New Devices For Business From HP And Lenovo

Two of the most popular lines in business laptops – HP's EliteBook and Lenovo's X1 Carbon – have gotten some major new additions during CES 2017. HP's new EliteBook x360 has a display that can fold all the way back, and HP is touting it as the world's thinnest business convertible, at 0.58 of an inch thick.

It promises a strong battery life (pegged at up to 16.5 hours), and the metal unibody notebook includes the high level of durability typical of the EliteBook line, even though it weighs only 2.84 pounds.

Meanwhile, the new X1 Carbon is now smaller in overall size (with its 14-inch display fit into a 13-inch form factor) and lighter (at 2.5 pounds, 6 percent below the current X1 Carbon). Lenovo has boosted the laptop's battery life to 15.5 hours from 11 hours previously, and the X1 Carbon will include seventh-generation Intel Core processors (Kaby Lake).