13-Inch Business Laptops Nearing their End

Even though 13-inch laptops have been around for a while, it would appear that, at least those aimed at the business sector, are slowly fading out of existence as their makers focus on either larger or smaller models.

Sometimes, a certain product type begins to use market share in the wake of new ones, and this seems to be happening to 13-inch business laptops.

As some may or may not know, Lenovo has discontinued the X3 series of 13-inch mobile PCs, those which came with optical drives that is.

Lenovo has the Thinkpad X301, whose resolution of 1,440 x 900 pixels actually gave it a greater appeal than many 12-inch and 14-inch notebooks.

Lenovo isn't the only company that backed out of the 13-inch business, of course, with Dell having also begun to focus on other form factors.

Dell also had the Adamo was priced at about $1,500 before it was driven down to $899 and the Adamo XPS hasn't even made it to market, not yet anyway.

It would be interesting to note that this Adamo XPS was among the thinnest models of its size, even though it did only appear as a proof of engineering.

Unfortunately, the Adamo itself had a price high enough for prospective purchasers to start looking at other options, especially since Lenovo's X301 had many so-called first-class capabilities to give the Adamo a hard time.

Now, according to Appleinsider, even Apple is thinking of backing out of the 13-inch sector, which would mean that its MacBook Air will cease to exist sooner or later.

Moving forward, PC makers will develop and sell mobile computers of smaller form factors but comparable performance.

The main aspects of focus will be comfort and functionality, security, reliability and even multimedia, since spreadsheet or presentation work is not all that executives use their laptops for.

As for 13-inch notebooks aimed at consumers, they will continue to show up on the market since many companies plan to keep selling them at accessible prices.