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High-end 13-inch laptops

Lenovo's new ThinkPad X1 looks impressive, but how does it stack up against the Samsung Series 9, 13-inch MacBook Air, and Toshiba Portege R835?

Dan Ackerman
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications. "Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 is the thinnest ThinkPad ever made, and it's a slim, cleanly designed 13-incher worth a look for business travelers--but it's not as thin as a MacBook Air, and its battery life isn't as good, either.

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Samsung Series 9

The $1,649 Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A certainly won't be for every wallet, but this light, well-featured, and striking 13-incher is the closest the Windows world will ever come to a MacBook Air. However, its higher-than-Air price will be hard to stomach.

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Apple MacBook Air fall 2010

The second generation of Apple's MacBook Air fixes many of our gripes about the ambitious original, adding more USB ports, an SD card slot, and a more powerful processor. Read more.
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Toshiba Portege R835-P56X

With 3 more hours of battery life over last year's model, Toshiba's new R800 series of Portege laptops is hard to beat, even in the highly competitive 13-inch laptop category.

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