A featherweight computer with a heavyweight punch

ACER'S ACE: The Acer Chromebook 13 The computer can render 4K content yet has a 13-hour battery life.

The newest addition to Acer's Chromebook range, simply called the Chromebook 13, offers an incredible 13-hour battery life and is just 18mm thick yet it can render and output 4K ultra-high-definition content.

And that's because the little laptop is the first to use an Nvidia Tegra K1 processor. Chromebooks might still be niche products within the PC landscape but the computers, which run Google's Chrome OS and run a host of web-based apps rather than software installed directly on the computer's hard disk, are starting to make a name for themselves, especially within education.