Ultrabook, laptop, hybrid or Chromebook? How to pick the best portable PC

Just a few years back, buying a laptop was as easy as walking into a Wal-Mart or Best Buy, strolling past the netbooks, plunking down a few hundred bucks on a Windows machine with a trackpad that didn’t completely suck, and coming home, if not happy, at least with a notebook that could get the job done.

Things aren’t quite so easy anymore.

The laptop world has burst into a cornucopia of niches. Specialized Chromebooks, Ultrabooks, and laptop-tablet hybrids have muscled into the territory of traditional notebooks in a bid to more closely target your needs and stand out from the traditional portable-PC crowd. Which type of laptop is right for you? Read on, and you’ll know by the time we’re done.

Chromebooks

Acer’s C720P touchscreen notebook costs just $300.

Let’s start on the affordable side of things. Chromebooks run Google’s ChromeOS rather than Windows, and ChromeOS sprang forth from, you guessed it, Google’s Chrome browser.

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2068263/ultrabook-laptop-hybrid-or-chromebook-how-to-pick-the-best-portable-pc.html#tk.rss_laptopcomputers

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