A New Breed, With Many Boons!

These new-age hybrid devices are lithe, chic and top performers.

- Nidhi Singal

At a time when convertibles and hybrids were novel concepts, there was always a trade-off. If you wanted superb portability (and no, a beefy phablet or a minimalist tablet was not your idea of the office workhorse), you had to compromise on performance for form factor or vice versa. Then the climate changed. With BYOD and businesses on-the-go making inroads into our life, work has lost its well-defined boundaries and the traditional laptops that IBM had churned out more than two decades ago, need to keep pace with our millennium lifestyle. The chunky clamshells, weighing around four kg, are no longer suitable for the new- found mobility. But as performance becomes the raison d’être of our survival, new-age computing devices have evolved into great masterpieces – sleek, chic and veritable powerhouses under the hood.