For schools, some retailers or manufacturers offer insurance as an additional service, or laptops may be covered under your existing equipment policy. Just make sure that they’re guarded against accidental damage and that the cover extends to both in and out of the classroom. The netbook is well and truly back, with the HP Stream 11 representing the best-value Windows laptop you can buy. Not to be outdone, Toshiba regularly shows off what it calls Cloudbooks, which are super-cheap netbook-style devices that assume you will store all of your files in the cloud instead of locally. The Satellite C40-C is just one of these.Sadly, the offer of a year’s free Microsoft Office 365 is absent, something both HP and Asus were able to do last year. Still, what you get with the Satellite C40-C is a large, light laptop with bargain-basement components for an almost offensively low price – and it’s not half bad, either.

Despite being cheaper than the HP Pavilion x2, you get an extra four inches of screen – 14in in total – and an improved 1,366 x 768 resolution. Text and images have room, so everything feels a little more comfortable. There aren’t quite enough pixels to fit two windows side by side and work effectively in both, but you could snap a Twitter feed or other column-based apps to the left or right of your screen and still have room to work on a document. The screen has a glossy coating, which does suffer a little under the scorching British sun. However, on those rare cloudy days, it’s perfectly usable, even if you’re trying to save power by turning the brightness down.

Toshiba Satellite C40-C review: Battery life You won’t need to be too proactive with your battery saving, though, as the dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Celeron N3050 only sips at the battery even when you’re pushing it to the limit, with a TDP of 6W. This helped the C40-C record a score of 7hrs 16mins in the looping-video battery test, and it achieved even better results with non-media tasks. This, plus the C40-C’s reasonable 1.7kg weight, makes it a superb companion on the road, and a worthy second device if your home laptop is too bulky to travel with.

Generally speaking, the keyboards on hybrids are not as good as those on conventional laptops, especially on devices with detachable keyboards. Hybrid keyboards tend to be cramped, with key buttons – such as the space bar, Backspace and Enter keys – reduced in size. Hybrids can also be more uncomfortable to type on, since sometimes the screen can only be at angled at one or two set positions, rather than adjusted to any angle, as on a laptop.However, some tablet and hybrid devices offer the advantage of stylus input. We’re still a fair way from being able to jot handwritten notes on a screen and have everything perfectly transcribed into text, but stylus input is superb for jotting quick memos, annotating maps or diagrams or sketching ideas and design concepts. Those who are serious about drawing with their tablet or hybrid should look for pressure-sensitive styli.If you’re looking for corporate-grade security features, a conventional laptop is your best choice. Features such as fingerprint scanners, smartcard readers, locking slots and Trusted Platform Modules are generally only found on business-grade laptops.

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That said, all Android, Apple and Windows tablets now offer some basic safeguards. You can, for example, locate and lock a lost device via the web browser, but only if it’s capable of receiving a data connection. Businesses with device management software can also wipe tablets remotely if the device is stolen, ensuring no sensitive business data falls into the wrong hands.Those buying a pure tablet device have the choice of three operating systems: Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android or Microsoft’s Windows 8. Apple’s tablets marry superb hardware with by far the best equipped App Store of any tablet operating system. That’s because the best tablet apps tend to be released on iOS first, and because Apple takes a tougher line on quality.Android is a strong second, and actually has more apps on offer. However, too many of its apps are "universal” – in other words, designed for smartphones but awkwardly stretched for tablet screens.

Windows tablets do have the undeniable advantage of being able to run the same desktop software you would find on a laptop or desktop PCThe Windows Store is the weakest of the three, with slow sales of Windows tablets failing to attract app developers. Even big names such as Spotify have declined to develop apps specifically for Windows tablets. However, Windows tablets do have the undeniable advantage of being able to run the same desktop software you would find on a laptop or desktop PC.You wouldn’t want to run full-blown desktop apps on a pure tablet, since they’re predominantly designed for keyboard and mouse use, not touchscreen input. However, hybrid devices running Windows 8.1 get the best of both worlds: touchscreen apps from the Windows Store and desktop software such as Word, Excel and Photoshop.

There’s no simple answer to the question of which is best. It’s like comparing bicycles, motorbikes and cars: each have their different strengths and purposes. For heavy-duty work, the traditional laptop is still king. Laptops offer the most powerful processors, the biggest storage capacities and the best keyboards.Hybrids have the upper hand for those who like to mix work and pleasure. They can be used like conventional laptops when there are emails to be answered or expenses to be filed, then folded or detached into a tablet configuration when you want to put the plane seat back and watch a movie on the return leg of your business trip.

Tablets offer unrivalled portability and the instant-on accessibility that allows you to check your email or flick through Facebook without going through the rigmarole of booting a PC. There are few jobs for which we’d want to use tablets as our primary device, but they make a great companion device for a laptop or a larger hybrid.Anthony is a senior sales executive for a pharmaceuticals company. He spends the majority of his time on the road travelling between meetings, only occasionally returning to the office, where he shares a hot desk with the rest of the sales team.His primary device is a Windows 8.1 tablet. It has a low-power Intel Atom processor that helps the battery last throughout the working day, and he often uses the tablet to flick through sales presentations with clients.

In the gaps between meetings, Anthony can check his email and file his travel expenses, using the camera on the tablet to make digital copies of the necessary receipts. In addition, on the regular occasions where work takes him away from home, he can use the Skype app for Windows 8.1 to read a bedtime story to his children from his hotel room.Angela is the chief executive of a mid-sized manufacturing firm. She spends much of her time travelling to Europe to meet with suppliers and potential customers, the rest in the company’s offices. Her two-in-one has all the power and features of a regular laptop, allowing Angela to deal with her overflowing inbox using a full-sized keyboard, or navigate through the spreadsheet of the quarterly accounts with the built-in trackpad.

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When she’s travelling by car to the airport or waiting for a flight in the business lounge, she can detach the screen from the keyboard base and use the device as a tablet, enabling her to read documents, flick through presentations or even plug in a set of headphones and watch a movie on the Full HD display. If she hasn’t finished the movie by the time the plane is taxiing back to the gate, she can finish the film at home by beaming it wirelessly to her television using the integrated WiDi technology.Vikram is the assistant financial controller at an advertising agency. He spends much of his working life plugging numbers into complex, macro-laden Excel spreadsheets, so he needs the heavyweight processing power of a Core i7 laptop. However, he also spends a good portion of his day running through departmental budgets in meeting rooms across the company, and thus requires a mobile unit that he can take with him into such sessions.An Ultrabook meets Vikram’s needs perfectly. The 14in display provides plenty of workspace, but when Vikram is back at his desk he can simply slot it into a docking station and benefit from dual displays, plus an external mouse and a keyboard.

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