Business-class ultraportables have always been sleek and sexy. But the little computers were never very good at, you know, computing.

That’s all changed now. Driven by Intel’s 11th-generation Core processors (code-named Tiger Lake), the latest little laptops come in big on performance. I’ve even been using them as my desktop PC – and they perform great, even on heavier-duty tasks like video editing.

I evaluate three of the latest – the HP Elite Dragonfly G2, the ThinkPad X1 Nano from Lenovo and Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+. Read about it in my latest for USA Today’s Tech section.