Some engineers say a standard developed primarily for laptops, called the Smart Battery System, gives a more accurate reading by learning from prior experience.

WSJ: Some Percentages Are Just Fair-Weather Friends

Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.

FORBES: The Second Coming

Windows XP, released to consumers in 2001, was also granted a lifeline to ensure that it could be used on so-called netbooks - cut-down net-capable laptops that are proving very popular.

BBC: Downgrade plan for Windows 7 PCs

Using a system called eMoney Advisor, clients like Scott can use their laptops to check not only the ups and downs of their investments but also their insurance and endorsement contracts.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The laptops were originally purchased for a Welsh government digital learning project called ILearn Wales.

BBC: Laptop

The simulations range from laptops for control-room trainees to visually immersive studios, called pods, for foot soldiers.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

The company announced several months ago that it was working on the so-called ThinTouch keyboard, whose slim profile might make it an ideal fit for Ultrabooks and other lightweight laptops.

ENGADGET: Fingers-on with Synaptics' ThinTouch keyboard for Ultrabooks (video)

The Chrome laptops are designed primarily to run Web-based applications, including those that use programming technology called HTML5, rather than applications stored on the device.

WSJ: Google Unveils Chromebook Pixel Touch-Screen Laptop