What’s new in laptops? From the looks of it not much. But advances in storage, security, battery-life and power consumption are changing the way we use laptops at a blazing pace. SSDs (Solid State Drives) are replacing HDD (Hard Disk Drives) leading to better performance and power consumption; the latest laptops come equipped with data back up and recovery, encryption to protect any data still on the hard drive and even remote security settings to wipe the hard drive; and the five- and six-hour battery will come from the chips and operating systems that run the laptop as well as the screen displays and the drives that use better power consumption.