
There are, of course, many laptops that fall between or outside these three categories, but they provide a good starting point for me. I consider standard-size laptops the perfect trade-off between portability and functionality-they're big enough to have full-size keyboards, and the screens are decent in size, but they still are small enough to be fairly portable. For me, the huge laptops are much too large to bother with. Popularly known as Netbooks, they come with small 9"–10" screens, small keyboards, 802.11b/g/n wireless adapters and usually no optical drive. The standard laptops are those with 14"–15" screens. The huge laptops are those with 17" (or larger) screens.


I think of the range of different laptops in the world as falling into three basic models: mini, standard and huge.
