If there’s one thing laptops could do better, it’s last longer. Battery life remains a sore subject for many, and it’s still considered inadvisable to head off to a mission-critical outing without lugging along a power brick.
A new breed of laptop aims to change that, by altering one of the most defining things about your PC, the processor. The Asus NovaGo is one of a handful of new systems to swap out the usual Intel (or sometimes AMD) CPUs in favor of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, the same chip found in smartphones like last year’s Samsung Galaxy S8. Other models coming soon include the HP Envy x2 ($538.88 at Amazon.com) and the Lenovo Miix 630.
