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I'm Dan Ackerman and here are some of my favorite laptops of 2018 a really great year for laptops and really one of the very best is one of the newest it's right here it's Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Air we've been waiting literally years and years for an update to the MacBook Air a laptop almost everybody loves and uses but realizes was getting a little out of date this new version looks and feels a lot like a MacBook Pro and it's got the big Retina screen the giant touchpad it's got the butterfly style keyboard which some people love some people hate and of course it is smaller and thinner and lighter and much more powerful than the previous MacBook Air only downside is it's kind of more expensive also now every laptop maker except for Apple makes a hybrid or a two-in-one design where you pull the the lid off and it becomes a tablet and a keyboard or it folds back one of my favorites for this year is one of the originals in that space lenovo and its new yoga c 930 the yoga is really one of the first 2 in 1 laptops anybody noticed this new version they've taken the hinge and they've added a little sound bar right to the hinge they move the speaker's there so the audio will follow you whether you're in tablet mode or tabletop mode or over here in traditional laptop mode but really my favorite secret here is right on the back they have a stylus for it because it is a part time tablet and it's hit ins right in the body of the system so you're not going to lose your stylus every 5 minutes like I do when I have to carry them separately 20:18 a great year for gaming laptops one of my favorites was the Razer Blade 15 very high-end high-gloss laptop very powerful also on the expensive side there's also a less expensive version right here also called Razer Blade 15 there's a little bit chunkier a little bit thicker but really much less expensive starts about $15.99 which is expensive for a laptop cheap for a Razer laptop but if all of these feel too pricy for you well I do have one budget pick that I like a lot it's the Samsung Chromebook plus and Chromebook pro models these are fairly high-end Chromebooks how they perform really great for something that cost around $500 they the Chrome operating system but all new models can also run pretty much any Android app to find in the Android Play Store and of course it also folds back to form a tablet and like my favorite hybrids do it Scott your little stylus tucked inside so you're not going to lose it and then you can just pop it back here when you're done even fold this into a tablet take it with you and these are just a handful of choices there been so many great laptops this year you can read all our reviews from our crack team on CNET I'm Dan Akron I hope this is helped with some of your holiday shopping