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one of the dirty secrets of the laptop biz is that you might be better off buying a so-called business laptop than a more eye-catching consumer one you're usually going to find better construction less bloatware and even a few of those classic port 2 connections that get left out of Flash your models HP is EliteBook x360 is a great example of a crossover laptop that's a good choice for the coffee shop as well as the cubicle farm it's got this friendly extras like full-size USB ports and a fingerprint reader and there's even a remote management app that lets you monitor and lock the system from your phone now this isn't the thinnest or lightest there's a ton of competition for that right now including HP's own Spectre line and Dells XPS line but it's pretty compact and even a hair lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Pro like a lot of hybrids it comes with a stylus but also like a lot of them I never know what to actually do with the stylus when I'm not using it because there's no slot built into the body for HP's clever answers to include a little elastic loop on a plastic card it slides right into the smart card reader which is a legacy security feature that basically no one at least in the u.s. uses anymore but the biggest win here is battery life despite turning in some great performance numbers thanks to an Intel Core i7 CPU the EliteBook X 360 managed to run from more than 11 hours which makes it one of our top 5 battery life laptops for the past year