Do you mind a bit of bezel with your business notebook? The Dell Latitude 7280 has a conventional 12.5-inch screen rather than the nearly borderless InfinityEdge 13.3-inch display of the Latitude 7370, but it offers more potent Intel Core i7 versus Core M power, superior battery life, and a less shallow, more comfortable keyboard. Plus its webcam is properly mounted above, not below, the screen so it focuses on your face instead of up your nostrils. The 7280 doesn't quite topple our Editors' Choice among business ultraportables, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, thanks to the latter's 14-inch screen and lighter weight, but it goes toe-to-toe with the ThinkPad X270 for 12.5-inch supremacy.
Entry-level models feature a low-resolution 1,366-by-768 display and low-octane Core i3 CPU. Our test unit was fitted with a 1,920-by-1,080 non-touch screen, Core i7-7600U processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SATA solid-state drive, along with a fingerprint reader and infrared face-recognition camera for Windows Hello password bypassing. Options range from a SIM card for mobile broadband to a slightly faster PCI Express SSD.