What follows are the five best features we found on the HP EliteBook x360 1040 ... smaller footprint than the 13.3-inch G2 model in the EliteBook x360 series—so you get 5 percent more display ...

Those would be the HP EliteBook x360, which is brand new this month, and the Microsoft Surface Book i7 (aka the Surface Book with Performance Base), which has been on the market for just a few months.

Almost two years after I reviewed HP's EliteBook x360 1040 G5, it's still one of my favorite laptops. Everything about it was just perfect for the time, and now with the G7, it's even better.