight large-screened laptops returns with faster performance and better battery life; what’s not to like?

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£1299 inc VAT