Business laptops are boring, clunky, cumbersome to carry, dull in design, always behind the cutting edge of consumer technology, even out of date as a concept – end of story.
Or so I thought until I looked at a new generation of slimmed-down, feature-rich – even stylish – business-oriented notebooks that may change common perceptions of the category and widen their appeal.
That would represent quite a shift. My own impressions are scarred by my current four-year-old Dell, which was fine when new but now seems antediluvian with its dull, square display, lap-singeing, overheating base and battery life expectancy of little more than an hour.