Project Athena Spawns Powerful, Responsive Long-Life Laptops

It wasn’t so long ago that if you wanted performance for heavy-duty computational tasks you bought a PC. And if you wanted quick response and all-day battery life, you picked up a tablet.

Now, thanks in large part to Intel’s Project Athena campaign, performance, responsiveness and battery life come in a single package. At CES this year, Intel and partners showed off more than two dozen first-generation Project Athena-certified laptops. I tested one, HP’s Spectre x360, to see if these systems performed as advertised. (Spoiler alert: they do.)

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