Last week during the Thanksgiving holiday I skillfully avoided conversations about politics (for the most part) and talked tech instead. It was easy enough to do: people were asking which new laptop to buy, whether to upgrade to an iPhone 7, what’s the best budget Android phone to get, and when Apple’s AirPods are coming out.
The latter three are pretty straightforward conversations. But laptops are a different story. As The Verge’s Dieter Bohn pointed out, it used to be that you would just tell people to go get a MacBook Air. Now, there’s a 45-minute conversation to be had about 2016’s premium laptops.
This year’s high-end laptops are feats in fine design, with thin metal bodies, liquid-looking high-resolution displays, and in some...
via The Verge
