Stefan Mileschin

There's a running gag in the original Zoolander movie that's so charmingly dated that the writers of this year's sequel couldn't help but make fun of it. Derek Zoolander's phone was tiny. To be fair, the first movie was made in 2001, when phone manufacturers were eager to set their products apart from the relatively massive cell phones of the '80s and '90s. Even as recently as 2010, Steve Jobs claimed that "no one's going to buy" a large phone. And yet here so many of us are, gleefully picking among one 5"-or-larger behemoth and the next.

The same can't be said of the laptop market. Sure, larger machines are always available, but they've developed a reputation for being hot, heavy, and loud. These days, full-size laptops have taken a back seat to the ...

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