Do I really need... a projector?

What does it do?

These days, projectors aren’t just for boring the vicar with 35mm slides from your holiday in Normandy. They plug into a computer, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick or other Hdmi-equipped device, and offer an alternative to a big-screen telly for all your home entertainment. You could even use one as your regular PC monitor, although that probably only appeals to James Bond villains in bunkers under volcanoes.

For years, most laptopsopsop were 15.6in, while power ususers favoured 17 inches. Didisplay area aside, it was accepted that only a larger case could accommodate serious processing power. It was the era of the ‘luggable’ laptop. As components got miniaturised, the norm shrank to 13.3in. But are larger laptops making a comeback?

At January’s CES technology show in Las Vegas, HP announced a new version of its Spectre x360 15 (see our review, Issue 505, pictured). Currently ba based on the same processor and graphics card as the Zenbook Flip UX UX560UQ, it’s switching to Intel’s up upcoming H-series Core processors that at have built-in AMD RX Vega M grap graphics.ap Laptops using this processor won’t need a separate graphics card, keeping them slim. They’ll be a new type of luggable – large, but lighter than predecessors Until these arrive, we’d rather use 15.6in laptop-tablets on a desk as a laptop, or prop them on something as a tablet – they’re still too heavy to hold up in one hand like an ipad.