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Reviews Roundup: Best 13-inch laptops

13-inch laptops are the new 15-inch.

They present the sweet spot between price, portability and performance, offer a decent screen size and native resolution, are often well specced out and some even manage surprisingly long battery life.

The majority tend to not come with DVD drives as the optical disc slowly loses relevance, and they can scale anywhere from netbook killers to high performance production machines.

While the field is still relatively small and there’s been a few misfires along the way, we expect 2010 to be a big year for 13-inch laptops, especially as new models with Intel’s Core i5 processor start to trickle out, and SSD prices continue to come down.